How to create demand

Now if we ran our own retreats and had a fully booked diary we could tell you how to create demand. Full disclosure – we don’t! What we do know however, is that we constantly watch how groups do book their holidays, how music artists sell out their tours...

St Marks Stays Studio & Yoga Equipment

The St Marks Stays Studio is the connecting room between the main house and Damian and Joanne’s apartment at the end of the house and is used for yoga and creative retreats. The studio is multi purpose and has been used for sewing, quilting, vision board...

Embracing the Outdoors

Living in Cumbria we acknowledged very quickly that you have to learn to love all the seasons and be about embracing the outdoors in all weathers. We all know how much the outdoors and natural world has come to mean to us this year and now, as the seasons change and...

Belly Dancing Hen Party

When a group of ladies ring to book St Marks Stays for a Hen Party and then say one of the planned activities would be belly dancing, well you know it is going to be a fun weekend. To be honest, Damian and I both said what a great hen party it was as they really made...

Yoga and Rhythm Retreat

Yoga and rhythm are a great combination and it has been perfect to have this as our third yoga retreat here at St Marks Stays recently. Everybody loves a ‘It must be fate’ story don’t they and this is how we came in to the awareness of Gillian who...