Hiking and Yoga in the French Alps

All of our retreat chefs are highly experienced and passionate about their craft. We have always been a vegan/vegetarian company! Expect delicious and creative brunch, lunch, and 2-course evening meal. Each meal will be balanced to keep you energised all day.

Breakfast will be vegetarian/vegan, with eggs, cow’s milk, plant-based milk, tea, coffee, French baguettes and bakery items on some mornings. The rest of the meals will be plant-based but with plenty of protein.

We will provide packed lunches for hikes if you are out during lunchtime, so please bring a packed lunch box and backpack to carry it in. On the other days, lunch is not included, and you are surrounded by shops and cafes, so you can choose what you would like to do for lunch on those days.

Dinner will be a 2-course plant-based/veggie delight.

There is one evening meal where you go out for food, and again, there are a few places to choose from. On one morning, the breakfast is continental light breakfast as the chef has a day off.

Please let us know in advance if you have dietary needs, and we can help you with these.

We are working towards reducing our carbon footprint, and here are some ways we, as a company, are doing this.

We are a 88% vegan company, 10% vegetarian and 2% fish or meat (only when staying in boutique hotels that offer these options). This makes up a huge percentage of carbon emissions that we avoid so easily because our food is still delicious, balanced and even more creative. So, thanks to you all for enjoying our healthy (mostly) plant-based meals.

We stay primarily in one location for the duration of the retreat. We have started staying in a few locations on our long haul, but it is limited to 2 or 3 locations over an 8 – 10 night period. Staying in one place means low carbon emissions because we aren’t burning fuel to get around.

Our activities are low-impact—yoga, hiking, surfing, whitewater rafting, SUP, and kayaking are all very low-carbon activities, in fact, zero-carbon (except skiing/snowboarding due to the ski lifts, which is also low). These activities are included in the price we measure. The carbon may increase with travel to and from these activities in vehicles.

We run more than half of our retreats and holidays in the UK; these are very low-carbon holidays.

We currently don’t measure our guests’ travel as part of our carbon output because our guests don’t only come from the UK, so it is hard for us to predict this. We also don’t include travel in the holiday price, which is not part of our calculations. We know that we provide these holidays, so we are looking to include this carbon measurement in the future so we are investigating how we can reduce this.

In France, many ski resorts are turning to green energy to power the lifts. If you eat low in meat and dairy while you’re there, this makes your trip as low-carbon as possible.

How can you help?

There are ways that you can help reduce your carbon when coming on our retreats and holidays:

Travel by train, try slow travel across Europe and the UK.
If travelling abroad to Europe or further afield, choose carbon capture schemes, check out Ecologi. Offsetting is not the best thing to do these days, but try carbon capture where you pay for carbon to be absorbed into the environment.

Yes! There are 3 hikes included in the price, and a lift down to Bourg- Saint-Maurice to enjoy an activity or have a wander or go to the outdoor pool. The other 2 days are free days for you to do as you please. And, although the activities are included in the price you can choose not to join in if you need a rest, it's your holiday so do as much or as little as you like!

Yes! Our chefs are experienced retreat chefs and cater mostly plan-based menus and with some veggie options. If you are Coaeliac or Gluten/dairy free or something else, we can cater for you, just let us know on booking.