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Fitness, Massage, Wellness nights, retreats & a touch of Spirituality in tranquil, private woodland on the outskirts of Durham City, Hamsterley Forest & South Shields beach ✨ Established 2018-With over ️15 years experience in events & therapies ✨️

11/08/2026

🌳 MOVE • BREATHE • STRETCH • RESET 🧘‍♀️✨
THIS FRIDAY | DURHAM WOODLAND WELLNESS | £21pp

What if your Friday night wasn't about rushing around, scrolling your phone or thinking about everything you've got to do?

What if you simply gave yourself a few hours to move, breathe and be outdoors? 🌿

This Friday we're back at our beautiful Congburn Woods, Durham, for an evening combining nature, body movement and yoga.

🌳 WHY NATURE?
Spending time amongst trees and green space gives us an opportunity to slow down, step away from everyday distractions and reconnect with the world around us. Fresh air, natural sounds and simply being outdoors can feel incredibly grounding.

💪 WHY MOVE?
Our bodies are designed to move. Gentle, enjoyable movement can help mobility, circulation, strength and energy — but this isn't about smashing yourself with a workout. It's about moving your body, having some fun and feeling good.

🧘‍♀️ WHY YOGA?
Yoga brings movement and breath together, helping improve flexibility, balance and body awareness while creating that all-important opportunity to slow the mind down.

✨ PUT THE THREE TOGETHER...

🌳 Nature
💪 Body movement
🧘‍♀️ Yoga
💫 Connection
❤️ Time for YOU

And we'll finish the evening by relaxing around the fire 🔥✨ in the private woodland of Congburn, within our Starboy Wellness Zone.

A chance to sit, slow everything down, chat, connect — or simply enjoy being amongst the trees as the evening draws in. 🌳🔥

No pressure.
No need to be super fit or super flexible.
Just come as you are.

📅 Friday 14th August
⏰ 6:15pm – 9:00pm
📍 Congburn Woods, Durham DH7
💷 £21 per person

🌿 Congburn Woods — home of Starboy since 2018.

Low prices – High vibes ✨

Message the page to book.

10/08/2026

Fantastic 5 tonight, if you want to join them drop a message and don't forget Sept & October is FREE in memory of my son Ben ✨️ Congburn woods 🌳

10/08/2026

🌿🔥 OCTOBER IN NORTHUMBERLAND… WHO NEEDS THIS? 🔥🌿

Imagine finishing your week here… countryside, trees, a roaring fire, soundbath, massage, pizza and absolutely nowhere you need to rush off to. ✨

Two overnight wellness escapes are coming to Walker Walls, Wooler this October. 🌳

📅 Friday 9th October, 5pm – Saturday 10th, 12pm

📅 Saturday 10th October, 5pm – Sunday 11th, 12pm

📍 Walker Walls, Wooler, Northumberland, NE71 6RD

A modest, clean and spacious residential centre tucked away in the beautiful Northumberland countryside — the perfect setting to slow things right down.

🔥 Large fireplace
🌳 Beautiful countryside surroundings
🏡 Shared dorm-style accommodation
🍕 Communal kitchen & DIY stone-fired pizzas
🔔 Garden soundbath amongst the trees
💆 Massage surrounded by nature

✨ YOUR RETREAT INCLUDES:

🔔 Full Soundbath
🎵 Gongs
🧘 Guided Meditation
💆 Massage or Reiki
👼 Angel Cards
🔥 Time around the fire
🍕 DIY Stone-Fired Pizzas
🛏 Overnight Accommodation
💪 Optional 30-minute Starboy Workout the following morning
🥾 Optional 3-mile Countryside Walk

And, as always, everything is optional.

Come to join in, come to rest, come to meet people, or simply come to get away from the noise of everyday life for a night. ❤️

🌿 We carefully choose environments where people can feel comfortable, supported and able to simply be themselves.

ONLY 16 GUESTS PER RETREAT — keeping these weekends small, personal and relaxed.

💷 £119pp

📍 Walker Walls is tucked away in the Northumberland countryside, approximately a 15-minute walk or 1.5-mile drive from central Wooler via Cheviot Street.

🌟 LOW PRICES • HIGH VIBES 🌟

Established 2018.

📺 Starboy as seen & featured on BBC TV's Robson Green's Weekend Escapes.

October will soon be here… 🍂🔥🌳

Fancy disappearing to the Northumberland countryside with us for the night?

Drop me a message with “WOOLER” + your preferred date and I'll send you the booking details. ✨

10/08/2026

💥 HAVE A BREAK FROM THE GRIND 💥....
✨ “Sometimes it’s simply having four hours where nobody needs anything from you.”

