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Wellbeing CIC
A retreat like no other!
Welcome to Wilderness Wellbeing CIC - a unique mixed gender mental wellbeing retreat set in the breathtaking Scottish Highlands, where the raw beauty of nature meets transformative healing. Surrounded by mist-covered mountains, vast landscapes and woodland, this unique mental wellbeing retreat offers an inclusive sanctuary for those seeking renewal, healing, and clarity.
These very special retreats are run under my Social Enterprise, offering subsidised spaces with the aim to bridge the gap between luxury and inclusivity. Ensuring positive mental health and wellbeing is a right, not a privilege.
These transformative retreats focus on community support and are created to be accessible to all, with subsidised places available by application, to ensure financial barriers don’t stand in the way. Positive mental health and wellbeing are deeply personal to us, and through these retreats, and a skilled and compassionate team we aim to create a lasting positive impact for out guests.
If you would like to find out how you can get involved, or would like to apply for a subsidised place, please get in touch for more details.
Retreats for the soul
This retreat offers more than relaxation—it provides a journey back to the essentials of life.
Here, you’ll learn skills that reconnect you with community, foster resilience, mindfulness, and self-discovery. Through guided wilderness excursions and workshops including traditional Highland skills, foraging, and fermentation, you’ll find renewed strength and clarity, with a community of like minded people. Step away from the noise, immerse yourself in nature, and uncover the mental clarity that comes from surviving and thriving in the wild. This is more than a getaway—it’s an invitation to embark on a journey within, surrounded by the timeless magic of Scotland’s most soulful wilderness.
These retreats are a hugely positive experience, and our guest feedback is overwhelming - Hear from some of our guests in the video testimonials throughout the website.
What drives me?
I am passionate about this work through my own lived experience of poor mental health. I battled a skin condition for 15 years which made me feel isolated, anxious, depressed and unable to live my life and perform daily tasks. I travelled down many medical routes and was hugely disappointed with the lack of support from the medical system. I deeply desired a community to spend time with who understood what I was going through.
There is a need for this as in this climate more and more individuals are silently struggling and not everyone desires to seek professional help. People need alternatives for positive mental health and there isn’t enough holistic help out there that is inclusive as the costs of attending are not subsidised. I plan to make this change in the well-being industry.
Yaz’s Wilderness Wellbeing retreat was truly transformative for me. Before attending, I was struggling to come to terms with the car accident that had upended my life. The combination of physical activity, nature, the creative arts and deep mental health work offered at the retreat, helped me see things from a new perspective. I learned to forgive myself, accept my past, and find strength in my resilience. Yaz’s compassionate guidance and the supportive community she fosters made all the difference in my healing journey. I left the retreat with a renewed sense of purpose and hope for the future’. Ben
Glenlivet 3 Day Wilderness Wellbeing
Immerse yourself in nature and uncover the mental clarity that comes from surviving, and thriving in the wild.
This is more than a getaway, it’s an invitation to embark on a journey within, surrounded by the timeless magic of Scotland’s most soulful wilderness. With safety, community and inclusivity as at our core, these retreats are include spaces which are subsidised by our Social Enterprise to ensure those who could benefit from such an experience can attend one of these Wilderness Wellbeing Retreats.
I am so excited to have set up the social enterprise, Wilderness Wellbeing which will be able to offer a wellness retreat event to a much wider group, and specifically those who could benefit the most from such a life affirming experience. - Yaz
Dates for 2025
Spring Retreat
Glenlivet Estate, Cairngorms National Park
30 May - 02 June 2025 / From 4pm on Friday - 10am on Monday.
Number of places: 30
Price: £425 PP*
*There are several subsidised places available on this retreat. Please contact us to apply for a subsidised place.
Autumn Retreat
Glenlivet Estate, Cairngorms National Park
03 Oct - 06 Oct 2025/ From 4pm on Friday -10am on Monday
Number of places: 30
Price: £425 PP*
*There are several subsidised places available on this retreat. Please contact us to apply for a subsidised place.
Finer details...
Guests enjoy a daily delicious and nutritious menu to revive and restore, setting them up for the day’s activities, with relaxing evenings and warming drinks by the fire.
There is be a big emphasis on warming hearty meals, and Hannah will bring a host of fermented foods to add to the table - fermented pancakes for breakfast on Sunday morning are the best!
All dietary requirements can be catered for - just let us know in advance.
Activities are always optional, and with a full team on hand at all times, guests can to dip in and out, spend time in company, or enjoy some quiet time alone with a book.
A mix of accommodation options is available to suit all budgets. We have camping space at no extra cost, glamping options and the cottage. Accommodation is be shared spaces, all with wood burning stoves and are homely, comfortable and cosy.
Accommodation upgrades are limited and sold on a first come basis! Accommodation upgrades are payable in addition to the retreat cost. Our designated spot at the croft for bringing your own camping set up has a have a composting toilet on site for our campers and those in the Yurt, Cabin and Bell Tent. But don’t panic! You don’t need to be a weathered camper to join a camping retreat. We'll help you set up ensure you have all the relevant kit before you come. If you are missing some kit, we will be able to source this for you. We ALWAYS have access to an indoor toilet and hot shower/bath. Camping is a great way of fully connecting to your environment, and there is something so special about heading back to a tent in the evening all lit up or waking up in nature with the natural light of the season.
