Retreats Blog

Welcome to the Retreats blog!

Where our Retreat Leaders share their top tips on Health and Creativity.

The difference between fasting and lifestyle changes.

As most of my clients know, I periodically fast, or as I like to put it "I'm just trying to balance the books...

An inside view of the Creative Writing + Pilates retreat

By Sophie, co-founder of Shine Retreats...

Cranial Osteopathy @ The Regeneration Retreat 2024

As a cranial osteopath and naturopath, Rehana has been part of the original Shine Holistic health team in London since 2004 and the last two years, has collaborated, to create the Regeneration Retreats...

Aga’s favourite reads of 2023. Plus a book to look out for in 2024.

Three books I read in 2023 will stay with me forever: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Zevin is an American author and screenwriter and it is her tenth novel, soon to be transformed into a feature film by Paramount...

Carla’s Journey through Breast Cancer

Last week, we introduced you to Aga, our writer on the Beautiful, Precious ME retreat...

Could writing help you process a breast cancer diagnosis?

 Love or hate the whole pink ribbon thing, here we are again!!!  A constant reminder to be vigilant about our breasts, our health and our lives...

Aga’s Top 3 Summer Reads

Holiday reading: three brilliant page-turners for the summer by our Creative Writing Retreat Facilitator, Aga Lesiewicz...

How Rehana uses Cranial Osteopathy to treat illness including Long Covid on Retreat

Shine Holistic brings you The Regeneration Retreat 2023 in Umbria, Italy with Rehana Kapadia As a cranial osteopath and naturopath, I have been part of the original Shine Holistic health team since 2004 and very much looking forward to our second year of the REGENERATION RETREAT retreat...

What to read next…

Recent crime books that broke the mould, by Aga Lesiewicz...

Five inspiring memoirs to get you thinking about writing your own.

If you saw Aga's previous blog, How to Write a Memoir, you may have started to let the idea stir in your mind...

All About You – How to write a memoir?

EAT CHILL WRITE         By Aga Lesiewicz, Author and co-creator of The Creative Writing and Pilates Retreat Everyone has a book in them but, as Martin Amis observed, it’s usually “not a novel but a memoir”...

Healthy Eating Cheat Sheet

By Michelle McKenzie, Retreat Leader of The Regeneration Retreat...