Retreat:

RE-FIND your strength and your softness. 2 days of nourishment for your body, your heart and your mind. A space for you to relax and reflect. WITH or WITHOUT your baby – come as you are!  

Date: 1st and 2nd June non-residential – 10am – 6pm.

Cost: €395 per mother and baby

Location: Casa Corazon – the house of the heart. A beautiful restored finca in Santa Gertrudis, the heart of the island!

* Yoga, Massage, Reflexology, Walks in nature, Gentle sharing, Organic food, soft coaching and short guided meditations *

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Why? They are all “homes with a heart”.  Created, evolved, renovated and annually cared for with passion, creativity and lots of positive energy.

1. Each place is luxurious – in its own unique way. From luxurious villas to sacred hideaways high on mountain tops.  From original scented sabina-wood ceilings to infinity pools for sunset sun salutations, the luxury you feel is as much about the peace and tranquility as the white cotton sheets that are scented with fresh lavender.

2. You can let go and be who you are… Barefoot bliss is standard and your hosts, mostly therapists, who have lived vibrant, international lives, really have “seen it all”.  This helps you relax even more… from watching the sunset, to lazing by the pool.

3. The details make the difference! For us at Ibiza Retreats, the beauty resonates in the details that are delicately and lovingly put into place by the owners…  including the fresh Rosemary & lemon tea with Ibiza honey! Served with a genuine smile.  Can you put a value on this?  For us it is… priceless.

Casa Corazon bed and breakfast for tailor-made retreats

1* We adore Casa Corazon – the home with the heart where Valerie, your host, infuses your stay with island wisdom, in-love-with-life laughter and flowers and herbs which have been perfectly positioned between the rustic stone walls and on your bedside table.   Just 5 minutes from the relaxing restaurant-mecca of Santa Gertrudis village, yet nestled amidst beds of purple morning glory flowers, this is a bed and breakfast that gives you a refreshing taste of real, colourful, authentic Ibiza.  With a sunset dipping into the sea on the horizon, watch this amazing soft-light show from your pool-side (salinated! not chlorinated), through the fruit trees, to the sound of the frogs chirruping their happiness-harmonies.  Valerie’s breakfasts are lovingly served, totally organic and, for those in the know, legendary.  Her background, from Byron bay to the USA to Ibiza from the 70′s to the present day, is as colourful as the vibrant flowers that you can enjoy throughout the different seasons.  Boho chic at its best – ask Valerie for one of her deep and transformational guided meditations, 1:1 sessions or, over a glass of organic red wine, some life-stories that will inspire you fully!

The private pool at Can Dream - one of our tailor-made retreat spaces

Your natural swimming pool of Benirras beach

3* Can Sunsets – where the sun sets into Benirras, your natural “swimming pool.”   Your host, Shubha is both a talented intuitive coach and wonderful interior designer with a magical realism touch that ensures your private retreat will be true escapism.  High on a mountain top, Can Sunsets is truly a room – or two – with a view.  The converted stables (corales) offer an ensuite and whilst it is self-catering, the nearby supermarket of Can Currune has an excellent organic section.  Walk down through the valley to Benirras, a relaxing half hour mini-hike, swim in possibly the most beautiful turquoise water swimming pool in Ibiza… and then return by taxi or car.   Lie back in the balinese day-bed and toast the setting sun.  Salute!

Read more about our homes-with-a-heart here for fabulous bed and breakfasts and relaxing homestays in Ibiza.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon!

The sunset over the pool at Can Skye - Harmonic's Ibiza Yoga Retreat villa

Retreat: Harmonic Yoga & Healing Retreat with Samanta Duggal all the way from Mumbai, India

Following six years in Goa, we are honoured and very excited to welcome Harmonic to Ibiza! Continuing with the essence of Harmonic, this retreat will offer a full range of classes and treatments. Twice daily yoga, as well as sanskrit chanting, meditation and Bollywood dance. Music, healing, massage and numerous other therapies are also on offer to help you relax and get the most from your stay.

Date: 2nd – 9th June

Cost: From €910 for shared twin room. Single occupancy available.

Location: A stunning retreat villa (think of a boutique ashram) near the sleepy village of Sant Carlos and the sparkling waters of Cala Nova beach…

What’s included? * 7 nights accommodation * Delicious, home cooked local vegetarian food including: pre-yoga fruit, post yoga brunch, afternoon snack, evening meal (tea, coffee and water available throughout) * Twice daily yoga, 2 classes in meditation, 2 classes in Sanskrit chanting, 1 Bollywood dance class * Consultation and support throughout as well as an evening of acoustic music *

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Yoga on Playa Las Salinas

Ibiza is an island where tailor-made yoga retreats are enhanced by the magical energy that you can feel all over the island…

1. In Ibiza you feel free in body and mind… enabling you to deepen your yoga practice and “connect” with yourself 

Our wonderful white island has been attracting spiritual seekers and yogis for decades! Drawn by the open-minded attitudes, the free-thinking people who come to live here and share in our community that welcomes you to relax and be who you are.  Yoga is a spiritual science that recognises the importance of honouring your own, personal needs.  Here in Ibiza, you feel free to be who you really are, which enables you to open your heart and to reach a deeper level of connectedness, in body, soul and mind.

