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Ryanair flight cancellations: What to do if you are affected
Know your rights – tips and advice.
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How to pack perfectly in six simple steps
How to pack perfectly in six simple steps – keep it simple and carry less
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Free inflight meals could be a thing of the past: is this so bad?
Would you bring your own food? What are you allowed to take?
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Electronics ban: what gadgets can you travel with and where?
Here’s what you need to know.
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I never go on holiday without…
Flip-flops, ear plugs, gadgets… A personal list of essentials that always make it into my travel bag.
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5 tips for really flying on a budget
Things you can do to keep flights affordable.
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Going away? Don’t forget the travel packing checklist
Use our handy tips for packing the right things and avoiding unnecessary pre-holiday stress.
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12 tips for a cheap travel insurance that works
How to pick travel cover that works for you.
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Healthy living news
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Fermentation – What are the health benefits?
A new focus on the health benefits of fermentation highlights how ‘good’ bacteria can contribute to a healthy digestive system, and body and mind.
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Desk Yoga Poses: Time to Refresh
Yoga poses you can do at your desk will help relieve stress and stiffness.
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How To Sleep Better
Do you have trouble sleeping? Take the test to see if you are getting enough and discover the best food and drink to soothe you to sleep and the best yoga and bedroom practices
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Dark chocolate health benefits
How about making your own healthy dark chocolate Easter eggs? Check the simple recipes.
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Could going vegan be good for you and the planet?
Fancy taking on the vegan challenge?
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Meditation and mindfulness: the same or different?
Meditation and mindfulness are related practices that can improve your mental and physical wellbeing.
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Meat Free Monday
Are you a meat eater? How could a meat free Monday improve your health and life on our planet?
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Ayurveda Tip: Drinking Water
How to find the right balance when it comes to drinking water.
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Detoxing from Alcohol
Post festive season could January mark the time to detox from alcohol and become a dryathelete?
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Have yourself a healthy little Christmas
Follow these tips and tricks to achieve a healthy Christmas in 2016. It can be done!
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Let’s get physical
Physical activity plays an important role in maintaining your health, but how important is the type of activity you do?
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Iron and the Irony of Popeye
Feeling tired and irritable? Looking pale? Are you iron deficient? Is Popeye’s myth true?
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Intermittent Fasting
Find out how intermittent fasting can improve your health.
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What is the best source of calcium?
We bring you the answers in this comprehensive summary.
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Mother’s Day retreat ideas
How about treating yourself and your mum to a wellness retreat this spring? Here are our hand-picked Mother’s Day retreat ideas.
Wondering what to get for your mum for mother’s day this year? Forget about the usual flowers and chocolates. What better way to show your mum how much she means to you than taking her on a special spa break or wellbeing retreat. Treat her to a Mother’s day retreat (pardon the pun).
No need to go far, we have some excellent UK weekend breaks that don’t cost the earth but offer the pampering your mum deserves. You could always join her and spend some quality time together. And if you want to treat your mum to something really special, read on for Neal’s Yard Holidays’ picks of once-in-a-lifetime holidays, and Mother’s day retreat weekends.
This year Mother’s day is on the 22nd of March 2020. So what are you waiting for? Read more…
5 Top Wellness Travel Trends 2020
Wellness travel trends for 2020 reflect an increasing awareness about health issues and offer a chance to take time out and rebalance in pretty spectacular locations where it would be hard not to heal. From helping women navigate through the menopause to changing our diet, wellness travel trends focus on improving key aspects of our health and wellbeing and that can only be a good thing.
Fermentation – What are the health benefits?
Most of us will have heard of food fermentation but what is it and why is it so good for us? Like many ancient practices that are now in vogue – meditation and yoga, to name just two – fermentation has been around for thousands of years, used in food staples such as bread, yoghurt and also in alcoholic drinks like beer and wine. However, here we’re discussing purely the health benefits of fermentation on foods, not alcohol. This ancient way of preserving foods with a short shelf life and adding flavour was before the advent of refrigeration.
Essentially, fermentation is the process of using naturally occurring microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeast, to convert carbohydrates to alcohol or organic acids. Read more…
Desk Yoga Poses: Time to Refresh
Autumn means going back to work, school, university and for many of us, long hours back at a desk. Desk yoga poses may help you to keep up the good work after the relaxation achieved during the summer holidays. Here’s a way to press your own ‘refresh button’!
Sound Therapy: What can it do for you?
I recently experienced something I had previously been cynical about – sound therapy. And for those who’ve never heard of it, this healing form of sound bath doesn’t involve being bathed in water but in sound or vibrational waves. As I lay on the mat, the therapist played different notes on a series of crystal bowls that are tuned to resonate when hit with certain instruments.
Twenty-five minutes later as the therapist gently ‘woke’ me I opened my eyes. The effect was like a cross between a nap and meditation. My friend claimed I slept as I was tired, however, I felt different, less foggy than usual and she noted my eyeballs were brighter. I felt that for the first time I’d reached a meditative state.
Sound therapy works on the basis that sound can have a profound effect on our neurological and other bodily functions as they have different pulses or rhythms and energy frequencies, e.g. our heart beats to the rhythms of three. Sound therapists use sound frequencies to interact with these in order to enhance and rebalance the body’s energy whether with gongs, drums, bells, bowls, tuning forks or the human voice. See video on sound bath therapy by CBS New York: Read more…
Where to go on holiday in September
Let’s help you find where to go on holiday in September – we’ve rounded up some of the best places.
Summer isn’t over yet in September. In fact a holiday in September is best in the Mediterranean for example if you want to avoid the backing heat, yet temperatures are comfortable for the occasional excursions and also sunbathing on the beach and swimming in the sea. The water has gradually been warmed up throughout the summer, and still feels very pleasant even with a gentle breeze.
Besides, with kids back at school, the crowds have disappeared and prices have come down. You are lucky if you can go on holiday in September to benefit from more pleasant temperatures, lower prices, and less crowded places. It’s indeed a good choice to go on holiday in September and enjoy those benefits.
And if you don’t want to fly to the Med there are also home-grown destinations with so much to offer. Whether it’s Ayurveda massages in Wales or outdoor hot tub and spa in Yorkshire, there are plenty of retreats where you can immerse yourself in peaceful seclusion.
If you want to check local temperatures we recommend the BBC weather website for weather reports about two weeks in advance. Once you are away the Met office site provides also useful local details.
Here is our selection to help you find your holiday in September: Read more…
Lithium batteries on planes: 8 tips on how to travel safely with batteries
With the summer holidays fast approaching, many of us will be flying out of UK airports for our annual holiday. As we know, airlines have detailed guidelines on what is allowed onboard and that includes taking lithium batteries on planes.
Lithium batteries are commonly used to power a wide variety of consumer goods ranging from mobile phones to laptops and children’s toys, however, they can pose a safety risk if not treated in accordance with transport regulations. While most lithium batteries are safe, some have overheated and caught fire, which could produce toxic and irritating fumes. Read more…
Summer Retreat Offers
Summer is here and our thoughts turn to relaxing and rejuvenating retreats. A week or even a few days of yoga, meditation, massages, delicious vegetarian or vegan fare, all in a serene environment can do wonders for the mind, body and soul!
Neal’s Yard Holidays has a wide selection of summer retreat offers in rural settings such as quintessential English countryside and balmy island idylls – for more on this please see our recent blog on rural retreats. Walk in the woods and meadows, meditate under the stars or sun and just enjoy the summer.