Just Stop! Yoga & Lifestyle Detox Retreats offer gently facilitated YOU-time to recharge your batteries set in a 400 year old Finca retreat, rustic and natural amidst hectares of fig, almond and carob trees.  With bio-pool and lush gardens, perfect peace and tranquility.

With plenty of you-time for cranio-sacral therapy, reflexology, MET (Tapping – Emotional Freedom Technique) intro workshop, Yoga Nidra Relaxation and pool-side holistic therapies, sleep, siesta, rest and read or take a longer hike to beautiful Benirras beach.   Boost your body, mind and spirit with sunshine and fresh herbal teas, juices and siestas in the hammock under the trees.

Read here for further information about your hosts and the retreat.

Experience a wellness escape that indulges your mind, body and spirit in pure escapism, yoga, health & healing!  Bringing together a team of wellbeing professionals, leading edge osteopathy, yamuna bodyrolling, hands-on (remedial) Pilates, Yoga practice and Yoga Therapy, explore holistic health & fitness for the body, soul and mind.

From 899 € + IVA for 3 nights & 4 days to include: luxurious accommodation, nutritionally designed ecological cuisine, wellness consultation, yoga/pilates/personal training, spa, hammam, juices, teas, holistic massage & signature Atzaro therapy.

Add on your chosen further treatments & natural Ibiza activities. Read more and personalise your break by choosing from one of our packages, which we will tailor make for your dates and wellbeing wishes and needs…x

Massage aches & pains away with an a la carte menu of pool-side treatments & therapies.

Treat yourself to a gorgeous summer-yoga-flow, be spontaneous and do what feels good on and off the mat with some of the island’s finest teachers coming together to give you a mind-opening, heart-wowing time.

Read more about the instructors and their fabulous fusion of teaching expertise to bring you Go with your FLOW Yoga Retreats here:

We trust that, come springtime, the trees will sprout new fresh green leaves, that flowers will flourish and burst into life again.

And we trust when we pick the flowers to colour and scent our homes…. that we are leaving plenty more for others to enjoy.

So how about taking this trust in nature, into your creative life, your relationships, your business, your life-work?

When you trust that there are enough clients for everyone, you can create freedom in your hearts – and more clients are attracted to you!

When you trust in the quality and the value of what you are offering, you feel able to ask the right amount of financial energy (money/fees) in return for what you are offering, which keeps you in balance, in living – working – spiritual AND material harmony.

By trusting that different clients are looking for different experiences and things, you can stay truer to your essence in your work and this comes through in all of your marketing communications!  The clients that you attract will be ones that really want to work with you – and whom you really enjoy working with.

So this April – why not make trust a self-growth practice – put trust out there and watch it open and blossom into amazing and beautiful new opportunities.

Explore trust in life and yourself and enjoy greater self-realisation, success and work-life-balance with holistic Life Coaching with Larah….  email her for details!

ENQUIRE NOW  for more information, pricing and accommodation possibilities.

Dates: 17 – 20 May  - with a focus on ‘Freedom and Creativity’ & 11 – 14 October 2013 – will focus on ‘Finding Inner Balance’

Cost: £495 per person all inclusive of accommodation in a beautiful ancient finca, nourishing soul food, meditation guidance and practice (including a starlit roof-top meditation), Sunday drumming at Benirras to salute the setting sun and many more delightful surprises.

ENQUIRE NOW or view full information in the Meditation and Transformation Retreat section of our website.

With flowing Hatha Vinyasa yoga from Larah & Susie of Ibiza Retreats, supporting you to deepen and strengthen your practice without stress – less is more, listen to your inner-rhythms and connect with your inner-self and your outer-body-beautiful capabilities.  These intimate group retreats are pure relaxation, let your hair down, laugh, sleep or sing.  The good feelings naturally flow and you may even  enjoy the occasional company of local characters who love to stop in on a Wednesday morning for one of Val’s renowned heart-opening meditations.  Read more about Yoga & Relaxation Retreats here

What a pleasure, what a treasure!
The perfect gift to yourself, or to the special someone in your life.

You can even enjoy this sensual experience together with your loved one, side by side.

A treat for all the senses.

The time has come to be generous with ourselves – and each other.  Email rejuvenate@ibizaretreats.com to book this gift for opening the heart and deepening the aaaaaaah.

1. Focus your awareness within through conscious breathwork (pranayama) to still the chattering busy mind.  We love Anuloma Viloma, alternate nostril breathing… like shown with this wonderful, authentic, link here:  

2. Explore the art of Pratyahara – withdraw your senses from the outside world – take your mind off our ego-based ideas of what you “think” you want to look like, of whether your asanas are picture perfect and focus your mind inwards, on how your body is feeling.

