Mindfulness · Meditation · Sound Healing · Yoga

A weekend wellness retreat

Wellbeing is a state of being — mindfulness, meditation, yoga and sound healing at Burwell House.

16 years · Hundreds of meditation retreats · Thousands of lives transformed

18 hours of teaching & workshops
Rooms from £369 twin room
For everyone beginners welcome

The weekend, in pictures

What our guests say

Real words from people who came for a weekend and left with something that stayed.

Healing & Magical

"What Adrian and his amazing team achieved in a weekend was more healing than 20 years of psychologist therapy. I'm healing more and more each day — I can't recommend this amazing and magical experience enough."

— Emerald
Life Changing

"This retreat is a life changing experience and I'd recommend it to everyone. It was wonderful in every way."

— Amanda
Positive & Calm

"Can't recommend this highly enough! This was the most amazing weekend, met the most amazing people and came away feeling so incredibly positive and calm."

— Becca
Mental Freedom

"Wow! What an awesome weekend. I can't thank you and your crew enough for opening my eyes to reality and giving me the keys to escape my self-made prison cell of the mind."

— Clare
Enlightening

"I had my complete spiritual awakening and for that I am grateful. To have seen the white light for the first time was a surreal experience. Something has massively shifted within me."

— Guest
Caring & Supportive

"Hello beautiful beings… thank you so much for your supportive positive energy. It was so good to be around people on a level of the most high. Unconditional love to you all xx"

— Zena

Why us

Why this weekend isn’t like the others

It tends to change people’s lives. That’s what they keep telling us.

Most UK wellness breaks sell you a spa menu, a yoga timetable, or a pretty view. This one is a holiday from your head, and you leave with skills and techniques for lasting wellbeing, whatever life throws at you, including a wet Tuesday in November.

Three days at Burwell House in Cambridgeshire. Home-cooked food. Twin rooms or a bunk. Eighteen hours of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, Chi Kung and gongs, plain talking, life-changing teaching. Not robes. Not silence. Not a festival.

The teachers live what they teach, real people with real-world experience, who've changed their lives in ways they never imagined possible.

The point isn’t a lovely glow that fades on the Monday train. It’s learning how to find a quiet, peaceful space in your mind, and rest from your head drama and mind-made suffering. Tools you take home for lasting wellbeing, not just a nice relaxing weekend.

Beginners welcome. Lots of people come on their own. We’ve had builders, beauticians, barristers and bankers. No labels.

And it doesn’t end on Sunday. Free weekly Tune In Tuesday on Zoom, and a community that stays in touch so the practice has somewhere to land. Sixteen years. Thousands helped discover lasting wellbeing.

Rooms from £369. Bunks from £320. £100 books it.

Go on. Treat yourself.

Wellness retreats for everyone

Have you ever seen a builder meditating? Or a beautician, yoga teacher, barrister, or banker?

This isn’t an exclusive spa break for people with money to burn. We’ve welcomed them all, rich, poor, and everyone in between, from every background, culture and faith. Many who need this most don’t have much money. That’s why bunks start from £320, with twin and nicer rooms when you want more comfort.

No labels, no boxes. Just real people who feel there’s something more to life… and want to discover it.

Whether you’re brand new to mindfulness or already on the journey, our retreats are for you. Come on your own (lots of people do!) — you won’t feel alone for long. We’re a warm, open, non-judgemental bunch, and genuine friendships often form surprisingly quickly.

"Join us for a weekend of fun, laughter and learning and discover a profoundly better way of living"

Fun. Friendly. Relaxed.

We won't make you dress in robes or sit facing a wall for hours. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's just not our style. We prefer a modern, plain-talking approach to mindfulness — the teaching is no less profound, but we want to make it accessible, relaxed and fun. It is a holiday after all.

Go on, treat yourself. Everyone deserves a holiday from their head — even you.

Book Your Place

Retreat lineup

18 hours of teaching, workshops, gong baths and more — in one fun-packed weekend.

Curious mainly about the gongs and bowls? See our sound healing retreat shop window — same Burwell weekend, same booking.