The 9-to-5.
The bills.
The mortgage or rent.
The overheads.
Family struggles.
Relationships.
Looking after everyone else.
Phones constantly pinging.
The never-ending list of things that need doing.

Modern life can be absolutely relentless.

And somewhere amongst all of that, we're supposed to find time for ourselves.

Quite often, we don't.

We just keep grinding.

Get up. Go to work. Come home. Sort everything out. Worry about money. Deal with the next problem. Go to sleep.

Repeat.

But every now and again, you need to step away from it.

🌿 HAVE A BREAK FROM THE GRIND. 🌿

That's a huge part of what I've tried to create with since 2018.

Not perfection.

Not pretentious wellness.

And not ridiculously expensive retreats that ordinary working people simply can't afford.

Just opportunities to escape everyday life for a few hours — or sometimes overnight — and slow the F🌟CK down.

🌳 Get out into nature.
💆 Have a massage.
🎶 Lie back during a Soundbath with gongs and chimes.
🧘 Try yoga, Yogalates or meditation.
🔥 Sit around a fire.
🌊 Spend an evening beside the sea.
🎨 Paint, create and make something.
🏋️ Move your body outdoors.
💬 Join an optional sharing circle.
✨ Experience Reiki.
🍕 Make pizza, laugh and connect.
🌙 Stay overnight somewhere beautiful.

Sometimes the therapy is the massage.

Sometimes it's movement.

Sometimes it's lying beneath the stars listening to a gong.

Sometimes it's sitting around a fire talking to someone you've only just met.

And sometimes it's simply having four hours where nobody needs anything from you.

No work emails.

No washing.

No deadlines.

No 9-to-5.

Just you.

❤️💙 LOW PRICES – HIGH VIBES.

I've always tried to keep the vast majority of what I offer affordable and accessible because wellbeing shouldn't be reserved for people with loads of disposable income.

From our home at Congburn Woods in Durham to beaches, castles, countryside venues and overnight retreats across the North East…

Come exactly as you are.

You don't need to be fit.
You don't need to be flexible.
You don't need to be spiritual.
You don't need to know anybody.

And you certainly don't need to have your life figured out.

You might just need a proper break from THE GRIND. 🌳🔥✨

| Established 2018

🌳 Nature | 💆 Massage | 🎶 Sound Healing | 🧘 Yoga | 🔥 Fire | 🌊 Beaches | 🎨 Creativity | 🏋️ Movement | ✨ Connection

Sometimes stepping away from life for a few hours helps you go back to it feeling a little more like you.

Drop the page a message if you fancy escaping the grind with us. ❤️

🔥WOODLAND- BEACH- CASTLE RETREATS IN COMMENTS 🔥 PINNED TO PAGE TOO 🔥

10/08/2026

✨ CROSSING OVER | BY STARBOY ✨...There are two dates certain in all of our lives.

❤️ The day we are born.
✨ And the day we die.

None of us knows when that second date will come.

But perhaps the most important part isn't either of those dates.

It's what we do in between that counts.

If you're reading this while you're suffering, maybe this message is for you.

Maybe you're going through something physically or mentally.

Maybe you've lost someone you love.

Perhaps through su***de. Cancer. A heart attack. An accident. Or circumstances so tragic and unexpected that your whole world changed in a moment.

Sometimes grief, trauma and life itself can leave us feeling completely lost.

And sometimes, quite understandably, our head can be right up our arse.

I've been there.

But something I'm noticing more and more is that the things I write about, and the things I've created from scratch through Starboy, are bringing together people who have experienced some incredibly difficult things.

People who might never otherwise have met.

And maybe that's you reading this right now.

So if you're struggling, come and try something I offer.

You don't need to arrive happy.

You don't need to have everything figured out.

And you certainly don't need to pretend everything is okay.

Everything I create is set in a therapeutic environment, surrounded by like-minded people, with nature, movement, massage, meditation, sound, conversation and connection.

It's done with passion.

It's done from the heart. ❤️

And there's usually a little touch of spirituality and Starboy magic thrown in too. ✨

And that brings me to something incredibly fitting...

On Saturday morning, completely unintentionally, I read a letter that had been left for me by a loved one who is no longer with us. ( My 1st read since reading following that tragic day ✨️

That boy was an incredible human being.

And somehow, I believe he continues to work a little bit of magic from the other side. ❤️✨

For those who've spent time with me and heard some of the things I've experienced, you'll know I've spoken about magic, mystery... and even a few things that have felt like miracles.

I don't pretend to understand all of it.

Maybe we're not supposed to.

But I do know this...

We're born.

We live.

And one day, we cross over.

It's the bit in between that we've got some say over.

So while you're here...

🌳 Get outside.

