Two yoga sessions a day, and free time between
Morning yoga starts early and breakfast follows. The middle hours and afternoon are free, with guided walks and wild swimming included during the week and time left to explore Sark or stay at the retreat.
Evening practice and dinner bring everyone back together. Meals are vegetarian, cooked by a private chef and eaten together, family style.
Morning
Morning yoga starts the day
Every session, morning and evening, pairs the physical practice with pranayama and meditation. It is mixed level throughout, so a guest trying yoga for the first time and a guest with years of practice are on the same mat.
The longer answer to why the practice works especially well here is in What is the best place in the world to do yoga?
Breakfast
Breakfast, once practice ends
Breakfast comes once the morning session ends, the day’s first pause before the group scatters into the free hours ahead.
The middle of the day
Free hours to explore or do nothing
The middle of the day and the afternoon are left free. Guided walks, wild swimming and guided tours of the island are all part of the retreat week, and full body massage, Reiki and guided breathwork with cold immersion can be added on top, best arranged before you arrive, with some flexibility once you are on Sark. Massage was the guest favourite at the last retreat.
The afternoon holds as much or as little of that as you want, and nothing is on the calendar again until evening practice.
More on why the island itself makes this possible is on Why Sark.
Evening
Evening practice closes the day
The evening session is the day’s second practice, pranayama and meditation again alongside the movement, and it is how the group comes back together before dinner.
Dinner
Dinner, shared family style
Vegan requests are easily accommodated alongside the standard vegetarian meals. Any other dietary need or allergy must be discussed before you book, so the chef can confirm what can be accommodated safely.
After dark
One evening at Sark Observatory
On a clear night the Milky Way is overhead, not a faint smudge but a band of light you can trace across the sky. Sark became the world’s first Dark Sky Island in 2011, and there is no street lighting anywhere on the island to compete with what is above.
Guests tell us they sleep better here, and darkness is part of why: light after dark suppresses melatonin, the hormone that signals the body it is time to sleep. A studio can dim its lights for an hour, but it cannot switch off the town outside the window. Sark has no town to switch off. It is why one evening of the retreat week is spent at Sark Observatory, one of the things the week is deliberately built around.
