Silk Retreats

30/05/2020

🌿✨The Silk Farm garden looking real pretty after the rain 🌿✨
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Now that it's more difficult for you to visit The Silk Farm, we're going to bring it to you.

Although our name is changing to Silk Retreats, we're keeping our beautiful location at The Silk Farm and it will continue to host your private retreats. But from this summer we'll be available to care of all your wellness needs - wherever or whenever you need them.

Are your everyday pressures and 2020's extraordinary circumstances making it difficult to find the balance you need to flourish?
Whether it's on your private trips or in the comfort of your own home, we'll help you to find your equilibrium by taking care of your yoga, wellness, and nutrition.

Our wonderful private chef and highly experienced yogis will organise as little or as much as you want to empower you to find the stability you need.

We hope to see you soon ###
To find out more, visit www.silkretreats.com

29/05/2020

A little announcement from The Silk Team - With the world changing due to the virus we have decided to make a positive step forward in a new direction and we’ve made some changes to the way we will be running things. You have may seen our name change, don’t worry we are still keeping our beautiful location at The Silk Farm and we will continue to run private retreat stays at the farm but starting from this summer The Silk Team has decided to travel to you, taking care of all your wellness needs.
We bring the retreat experience to you on your time, we take care of the yoga, wellness, food and nutrition. By bringing The Silk Team to you we remove the stress of trying to balance your wellbeing whilst coping with the everyday pressures of normal life. We are on hand to take help you rebalance and fully relax by taking care of your health and wellbeing for your private trips or home stays. We offer entirely bespoke packages, our highly experienced Private Chef & Yoga Team will organise as little or as much as you like. Our team will come to you and give you the full relaxation of being on a retreat in the comfort of your own holidays or homes.

Please find the link to our new website www.silkretreats.com in our bio

We hope to see you soon.
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15/03/2020

Introducing our third team member - the brilliant .yoga

I've been a tom boy wild child since reception when I met my oldest friend we'd always get up to no good together sneaking out and lying to our parents. Usually in the pursute of boys.

Mum always said I was racing to grow up. "Sabine you'll have nothing more to discover when you hit your 20's!"

In some ways she was right, I partied hard early on, multiple day benders. But those experineces led me to a spiritual place early on in my adulthood.

I think experimenting was always part reblion, part self-discovery.
Now, I've grown beyond that, I still have that same desire to understand the universe and how we connect to it, my exploring and discovering of the mind and the body has elevated through yoga and meditation.

Having a s**t time in my first "proper" job that I just didn't fit, I got anxiety attacks for no other reason than I felt so out of place, I decided to leave.
My escape plan was to backpack solo around India.
It all came down a gut instinct, that India would serve to answer a yearning to understand my own true purpose and connect me to a higher purpose.

Traveling alone healed me from the loss of identity I'd felt in London. Solo backpacking as a woman I gained new deeper understanding of myself. Everything about trekking alone made me stronger and I love sharing these experiences with others.

In April 2016 I became a yoga teacher with her purity and dedication to a yogic life style was an inspiration.
After two courses spending 24 days in silence meditating I've discoved the only way to truly know yourself is to spend time alone.

Life now in 2020 has evolved, I'm working in an office full time commuting to London and juggling home life with my partner and dog my goal is to bring all my collective experience to students. If you decide to join us on one of our Silk Farm Retreats you'll receive absolute empathy around the constant struggle of balancing life relalities with online aspiration and hopefully a good laugh.

@ London, United Kingdom

13/03/2020

A little sequence to keep you calm and boost your immune system.

Poses include -

Reverse Cresent High Lunge Twist Pose (Viparita Parivrtta Anjaneyasana)
TWISTS BENEFITS:
Stimulates the liver and kidneys
Good for digestive fire
Relives fatigue

Shoulderstand (Saravaungasana)
INVERSION BENEFITS
Calms mental state
Stimulates thyroid, prostate glands and abdominal organs
Tones legs and bum
Improves digestion

***MAKE SURE TO WARM UP PROPERLY*** take caution with your inveserions only do them if you know how to do them safely and make sure not too put too much pressure on the neck

12/03/2020

While I came across the The Silk Farm Retreat through it felt like The Silk Farm Retreat had found me. I did Orchards when I was 18 followed by numerous cooking jobs in Scotland and a ski season with in Val d’Isere. A food lover with Ottolenghi, Anna Jones and Angela Hartnett some of my heroes I’ve also played around with veganism and did a yoga course in India in 2018.
When I read about the chance to work in Provence for the summer it sounded far too good to be true! With an offer to do a MPhil at Cambridge on French History I thought this will be an excellent chance to improve my French and develop my passion for nutritious food and yoga!