❤️ Love people.

🎨 Create something.

💪 Move your body.

😂 Laugh.

😢 Cry.

🗣️ Talk.

🤝 Help somebody.

And perhaps most importantly...

Let somebody help you.

When life knocks you completely off your feet, find your way back in whatever way works for you.

It doesn't need to be perfect.

Neither do you.

And if you're struggling at the moment, maybe this post appearing on your screen today is the little nudge you needed.

Come along.

Try something different.

Meet some good people.

Spend some time in nature.

You never quite know where it might lead. 🌳✨

❤️💙 This is the Starboy way.

Thank you for reading.

Thank you for listening.

And to that incredible boy...

My son, Ben Whiteman. ❤️

Always loved. Always remembered.

Keep doing your magic. ✨❤️

STARBOY | Established 2018
✨ Low prices – High vibes.

Photo : 2024 ✨️

09/08/2026

🌿🎨 PERFECTLY IMPERFECT — JUST LIKE NATURE. POV

This is the Starboy way. ✨

My journey doesn’t have to be perfect.
And neither does yours.

Whether it’s fitness, body movement, yoga, dance, art, poetry, cooking, creativity… or simply trying something you’ve never done before — we don’t have to be brilliant at it to enjoy it.

🎨 I’m not an artist.
But in this moment, surrounded by nature at a retreat, that really didn’t matter.

Because sometimes we become so focused on being good at something that we forget the whole reason we started…

To experience it.
To feel it.
To enjoy it.
To create a memory. ❤️

Nature isn't perfectly straight, symmetrical or polished.

Neither are we.

And maybe that's exactly how it's supposed to be. 🌳

Move your body because it feels good.
Dance even if you have no rhythm.
Paint even if you're not an artist.
Write even if nobody reads it.
Sing even if nobody hears it.

Stop striving for perfection and start enjoying the experience.

Perfectly imperfect. 🌿

Low prices – High vibes. ✨
The Starboy way.

09/08/2026

🎨🧘‍♀️💆‍♀️ ARTS, YOGA & MASSAGE — OVERNIGHT WELLNESS UNDER THE STARS! ✨🌙

What a magical weekend! ❤️💙

This weekend, hosted another beautiful overnight wellness experience at The Hub, TCR, Barnard Castle — this time working alongside talented local Durham artist Chrissie Morgan. 🎨✨

And once again, the aim was simple...

🌿 Affordable, accessible wellbeing in beautiful surroundings.

On Saturday, guests enjoyed:

🧶 Crafts & weaving
🧘‍♀️ Sunset yoga
🍕 DIY pizzas
💆‍♀️ Massage under the stars
🌙 Time around the lake as the evening settled in

What better way to spend a Saturday evening?

Sometimes we simply need permission to SLOW DOWN — to create some time and space away from everyday life that's just for YOU. ❤️

Then Sunday morning...

☕ A very relaxed breakfast
🌊 Sitting around the lake
🎨 Painting together — including myself! 😂
🐦 Wildlife, countryside sounds and stunning lake views & a walk with those who stayed behind.

No rushing. No pressure. Just creating, connecting and enjoying where we were.

A massive thank you to Chrissie Morgan for bringing her creativity and talent to the weekend, and of course to every single person who joined us. ❤️

It was also lovely to welcome people from two North East support groups, supporting people affected by two subjects very close to my heart.

Thank you for trusting us with part of your weekend. 🙏

🎨 MORE ART & WELLNESS RETREATS WILL BE PLANNED!

But next up at TCR are our Women’s Empowerment & Wellbeing Retreats:

❤️ Sat 29th – Sun 30th August
💙 Sat 26th – Sun 27th September

These include:

🥋 Self-defence
🗣️ Conflict management
🧘‍♀️ Yoga
🤸‍♀️ Body movement
💆‍♀️ Massage
🌿 Relaxation, connection & wellbeing
🌙 Overnight stay

✨ ONLY £109pp

A few spaces remain, with a maximum of just 30 guests on these retreats.

Then from October onwards, we have pretty much one Soundbath & Wellness overnight at The Hub every month, with several dates already SOLD OUT. 🔥

Our community events start from as little as £21pp, while our overnight retreats are generally just £99–£109pp.

Because wellbeing experiences shouldn't have to cost hundreds of pounds.