2. Ibiza has attracted top yoga teachers specialising in many different forms and schools of yoga.

Ibiza is a yoga hotspot that has the same vibrant and colourful international feel as the spiritual communities in Goa, in Bali and even Byron Bay.  Whether you are looking for Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Kundalini Yoga or an integrated Vinyasa Flow, we can tailor-make your retreat to bring in the teaching and guidance of experts in many different yogic fields. And Ibiza attracts teachers from all over the world – bringing their expertise to the island via their passage to (or home from) India for us to enjoy!

3. You can enjoy many different incredible types of retreat accommodation

From sumptuous, luxurious agroturismos ( boutique hotels that were former farmhouses) to rustic and bohemian barefoot bliss, the architecture is soul-ful, with Sabina wood beams and ancient Fincas that nourish your being, just by “being” there. So whether it’s starry skies from the comfort of your Moroccan bell tent – or boutique-hotel style  luxury villas, we have got it all and can bring those day dreams to a reality!

4. Ibiza has over 50 gorgeous beaches…

… with miles and miles of sand and sparkling turquoise waters.  So you can begin your day with a morning meditation by the waters edge, continue with sun salutations and then complete your practice with a swim in pristine pools of emeralds and blues.   And every beach is so different – there is so much diversity to suit every mood and every sand-style

preference. There is tremendous natural beauty here in Ibiza and within the yoga retreats, your itinerary can include trips to unspoilt beaches, boat trips to hidden coves, sunset hikes and cliff-top meditations at “Heaven’s Gate” and many more exquisite places and spaces where practising yoga ignites your inner-smile and generates a lasting peace that will permeate your reality.

5. We have over 320 days of sparkling sunshine in Ibiza every year

For a vitamin D injection… look no further! Whilst enjoying flowing yoga asanas in the beautiful outdoors, you can feel the warmth of the suns rays bouncing off the soil, bringing the pine scent to life.  As you inhale the fresh invigorating rosemary that grows wild throughout the island, your mind is refreshed and you can feel yourself being revived here. We promise!

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Meet Perumal - join us on his Ibiza yoga retreat from 23rd - 30th June

We are honoured to have Perumal Koshy bring his infinite knowledge and sensitive teaching skills to our beautiful island… Achieve a state of flow under his careful guidance and strengthen muscles and open your heart in the surrounds of the Ibiza countryside. In this special traditional finca – with the smell of Rosemary and Lavendar to fill your nostrils as you inhale! 

Date: Saturday 23rd – Saturday 30th June

Cost: From €862 based on 2 sharing twin room. Other options and single occupancy available

Location: A rustic 400 year old renovated finca in the heart of the countryside in the North of the island

What’s Included? * Accommodation * Full board (apart from 2 free evenings where you can explore the local restaurants!) * All yoga tuition and classes *

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Healing Ibiza May 6 2012 at Atzaro

In these times of Global change, in this pivotal year of 2012, coming together to connect and share healing tools and techniques for balance and wellbeing is more important than ever.

In a recent interview with Essential Ibiza – they asked: So what is healing Ibiza?

And in essence….. as you can read more about here, Healing Ibiza is an organisation dedicated to Healing and raising Consciousness for the island of Ibiza through not-for-profit events and experiences for inspiration and rejuvenation for body, mind and soul. Over 100 people now come together to contribute their time, love and energy, creating an amazing energy vortex in the beautiful surrounds of Atzaro (who give their incredible space for free).  Inspired during a special Healing Ceremony with a wonderful Shaman called Lilo, a group of us were ignited in a common purpose: to bring together the healers of the island to give back to Ibiza… and each other… as our White Island gives out SO MUCH to so many every year.

This “giving back” is for the greater good of all, of our island, of and for the charity to which the proceeds are donated.  The sensation of giving purely because it is what we LOVE to do (and everyone is doing what they love most on the day!) is what gives all of us, who organise the event, the inspiration and momentum to create two wonderful Healing Ibiza days every year.  The first one is next Sunday 6th May!

Everyone involved is giving from the heart: the therapists, the yoga teachers, the musicians, the teachers giving workshops, the speakers and the beautiful volunteers who come to share in this special time and space for remembering what healing is really all about.

When we give selflessly, with pure and clear intention, without attaching to the outcomes, there are no barriers, no attachments and the energy flows.   We are assisted by spirit… however you perceive this to be…. and we all become channels for a higher, faster, lighter vibration of healing energy.    Through clear intentions and aligned actions, it feels so good and it comes naturally, without thinking…

And remember – EVERYTHING, in its purest form… is energy – we are simply allowing it to flow through us rather than putting out thoughts about how things ought to be.

