Free-range Holidays (www. freerangeholidays. com) offers gourmet yoga as well as bootcamp breaks in the Portuguese Algarve.

Cooks Academy in Dun Laoghaire has a whole new range of courses for 2007, including Fast One Pot Cooking and an Essential Cookery Course. Tel: 01 2145002.

Lotus Yoga, Dublin's newest yoga studio on Grafton Street offers a range of yoga practices including Iyengar and Satyananda, for all levels of fitness. Tel: 087 207 1530 or see www. lotusyoga. ie.

The Organic Centre's programme for 2007 includes interesting course options like making your own soaps and cosmetics, and cooking and healing with wholefoods. Tel: 071-9854338 or email hansorganiccentre@eircom. net.