❤️ LOW PRICES — HIGH VIBES ✨

🌳
⭐ Established 2018
🎥 As featured on BBC TV's Robson Green's Weekend Escapes

📌 For the FULL LIST of upcoming events and overnight retreats, see the pinned post at the top of the page and look for the link in the comments
Starboy Fitness & Massage ✨️

08/08/2026

💙 HALF-PRICE MASSAGE | IN MEMORY OF BEN
For a little while, I’m bringing back an offer I haven’t done for some time…

💆‍♂️ 60-MINUTE MASSAGE
/£58/ ➡️ JUST £29

And because I genuinely want this to be accessible, you can even spread the cost:

✨ 3 payments of £10 ✨

💙 £10 when you book
💙 £10 as a further payment
💙 £10 on the day of your massage

No credit checks. No judgement. No forms or bu****it. Just me here to help. ✨️

This offer means a little more to me than simply offering a massage at half price.

On 18th October, my son Ben would have celebrated his 25th birthday.

I lost Ben to su***de two years ago, and in the weeks leading up to what would have been his 25th birthday, I want to continue doing something positive in his memory. 💙

From 1st September, I’ll be offering group workouts at Congburn Woods, Durham, DH7 6DY and on 18th October, Ben’s birthday, I’ll be holding a FREE at Congburn Woods, Durham.

💙 Stay tuned for full details.

Alongside those events, I wanted to bring back something simple that's always been at the heart of what I do…

Looking after people.

Sometimes you need to stop.
Breathe.
Let someone look after you.

Or perhaps you know somebody who really deserves a little time for themselves.

Whether you book this massage for yourself or gift it to somebody else, I hope it becomes a small reminder that…

YOU MATTER TOO. 💙

💆‍♀️ 60 minutes | £58 → £29
💳 Or 3 × £10 payments
📍 DH7, Durham
🌙 Available most days until 10pm
📩 Message me directly to book

No complicated booking systems. Just message me and I'll help get you booked in.

💙 In memory of Ben.

07/08/2026

FAMILY EVENT✨🔥 STARBOY RETREATS & SAORSA FIREWALKING PRESENT 🔥✨

FRIDAY 4TH SEPT. | 630- 1030 PM

📍 Christon Bank , Alnwick, Northumberland

💷 £39pp 💥 *under 10s go FREE !

Minimum age to take part is 7 years of age. Under 7s are welcome as part of a family group to spectate.

👥 Limited to 30 people taking part in the event.

Step into a magical and empowering evening in nature as two experienced facilitators come together…

This special event is co-hosted by Silvia, expert fire-walking instructor and therapist, and Starboy of StarboyRetreats – retreat host since 2018 and recently featured on BBCTV Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes.

🔥 What to Expect 🔥
An unforgettable journey of release, courage and connection, including:

✨ Letting go of what no longer serves you
✨ Setting intentions
✨ Sharing circle
✨ Fire walking
✨ Arrow breaking
✨ Guided meditation
✨ Time to reflect and reconnect
✨ Community gathering around the fire and more!

All held at Christon Bank a carefully selected area which offers calm, tranquility and is always a perfect setting for Firewalking events and more.

🌿 Meet Your Hosts 🌿

Silvia brings many years of experience as a:

• Therapist
• Hypnotherapist
• EFT practitioner
• Movement goddess
• fire walking instructor And more…

Starboy has:

• 15 years of event experience
• 8 years hosting retreats
• 15 years as a therapist
• Lover of nature & all spiritual practices
• National TV feature on BBCTV

Together they create safe, uplifting and deeply inspiring experiences.

🔥 Why Take Part? 🔥
Fire walking and related practices can support:

✔️ Confidence & courage
✔️ Breaking limiting beliefs
✔️ Emotional release
✔️ Clarity & intention
✔️ Deep connection with others
✔️ Nervous-system reset
✔️ Reconnection with nature

⏰ Schedule

630pm - 1030pm experience listed above.

Returning to cars after gathering around the fire. Around 1030pm.

🌧️ Goes ahead in all conditions – rain included.
⚠️ Only severe high winds would postpone to a later date.

🌟 Spaces are limited to 30 people – booking essential.

If you feel the call… this could be your moment to step forward 🔥✨

⚠️ Please note: the vast majority of Starboy events and retreats for 2026 are now either sold out or close to capacity – so book sooner rather than later.

✨ This kind of event would quite often carry a much higher price tag, especially in Such settings with 5 star hosts ! Not to be missed. A great way to see out ☀️

🔥PLEASE BOOK DIRECTLY VIA FACEBOOK MESSENGER ON Starboy Fitness & Massage

No booking fee !

FREE FOR UNDER 7-10 YEAR OLDS. *when in attendance with a paying participant.

Address

Congburn Garden Centre
Durham
DH76DY

Opening Hours

Monday	7am - 10pm
Tuesday	7am - 10pm
Wednesday	7am - 10pm
Thursday	7am - 10pm
Friday	7am - 10pm
Saturday	7am - 10pm
Sunday	10am - 11pm

Website

http://Www.starboyretreats.com/

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