Nature Spa – Deep Relaxation – Coastal Healing

If you don’t associate glamping with unadulterated luxury, The Spa at Ravendere Retreats is here to change your mind. With a design so incredible it could feature in any interiors’ magazine, it sets the standard for relaxation in the heart of nature and is a dream escape for couples looking to reset. Spend a ridiculously indulgent few days padding between the outdoor sauna, infinity pool, stone bath and loungers until you can barely remember what day it is. 

If you can tear yourself away from your woodland sanctuary (and there’s no judgement if you don’t), the dramatic North Devon coast is less than a mile away. Spend your days drifting between loungers and spa treatments or do nothing at all. Either way, you’ll float home restored and rebalanced.

Forest Sauna – Immersive Calm – Outdoor Therapy

Elevated in the canopy and built for two, Pomeroy Treehouse is pure wild luxury. As you ascend into the pines, you’ll leave the world and any cares below on the ground. Forget queuing up in bathrobes with other spa guests. With your own Finnish sauna on the private deck, a double outdoor shower and a copper bathtub overlooking the countryside, relaxation is entirely yours and always just a few steps away. 

Treat yourself to a massage, indulge in a celebration hamper, and explore nearby trails by vintage Dutch bike before returning to your lofty retreat. It’s a magical, cocooned escape for those craving serenity, seclusion and a dose of romance.

Eco Wellness – Holistic Treatments – Sea Air

The wild, dramatic scenery of Cornwall is a tonic for frazzled nerves at the best of times and a stay at Chui Treehouse is the cherry on top. Set in the treetops of an ancient oak wood near the Cornish coast, Chui blends eco-luxury with serious wellness credentials. Inside, it’s all Scandi-chic meets stargazing skylights, while outside, you’ve got an orchard hot tub and a team of holistic therapists ready to soothe and energise. 

From reiki and reflexology to yoga, Pilates and mindful meditation, the on-site offerings at Wrinklers Wood make it a true wellness destination. Add sea air, birdsong and rugged coastal views, and you’ve got the ultimate wild wellbeing escape.

Digital Detox – Nature Practices – Mindful Movement

Hidden in the eco-village of Campwell Woods near Bath, Cob Round is a handcrafted haven of mud, wood and quiet. With no wifi or mod cons to distract you, this is where you come to properly unplug. It’s small, soulful and just enough. 

The wellness offerings are earthy and elemental, with wild swimming in the Victorian lake, forest yoga, qi gong, and foraging for natural ingredients. Communal meals are cooked over coals, or you can retreat to the deck for peace and herbal tea. Simple living has rarely felt this good.

Restorative Cabin – Sauna Rituals – Slow Living

In Herefordshire’s rolling hills, The Boodge is a beautifully crafted cabin where blackened Shou Sugi Ban-charred ceilings, a golden roll-top bath and huge windows create a warm cocoon where you can watch the world go by slowly. Wellness here is an atmosphere. It’s in the quiet, the comfort, and that magic feeling breathing in unpolluted countryside air gives you. 

Outside, there’s a wood-fired Finnish sauna and cold plunge pool for restorative sessions after long hikes in the Black Mountains. Inside, soft sofas, sunlight and art surround you. This is a place you come to soak it all in and let everything else melt away.

Wild Wellness Retreat – Forest Bathing – Reiki

Perched in 16 acres of wildflower meadows on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, Hay Barn is a sanctuary to disconnect and tune into nature. Slow down in peaceful surroundings, spot wild ponies, and wander forest trails before sinking into the romantic valley-view wood-fired tubs or the complimentary Wild Spa sauna. 

The owners have transformed Southcombe Barn into an artistic and holistic wellness retreat, offering reiki, massage, forest bathing, and even an on-site art gallery. Every element of your stay is designed to restore and inspire, making it perfect for unplugging and breathing deep in the heart of Devon.

Forest Therapy – Cold Water Immersion – Stress Reset

Rooted in the wild Scottish Lowlands, Flycatcher Treehouse is a serene sanctuary surrounded by ancient woodland that reconnects you with your senses. Begin your day with a mindful walk through the trees or down to the River Teith, where waterside river huts offer a front-row seat to the healing rhythm of flowing water, a natural balm for the mind. 

