Balance Retreat
The mental wellbeing week - no screens, no alcohol, nothing asked of you.
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- Low and no alcohol throughout
- Breath and stillness sessions on deck with a practitioner aboard
- Morning cold immersion from the transom
- Anchorages chosen for silence, and dark skies at night
- Afternoons unstructured by design
The nervous system does not read a calendar. It reads whether anything is being asked of you.
Balance is the mental wellbeing week: a boat with no itinerary after lunch, phones in a drawer from the first evening, and days ordered around the few things that genuinely settle a person — cold water in the morning, movement without exertion, real food, sunlight, sleep, and conversation that is not about work.
There is no programme to complete. That is the treatment.
What The Week Removes
- Screens
- Phones go into a drawer on the first evening. Most people ask for them back on day four, look once, and put them away again.
- Alcohol
- Low and no alcohol throughout. It is the single change most guests say they keep, and the reason the mornings are usable.
- Obligation
- Afternoons are unstructured by design. Nothing is booked, nothing is expected, and nobody will ask what you did with them.
- Noise
- Anchorages chosen for silence rather than for scenery, and dark skies at night well away from harbour light.
What It Adds
- Cold water
- Morning immersion from the transom. Brief, voluntary, and the thing people are most surprised to find they look forward to.
- Breath and stillness
- Guided sessions on deck at anchor with a practitioner aboard. No incense, no chanting, no obligation to enjoy it.
- Sea time
- Long, quiet passages under sail. Watching water for six hours does something no app has managed to reproduce.
- Company
- Six guests and a long table. Isolation is a symptom as often as it is a preference.
A Note On What This Is Not
This is a rest week, not treatment. We are not clinicians, we diagnose nothing and we prescribe nothing. If you are in crisis, this is not the right week and we will say so honestly rather than take the booking.
If you would rather move than rest, the Wellness Retreat is the active week — pilates on deck, open water and island ridgelines.
How The Days Run
- Day One
- Split. Boarding, phones away, a short passage and an early anchor.
- Day Two
- Cold swim at dawn, breath work on deck, then nothing until dinner.
- Day Three
- A long quiet passage under sail. Swimming at anchor.
- Day Four
- A day without movement. The hardest and best day of the week.
- Day Five
- Stillness in the morning, an island walk in the late afternoon.
- Day Six
- The group chooses the anchorage. By now it chooses well.
- Day Seven
- Return to Split, and what each of us keeps.
What The Price Covers
- Seven nights aboard in a private cabin
- All meals aboard
- Practitioner aboard for breath and stillness sessions
- Skipper and crew
- Harbour and berth fees
- Four weeks of aftercare
Afterwards
A short written guide to keeping what you found, and a group call four weeks after you step off.
Take Your Place
Places are held for 48 hours from enquiry. Tell us who is coming and we will confirm the cabin.
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