Award-winning Fair Oak Farm has been adding to its retreat programme with a focus on medical benefits. Simone Hellyer goes to Mayfield to try out reformer pilates with Restore & Reform
With its picture perfect countryside setting just outside Mayfield in East Sussex, Fair Oak Farm is an ideal spot for people wanting to get away from it all and focus on themselves.
This is one of the main reasons why rehabilitation and pilates retreat provider Restore & Reform have chosen it as the home of its first UK-based break.
Restore & Reform run rehabilitation breaks for people suffering from back pain, muscoskeletal pain, surgery, pregnancy or just general aches and pains from too much time spent hunched over a laptop. The company’s previous breaks have all taken place in the sunnier climes of Portugal, but this year Restore & Reform will be branching out to Burgundy in France and Sussex-based Fair Oak Farm.
It was a sore neck and shoulders from the aforementioned bad laptop posture as well as previous abdominal surgery that brought me along to Restore & Reform’s first retreat at Fair Oak Farm. I was picked up from nearby Stonegate station by Fair Oak’s owner Ian Ledger who said that he is in the process of building relationships with new partners to organise retreats at the farm.
“They each have their own specialisms but whether it’s mind or body, we are selecting those that have scientific, medical or academic backing, who do amazing things to help change or even save lives and, of course, who are decent, good people who I will enjoy working with for years to come,” he explains.
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