Wildfitness - Europe
Capraia island, italy and Menorca, spain
Move, live and eat wildly on ruggedly beautiful Mediterranean coastlines
Re-wild your mind and body and find out how nature intended you to move, live and eat on these carefully crafted fitness retreats. They take place on Menorca in Spain at an elegant 18th-century villa with stunning beach views inside a UNESCO biosphere near Es Migjorn Gran, and in Italy at a glorious clifftop fortress on the island of Capraia in the Tuscan Archipelago. Purposeful, playful movement sessions, meditation, massage and a natural food regime will re-energise you and potentially transform your life.
Our Reviewer Emma Douglas says of her Menorcan Retreat:
‘The hastier eaters amongst us benefit particularly from a blindfolded game where we savour flavours, textures and make wildly inaccurate guesses – deprived of sight and smell – on what we are tasting’
Queen of Retreats says:
‘It’s a fun and empowering experience to learn how to move efficiently with exceptional teachers in such glorious landscapes. Come with a spirit of adventure and you will relish the experience. Don’t bother with a pre-retreat mani-pedi; your first tree climb will ruin it. While a digital detox is not enforced, it is encouraged’
Fundamental and Transformative Retreats
Wildfitness offers a Fundamental Retreat, which lasts seven days, or a Transformative Retreat, which lasts 14. Both programmes are available in both locations and include a posture and movement assessment, hikes, beach games, swimming, daily movement, interactive workshops, cookery and massage. Transformative retreats also include a one-to-one personal training session.
Days usually consist of three movement sessions of varying intensities – choose to run, climb, lift, throw, hang and crawl. Relax in the afternoon before finishing the day with a deep pre-dinner stretch and breathwork.
Your retreats includes one full body massage. Extra treatments are bookable. There is plenty of time for meditation, napping, journaling, perfecting your animal crawl, or curling up by the pool with a good book.
Italy
Fundamental and Transformative Retreats, Capraia Island, Italy
This lovingly restored 16th-century island fortress and certified National Monument perches on a seven-million-year-old cliff overlooking the aquamarine waters of the Tuscan Archipelago. An exercise in restrained luxury and exquisite Italian taste, it has a large sitting room and terrace, yoga room, games room, home cinema, and two swimming pools—one set 100 metres above the sea.
There are eleven large bedrooms, all ensuite with showers, and heritage features include frescoes, polished plaster walls, and woodblock floors.
Delicious, natural and organic meals are prepared for you by the fort chefs, who will also give you a pizza lesson. You’ll eat in the light, spacious dining room. Expect abundant seasonal vegetables and salads, local fish and meat, organic yogurt and cheeses. Vegetarians, vegans and food allergies can always be catered for.
June 2024
spain
Fundamental and Transformative Retreats, Menorca, Spain
This elegant 18th-century villa and rustic converted barn with stunning sea views sits in 300 acres inside a UNESCO biosphere. There’s a private track to beautiful Binigaus Beach, a 12m infinity pool and a shaded terrace for chilling out.
There are six bedrooms in the villa and two in the barn. All are en-suite apart from two. All have good showers and the King’s Suite also has a bath.
Meals are freshly prepared in-house and eaten communally and outside whenever possible. Breakfast might include frittata with spinach. Lunch could be barbequed meat and roasted vegetables, while supper could feature hearty chickpea or meatball soup and baked snapper or chicken with flavoursome salads. Nothing processed, caffeinated or alcoholic is served. Vegetarians, vegans and food allergies can always be catered for.