Yazzie’s Yurt (sleeps up to 4)
£150 for the full stay split between up to 4 people.
Zek’s Cabin (sleeps up to 2)
£150 for the full stay split between up to 4 people.
Holiday Cottage (sleeps up to 3)
£300 for the full stay split between up to 6 people.
Bell tent with wood burner (sleeps up to 4)
£50 for the full stay split between up to 4 people.
We recommend the following:
- Movement - sports kit and trainers. You will be able to dry things but best to have extra sports kit if possible. Hiking boots if you feel more comfortable in them for a walk but not essential- I am always in my trail runners.
- Waterproofs and warm layers!!
- Swim kit and towel for some cold water dooking - it could be useful to bring booties or crocs.
- Yoga/Pilates - Sarah and Eve bring all that you need, however if you are attached to a matt then by all means bring it. Same applies to a nice blanket and then comfy clothes for yoga.
Weekend Activities
- Wild movement sessions/ fun outdoor workouts: Brace yourself for some outdoor movement with Yaz, using anything and everything she finds in the natural landscape to facilitate a creative workout.
- Guided walks: Take in the stunning landscape that surrounds the Glenlivet Estate and view your home base for the weekend from a birds eye view.
- Cold water immersion: If you're feeling brave, a dip in the water is an invigorating start to the day or if you want to know more about cold water therapy then the workshop will delve into the science behind cold water and it's healing benefits.
- Painting with natural pigments: Foraged from the hills, create a landscape to take away with you
- Traditional Highland Skills: Learn traditional skills with Highland Survivalist, Zeki, www.highlandsurvivalskills.com
- Fermentation workshop: Join Hannah, from GutFeelings Kombucha to learn abut fermentation, nutrition and great gut health.
- Yoga: A truly accessible to all class with Sarah, focusing on breath, relaxation and mid/body connection
- Pilates: Another fabulous introduction and accessible class with Eve
- Seasonal cookery workshop: Our very own acclaimed chef, writer and broadcasting mum, Ghillie Basan shares her world of knowledge on cooking with spices.
- Jewellery making: Talented Rosie Sumner will be running her very own Jewellery workshop using native stones.
- Eco Printing: Rose will use foraged plants and flowers to imprint the fabric of your choice to take away with you after the weekend.
- Juice to heal with Alice : create some healing and delicious tonics guided by Alice who has used natural remedies to heal chronic eczema.
- Live talks and film: A highlight of the event for me is the live talks, story sharing and short films that take place in the evening before dinner. This is a chance for participants and hosts to share their story. There is no pressure to do this, you can simply just listen but it is amazing how much these sharing sessions bond the group and create a beautiful community over the weekend where no one is judged and everyone is heard.
Join us and make a difference
By choosing Wilderness Wellbeing CIC to host your Employee Wellness Retreat you will create lasting changes by supporting the health and wellbeing of your organisation and the wider community.
100% of all profits help fund:
- Professional coaching and therapeutic workshops
- Nutritious meals and accommodation
- Subsidised retreat places for those in need
Donate to our Social Enterprise today
How you can support the Social Enterprise.
〉Book your Corporate Wellbeing Event with us:
By choosing Wilderness Wellbeing CIC to host your Employee Wellness Retreat you will create lasting changes by supporting the health and wellbeing of your organisation and the wider community. By collaborating with Wilderness Wellbeing, you’re not just supporting health and wellbeing—you’re fostering a more equitable, compassionate society. Ask for our Corporate Retreats Brochure.
〉Become a Corporate Sponsor:
We would love to tell you more about the work we do and how our Corporate Sponsors change lives. Get in touch and we can send your our Corporate Sponsor Pack.
〉Sponsor a Subsidised Place:
Make a direct impact on someone’s life.
〉Donate Today:
Every penny helps us bring transformative retreats to under-served communities.
Join us in making lasting change.
Registered CIC
Company no: SC817082
Directors:
Millie Mcallion. | Amanda Christie. | Lucy Morrison. | Yaz Basan
'The WildernessFit Mental Health Retreat was a weekend like no other, firstly because it felt like it lasted so much longer! The most supportive group of specialists in movement, gut health, wilderness survival and so much more, made us all feel instantly comfortable and provided experiences that simultaneously calmed the mind and motivated the spirit. My mood changed immediately from the day-to-day stresses of work and life, to the serenity of being immersed in a natural setting, with wholesome food, fire and free-flowing conversation between fellow guests who quickly became friends. This in turn created a safe space to share the various and multi-faceted struggles all of us had faced and the journey we’d been on to turn them into new-found strengths. I can’t recommend Yaz and the whole team enough. If you’re looking to find a community in which you’ll be both supported and inspired, book yourself on a WildernessFit Retreat'
Adam Bel