3. Softness – space – strength – make this your inner-mantra – feel where the softness and space can be felt in your body, feel into the details of your alignment, from big toes, to little fingers, top of the head, find softness and length in the neck, relax your jaw, your tongue, your smile (or frown), soften your gaze and feel your inhaling breath opening up space through your diaphragm, intercostal muscles between your ribs, between the shoulders, heartspace…. and beyond

3. Exhale out any excess tension or resistance, soften any tension, any excess effort, any “trying” whilst retaining the skeletal spaciousness

4.Continue this focus within your practice, softness, spaciousness, strength.… stress-release…. softness, spaciousness, strength…. heart-opening until you come to a seated, cross-legged, siddhasana, easy pose for inner-contemplation.

5. Keeping the same spaciousness and softness in the body and energy, now you have created this space within, listen to the quiet voice inside that comes from the heart.   This is the voice of our inner-most world, our soul, our heart-felt feelings.   This can be a place where peace can be found, where a space can open up for more love to flow as we let go of the “harder, stronger, faster, deeper” instructions from the mind and dive into the emotional center hidden within you.   Listen in, feel, look inside for any resonance and just be, with whatever is coming.    Allow any insights or ideas or thoughts to arise without judgement or attachment.  This free-space of allowing is full of acceptance, which is a key quality of peace.

Complete your practice by humming…. “Let it be, let it be, let it be.”

Further dates this year are:

28 March – 01 April

21 April – 25 April

01 June – 05 June

20 July – 24 July

20 Sept – 24 Sept

18 Oct – 22 Oct

Read more about the  Just Stop! Retreat here:

The city of Evissa itself came about when red-tinted water appeared one day and flowed to a hill. The people took this as a sign from Tanit, the water Her sacred menstrual flow, and they built Eivissa on that hill. The essence and spirit of the Goddess were believed to dwell in the waters, and omens for the future were spoken by underground springs, that miraculously sprang forth from the womb of Mother Earth. The new city was born with Her blessing.

Tanit is the mother of the waters in all its forms, and there are many wells and fountains with medicinal waters on Ibiza. There was singing and dancing by the fountains and outlets of rivers at certain times of the year. There are many sources of water in the pine-covered hills.  The singing and dancing continues…. from the parties and the clubs to the sacred and healing dances, like within Walk in Beauty retreat, being held here in Ibiza this Easter.  Explore the mythology and feel the rhythms of Tanit and her empowering goddess energies.

Discover your inner rhythms, learn how to go with your flow physically, emotionally and spiritually…. on AND off the mat!

Led by Larah and Susie of Ibiza Retreats and bringing together some of Ibiza’s finest teachers, 3 hrs daily Hatha Vinyasa Flow yoga, Pranyama, Meditations, focusses on Mudras & Bhandas, Restorative yoga therapy, Thai yoga massage & Kirtan.  Fabulous Yogic Cuisine brunches & dinners.  Concierged evenings out for those that like to dance-celebration and plenty of massage & pampering therapies to relax and release.

Dates:

* 26 July – 2 August
* 2 – 9 August
* 31 August – 7 September
* 7 – 14 September

Cost: £995 sharing including: 3 hours of yoga a day, smoothies, brunches, teas and waters all day and three divine conscious dinners under the stars so that you can also explore… if you wish, the amazing cuisine around the island.

For more information visit the Go with your Flow page on our website or contact us to book your place on this unique retreat.

So… do you want to upper-cut the cold season?! Get rid of head-aches from congestion, dizzyness, vertigo and all the side symptoms with having a cold.

Here is an easy 5 step self-lymph massage you can do on yourself to get this fluid down out of your head!

1. To start we will find the VENUS ANGLE wich is the primary place where all the lymphatic fluids drains back into the body. It’s located between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and in a small divit where the clavicle is. Take your ring fnger and put it in the inside of the collar bone on each side. Lightly start to pum towards the heart once every 2 seconds about 50 times.

2. Take the flat partof your finger and palms on either side of the neck and hold on and pull down allong the angle of the sternocleidomastoid muscle towards the heart once every 2 seconds about 50 times.

3. Cup your hands, put your fingers and the top part of your palm on the back of your neck and pull down gently every 2 seconds about 50 to 100 times.

4. Put your hands in the live long and prosporous symbol (shaped your fingers like V with your thumb out), surround your ear between your middle finger and ring finger on both sides and pull down lightly towards the bottom of the cheak every 2 seconds 50 to 100 times.

5. Do steps 3-2-1 again.

Now you have pumped your fluids from the surface of the skin and drained your head and neck!!

Do this as many times as necessary and please share this with your family and loved ones.

contact us  to book a Lymphatic drainage massage- 1hour for just €70!

