Sometimes, you need someone to tell you to do less,” coos Bamford’s Jasmine St Cliere to an intimate group of journalists, including myself. We’re somewhere in the Indian Ocean, safely ensconced in The Ritz Carlton Maldives’ spa suite, lying on mattresses in her group breathwork class. This, including intimate yin yoga sessions alongside gua sha and sound bath workshops are all par for the course at The Ritz Carlton Maldives’ Essence of Balance wellness programme.
The conscious breathwork class led by St Cliere, a London-based movement, breath and sound specialist, is an invitation to shift and release repressed emotions that are stuck in the body. If anything is going to lovingly nudge me out of this torpor, it’s peer pressure of the gentlest