Friday
From 5pmArrive anytime
7:00 pmDinner
8:00 pmWelcome talk & introductions
9:00 pmYoga Nidra sound bath
Saturday
8:00 amYoga
9:00 amBreakfast
10:00 amThe Fundamentals of Mindfulness
12:00 pmThe Way of the Body
12:45 pmChi Gong with Steve
1:30 pmLunch
2:30 pmMindful walking, sitting & nature bathing
4:00 pmMindfulness in the real world
5:30 pmSteve's School of Meditation
7:00 pmDinner
Sunday
8:00 amBreakfast
9:00 amMindfulness of Emotions
11:00 amIndian Vedic Breathwork
12:30 pmThe Energy of Mindfulness
1:15 pmEmotional Clearing or Somatic Yoga
2:30 pmLunch
3:30 pmWhat Now?
4:00 pmRetreat ends

What you'll learn

Practical techniques and direct experience — because mindfulness is something you live, not just read about.

Fundamentals of Mindfulness

Enter a state of clear, thoughtless awareness (Satori). Learn the main techniques for switching off the head drama and discovering the freedom that follows.

The Way of the Body

Mindful walking, sitting, eating, breathing — the alignment of mind and body. Includes the famous standing-in-a-queue meditation and nature bathing.

Mindfulness of Emotions

Feel and process difficult emotions without being ruled by them. Move from reaction to calm, conscious response.

Breathwork & Energy

Vedic breath practices and the subtler energetic dimension of mindfulness — with space for healing and deeper insight.

Your teachers

Experienced, authentic guides who have walked the path themselves.

Adrian Rides

Mindfulness came into Adrian's life in 1999 when he was in a dark place with anxiety, depression and alcoholism. He discovered he could escape his troubled mind — and has been helping others do the same ever since.

Steve Dixon

Steve came on a Now Project retreat in 2014 suffering severe depression and addictions. He went on a ten-year journey of discovery, living in ashrams in India and studying with masters. He'd love to share the gems he's found.

James Howells

James came to his first Now Project retreat in 2023 crippled with arthritis, back issues and in early recovery from a 20-year battle with addiction. Through sound healing and mindfulness he has transformed himself — he's the real deal.

Upcoming retreat dates

3 days / 2 nights · Fully inclusive · For everyone — beginner to advanced

18th – 20th September
23rd – 25th October
4th – 6th December
22nd – 24th January
19th – 21st March
16th – 18th April
£369
twin room · teaching, workshops & full board. Dorm room £320.
£100 deposit secures your place

Burwell House, Cambridgeshire
burwellhouse.com

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Take the weight off your mind

How much better would you feel if you could quiet your mind and finally let go of those persistent worries? Within just a few hours of arriving you'll learn practical ways to create that calm space — and a whole new, lighter way of living opens up.

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Mindfulness · Meditation · Sound Healing · Yoga

A weekend wellness retreat

Wellbeing is a state of being — mindfulness, meditation, yoga and sound healing at Burwell House.

16 years · Hundreds of meditation retreats · Thousands of lives transformed

18 hours of teaching & workshops
Rooms from £369 twin room
For everyone beginners welcome

The weekend, in pictures

What our guests say

Real words from people who came for a weekend and left with something that stayed.

Healing & Magical

"What Adrian and his amazing team achieved in a weekend was more healing than 20 years of psychologist therapy. I'm healing more and more each day — I can't recommend this amazing and magical experience enough."

— Emerald
Life Changing

"This retreat is a life changing experience and I'd recommend it to everyone. It was wonderful in every way."

— Amanda
Positive & Calm

"Can't recommend this highly enough! This was the most amazing weekend, met the most amazing people and came away feeling so incredibly positive and calm."

— Becca
Mental Freedom

"Wow! What an awesome weekend. I can't thank you and your crew enough for opening my eyes to reality and giving me the keys to escape my self-made prison cell of the mind."

— Clare
Enlightening

"I had my complete spiritual awakening and for that I am grateful. To have seen the white light for the first time was a surreal experience. Something has massively shifted within me."

— Guest
Caring & Supportive

"Hello beautiful beings… thank you so much for your supportive positive energy. It was so good to be around people on a level of the most high. Unconditional love to you all xx"

— Zena

Why us

Why this weekend isn’t like the others

It tends to change people’s lives. That’s what they keep telling us.

