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Condé Nast Traveller – The long and the short of it
“From Essex to New South Wales: this year’s best spa packages and health breaks : In Mawanella, Sri Lanka Reclaim Your Self are running a yoga break from 19-25 November, providing Scaravelli yoga and Indian foot massages in a luxury jungle tree house with an infinity pool.”
March 2011
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My Daily – Yoga to aid a detox
“Starting the new year off with a detox? Give yourself an extra good start with a few simple yoga poses to help cleanse your body and clear your mind. "Yoga is an excellent support for any kind of detox, as the instant feel good factor inspires you to stick to your new health plan says Helen Noakes of yoga retreat company Reclaim Your Self.”
January 2011
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Zest Magazine – Spa breaks with benefits
“No longer just about pampering and facials, this year the best spa retreats will give your mind a boost too. Whether you’re stuck in a rut at work, in your relationship or just in your life in general, let the team at Reclaim Your Self get your right back on track with a retreat in a beautiful Marrakech riad with its own spa…”
January 2011
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My Daily UK – Yoga for a hangover
“Most of us woke up feeling a bit (oh, okay, hideously) fragile at some point this Christmas, thanks to a few too many festive drinks. But now that Christmas and 2010 is over it's probably time to make some changes. Take control of your hangover and feel better again with a little help from these simple yoga poses suggested by Helen Noakes, a yoga teacher for the retreat company Reclaim Your Self.”
December 2010
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The Mercury - Julia ditches rat race for a hands-on career in massage
“A former Presdales student has founded her own relaxing retreat company after learning massage as a hobby. Ditching the rat race, Julia trained extensively and qualified in massages and healing work across the world, founding Reclaim Your Self in 2004. Reclaim Your Self now employs six staff and the yoga breaks provide daily programmes of relaxing treatments, workshops, nutritional advice and stress-free organic food....”
16 September 2010
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Ham & High - High Flyer Retreats
“A Stroud Green woman
who turned from the high
flying life to a slower
pace is helping others
unwind on yoga yoga breaks. Jools Sampson
pictured
worked in international
development and was
working in Tanzania when
she discovered a passion
for massage... After a
life threatening bout of
malaria, Ms Sampson
followed her heart and
trained in massage and
yoga techniques and six
years ago began Reclaim
Your Self – a company
which sends people on
yoga yoga breaks across the
world to unwind.”
15 July 2010
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The Telegraph Spa Spy – Reclaim Your Self Retreat Marrakesh
“Less
an actual spa, more a
four day, body and soul
retreat at a private
family riad in
Marrakesh. Led by
London-based massage
therapist Julia Sampson,
Reclaim Your Self offers
wellbeing holidays
across Europe, Africa
and India...Spa Spy’s
symptoms: Spy has
sensitive digestion,
which often leads to
bloating. It gets worse
after eating and when
she is stressed. The
prescription: A
combination of
nutrition, yoga,
breathing exercises,
hammam treatments and
life coaching to support
the body, de-stress the
mind and kick-start an
improvement."
8 February 2010
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Times Online
– Reclaim Your Self,
Marrakesh
“My
four days were an
uplifting break that
took me out of my
familiar head space. I
especially enjoyed the Scaravelli yoga – it’s
based on the style of
yoga developed by Vanda
Scaravelli, who
emphasised the
importance of the spine,
the natural gravity of
the body and awareness
of the breath. We had a
2 hour rooftop class
each morning and, after
watching the sunset, an
hour’s class in the
evening, which was
usually punctuated by
the other worldly sounds
of the call to prayer.
Helen Noakes was a
vibrant, clever teacher
who kept the movements
basic to cater for a
very mixed ability group...”
30 October 2009
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The Guardian Travel -
Marrakech retreat
recommended

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June 2009
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Condé Nast Spa Guide –
Go Figure
"Reclaim
Your Self founder Julia
Sampson first studied
massage when she was an
aider worker in Dar
Salaam, so she’s at home
in Tanzania. Based at
the lovely Ngare Sero
safari lodge on the
slopes of Mount Meru
overlooking snow capped
Kilimanjaro, the
company’s new retreat
runs 9-15 April and
includes healing
therapies from India,
Tibet, Zanzibar and the
UK, as well as detox
meals, yoga, sunset
meditation, cooking
classes and personalised
nutritional guidance."
March 2009
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Body and Soul Escapes
Britain and Ireland –
Well Being Break
“You
practise yoga before
breakfast, and enjoy
treatments in the
afternoons. Jools gives
expert deep tissue and
hot stone massages; you
can also try
craniosacral therapy and
chavutti thiramul
massage. Isreali
therapist Ariel Rubin
offers Tibetan healing,
combining acupuncture,
osteopathy, bodywork,
stretches and Tibetan
medicine in his
sessions. The weekends
include two treatments.
Jools chooses different
houses in rural
locations for her
yoga breaks, such as
Holycombe House in the
Cotswolds. The weekends
take a maximum of 15
people."
December 2008
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