Healthy (and fun) retreats for New Year

If you think New Year’s parties are over-rated, escape the mayhem on a healthy retreat and start 2016 feeling zen

Five mornings of gentle ashtanga and five afternoon workshops on the theory and practice of yoga will get the year off to a healthy start. But perhaps the best thing about this retreat in the Scottish Highlands is the bathing: the EcoYoga Centre has a natural spring-water hot tub, an underground sauna, rainforest showers under a glass dome and baths next to waterfalls. Plus super-kingsize beds, wood-fired stoves and organic, vegetarian food … bliss.
• 29 December-3 January, £850, ecoyoga.org

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