Reset retreats
It’s a situation as old as affordable air travel: You’re on the final leg home, elated and exhausted, feeling like you’re going to need a holiday to recover from your holiday. Adventures have been had. Fuzzy memories made. And if it all feels like a blur, at least the rings under your eyes testify to your success in squeezing every last drop of life out of your trip away. That was before COVID – when only the boring and privileged holidayed to relax. This is now, and in 2021 we’re putting rest and recovery at the top of our annual-leave agenda.
To understand the recalibration process, let us introduce you to Megan Bardsley. At Queensland’s luxe Gwinganna retreat, Bardsley is the emotionalwellbeing manager and resident equine therapies practitioner. She says a change in environment alters patterns and allows us to step away from the stressors in life – think commitments, schedules and the constant exposure
