• 6 nights accommodations 
• 3 meals per day (excluding alcoholic beverages) starting with dinner on the first night and ending with breakfast on the last day
• Group Ground Transportation to/from Edinburgh Airport to Retreat Center
• Daily yoga practices
• Stirling Castle Day Trip
• Whiskey Tasting or Ceilidh dancing
• Personal retreat time (having time to nap, explore, walk, read, and just be)

Accommodations

Set on a peaceful working farm in the heart of the Scottish countryside, this venue offers a warm and welcoming retreat sanctuary surrounded by rolling hills, open fields, woodlands, and the natural beauty of the Stirlingshire landscape. The property blends rustic charm with modern comfort, creating a relaxed environment where guests can slow down, reconnect with nature, and enjoy the peaceful rhythm of countryside living.

The accommodations are spread across thoughtfully designed cottages and lodges, each offering its own unique character and cozy atmosphere. With a variety of room configurations available, the property provides comfortable options for solo travelers, shared accommodations, and couples.

Guests will stay in beautifully appointed rooms featuring comfortable beds, charming countryside details, and easy access to the shared spaces throughout the farm. Room layouts vary, with some accommodations offering private en-suite bathrooms and others sharing nearby bathrooms.

Enjoy the surrounding landscape, peaceful walking paths and gardens, and gathering spaces designed for connection and relaxation. With its welcoming atmosphere, natural beauty, and tranquil rural setting, the farm provides an ideal home base for a restorative retreat experience in Scotland.

Tara Lemerise, Level 3/E-RYT 500, is a yoga teacher based in the Washington, DC area and is a lifelong seeker. What she has wanted and needed has changed over time, including community, freedom, boundaries, healing, compassion, achievement, truth, spiritual connection, creativity, stability, and intellectual discourse. In every case, the tradition of yoga has always offered her whatever she has been seeking. 

Tara discovered yoga when she was studying philosophy and religion in college in 1999 and began teaching in 2005. Over the past 25+ years of yoga study and 20+ years of yoga teaching, she has engaged with great love and reverence with many different styles of yoga, including Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara, Yin, and Kriya Yoga.

Three things Tara values the most in her own practice and in her teaching are agency, self-trust, and empowerment. Students can feel this encouragement in her teaching and consider her to be a well-traveled guide, not an authoritarian who promises all of the right answers. Tara’s teaching is full of joy and compassion. She is an inclusive and responsive teacher, offering classes with dogma-free authenticity in harmony with honor for tradition and inspired by relatable stories rooted in yoga tradition that feels relevant to everyday life.

When she’s not teaching yoga, she is studying to be a Sanskrit translator, experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen, reading novels, and wearing jeans.

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/taralyoga/

Website – https://www.taralemeriseyoga.com/

Testimonials

“Tara is a master teacher as well as a calm and steady leader. She creates a community of support where every person on her retreats feels valued and included. You will not regret working with Tara.” – Mary B.

“Tara is such an amazing teacher! She’s methodical in sequencing, builds on each pose, offers variations throughout. She encourages everyone to try their best, she gives agency for students to do whatever they need for their bodies, she’s genuine in her interactions, and even when she challenges you to try hard things, she makes it fun. There were many poses I didn’t realize I could do until she challenged me to do them.” – Pam S.

“My experience with Tara was unexpectedly extraordinary. I booked the yoga retreat in Greece without knowing Tara or her yoga practice. I was merely aiming for a relaxing, safe getaway in a beautiful place. Much to my surprise, I met Tara and felt an immediate connection. She was warm, welcoming and supportive of me given the circumstances of being new to her ‘studio’. What I took away from the retreat was more than being refreshed and reenergized – but a part of a new community of incredible people, all tied to Tara.  I can’t think of a more generous and inclusive yoga teacher.” – Erin K

While on retreat, guests will have the opportunity to take part in activities and excursions. Some of the possible offerings include:

• Scottish ceilidh dancing
• Nature walks and countryside hikes
• Sound bath therapy sessions
• Massage treatments
• Explore historic Stirling, Edinburgh, St Andrews, or Perth
• Enjoy evenings by the firepit
• Whisky tasting experiences

Activities are not included in the price of tuition unless listed under “What’s Included.” Activities and availability are subject to change.

Please be sure to review Our Policies.
For technical questions or alternative payment options, please contact us.

Getting There 

True Nature specializes in curating and offering the best retreat experiences. For your flights, we recommend that you use Google Flights or a trusted travel agency. 

Guests will book airfare into Edinburgh Airport (EDI). Before booking flights, please ensure you have received your official confirmation that the retreat has met minimum registration requirements.

There will be one group airport shuttle each direction, scheduled according to True Nature’s designated flight window. Please plan your arrival and departure times to align with these windows for group transport.

Travel Insurance

We cannot emphasize more the importance of travel insurance. As we all know, especially as travelers, “life happens.” Whether it’s family, work, mother nature, or a change of heart, it is important to be prepared in case you need to unexpectedly change your travel plans. Often for less than $150, you can purchase a travel insurance policy and be protected in the event that you need to make a change or need to be covered financially prior to or during your trip. 

We have partnered with Trawick International (available for U.S. Residents only). Read more about their policies here. We encourage you to research the insurance company and policy that best meets your needs.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Do you have questions about traveling abroad? After you register, we will provide you with a Participant’s Package with helpful information. Also, be sure to check out our Participant FAQs. If you have other questions, feel free to write to us at info@truenaturetravels.com and let us know how we can help!

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Save $200 on full-price (shared only) ENDS September 15th! 

Standard Shared Accommodations – $4695 USD (Full Price $4895)

Standard Plus Shared Accommodations –  $4745 USD (Full Price $4945)

Premium Shared Accommodations – $4795 USD (Full Price $4995)

Premium Plus Shared Accommodations – $4845 USD (Full Price $5045)

Standard Single Accommodations – $5595 USD

Standard Plus Single Accommodations – $5645 USD

Premium Single Accommodations – $5695 USD

Premium Plus Single Accommodations – $5745 USD

Deposit & Payment Requirements

To secure your tuition rate and reserve your spot, a non-refundable and non-transferable deposit is required at the time of registration:

• $350 for registrations made more than 90 days before the trip.
• $1,000 for registrations made 60–90 days before the trip.
• Full payment is required for registrations made within 60 days of the retreat.

A non-refundable $50 payment processing fee will also be added to the tuition at registration.

If you select Deposit Payment, depending on when you registered, your remaining balance will be split into 1-3 payments and processed with your credit card on file on the dates indicated on your Confirmation Letter.

Follow this link to review our payment schedule policies.

For technical questions or alternative payment options, please contact us.

Cancellation

• Initial deposits and the $50 registration fee are non-refundable and non-transferable.
• 50% of payments are refundable up to 90 days before a retreat excluding the initial deposit and the $50 registration fee.
• 89 days prior to a retreat, tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable.
• Full tuition is refunded* if the trip is canceled due to low enrollment. The $50 registration fee is not refundable.
• True Nature Travels is not responsible for any loss incurred due to currency conversion rates.

*Refundable amounts do not include applied credits.

If you wish to cancel your spot on a trip you must submit your cancellation by email to info@truenaturetravels.com.