"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."
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
Real words from people who came for a weekend and left with something that stayed.
"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."
"This retreat is a life changing experience and I'd recommend it to everyone. It was wonderful in every way."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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"
Why us
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.
For people who sense there is more to life and crave fulfilment and meaning. Skills and company for lasting wellbeing.
Real wellness isn't a spa weekend, it's a state of being you can carry with you everywhere. Spend three days at Burwell House in Cambridgeshire learning how, with mindfulness, meditation, yoga, Chi Kung and gongs, plain talking and life-changing teaching. No robes, no silence, and definitely 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. Dorm bed £320. £100 books it.
Go on. Treat yourself.
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 dorm bed is £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"
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 Place18 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 page. Same Burwell weekend and booking.
Practical techniques and direct experience, because mindfulness is something you live, not just read about.
Enter a state of clear, thoughtless awareness (Satori). Learn the main techniques for switching off the head drama and discovering the freedom that follows.
Mindful walking, sitting, eating, breathing, and the alignment of mind and body. Includes the famous standing-in-a-queue meditation and nature bathing.
Feel and process difficult emotions without being ruled by them. Move from reaction to calm, conscious response.
Vedic breath practices and the subtler energetic dimension of mindfulness, with space for healing and deeper insight.
Three minutes in the woods with Adrian, on miserable millionaires and where the quiet actually lives.
Experienced, authentic guides who have walked the path themselves.
Mindfulness came into Adrian’s life in 1999 when he was in a dark place with anxiety, depression and alcoholism. He soon discovered that with mindfulness he could escape his troubled mind. Ever since he has been helping others find their way out of mental suffering and discover a fundamentally better way of living.
Read more about Adrian
Steve came on a Now Project mindfulness retreat in 2014 suffering severe depression and addictions. He realised mindfulness and meditation was the solution and embarked on a ten-year journey of discovery — he has lived in ashrams in India and studied with masters. He’d love to share the gems he’s discovered.
Read more about Steve
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’s made a complete recovery. A changed man in the truest sense, he’s the real deal, and he’s dedicated his life now to helping others out of the darkness.
Read more about James3 days / 2 nights · Fully inclusive · For everyone, beginner to advanced
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Plain answers about the Burwell weekend. Same booking whether you found us via wellness, sound or meditation.
Yes. Beginners are welcome, and plenty of people arrive having never sat still for five minutes. You get about eighteen hours of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, Chi Kung and gongs across the weekend at Burwell House, with plain talking rather than robes or enforced silence. The next dates are 23–25 October. Rooms from £369; a dorm bed is £320; £100 deposit books your place.
A spa sells you a glow that often fades on the Monday train. This is a holiday from your head: skills and techniques for lasting wellbeing, including whatever a wet Tuesday in November throws at you. Teachers live what they teach, and after the weekend you’re invited to free weekly Tune In Tuesday on Zoom so the practice has somewhere to land.
Yes, and lots of people do. You won’t feel awkward for long; builders, beauticians, barristers and bankers have all turned up on their own and found the room friendly rather than cliquey. Burwell House is in Cambridgeshire, an easy reach for Cambridge and the wider East of England. Beginners welcome. Next weekend: 23–25 October.
Rooms from £369 for a twin, dorm bed £320, fully inclusive for the three days and two nights. A £100 deposit secures your place. That covers teaching, workshops, sound work, home-cooked food and your bed, not a menu of add-on spa treatments. Next retreat: 23–25 October at Burwell House, Cambridgeshire.
Practical ways to quiet the head drama and find a peaceful space in the mind you can use at home. The lineup includes fundamentals of mindfulness, the way of the body (walking, sitting, eating, breathing), mindfulness of emotions, breathwork and energy work, plus yoga, Chi Kung and gongs. About eighteen hours across the weekend. The aim isn’t a temporary floaty feeling; it’s tools that travel with you, with Tune In Tuesday afterwards if you want the community to stay close.
It’s at Burwell House in Cambridgeshire, a proper residential weekend, not a day drop-in in a hired hall. Cambridge folk find it straightforward; so do people travelling from further afield who want a UK wellness break without the airport karaoke. Next dates: 23–25 October. Rooms from £369, dorm £320, £100 to book.
If your head won’t switch off and you’ve had enough of “relaxing weekends” that don’t stick, you’re exactly who these weekends tend to suit. No labels, no robes, no forced silence, not a festival. Just warm company and teachers who live what they teach. Beginners welcome; coming alone is fine. Holiday from your head, skills for afterwards. Next: 23–25 October at Burwell House.
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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