Forget about spa and yoga retreats, the best way to get rid of a festive flunk is to head into the woods with an axe. There's something surprisingly therapeutic about handling a tool used for millennia and on an axe workshop you'll spend a long weekend doing just that. You'll learn how to care for your axe, sharpen it, cross cut and limb a tree with it, split logs, and even how to carve with it. When you finally turn a mossy log into a kind of seat with it, you'll be radiating an inner joy greater than any that you might find on a holistic retreat. (Plus, the glow on your face from wielding the thing for 48 hours and camping out in those numbingly-cold woods beats any fifty quid facial.)

There is an axe course in Devon run by the Survival School.
www.survivalschool.co.uk/
+44(0)1453 752220

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