Relatively Therapeutic

21st-28th of June 2025

A week to nourish yourself and spend special time with a beloved relative, be that parent, sibling, grown-up offspring, or a friend that feels like family. Come for a week away from the stresses and strains of everyday life.

Join us at a retreat centre in the mountains of southern Spain. The centre is a beautiful space to relax and just be.

Throughout the week we will offer a range of optional activities, through which you can explore ways to regulate your nervous system, relax and feel at peace and connected, including singing, art, walks, fun fitness, yoga, qi jong, meditation, massage and reflexology.

There are gorgeous views from the lovely garden, the outdoor pool, the roof terrace and the comfortable hideaway spaces around the grounds.

Accommodation is in comfortable twin rooms.

The centre offers full catering with tasty, healthy, vibrant vegetarian food.

Why Choose Relatively Therapeutic?

Do you ever feel that you need to slow right down… just for a while? That the pace of life or your responsibilities are overwhelming you, not allowing you to work out what you really need, or nurture the special connections that you have?

A week out of time can give us the space to explore what changes we can realistically make in our everyday lives to look after ourselves better.

Relatively Therapeutic offers you a week away from normal life, free from responsibilities and obligations and provides you with the opportunity to share that space with someone you love…someone who might want to make some changes too…..

Prices

We offer two different sleeping arrangments for our week long retreat –

Twin room with shared bathroom

£1250pp

Twin room with en suite

£1399pp

Our Price Includes

7 nights comfortable twin room accommodation with stunning mountain views.
Three meals a day. Delicious, vibrant, home cooked vegetarian food, excluding the evening meal on our lazy day, when you will have a chance to take a guided hike or to explore the beautiful local village and sample the local food.

We Also Include

Daily yoga and qigong
Fun fitness
Daily workshops exploring ways to calm the nervous system.
Lazy day outing.
Two Holistic treatment sessions. – Choose from reflexology, facial massage, 1:1 breath coaching and 1:1 mind-body coaching.

All activities on this retreat are optional. And you are welcome to enjoy all or some of them as suits your needs. The retreat centre is also a beautiful place to relax and just be.

Not Included

Flights and airport transfers.
Any taxis.
Lazy day evening meal

Meet the Team

Anna Bartholomew, MAR

Host and facilitator Anna Bartholomew, is an experienced reflexologist and retreat & events host.

She has worked extensively as a therapist, organiser and educator for several established retreat centres and for many local events. Anna instinctively knows how to meet the needs of guests and facilitators alike!

Trained in Thai Reflexology Massage in Krabi, South Thailand and later in Reflexology at the London School of Massage, she has also undertaken training in Advanced Reflexology Techniques (ART) and Advanced Spinal Reflexology and Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT). Anna has continued her professional development by attending workshops in Women’s Health, Mobilisation Techniques, Ayurvedic Reflexology and The Treatment of Pain.

She currently works with private clients in Orgiva, and is very experienced in supporting those with grief, anxiety, depression and stress.

Jane Bartholomew MAR ART

Host and facilitator Jane Bartholomew is a Reflexologist, Yoga Therapist, Somatic Practitioner and Coach. She specialises in Stress, Anxiety, Overwhelm and Chronic Pain and has extensive experience supporting those with trauma, chronic illness, depression, sleep problems, burnout, fatigue and cancer.

She has a broad knowledge of other complementary therapies and as well as working 1:1, runs educational programmes for health and wellbeing, both as part of Manchester Wellbeing Rooms CIC and in her role as a Yoga4health teacher.

Deirdre Crowley

Deirdre Crowley is the co owner and founder of the beautiful Casa Mayor retreat centre.

With her partner Bill she takes care of the day to day running of the centre.

Deirdre has been practicing yoga regularly since 1987 and trained as a Sivananda yoga teacher in 2007

Over her many years of teaching Deirdre has developed a style which is an amalgam of all that she has learnt. She uses props and bodywork techniques to assist in going deeper into the poses and offers adaptations to suit both yoga beginners and experienced practitioners.

Sue Stevens

Sue is an experienced acupuncturist, Tuina massage therapist and Qigong teacher.

She started her training with an ITEC holistic massage course, before studying Tuinamassage and acupuncture at Bodyharmonics in the UK. Being inspired with traditional Chinese medicine she later completed a 3 year teacher training course at the European Sports Qigong Association in Malaga, furthering her studies by training at an acupuncture hospitalin Hangzhou, China.

With experience giving acupuncture and support in a rehabilitation addiction centre for 7 years, she currently runs her own practise whilst working in retreat centres. She also gives Qigong classes in her area for balancing mind, body and spirit by allowing the Qi (energy) to flow through the meridians whilst helping students overcome health problems.

Sue gives Tuina massages, a deep therapeutic Chinese acupressure type massage, which energises and relaxes the body. Also offered are acupuncture treatments, deep tissue oil massages and relaxing holistic oil massages.

Kaiya Bartholomew

Kaiya Bartholomew trained in Natural Facial Lift Massage in 2019 and completed further training in full body Massage Therapy and Oncology Massage in 2024 at the Glasgow School of Massage.

Kaiya joined family members Anna and Jane for the first time for their retreat in mental wellbeing offering facial massage to participants, and will be back as part of the team for Relatively Therapeutic.

Kaiya focuses on relaxation in her practice and the power of human touch communication as an antidote to anxiety, stress and poor mental health.

She is also an experienced creative facilitator and workshop leader and has specialised in collaborative performance practices when working with communities, young people, senior citizens and international participants. Kaiya is passionate about the impacts of creativity and complementary therapies on mental well-being and marries the two in a holistic approach.