Long and Short Retreats
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- Short Retreat will be 1-4 August 2022, £300 (with additional therapies costing extra) with up to 4 people
- Week long Retreat: Monday 8 August- Sunday 14 August, 2022, £850 (all inclusive within the price) with up to 4 people.
Long Retreats :
- Daily Secret Spirits positive meditation and group discussions
- Life Enhancement Coaching and Mindfulness sessions
- Opportunity for one to one sessions with course leader to discuss future after the course
- Yoga group sessions during the week
- Chinese massage once or twice during the week
- Outings and walks in the beautiful surrounding Highland countryside
- Fun, light-hearted evening creative opportunities, simple singing, art etc
- Highland evening with fiddlers and songs around the fire on the last evening
- Every day opportunity for timeout
Plan for short Retreat:
- The short retreats are more personalised retreats and are held for 3 full days, with guests arriving the night before. You may have a retreat on your own or with a friend or a small group.
- The retreats begin with a session with Course Leader Kit Fraser in the morning. There are trips and walks in the highlands. There is time out. Then there is another session with Kit Fraser in the late afternoon. Additional therapies can be booked as extras that are offered on the long retreats.
Secret Spirits retreat cottage:
The retreats for 4 people are held at Annahill Croft Cottage with dormer windows set with the most stunning views of the Highlands and Moniack Castle. The retreat house is near Kirkhill, 7 miles from Inverness. There are four bedrooms and two bathrooms. See Annahill Croft Cottage here>
Morning session with Course Leader spiritual self-help author Kit Fraser
back drive orange
Autumnal Highland view
retreat members River Beauly
Course members by the River Beauly
Looking up through the Broom
Looking up through the Broom
Cooking on the Aga with Course Facilitator Sophia Yates
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Mandala painting, simple painting with water colours for all, one evening
Arriving at Annahill
Arriving at Annahill
Hillside by Loch Laide walk
Dusk coming on at Loch Laide
Life Enhancement Coach and Mindfulness therapist Fiona MacAulay presenting and facilitating
By the twin Lochs during a stunning walk when a herd of deer came down close to us
Kit Fraser with his notes
Fiona discussing with the Course
The kitchen
The kitchen
Zen Yoga with Denise Davis
Spread through the kitchen and living room
SS Retreat theraputic walks – writers centre stone circle
Stonework to ponder by
Reflections during walking
Course members felt like doing a Strip the Willow, a simple Highland dance, at the end of the week. Kilts were hired for those that fancied it
One of the bedrooms
One of the bedrooms
One of the bedrooms
One of the bedrooms
Annahill, from the lawn
Annahill looking up from the lawn
Annahill, sitting room
The sitting room
Overlooking Ben Wyvis from Annahill
Overlooking Ben Wyvis from Annahill