There are many wonderful areas, offering delicious, educational, healing and nourishing experiences simultaneously:

* Kids area – including painting, music, dance and songs…  and even a teepee!

* Chill out – with Qi Gong, Meditations, Sound & Music Circles, Kirtan & Mantras and special sessions of Mama Fitness for body & mind too!

* Check out the new Consciousness walk…. take off your shoes and reconnect with the earth… take your time and space to walk… more consciously… stop and smell the flowers, look at the perfection of the trees and the grasses… and remember to give thanks for this amazing place we are living in or visiting!

* Therapies – a chocolate box of healing treatments, including massages, reflexology, reiki, cranio-sacral, reconnective healing… and so much more

* Yoga – from teachers from all over the island, sivananda yoga, hatha yoga, dynamic flowing yoga, restorative yoga to soothe body and soul

* Workshops – from dance, to goddess workshops, angels, macrobiotic and chinese medicine and more

* Speakers – from Taoism to the Spine to Emotional Health

* And of course there is the incredible Entertainment line-up… including Indian Dance, Sound Healing & Music that will take you into a Meditation just by listening…

* Read more about the Healing Ibiza schedule and download a PDF here!

* With Atzaro offering fabulous food at accessible prices, complemented by the lovely Lion and team from Abre Sesamo, plus fresh juices galore…

* All proceeds are going to the Mandala School which you can read about here.

The pool at the Hacienda - for the StressManagement Retreat, Ibiza

Date: 19 – 26th May &  4 day option – 27th 30th May

Cost: 7 days from £1,578 and 4 days from £743

Location: An exclusive, traquil, luxurious hacienda near the town of San Agustin. Overlooking the sea and near to some of the island’s best beaches!

What’s included: * 7 nights’ shared or single occupancy accommodation in a dream location! * Delicious organic, full board * A private stressmanagement / coaching session * 5 yoga classes and a private 1:1 * 2 evening guided meditations * Balancing and healing energy work * optional cliff hike and a sunset cliff-top meditation *

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Yoga and Hiking in Ibiza Retreat - Sandra and Shambala - your hosts!

Retreat: Yoga and Hiking in Ibiza! With Sandra and Shambala!

Spring in Ibiza is one of the most beautiful times of the year and perfect for hiking. Experience beautiful walks along the coast, through forests and lush green fields, experiencing moments of silence and meditation in nature.

Daily yoga classes will make your body stronger and more flexible enhancing the awareness of breath, alignment and inner connection. This is a perfect retreat to rest and recharge your energies after the long winter months.

Date: 6 – 12 May

Cost: €650

Location: A beautiful 400 year old finca – fully restored, yet maintaing the spirit of Ibiza! Surrounded by beautiful olive and almond trees and with stunning eco-pool to cool down post hike!

What’s included: * 7 nights accommodation on a shared basis * Full board * All yoga classes * 3 guided hikes * A full body massage *

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A loop can happen within the mind… our nervous system sending feedback loops like – “I am in pain” “it hurts” – or even, when it becomes too intense, something more similar to a white noise effect, blocking out all other sensory awareness.

When pain becomes the dominant thoughts and feelings (and is preventing you from moving freely and with ease) Just STOP! look within and listen to your inner voice, the quiet, simple words of your intuitive inner-knowings.

First: accept the pain.

Its there, so accept it being there. The more we resist it being there, the more energy we are sending it and the stronger and bigger it becomes.
Simply accepting it allows you to relax about it to a certain degree. With this release of mental and physical resistance your body can already begin healing as the blood can carry the fresh oxygenated cells to the area of discomfort.

Second: breathe – slowly and deeply, through your body, bringing your hands onto your abdomen to direct your breathe. Then bring your hands to the place where the pain is. If it is on the back of your body just one hand is fine. It has been proven that by bringing your hands / touching the point of the body that requires healing, energy and awareness is naturally directed there. Simply, scientific fact. Add the extra layer of the breathing and imagine the colour that is most soothing, visualise this colour flowing there and notice the positive effects.

Third: ask yourself, what is the cause of this pain? Pain is a symptom of a discomfort deeper down. Caused by an inbalance, an accident caused by…. what exactly? What has been going on in our subconscious that we have not looked at or listened to? (As our subconscious is so mostly over-ridden and talked over by our fast-moving, anxious, monkey conscious mind.

Notice the first things that come up…. is it something you have to change? to do differently? to let go…. Where you moving to fast? Or too “in your head”? What was causing the stress that was causing you to trip or fall, or rip or tear?

And now… thanking the pain….. for the message…. (and notice how GRATITUDE is a balm for body AND soul) what can you choose to do more harmoniously, more consciously?

Join us for self-healing, pain-relieving retreats and wellness escapes in Ibiza…. and enjoy the empowerment of these natural pain-release techniques!

With love and gratitude for your readership…. and for sharing the healing journey x Larah x

For Life & Wellness Coaching – email larah@ibizaretreats.com

Birthing new concepts, visions and dreams takes courage, commitment and a whole lot of time and energy.

