NEW Yoga and Walking Weekend, 1-3 March 2024
The Le Strange Arms, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk
With Karin Eklund and Kevin Hand MSc MCIEEM
After the success of our Yoga and Walking Weekends in Suffolk, we selected an exciting new location in 2023, the North Norfolk coast and Wash shoreline. Our autumn weekend there went so well that we are doing another, in Spring!
Comfortable rooms, good food, and wonderful walks on endless sandy beaches, full of bird and marine life which our experienced ecologist Kevin can help us enjoy and learn about.
Join us to relax and recharge, leave the world behind with a weekend of yoga and mindful walking by the sea.
Our base will be the Le Strange Hotel in Old Hunstanton, a mile or so north of the popular Victorian seaside town and right beside the shore ( www.lestrangearms.co.uk ). Kevin has used this hotel for many years for wildlife tours with ACE Cultural Tours.
Karin has been teaching yoga since 2006 and has taught most ages and abilities. She trained with BNS Iyengar (Mysore, India), Lara Baumann (OM Station, London) and Dr. Françoise Freedman (Birthlight, London). Karin now favours a powerful flowing style of yoga with special attention to the breath and alignment to help strengthen and energise the body. She enjoys a varied practice with a creative approach to sequencing. Each class will include some breathing practices, a flowing yoga sequence and a short relaxation. https://kayoga.co.uk
Kevin is a conservationist and environmentalist with a special interest in birds, mammals and ecotourism. He has been running wildlife tours in the UK and worldwide for over 35 years, mainly for the ACE Foundation, the educational charity based at Stapleford Granary, Cambridge. He has led many projects linking nature and communities, including a Darwin Initiative on the Taiga forests in Siberia and a programme to identify sustainable use of forest resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Kevin was a director of the Tree Council and ran National Tree Week in the UK for 13 years. He has recently led a team providing access to the British countryside for hard to reach groups, and a project on eagles, vultures and other wildlife in Albania. He is a former President of the Cambridge Natural History Society, and is currently working on chalk streams nearby.
Itinterary
Each day will begin with gentle and stimulating yoga before breakfast.There will be longer yoga sessions to prepare us for the weekend on Friday evening, and on Saturday afternoon before dinner. During the day we will walk together beside the sea, directly from our hotel, practising mindfulness and appreciation of the natural world.
On Saturday we will walk north towards Holme-by-the Sea, appreciating the great swirling flocks of waders, geese and the first spring migrant birds, plus beautiful sand dunes and coastal heath in flower, to the location of the Bronze age ritual site of Seahenge, protected by the waves now during the higher tides. Kevin was present at the excavation and can help us understand its secrets and place in the past and present landscape.
On Sunday there will be a shorter walk around the beautiful chalk cliffs of Hunstanton, with their nesting fulmars, to the site marked as St Edmund’s landing point in 855, with a break for coffee in Hunstanton before finishing with lunch at our hotel.
Travel
The cost of the weekend is £330 per person, or £405 for a single room. This includes two nights’ accommodation with breakfasts and two 3 course dinners and a two course Sunday lunch included, all yoga sessions and 2 walks accompanied by Kevin and Karin.
Not included: Saturday lunch, own drinks, and coffees.
Bring your own equipment, including mats, blocks and belts.
The walks will be at a leisurely pace, stopping to look at the wildlife and ecology of the area. Each walk will be about 7 and 3 miles respectively.
Yoga and walks are not compulsory. All are welcome to opt out of anything, to return part way through the walks, or to walk further on your own if you wish .
To book please send a deposit of £50 (non-refundable, as we have to pay this to the hotel) together with any dietary requirements etc. Full payment by 10th January at the latest but you can pay the full price at any point before then.
Spaces are limited so please contact Karin (eklundart@gmail.com) and book now if you wish to come!