After several successful years offering catering in house to private clients, we are proud to formally introduce Chef Imi as our Head Chef for the 2026 season. Imi will be the Head Chef on all 5 of our highly popular healthy food retreat weeks in...
Nearing the end of 2025, it’s incredible to think Wild View Retreat’s been running retreats for over 8 years. Surviving the challenges of Brexit/C19 whilst building a new wellness retreat from an abandoned village in Portugal in 2016 to 2022, the first 6 years have not...
Metabolic syndrome is increasingly common in the UK – in fact it is estimated that around one in four adults has it. It is a term given for a cluster of conditions which together raise your risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and other...
Click on You Tube Video Below to View the Promo Video. We are honoured and delighted to now offer Wild View Retreat as an exclusive venue for private hire. Whether it be a corporate company event, team 'workations', yoga retreats or simply family holidays, we are...
Earlier in the year I met Bart from the Netherlands who had moved from Bali with his wife to near by Sao Bras de Alportel. Bart has worked all his life on sustainable tourism projects and for 5 star hotels and has now created his...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8iEv7DvIE0[/embedyt] If I could recommend one simple healthcare hack to implement in someone’s life it would be a daily consistent Nutritional Therapist’s smoothie, every day of the week, every week of the year, for the rest of your life. When I think of a smoothie my...
Out of the blue we found out in the New Year, Wild View Retreat had won the Prestige Award for Best Wellness Retreat in 2022/23. This was completely unexpected and an amazing surprise to kick off the New Year. The awards recognise small and medium-sized...
On retreat, last October all the guests were settling down to watch the legendary 2012 ‘Fat Sick and Nearly Dead ’, a documentary by Joe Cross that has become a kind of ‘right passage’ for any newcomers to fasting on the first night of the...
In this New Year blog London based Nutritional Therapist Katia Frank from Nutrition Applied explains how we can do to bolster our immune system during the winter flu and cold season. At the beginning of the new year, many of us resolve to take steps to...
You do not have to be a doctor to read your blood test results. Often we leave the fate of our health indicators in the hands of medical professionals, taking their word verbatim without any understanding of what our blood tests are really saying. In...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzbJpyDjGY[/embedyt] New Promotional Video for Summer Retreats Starting May 7th 2022...
We currently in the process of building 2 new shepherd's huts for the 2021 season. These will replace the Wild Safari Tents as a more comfortable and outdoor accommodation option. Even though the huts are technically outside they will have the feel of being inside...
https://youtu.be/22jO7znTDrY Confused by which supplements to take and how much? Wanting to understand the essentials on supplementing for optimal health? None of us are taught the basics of essential nutrition at school and the functions nutrients perform in the body. A lack of adequate nutrition leads to low...
Erika and I are delighted to report that Wild View Retreat has survived (just about!) the worst of the pandemic - the greatest test of our lives - and we are busy planning and preparing for an exciting recovery year next year. With 80% of credited...
Where do you work and what type of fitness do you do? I teach regular weekly classes at Blok London and run the odd monthly session at the Adidas studio on Brick Lane. I teach a mix of hiit bassed classes, strength, core, boxing conditioning and...