So whilst everyone takes a break this Easter holiday, why not use your time wisely and set aside some moments to contemplate what you want, in your life, to BLOSSOM deliciously?

* Do you have ideas to crack open, to think out of the box?

* Are you ready to announce your new career path, request that promotion or to send out the email that you are going to be moving…?

* Is it time to introduce some fresh focus into your business… to inspire your team?

* What about your mind & body… are you ready to revamp your inner-”vamp” with some yoga and self-coaching techniques to feel truly beautiful outside and within?

* Would you like to finally ask that special someone on a date? (life is for LIVING and spring is time to get PLAYFUL with a potential mate)

* Do you have the luxury of your own private garden which is becoming beautiful outside? Mother nature offers the perfect space for your yoga and meditation practice to re-birth your spiritual essence

* And what about your Vision Board? Can it do with some extra colourful images and inviting words that give voice to your desires & dreams?

Easter time…. time to resurrect YOUR self-belief… find time to create some positive affirmations, stated in the “I AM” present tense so that you can resonate with your wishes and give the universe a clear vibrational offering.

And chocolate of course, abounds right now, so how about practicing the healthy, happy-making art of “Moderation”.

Enjoy your time to celebrate this special time of year…. coming together to celebrate with loved ones is a beautiful opportunity to shower your life with gratitude and appreciation.   So just as the blossom spreads in the wind, your positive feelings can permeate your environs and enhance your success, happiness and wellbeing…

With chocolatey love (the dark, melted, infused with chilli kind)

Larah, Susie & the Ibiza Retreats team….

Dancing Shakti at Es Vedra with Coco Bliss

Retreat: Penecost Ibiza Energy Retreat with Coco Bliss

About: Reload yourself with vitalizing yoga, calming meditation, refreshing walks, relaxing massage and energetic dance at the magical island Ibiza!!

Swim in the eco-pool and lose yourself in the bohemian charm of this rustic retreat centre and the surrounding countryside. And let the lovely Coco lead you through a journey of the body, mind and spirit!

Dates: Thursday 24th – Tuesday 29th May

Location: A 400 year old renovated finca in the North of the island. One of the most beautiful and tranquil places!

Price: €599 per person (based on 2 sharing)

What’s included? *5 nights accommodation * Full board – delicious vegetarian cuisine * All classes and workshops*

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Being in nature is scientifically proven to reduce stress and promote thoughts and feelings of peace and calm. The sounds, the smells, the expanded views, the depth of colour and the different green hues all nurtures our spirit, soothes our soul and… reminds us, at an essential level, a bit more about what life is really about.

Even if you are in a city – make a point of having some herbs that you grow yourself, near to you in the kitchen. Schedule a walk in the park or even a 15 minute coffee or tea run that gets you outside and close to trees.  Notice how this help you also to hopefully remember to BREATHE.  Desk breaks are vital for reducing stress and helping to expand our vision and open our minds.  This is essential for our work effectiveness and life happiness, it helps keep things in perspective and how better to break the computer / boardroom / phone / electronic buzz / interactive stimulation than by choosing, just for this week, to take a quick 15 or 20 in your closest park.    Can’t get to a park too easily? Change your screen saver! Put beautiful scenery into your immediate environment.  Purchase a plant that helps clean the air that you LOVE to look at.  A little bit of fresh mint and that you can even put in your mouth if you need to and squeeze fresh lemons into your tea for an immediate natural uplift, go on, imagine smelling the scent of a fresh lemon right now.

And if you are already living in a beautiful natural environment, make the most of this.  Walk consciously, rather from A to B.  Notice how children are engaging with the different plants and flowers…. this is meditation in motion, stilling the whirring mind and bringing you and your monkey-like attention into a “present” here and now frame of being.

And enjoy the healing affects of being with mother nature, dare to take your shoes off and feel the earth beneath your feet.  If you really dare…. lie against, sit back against or even hug a tree.  These amazing creations are simply brilliant at helping to release and drain away old unwanted thoughts and negative energies.   Then say thank you – for all that nature gives to us…. unconditionally.  Concreted over time after time, hacked apart to create oil well and mines.  We still receive beautiful flowers and delicious fruits…   shade from trees and honey from bees…   and funnily enough, it is where we, originally come from.

Simply remember, this week, to enjoy…..

He always gets everywhere early!

Just imagine the bliss of having extra time before each appointment, to breathe and drink a cup of tea or sip some water and reconnect with your centre, to ground your energy.

How lovely would it be to enjoy the driving from A-B so that you can actually listen to beautiful music, a calming meditation, to clear your mind and find your smile before a meeting?

What could the differences in your life be if you never felt you were rushing….. and instead, could stop if you wished to an admire an ancient building, a previously unseen sight, take a brief walk in a beautiful park, soak up some sunshine or choose to let a full tube pass you by and delight in the following empty one?

