Healing through wilderness treks, sea-kayaking, Viking Sauna, Northern light. Eleven Life Deplar Farm, Iceland

2021/03/02

Healing through wilderness treks, sea-kayaking, Viking Sauna, Northern light. Eleven Life Deplar Farm, Iceland

Eleven Life is expertly tailors health and wellness activities to your goals, provides marginal gains and stimulating challenges, outdoor adventure, cultural spa therapies, fitness and nutrition

Especially our The Viking Sauna, an unforgettable experience that combines breathing techniques and contrasting intense heat with ice-water plunges to challenge you mentally and physically

Source: ELEVEN LIFE

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The sporting excellence concept that is being applied to bodies and minds at a shaggy-on-the-outside/sleek-on-the-inside Icelandic retreat.

Let me just dangle this before your go-getting nose: personal aggregated gains. In pristine, remote Iceland. With no one telling you to “just relax”. Added bonus – you might see the northern lights. Sound good to you?

---- The Times / UK

The spa is a stunner: a small slick gym, pocket-sized meditation room and glass-box studio where specialists, including the otherworldly Sigrún, teach restorative yoga classes and give gong baths against a craggy backdrop.

Masseuses are skilled in Swedish, deep-tissue, shiatsu and – if you’re not feeling spaced-out enough. – can help you into the sensorial deprivation Isopod flotation tanks.

---- Condé Nast Traveller

Deplar Farm’s otherworldly northern Iceland location on the remote Troll Peninsula, is the ideal setting for a revitalising wellness retreat. Guests are invited to take advantage of this pure air by focusing on breathwork while taking daily wilderness walks and sea-kayaking excursions in the summer.

To appreciate the serenity of the region, outdoor activities include periods of silence to encourage a deeper sensory connection to nature.

---- GLOBETRENDER

Nervous system calming and energising breathwork is taught on daily wilderness treks or sea-kayaking in the summer; hilarious strengthening and balancing exercises are conducted standing on one leg with eyes closed on a boat in between whale-watching; and walking in total silence bar the sound of footsteps on a night stroll is sweet relief from unnecessary jabber.

---- Condé Nast Traveller

Food was on another level, but it’s not news that Gardar Kari Gardarsson, Deplar’s executive chef, is Iceland’s best. His modern take on classical Icelandic cuisine is reinterpreted for the wellness programme (but still looks like something from a Michelin-starred menu) and uses products such as lamb from the neighbouring farm and herbs and fruit (angelica seeds, Arctic thyme, crowberries) foraged locally.

Vegetables are produced by a farm in Hveravellir, which uses geothermal heat in its greenhouses.

---- The Telegraph

Healing through wilderness treks, sea-kayaking, Viking Sauna, Northern light. Eleven Life Deplar Farm, Iceland

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