About us

Houses Chosen for What Happens Inside Them

We started by renting our own farmhouse to a yoga teacher who could not find anywhere suitable, and spent the following two years listening to what facilitators actually needed. It turned out to be a short and unglamorous list: a large room without pillars, warm underfoot, with daylight from two sides; bedrooms that do not force strangers to share; a kitchen where twenty meals can be produced without chaos; hot water that does not run out; and complete freedom from other guests. Every house in the collection meets that list before anything else is considered.

The locations are the second half of the equation. Each property stands alone on a slow, wide bend where the water moves quietly and the bank is stable enough to swim from. There is no through road past any of them, the nearest village is between two and six kilometres away, and the night sky is genuinely dark. Groups that arrive intending to work all day usually end up in the water by the second afternoon, which is generally the point.

We are deliberately not a retreat company. We do not sell programmes, employ teachers or attach our name to anybody's course. We look after the buildings, the gardens, the heating, the linen, the practical arrangements and, if asked, the food. Whoever is running the retreat runs it exactly as they wish, and their guests deal with them rather than with us — which is the arrangement every experienced facilitator asks for.