Just for this week – give yourself an extra fabulous fifteen minutes of time-margin before and after each physical meeting where travelling is involved.   That includes going to and from the office and other points of “work”.

Notice the differences in your breathing, in your body, in your shoulders and in your ways of walking, thinking and talking.

Looking forward to your feedback!
And to hearing about the new feelings of space, time and clarity….. and much more….. that may be found.

Date: 19th – 23rd April

Price: €775 sharing or €995 for a private room.

Includes: *Private 4 star seaview accommodation * delicious healthy evening meals * all sunrise and sunset yoga * room service *mats, blocks and straps * sunrise silent walks*

About: Join Jax for this yoga immersion that helps you to become more sensitively aware of SENSATION to re-calibrate neuro muscular pathways to practice yoga with integrity. You can’t feel your body through habit, and if you can’t feel your body like your lower back or hips because they have become numb with de-sensitive actions you certainly won’t feel the trauma in your lower spine when practicing upwards dogs or sun salutations, and this will be why Yoga perhaps is always uncomfortable for you. This immersion awakens you to the SENSATIONS of your body, making yoga blissful and teaches you how to practice action with INTEGRITY and not just action any old way.

Quite possibly a LIFE CHANGING holiday for most that attend!

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Whether you are a mother yourself through birth or by appointment.  Thank you.  From the bottom of our hearts.

There is no love like a mother’s love.  So they say.  The many wonderful therapists we work with also give you a feeling, we feel, of being back in the womb, cupped and care for, nourished and received, however you are.

Many mothers put their own needs to one side:  caring first for their brood, for their descendants and for their family unit.  Yet as the roles of men and women evolve and our minds awaken to pastures of perspective new, it is also vital to remember that for a mother to be the vital life force within the family tree, she also needs to ensure that she nourishes her needs.

So for all mothers out there today – whether in body, mind or spirit – remember to take time for yourself to replenish your “cup” first.  For when your cup floweth over, as the old saying goes, your filling up of your families’ cups, is all the more easy and natural.  Sounds so easy doesn’t it?

For all mothers out there who have been free spirits and independent life travelers, the reality of being physically needed by a young child is also incredibly demanding.  As much as we love that little one; as much as we cherish the grace of the universe for blessing us with our daughter or son, the reality is that we are human beings and as mothers, have our own needs too.

So on this day and for the week and year ahead, we encourage you to:

(1) Recognise your needs – as YOU and then as a mother – physically, time, space, mind, body, heart

(2) Paint or write or collage them onto a board where you can see them

(3) Ask yourself honestly – how often do I need these things in my life so that I can be my best for my family too?

(4) Talk to your support network – husbands, friends, family, babysitters, creches, schools and beyond – and create that time to be and feel YOU

(5) Affirm to yourself that you DO deserve it and – that like all motors – use needs to refuel REGULARLY too!

Appreciate your mother WILDLY today! Lavish her with love – wherever she is right now.  Send her thoughts and intentions to also care for yourself so that you can care for your loved ones in the way that feels best to you.

Happy mothers day….

With huge love and gratitude – all the team at Ibiza Retreats…

And… p.s. check out our “new for 2012″ MOTHER LOVE retreat!

A 5 day retreat with a unique philosophy – ‘there is immense power in gentleness’. We encourage you to connect with your very centre. Out of your head and into your heart for 5 days of powerful, flow-based, body and heart-opening yoga.

All inclusive of light, laughter filled soul-food nourishment and caring hosting from Larah, Susie and Valerie in the bohemian bliss of Casa Corazon (the house of the heart).
No more than 7 guests on the retreat ensure we can give you plenty of personalised attention to develop your own practise and style – giving you the confidence to embrace yoga and what’s in your heart within your day-to-day life.

Dates: 22nd – 26th March & 12-16th April (as well as dates throughout the season!)

Location: The beautiful bohemian bliss of Casa Corazon…

Price: From £795 per person

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March 20^th marks the spring equinox, traditionally a time to de-clutter and move into the new year positively in mind and body.

With all this great spring energy on our doorstep; almonds blossoming, flowers blooming, tap into the spring energy to cut down on the heaviness of winter foods and move towards summer feeling lighter and more balanced.

Equinox’s are a great time to reflect, retreat and ease yourself safely into the new spring vital energy…

Your detox guide Ilona Pantel is also a multi-level therapist, offering a holistic approach to supporting your Detox – which you can even do in the comfort and privacy of your own home.   So you can feel safely supported throughout, she ensures that you feel prepared and know what else to do – including to drink water, water, water, take walks in the beautiful sunshine, breathe in plenty of fresh oxygen and to take the necessary rest your body needs.

With the juice detox that MWellness provide, with Ilona as your guide and support for your cleansing journey, you can enjoy juices made from fresh local organic produce.  The green juices that make up the bulk of the programme have an alkalizing effect to help shift the pH value of your system back to the optimum near neutral position. Alkalising your system is important because it means it will work more efficiently, helping you metabolise fat, absorb nutrients as well as flushing toxins out.