Retreat from the heat of reality and experience the wonderful new perspectives, ideas, inspirations and positive energy that flows in.

View full information about Just Stop! Retreats and book your place here 

Join us to switch off from the outside world, with meditations and stress-releasing breath-work and enjoy inner-peace, you-time and body-mind harmony :0)

Followed by tea, healthy, home-made cake and….. cosy connecting chats….

To book your mat space, please email info@ibizaretreats.com Classes begin on January 10th in 2013.

View full information and make your booking here 

What is a Vision Board? A fun and time-tested manifestation tool, endorsed by Oprah! You will be using plenty of bright, colourful magazines, paints if you wish and sparkly things to create a collage of your own goals and dreams.  This sets your internal “radio” waves to attract in the ways to experience and achieve your goals most easily…

With a sharing circle to reflect on your creation and self-Coaching tools to set inspiring and practical actions.  Learn how to turn your Vision Board into phone wallpaper or your desktop display so that you can reconnect with your Visions every day.  Come and set yourself up for an amazing year ahead. 

Relax into your creative self, switch off from the outside world and feel your desires and dreams bubbling up from within.  Lovely!

Booking essential.  Please email us for details!

The New Year is a time of fresh new pages, clean slates, new energy, new beginnings.  There is the feeling of possibility of new hope and, especially after the shift in consciousness of 2012, a butterfly in many of our stomachs of de-lightful and insightful anticipation.

Yet to be able to full embrace all that the year ahead offers, we must be able to be present in the now.  So how do we do that?  In a stressful  rather than being mentally dragged into worries about the future, or being locked in emotional and physical pain and discomfort because of “things that happened” in our past.

So how DO you make peace with your past?

We can begin by intending that we are going to learn from mistakes or uncomfortable situations to be able to accept, make peace with ourselves and others that participated in difficult situations in our past.  To do this takes courage yet the rewards are the beauty of new, fresh, light energy rushing in to a heart previously darkened by anger, hate or fear.  Yes it can be confronting and challenging to admin what we feel in ourselves.  What we don’t want to see are what our ego judges as “embarrassing or humiliating faults”, or maybe we were simply holding on to the past because we are scared of letting go of something or someone that had given us a sense of comfort or security..  even if things weren’t really good for us…. or for them.

So what do you need to do to let go of bitterness, frustrations and all of the other uncomfortable feelings?

Here are 5 ways to make peace with your past so that you can arise like a beautiful butterfly, spread your wings and shine this year:

1. Write a list of everything that is still “on your mind” – anything you feel uncomfortable about, have shoved under the carpet or feel angry or frustrated with.

ie: he stayed out late which was disrespectful of my feelings so I felt hurt

2. Write a list of how you want to feel – or be thinking – instead, what thoughts about each situation can help you accept it for what it is?  How can you forgive the other person – or yourself – what is the objective “truth” in each situation? (as the truth WILL set you free)

ie: he stayed out late and I have not done enough nice stuff for myself recently – so I felt jealous of him

3. If you – and only you – can be responsible for the way that you are feeling, what new years resolutions can you make for the better?  What thoughts and actions and behaviours can be new ways of thinking and acting in 2013 to help you TAKE YOUR POWER back and feel better about the situation in yourself now?

ie: I am going to the spa once per week to invest time purely in me, followed by dinner with my girlfriends because I know I deserve it and the joy it brings me will lift everyone’s spirits too!

4. Forgive yourself – and the other person – or circumstances that were out of your control.  Say sorry in your mind, with your mouth (even to the mirror or out to the sea) – and write it down to do so even more powerfully, even if you do not send the email or post it.  Claim your emotions back for yourself and your energy will stop projecting out negatively towards others.  You will feel more energised immediately – notice the difference!  Saying sorry enables you to be responsible for whatever your part in the discomfort was (even if you can’t see it!) and it will diffuse the unconscious ties that can keep triggering uncomfortable memories.

5. Appreciate your amazing life now! We are so fortunate with all we have in this world compared to so many others.  Make gratitude your daily practie, start the day with 5 things you can genuinely appreciate, your warm fire, the roof over your head, the beautiful blue skies (here in Ibiza!), dear friends who are there for you, your partner, your family, new socks, the freedom to choose where to go and how to enjoy this magical world we live in.

And most of all…… en JOY – live in JOY and joy WILL be with you this year….. it is that simple!

Have you been experiencing great change in life? Relationship? Work? Career?

Are you noticing stuff within you that you want to change…. or let go of?

Well…. that is all very normal for all of us this year! It is 2012 and the pivotal point of this year is this Friday 21st December – Winter Solstice, when the sun lines up with the “plane” of the Galaxy – the actual “moment” is 12.12 precisely Ibiza time.