My time in Provence was different from what I expected, sadly I didn’t become fluent in French (due to my neglect for Duolingo) or break the back of my dissertation like I imagined and happily I was not trapped up in the kitchen for 24 hours like all my other cooking experiences, instead I went on a journey of my own.

I don’t think I realised at the time that I was a bit lost having finished my degree and not knowing what the next step was or what I really wanted as I stepped into the next chapter. In France I found a big sister figure in Shona and one of my clearest memories from summer was Shona telling me: ‘You don’t know what you want and that’s okay’ she reminded me that I was only 22 and it’s okay to not know what you want. Hearing those simple words had a profound impact - it felt like a huge relief. Durham was quite an intense environment (in finals year I lived in a house of 12 and in my second year I lived in a house of 8 which had rats!) and trying to balance academic work with friends and relationships whilst trying to find out ‘my purpose’ or albeit ‘my future career’ away from home was pressuring - especially when it felt like all my friends had got their dream grad scheme jobs. Provence gave me the chance to step away from everything and reconnect with my mind and body. I got to learn incredible recipes, go wild swimming daily, become a Rosé connoisseur and go on super yachts!

Am now running the social media from Cambridge. Loving my course and feeling very grateful! @ The Silk Farm Retreat

04/03/2020

Meet our owner and founder -the caring, brave and immensely talented chef and yoga teacher - Shona Heron:

‘In many respects I was in my dream job. I was working on a superyacht in the Mediterranean off Portofino captained by the man who’s now my husband. Captured in 2D my life probably looked idyllic. But the reality was that I was anxious, going days without sleep, and suffering physically that eventually required my emergency evacuation to hospital. The stress of the life I was leading was taking me down a dark path and for a long time I struggled to understand how I could break free.

With foodie parents and a phonebook full of relatives as well as ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’ who love nothing more than a languorous dinner, it seems almost inevitable in hindsight that I’d become a chef. But try telling that to my teenage self. I moved to Paris as an eighteen-year-old for a boyfriend, my place at Parsons, and the food – in that order. By the time I entered my twenties that order had reversed, and it was in large part due to eating in bistros like in the 1er. It served simple, delicious food sourced from the finest ingredients, and to this day that’s exactly what I aspire to deliver at every meal.

When I finished my third – and final – season at sea I swore to myself that I’d do things differently. Walking my friend’s springer spaniel along La Pointe de Saint Hospice to try and clear my head, I thought back to the times I had felt most peaceful, centred, and most importantly, in control. I’ll be honest, there weren’t many. But there was one memory that I kept coming back to: yoga on the rocks at Coco Beach from a spot where you can see Corsica on a clear day. When I got home after dropping Loki off, I signed up for YTT with and three years later I count it as one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

Over the last 12 years I’ve cooked everywhere from soup kitchens to castles, and the way in which I cook has fundamentally stayed the same throughout: simply prepared (mostly plant-based) meals using only the best ingredients. And if you come to the Silk Farm, that’s exactly what you’ll get.’

@ Oxford, Oxfordshire

26/02/2020

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25/02/2020

Join The Silk Farm Retreat team on our Kenyan Retreat this summer! Deliciously healthy food, peaceful yoga and the beautiful Kenyan landscape - sound like paradise to you? It sure does to us!

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@ Watamu, Kenya, Africa

24/02/2020

Connie’s wonderful post on our wild swimming spots ✨🌿

On an adventure and consumed by nature - Provence Wild Swiming

18/02/2020

Trying out new recipes for pancake day next week. What do you think of our vegan pancakes served with peanut butter sauce and fresh fruit?
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