Rebelancing your body and mind and helping you to enjoy a newfound equilibrium.

Make the natural transformation with our organic local fresh fruit and vegetable based detox programme. As well as alkalizing your system, you’ll flush out accumulated toxins from your body (as well as weight), cleanse your digestive system and recover some vital spring energy.

Contact us for detox details – or click here to read all about it.

Plus massages, reflexology, personal training and mind-detox life coaching all on offer to support your kick-start, enjoy the cleansing journey!

Written by the lovely James at MWellness Santa Eulalia - gym, spa and holistic health and fitness with a smile!

You can’t feel your body through habit, and if you can’t feel your body like your lower back or hips because they have become numb with de-sensitive actions you certainly won’t feel the trauma in your lower spine when practicing upwards dogs or sun salutations, and this will be why Yoga perhaps is always uncomfortable for you. This immersion awakens you to the SENSATIONS of your body, making yoga blissful and teaches you how to practice action with INTEGRITY and not just action any old way.

Date: 6th – 9th April

Duration: 4 days

Location: Formentera Beach Club

Price: From €775 for shared accommodation

Includes: * Private 4 star seaview accommodation * delicious healthy evening meals * all sunrise and sunset yoga * room service *mats, blocks and straps * sunrise silent walks *

So its the perfect time to clear out the clutter, to cleanse the body, the wardrobe and the mind and to enjoy the fabulous upsurge of energy that this brings.

Lets begin with the body – for a life-style-friendly cleanse, rather than a strong detox, instead, eliminate the surplus toxins for the month of March and by Easter, you will be almost ready to don that bikini!

Enjoy a juice detox for several days – up to 6 days for detox regulars, with professional detox guide Ilona Pantel and the M Wellness organic juices in the comfort of your own Ibiza home…. (email us for details). Or for a fully holistic lifestyle detox opt for our Just Stop! Retreat from March 27th, including life coaching, energy and wellness coaching and daily yoga and breathwork with purifying cuisine.

And if you want to do it yourself… to blend the healthy options into your lifestyle in a sustainable, easy to manage way…. follow these 7 easy steps:

Out of sight is out of mind! So clear away all the stuff that stuffs up your system and drains your energy (or over-fires it up in the case of caffeine and sugars!)

1* Clear out processed foods and sugars from your kitchen
2* Put all the caffeinated teas and coffee and caffeinated fizzy drinks away

And then…… enjoy creating a health-fest to feast on with your eyes and then your stomach so that you can consciously enjoy taking this extra fabulous care of yourself…

3* Fill your fruit bowl with delicious fresh, seasonal and organic fruits
4* Enjoy herbal teas, purifying dandelion and spearmint, fresh rosemary with some lemon and manuka honey and rooibush full of fabulous antioxidants for helping your skin get that good-to-go-glow on
5* Water, water, water – into a glass jug and then find some quartz crystals to charge the water with plenty of positive ions!
6* Go to your local farm or order in – from Abel and Cole in London, Can Mason or Can Paredes in Ibiza… fresh organic vegetables and healthy nuts and seeds to snack on so that you feel healthy-cooking inspired
7* Create a huge veggie soup so that you can dip into it easily and add to it when you wish, bring in adzuki beans to support the kidneys, a few lentils for extra protein and the super-food quinoa.

And email us for super-healthy recipes that are as delicious as they are nutritious….

Then begin on your wardrobe… to feel beautiful outside as well as in, give each piece of clothing marks out of 10. Anything under 7 – what are you doing having this in your wardrobe anyway? Surrounding yourself with feel-good options is vital as we are unconsciously aware of everything in our environmental periphery. Notice how much lighter you feel as you shed extra material stuff and how much more energy this brings. Continue into cupboards room by room, day by day for this wonderful, life-enhancing, life-style savvy spring-clean.

You’ll start your day with a yoga session, then we’ve got bike rides, sea kayaking, coastal runs and beach workouts, plus a visit to the famous Las Dalias hippie market.

The retreat is designed with lots of variety and also incorporates some me-time, during which you can relax and be pampered in our on-site spa or chill out on a nearby beach.
By the end of the retreat you should feel rejuvenated, energised and ready to face the world again with a new fitness plan!

Retreat Includes:

• All accommodation & food
• All activities

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The MWellness Easter Weekend Special!

ou just need to find your flight, currently available from the UK from £101 return, and grab a taxi to the venue!

Date: Fri 6th – Mon 9th April

Cost: €399 per person

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Dates: 1st – end April – 1 month training

About: With an emphasis on safety, we work to develop and refine technique, alignment and professional qualities.  This course offers plenty of personal attention, support and encouragement to build confidence and help each student experience the strength, discernment and joy that come through Yoga.  Move forward with your practice at your own level of proficiency whether you decide to become a teacher or not. Being a Yoga teacher means working creatively together with students to support their evolution at all levels. It can help us to focus our lives with love and compassion.

