How To Retreat - wherever you are, and whatever your budget or schedule
Hot off the press: How To Retreat, published by Penguin Random House, and its author, Caroline Sylge
An inspirational new guide by the founder of Queen of Retreats
How To Retreat: Step away from your everyday to rest, reset and renew brings the magic and solace of retreating into your life, whatever your budget or schedule. A timely reminder of the need to press pause on the daily overwhelm of modern life, this beautiful guide contains an easy-to-follow selection of enchanting retreats you can do in your home or another space of your choosing.
Providing both inspiration and structure, the book offers readers realistic, practical activities to help you retreat for an hour, a day, a long weekend or more depending on the time you have. Using the seasons as an optional guide, chapters delve into a broad choice of themes to focus your exploration and meet your changing needs - because what you need from a retreat will change as you change.
A Retreat Toolkit covers all you need for a successful retreat, including how to create a retreat space, what to put in your retreat stash, how to schedule yourself and how to retreat with friends and family as well as alone. Have it out on your coffee table, and dip in and out as you feel the need. Or take it with you on your next holiday - it’s comforting to read on a journey, and you can retreat on your own terms in your chosen destination.
There’s also advice on different types of hosted global retreats available, should you want to take your retreat journey further. The literary curious might like the quotes from literature throughout, and a clutch of the author’s poems that have emerged from her own retreating experiences.
Whether you are managing stress and overwhelm, in need of a life change, want to kickstart your creativity or find deep rest and sanctuary, this book will help you reconnect with yourself and others in sustainable and meaningful ways, and find a happier version of you, whatever your age or life stage.
get your own copy of HOW TO RETREAT
Available in all your favourite bookshops and online across the globe from 10th March 2026.