Most UK wellness breaks sell you a spa menu, a yoga timetable, or a pretty view. This one is a holiday from your head, and you leave with skills and techniques for lasting wellbeing, whatever life throws at you, including a wet Tuesday in November.

Three days at Burwell House in Cambridgeshire. Home-cooked food. Twin rooms or a bunk. Eighteen hours of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, Chi Kung and gongs, plain talking, life-changing teaching. Not robes. Not silence. Not a festival.

The teachers live what they teach, real people with real-world experience, who've changed their lives in ways they never imagined possible.

The point isn’t a lovely glow that fades on the Monday train. It’s learning how to find a quiet, peaceful space in your mind, and rest from your head drama and mind-made suffering. Tools you take home for lasting wellbeing, not just a nice relaxing weekend.

Beginners welcome. Lots of people come on their own. We’ve had builders, beauticians, barristers and bankers. No labels.

And it doesn’t end on Sunday. Free weekly Tune In Tuesday on Zoom, and a community that stays in touch so the practice has somewhere to land. Sixteen years. Thousands helped discover lasting wellbeing.

Rooms from £369. Bunks from £320. £100 books it.

Go on. Treat yourself.

Wellness retreats for everyone

Have you ever seen a builder meditating? Or a beautician, yoga teacher, barrister, or banker?

This isn’t an exclusive spa break for people with money to burn. We’ve welcomed them all, rich, poor, and everyone in between, from every background, culture and faith. Many who need this most don’t have much money. That’s why bunks start from £320, with twin and nicer rooms when you want more comfort.

No labels, no boxes. Just real people who feel there’s something more to life… and want to discover it.

Whether you’re brand new to mindfulness or already on the journey, our retreats are for you. Come on your own (lots of people do!) — you won’t feel alone for long. We’re a warm, open, non-judgemental bunch, and genuine friendships often form surprisingly quickly.

"Join us for a weekend of fun, laughter and learning and discover a profoundly better way of living"

Fun. Friendly. Relaxed.

We won't make you dress in robes or sit facing a wall for hours. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's just not our style. We prefer a modern, plain-talking approach to mindfulness — the teaching is no less profound, but we want to make it accessible, relaxed and fun. It is a holiday after all.

Go on, treat yourself. Everyone deserves a holiday from their head — even you.

Book Your Place

Retreat lineup

18 hours of teaching, workshops, gong baths and more — in one fun-packed weekend.

Curious mainly about the gongs and bowls? See our sound healing retreat shop window — same Burwell weekend, same booking.

Friday
From 5pmArrive anytime
7:00 pmDinner
8:00 pmWelcome talk & introductions
9:00 pmYoga Nidra sound bath
Saturday
8:00 amYoga
9:00 amBreakfast
10:00 amThe Fundamentals of Mindfulness
12:00 pmThe Way of the Body
12:45 pmChi Gong with Steve
1:30 pmLunch
2:30 pmMindful walking, sitting & nature bathing
4:00 pmMindfulness in the real world
5:30 pmSteve's School of Meditation
7:00 pmDinner
Sunday
8:00 amBreakfast
9:00 amMindfulness of Emotions
11:00 amIndian Vedic Breathwork
12:30 pmThe Energy of Mindfulness
1:15 pmEmotional Clearing or Somatic Yoga
2:30 pmLunch
3:30 pmWhat Now?
4:00 pmRetreat ends

What you'll learn

Practical techniques and direct experience — because mindfulness is something you live, not just read about.

Fundamentals of Mindfulness

Enter a state of clear, thoughtless awareness (Satori). Learn the main techniques for switching off the head drama and discovering the freedom that follows.

The Way of the Body

Mindful walking, sitting, eating, breathing — the alignment of mind and body. Includes the famous standing-in-a-queue meditation and nature bathing.

Mindfulness of Emotions

Feel and process difficult emotions without being ruled by them. Move from reaction to calm, conscious response.

Breathwork & Energy

Vedic breath practices and the subtler energetic dimension of mindfulness — with space for healing and deeper insight.