Cost: €1800 all inclusive of..

●   Two Asana classes per day
●   Daily Chanting and Meditation
●   Delicious Vegetarian Meals
●   Anatomy and Physiology, Teaching Pregnancy and Kid’s Yoga
●   Ample Teaching Practice
●   Introduction to Yoga Philosophy

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Or experienced the amazing feeling of riding in harmony with another horse-being, jumping fences and taking the pace and the obstacles, all in your stride?

As time is speeding up, being able to ride the pace, stay calm in the saddle, feel confident that we are holding the reins is all increasingly important.

Knowing how to overcome obstacles is vital.   Rather than fall into emotional spirals of fear, anxiety and the many symptoms that make up stress, with the right strategies, the “challenges” become opportunities for us to reach higher, expand our comfort zones and even begin to enjoy the exhilaration of flying over fences into pastures new.

One of my favourite riding instructors gave me immaculate advice: sit back and allow your horse to carry you forward in life.

So making the time to meditate, to calm your mind, enables the calm to resonate at a cellular level.   Yoga and Qi Gong and Tai Chi bring you back into your body, helping you to centre, focus and feel strong, flowing energy.  Any combination of the above, practiced regularly, with joy (rather than pressure) will help you reconnect with your life-horse at a deeper level.  This will enable you to get into your life stride: so you can ride in greater harmony and allow your horse to carry you up and over challenges along the way.

There are clear steps to model for jumping fences on horse-back successfully and they can be beautifully translated into day-to-day living:

* Walk the course first – on foot, see the reality of the size of the fences and work out how many “strides” you will need to jump each one.    It is essential to be grounded! The faster the pace of your life, the more important it is that you can feel firmly grounded, in your body and are able to consider the best realistic strategy for any challenging situation.  Look at the fence from both sides – take off and landing.  See difficult situations from various perspectives and this will help you distance yourself emotionally and find the more balanced, sleek and success-oriented solution.

* When you are preparing to jump the fences, warm up first, jumping smaller fences in the practice ring first

Ensure you are not taking on too much! If a challenge or situation feels overwhelming, look at bite size pieces that you feel you can deal with.  Build your confidence and then have that final face to face conversation that takes the most strength, clarity and courage!

* Find your own mantra that helps you stay in the zone

*Create an internal belief that you CAN jump the fence! and repeat it like a mantra “over” and “over” again.  Ensure it is positively stated and in the present tense, this will encode your cellular memory, so that you begin to resonate this belief: that means you will be feeling it as a truth, rather than purely something positive you are saying.

* Practice, practice, practice – remember there is no failure, only feedback to help you adapt and refine your techniques.

* Visualise, in a multi-sensory way, what you will be seeing, hearing and feeling when you have cleared the fence successfully.  Write this down and read it back to yourself regularly.  Just imagine… the excitement and anticipation of that feeling of clearing the fence.  Maybe even relief!

Enjoy becoming a master of your own life, see the obstacles as opportunities for you to heighten your awareness, expand your consciousness and blossom magnificently, in body, heart and mind.

For life coaching to enhance your ability to sail over the higher fences and navigate the cheeky obstacles that turn up unexpectedly…. contact larah@ibizaretreats.com.

Do you need to deeply relax, regenerate, recover? Disconnect from your daily life, from stress, trouble and worries? Receive clarity about life issues, job problems or your love life?

This individually tailored retreat, supports your own ability to find a new inner balance within – physically, emotionally and spiritually. We guide you through a process of transformation in which you can tap into your inner resources, experience fresh inspiration and gain a new perspective. Discover your true potential as you listen to the call of your soul!

Date: 18th – 23rd March

Cost: €795 all inclusive

What’s included: * Daily yoga to tune up the body! * 5 nights accommodation on a single occupancy basis * 2 delicious vegetarian meals per day * 2 guided meditations * 4 body treatments during your stay

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President Ikeda – SGI International – world peace movement

When we accumulate the treasures of the heart, the treasures of the body and the store-house come into our life automatically…

So this Valentine’s week take care to notice the treasures your heart wishes to accumulate, experience and receive.

Ask yourself: How do I want my heart to feel? Radiant? Glowing? Light and free? Open? Joyful? Childlike? Happy?

Make a list of your heart-treasures and notice how amazing this enables you to feel.

Literally, just by thinking about it and focussing on it and writing down. you are drawing in this energy and receiving it back from the Universe – it is the law of attraction in action.

Then:

* Believe you deserve this!

* Ensure you are affirming that you are allowing them into your life

* Practice feeling heart-opening, heart-warming, bubbling-over gratitude…. (you really can ham it up here!) so that you can activate the Universal law of attraction and attract even more treasures of the heart into your life.

May you enjoy great love this week and spread it far and wide.

May this love fill you with joy and inspire your journey in life.

With lots of love…. the Ibiza Retreats team….

Love is all you need!