Some of the conversations happening in the North of Ibiza are about how time is speeding up,  the energy is becoming faster and lighter so that your “karma” ie: the thoughts that you “put out there” (or send within yourself) have a faster cause – and – affect boomerang.  This means that we have got to purifty ourselves more, become cleaner in how we think towards ourselves and others.  It is taking us more into a place of compassion, of working with others, of learning how to focus on qualities rather than points of criticism.  Yet on some points we really want to be critical – why?  Because the cleaner we get, the more old stains have been showing up!

We can no longer ignore truths about ourselves and others in our lives, no matter how painful they may be.   Many couples have gone separate ways because they know that it is eventually for the greater good, they deeply feel that this will bring them greater peace and harmony.

And to do this…. takes courage, takes strength and also has become non-optional, as we are reaching for richer, fulfilling lives, with those that complement our own unique qualities and encourage us to grow, support us through their intentions to follow our dreams.

Its as if the layers are peeling back, revealing layer after layer of beautiful qualities that maybe we never noticed before and also patterns of behaviour, uncomfortable, destructive or disruptive patterns that no longer serve us. And all why?  Because we are searching for deeper meaning…. that lasts.  We recognise that anything that we can buy or achieve brings only a temporary “high”.

We are looking to restore our connection with the space of love, of being, of GOOD genuine, authentic, real feelings.

Like plants we are all growing towards the light. Letting of the old lower energy thoughts, emotions and feelings.

Jealousy, gossiping, comparing ourselves and our lives with others is all low vibration stuff.   It brings us down in ourselves and cuts us off from the creative force of life, which is a source of endless love and growth and enabling energy.  The old ways of living, founded on pushing hard, working until we drop, taking things to far…. all in a quest for more, more, more, were egged on by the old cycles that advertised the way our lives ought to be.  Yet these sold to our needs…. which told us that we were not complete, that we did not, or could not, feel as good as the people on the telly, the magazines, the advertisements and the promotions, unless we bought their ideas, their options, their products.

The new world…. is one that we are already creating.  Because we are becoming more and more aware that we can choose the way that we think and feel.  We can choose how to be, towards ourselves and other people.  More and more of us are “remembering” that we all come from love, are made from the source of love (even if the parents were not at the time 100% aware of it).  We come from the seeds of the purest kind of love: creation.

Remember on 21st December that you ARE your life’s creator.  You were born, resourced, with everything you need to live an abundant, full and vibrant life in harmony with others and the world around you.

So lets say THANK YOU to mother earth, from where we come and we return.  Lets give thanks to each other – for sharing in this imperfect journey or learning how to love ourselves – and each other more, lets share in the feelings of connectedness, of safety to be ourselves, to live and breathe and be in unity.

When life presents challenges that just feel like too much, rather than breaking down into a sad or stressed out puddle, ask yourself honestly:”is this something I want to overcome….. or am I holding on because I am scared of what others’ might say, about being wrong, about being deemed a failure?”

Do I genuinely want to persevere for this because I believe will benefit my / my families whole being and life experience?

Or is it because it is actually easier to hang on in there in an uncomfortable comfort zone, than to dare to stop, reflect and choose a path that is different.

There is a saying that we love here at Ibiza Retreats… “Let go and let God”.  The more we can allow our life horse to occasionally buck and rear and gallop, the more easily we can ride through turbulent moments and remain seated in the saddle.

And when we stop trying too hard to do and be and achieve, very often the lovely things that open up, the positive people and lucky opportunities, are already there…..    When we let go and go with the flow, trusting that everything is happening in a perfect divine order, we relax, physically and emotionally…. which allows us to see the wonderful things that are there.

I though today that I really wanted to pick up my son from school to take him for a medical check-up.  Yet when the rain suggested that the roads may be challenging to drive, a subsequent hiccup with the car meant that I had to stay inside.  And whilst I originally felt concerned about “cancelling the appointment” and “letting other people down”, the moment that I phoned to rearrange things, I found that the whole world was on my side.  The receptionist rebooked us easily, my car problem was then swiftly sorted….  and how much lovelier it was to rest with a cup of tea and my laptop by the fire.

When we are too focussed on what we THINK we want to happen, we can be blind to what will really help our heart sing.

So remember to question your motives behind all the “trying situations” that happen this week….. if you find yourself trying to hard, and pushing to make things happen, take time to reflect on what will genuinely bring you greater happiness, fulfillment and peace.

Visualise everyone throughout the world holding hands in peace.

If enough individuals do these things, the consciousness of all must inevitably rise.

We will be there and thought it would be nice to get together and pool our energies, so if you would like to join us too we would love to welcome you, more the merrier, maybe bring a picnic too.”  Contact us for Belinda and Toby’s details.