There’s a sauna on site for deep detox and muscle release, plus optional in-treehouse Swedish massages to melt away urban stress. Wild swimming, forest walks, and wildlife sightings all tap into the science-backed benefits of nature for mental clarity, lowered cortisol, and mood-boosting.

Calm Cabin – Sauna Healing – Mindful Rewilding

Wellness here doesn’t come in the form of neon-lit gyms or clinical treatments. It’s slower, softer and rooted in a nature-fuelled reset. Birch Igluhut invites you to unplug and unwind in a beautifully hand-crafted cabin where stillness and simplicity are the main amenities. You’ll spend your days wandering beneath trees, lounging by the lake and watching the sunset from a sauna that lets you literally sweat out stress. 

Outdoor yoga, wild swimming, and a surrounding landscape rich with nature reserves and deserted beaches offer a sense of spaciousness that modern life rarely allows. You can nourish your body with seasonal hampers, locally sourced meals and a well-stocked honesty shop, and feed your spirit with books, board games, and fireside chats. This is wellness as it should be, all just a few hours from London.

Yurt Retreat – Sound Healing – Massage Therapy

Tucked between Bath and Wells, Little Oak is an off-grid yurt retreat designed to escape the stresses of modern-day life, where peace comes naturally. Once you’ve fed the chickens and met the very cute pygmy goats, there’s nothing left to do but relax in your two-acre Somerset hideaway. 

The hosts offer a soulful wellness menu, including crystal healing, sound baths, flower essence consultations, Indian head massages and even non-religious handfasting and wedding ceremonies. If you arrive with any niggling aches, there’s also bespoke massage therapy from a former Bath Rugby physio to work out stubborn tension knots. Come here to reconnect with nature, your body, or each other.

Elemental Escape – Flow State – Nervous System Reset

If your nervous system needs a hard reset, this is the place. Deep in the woods of Egton Estate, The River Lodge is pure bliss, with an outdoor bath by a salmon-bright river, owls overhead, and otters that sometimes turn up uninvited. There’s no agenda here except to listen, watch, float, and maybe nap.  

Wellness here is elemental, with wild forest swims to invigorate circulation, forest walks to calm the nervous system, and fly fishing for mindful focus. You can book yoga sessions, stargaze in a Dark Sky Reserve from the deck or visit nearby Malton, Yorkshire’s foodie capital, which offers nourishing stops like The Talbot Yard for sourdough, artisan cheese and kombucha. It’s peaceful restoration powered by fresh air and flowing water.

Wild wellness takes the healing principles of traditional spa culture and re-roots them in nature. It's wellness but wilder. Less polished marble and whale noises, more wood smoke, open air and cold-water dips.

Here, in untamed natural settings, saunas are wood-fired, treatments are holistic, and peace comes from the landscape itself. It’s a movement that swaps clinical spaces for authentic connection, combining forest therapy, cold immersion and mindful movement to restore balance from the inside out.

You’ll often find:

• Outdoor saunas, baths and cold-water plunge spots
• Massage and holistic therapies using local, natural ingredients
• Wild swimming, forest bathing and mindful walks
• Off-grid cabins and treehouses designed for digital detox
• Glamping places that aid quality sleep, with cosy sleeping environments and king-sized beds lined with tip top materials

The benefits of a wild wellness glamping retreat

Spending time in nature does more than clear your mind. It has measurable effects on the body and nervous system. Regular exposure to green and blue spaces has been linked to:

• Reduced cortisol and lower stress levels
• Improved sleep quality and natural circadian rhythm
• Enhanced mood and mental clarity
• Boosted immunity through fresh air and cold-water therapy

Unlike conventional spas, wild wellness retreats combine ancient practices like sauna therapy and forest bathing with modern sustainability and design, creating space for both calm and creativity to return.

Tips for Your Stay

• Alternate heat and cold therapy to reset your nervous system
• Pack biodegradable scrubs or oils for eco-friendly self-care
• Go device free for at least a day
• Bring a notebook or sketchpad to reflect and reconnect with creativity