The Avandra Rest & Connect Wellness Day is a beautifully curated retreat designed to guide you back to a state of ease, clarity, and human warmth.
This is a day to slow down, soften the edges, reconnect with what matters, and realign your body with its natural rhythms.
Friday 15th May 2026
Myrtles Courtyard, The Hampton Estate, Seale Lane, Puttenham, Surrey GU10 1HL
Limited to 15 women
9am - 4pm
£200 per person
Under the House of Resilience model, the pillars of Rest and Connection form the emotional and physiological heart of long-term health. When these two forces come together, they create a powerful reset for the body and mind, calming the nervous system, strengthening inner resilience, and restoring a sense of belonging to self, others, and the natural world.
Expect deep rest. Expect meaningful connection. Expect transformation expressed through simplicity, beauty, and intelligent care.
Meet your hostsGuest Experts
Specialist in Ageing & Frailty • Medical Consultant
We are honoured to welcome Dr Anna Wilson, a leading specialist in ageing and frailty whose work explores how rest, recovery, social connection, and emotional wellbeing influence biological ageing.
Anna will dive into the science of longevity, from sleep cycles to stress hormones, from connection to cognition, offering warm, accessible guidance grounded in evidence-based medicine.
Her presence brings depth, compassion, and world-class expertise to the retreat.
Guest speakers
Thermalist® Method Instructor (Soeberg Institute) • NATLife Coach Level 1 • Oxygen Advantage® Advanced Breathing Instructor • First Aid Trained
Emma leads a deeply restorative breathwork session designed to regulate the parasympathetic nervous system, your natural state of healing and emotional balance.
Her expertly guided sauna and cold-water immersion ritual draws on contemporary thermal therapy research, improving vascular elasticity, reducing inflammation, enhancing mood, and supporting longevity through hermetic stress.
This is science expressed somatically, experienced, not just understood.
Throughout the day, our speakers will explore the evidence-based physiology behind rest and human connection.
They will offer insight into how these lifestyle factors directly influence longevity, immune health, cognitive function, emotional wellbeing, cardiovascular resilience and metabolic balance.
Sleep & Downtime
You’ll learn why sleep is one of the most potent longevity tools we possess, and how purposeful downtime improves hormonal regulation, cellular repair, and cognitive clarity.
Expect practical, medically grounded strategies for bedtime routines, circadian alignment, and restorative rituals you can apply immediately.
Social Connection
Groundbreaking research shows that the quality of our relationships is one of the strongest predictors of a long, healthy life.
Our experts will explore how social bonds protect against chronic disease, reduce inflammation, improve mental health, and strengthen the nervous system.
The Natural World
You’ll discover the science behind “nature dosing”: how time outdoors measurably lowers cortisol, improves cardiovascular health, enhances immunity, and supports emotional regulation.
Play & Laughter
Often overlooked but biologically profound, play and laughter activate anti-stress pathways, reduce blood pressure, support heart health, and increase neuroplasticity.
Our speakers will illuminate how joy, lightness, and humour directly contribute to longevity.
This is wellbeing through a deeply human, beautifully scientific, and emotionally nourishing lens. All 10 bricks to support these two Pillars provide the structure to enhance ones quality of life and are the basis of wellness and increased longevity.
Niki Bruce
Founder of Avandra Escapes
Curated by Niki Bruce, this experience blends evidence-based wellbeing with emotional warmth and sensory calm. The House of Resilience model underpins every moment, creating an environment of safety, elegance, and gentle transformation.
Sally Iddles
Chef, Founder of Sally Iddles Fabulous Food
Throughout the day, guests enjoy nourishing, elegant dishes crafted by Chef Sally Iddles, whose signature approach blends seasonal, vibrant ingredients with elevated simplicity. Food becomes part of the therapeutic landscape — grounding, soothing, and aligned with metabolic health. Expect beautifully curated plates, hydrating botanical infusions, calming, nutrient-rich meals
A day of:
A day that allows your body to let go. A day that brings your mind back into clarity. A day where connection becomes medicine.
This Avandra Rest & Connect Day is intentionally intimate to preserve depth and personal care.
Join us for a beautifully held retreat designed to support wellbeing, longevity, and soulful human connection.
Your restorative reset awaits.
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