Did you know September is National Yoga Month? In celebration here are seven recommended retreats to celebrate and deepen your practice.
International Yoga Month Retreats
Yoga Safari Retreats in Namibia
Dates: 27 April – 4 May, 6 -13 September (2020)
8 days of Yoga, Wildlife and Adventure while camping true African-style in already set up tents in nature. We will visit Namibia’s Greatest Wildlife Park, the Etosha National Park for incredible game viewing before heading to Damaraland, one of Namibia’s most scenic areas. Adventurous days awaits us at the German influenced coastal town of Swakopmund.
Mornings are set to begin with a yoga practice out in nature while the remainder of the day will be spent on guided excursions, relaxation or optional extra activities. As the days draw to a close, you will find yourself back in nature for an afternoon yoga practice before a healthy dinner under the starlit skies.
Namibia, a country that feeds your soul! Bordering the Atlantic Ocean, Angola, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa, it has something exciting to do for everyone. Whether you love animals, birds, nature, the ocean, the desert or extreme sports, it’s got it all.
Travelling through Namibia awakens your emotions and senses – colours become brighter, smells more intense and you taste more appreciative. Your sixth sense finds its mystical home and above all, you feel re-connected with your soul!
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International Yoga Month Retreats
YOGA, FORM+FLAVORS Tuscany Retreat
Dates: 16th – 22nd June
Besides a daily yoga class, we will also enjoy walks around the scenic Tuscan hills and a meditation walk will be included in the week as well. “FLAVORS”.
We’ll not only balance the week with the healthy “form” part of the retreat, but also with learning about and experiencing firsthand the amazing flavors of this region. Each day we’ll be able to enjoy mouth-watering cuisine, as well as take part in tastings from wine and olive oil, to cheeses, gelato, and of course the Italian espresso.
From award-winning restaurants to family farms and kitchens, learning and enjoying the food will be an added bonus to working up an appetite during our classes and walks!.
Trips include visits to small villages, large cities, and outdoor activities, even a day at a unique “Sensorial” thermal spa where guests will enjoy a treatment “circuit” through thermal waters, aromatherapy, chromotherapy, and relaxation pods.
Julian and Erin will be your guides around the city, museums, and outlying walks. Enjoy seeing world famous works of art, as well as monuments, one-of-a-kind lookouts, and feeling the modern bustle of this compact city.
Yoga Retreat Portugal – Vale de Moses
Dates: open April to October
Vale de Moses is a family run yoga retreat in the heart of the Portuguese mountains. Spend a week or more practicing yoga, receiving massage and acupuncture treatments, walking in forests, swimming in natural river pools and eating delicious nutritious food.
Stay in one of the beautifully restored stone cottages, Soulpads or in a Tipi. Our retreat home is perfect for those in need of a break, rest and relaxation. We are surrounded by nature and forests, peace and tranquility – the perfect ingredients to restore your body and mind.
The combination of good food and sleep, clean mountain air and water, therapeutic massage and acupuncture, hill walking and river swimming, all create a highly restorative context in which to begin, or to deepen, your yoga practice.
Soulfully reconnect with our planet and with your own body. This warm invitation to deepen your love affair with yoga, is open for everyone, travelling alone or with friends, new to yoga or practicing for decades. Most of our retreats at Vale de Moses include morning and afternoon classes, a health consultation, massage/acupuncture treatment, 3 nourishing daily meals and a trip to the nearby Rio Zêzere.
International Yoga Month Retreats
Opening into awareness retreat, La Palma (Spain)
Dates: 19th – 26th October
We have a well-prepared program, ready to move us into a state of clarity and presence. With Yoga, Qi Gong, Satsang, Massage, conscious relating, group workshops, dance, live music, Organic vegetarian food.
Many human problems have their source, simply in the fact, that man is “too much” on the head and “to less” on the heart. For that, we’ll do a lot with the body.
And next to the body sessions, when you feel your body more, you notice, that you are automatically much more in the moment. To live in the moment is for many of us a feeling of unimaginable great joy. This joy needs no reason, it is not coming from outside pleasure, it is your deepest core, your inner nature. From that state we are doing Satsang, means we allow the moment to unfold the way it wants.
Might be through answering questions you have, or we are looking together into conditioned, unaware thinking pattern and searching together whether they are true or not. And what influence they have in our life if believed. Or there might be an outbreak of depressed emotions etc. This retreat gives you to the possibility to come to know, who you are beside your name, your profession, your possessives..who you are behind your life-story.
International Yoga Month Retreats
5 or 7 Day Holistic Detox, Meditation & Yoga Retreat in Alicante
Dates: Open all year
You can choose your 5 or 7 day Holistic Detox, Meditation & Yoga Retreat in Alicante to your preference and personally availability. Dhara Holistic Care invites you to this rejuvenating retreat to detox your body and mind, reduce your stress and find your inner balance through yoga, meditation, and holistic workshops. This personalised and private retreat is not a simple vacation retreat.
It is an opportunity to reconcile with yourself which is the relationships with life, health, strength, and spiritual path, take a time for looking inside and find yourself. Furthermore, this retreat will be the time to open your heart and rest from the stresses as well as requirements of your daily life.
To accompany this detox, you will use the tools of yoga and holistic psychology. In the yoga tradition, the work with the chakras is an important part of it. Here, there will be an included systematic schedule of practice across every chakra within the context of a philosophy that is both pragmatic and transcendental to prepare you in every way for this great adventure in consciousness.
International Yoga Month Retreats
The Notorious Yogabeats Retreat with David Sye, Fuerteventura
Dates: 2nd – 9th November
David Sye brings his own special brand of yoga, healing and wisdom to this life changing retreat week. Join us in stunning Fuerteventura for a profoundly fun, healing, rejuvenating retreat.
David’s Yogabeats slips you intentionally but subtly into the magical mystical side of yoga, opening up the mind and body, leaving you with a euphoric joy in your heart, and a deep smile within.
His method is not just a collection of stretches, but a magical doorway beyond personal boundaries and inhibitions. Practice powerful meditations, guided breath-work and joyful yoga practices full of music, laughter and lightness.
David is not only a well known and loved yoga elder, who has studied with many gurus and even met with the Dalai Lama, but he is also one of the most authentic yogis in the world. An open, friendly and caring soul who will bring amazing vibrant energy to the mat and inspire the very best from your practice, whatever your level of experience.
Known for his life changing yoga sessions where flowing movements meet primal rhythms, a world where breath and meditation join fun, expression and personal growth. Using ancient Tibetan yoga practices David takes you through asana pranayama and meditation practices in a way you will have never experienced before.
You will feel inspired, supported, part of a community and ready to take on the winter charged and rejuvenated, with an open heart and a strong mind.
International Yoga Month Retreats
6 Days Thai Massage Training and Yoga Retreat Crete
Dates: 6- 21 October & 15 – 30 March
A hands-on experience full of authentic thai massage, Qigong and Yoga on the island of Crete in Greece to become a certified Thai Massage practitioner.
Traditional Thai massage is an ancient healing system of tissue, muscle and joint mobilisations using a pressing, stretching, turning and moving, which is performed while fully clothed. Thai massage includes much more than the traditional massage because it involves rhythmic acupressure, reflexology, energy work and stretching, a form of passive yoga.
Υou will learn the basic routine of this wonderful healing art from Thailand. At the end of the program, for which you need no prior knowledge, you will be able to safely conduct a whole body Thai massage.
You will also be taught a special Qigong form, a special Yoga routine, and a Self-massage program, all tailored to the needs of a Thai massage practitioner.
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