And you have so much more to share and to give…. with and to the world around you!

Yet as long as we are depending on the love of another to feel love flowing through us… we are dependent.  This love can never be as consistent or permanent as we (and our egos) need it to be.

Love is a feeling, an emotion and a magical vibration.  When we are feeling love pulsing through us we emanate a submolecular level, a super-high frequency that attracts more loving experiences and people in to our lives.

So how do you get more of this delicious, nutritious love-fest into your life?

Focus on loving yourself – as well as others – this Valentines!

Have you noticed how wonderful you feel when you give of yourself self-lessly to others?

Keep doing this! By all means.  Yet for the purpose of giving yourself a love-injection that will uplift you into spring, for this February focus on loving yourself and appreciating your body, feeding your heart-felt needs and nourishing your spirit within.

1. Loving yourself & Appreciating your Body

Ahhhh the inner-critic.  How often do you actually look into the mirror and appreciate who and what you see before you.  We all know that most “perfect” images in magazines are photo-shopped – yet there is part of us that still buys into it.  So start to vitally appreciate yourself and your body - say thank you to your body for being strong and carrying you through life so well despite all the toxins we often subject it to.  Thank your body for everything that it does.  Focus on the parts that you love about your body, your curving hips, your finger-nails, your smile, your softness.

2. Feeding your heart-felt Needs

Have you made a vision board?  This is just slightly different…. ask yourself what do I NEED in my life to feel the happiest, most joyful, most contented I can be?   It may be to feel TRUST and LIGHTNESS and FREEDOM, it may be being in nature, swimming…  create a needs board – or simply write a list (like the below).  This will bring it to your attention – and where attention goes, energy flows.  You will naturally start caring more for your needs.

And this then runs on to…

3. Nourishing Your Spirit

Your spirit is like a 5 year old child, light and happy and free.  It is that part of you that, if it were socially permissable to do so, would be often dancing in the rain, laughing out loud in the middle of a packaged tube, would be singing at the top of your voice.  Your spirit loves expression, the care-free creative expression of you in your essence: the happy, healthy, vital core of you.

So how can you engage with this part of yourself?  Think about all the things that you simply LOVE to do! That fill your heart with joy – without any goals or achievement attached, where the joy is in the doing and experiencing:

* Painting
* Savouring a delicious cup of tea in bed first thing in the morning
* Listening to exquisite classical music
* Practising yoga in the sunshine first thing in the morning
* Running through fields of flowers as fast as I can

And then…….. focus on doing them – just for February! And notice how, in loving yourself, you attract more and more of this wonderful high vibration into your life….  and how you have so much more to share with your family, with your partner, with your loved ones around you.

Beautiful!

The retreat takes place in an idyllic ancient finca – welcome to Casa Corazon (house of the heart). Birdsong, misty sun rises to melt even the most hardened of hearts and carpets of purple morning glory.

Enjoy inspirational, balancing guided meditations with beautiful Valerie – one of the wise-woman of the island – to help you realise your goals.

Let us nourish you with healthy organic food, and guide you to balance. See – it can be reached after all. It just takes a little effort. x
Dates: 16th – 19th May
Cost: £495 per person
Duration: 3 nights and 4 days

Includes
* Accommodation
* Full board
* All meditations and support

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Perhaps your prefer to pick up a book that helps you think and feel more positively (I just love Dr Wayne Dwyer’s the Power of your Intention) or maybe you open up your iphone and search online, following your favourite blogs and preferred journalists and writers.

So if you opt for news – newsflash! What you are reading can dramatically change your life!  Right now, whatever you are reading is stimulating emotional responses in your body that are changing the way you think and feel physically and neurologically.

What are the first words you read each morning?

So just like the food that you eat, how careful are you with the words that you read?

We can all too easily forget that when we are reading news, it is already through somebody else’s eyes.  It has been translated into an angle, a focus that their editor (and audience) requires to keep feeding a need for more of a certain type of information.

We are emotional beings and we are driven by our thoughts and emotions.  Newspapers sell well when there is a “big piece of news” that causes many people to react and to feel something. Headlines appear on tea-time television.

How often is this feeling something good? How often is the news simply making you feel more negative, worried and fearful because of what “they” say about the world’s economic situation, the ongoing seige in Libya, civil wars in Africa… how does that make you feel about yourself? about life? about our world?

There is SO much good in the world.

There is so much bravery, compassion, courage and beauty.

Yet how often do we actually get to read GOOD NEWS?  How often does the news you read actually inspire you to think and feel better things about the situation, to send them loving prayers and intentions, or to take some form of positive action to support a leader who is bravely risking their life to go against the will-power of institutions and dictatorships?

How many of you reading this have stopped listening to the radio, watching the news on TV and “filter” the information in newspapers to avoid succumbing to the doubts and fears that sadness that not just the stories, also the way that they are told, can encourage?

I most certainly get my news filtered!  And then I look for positive aspects to chant for, to meditate on, how can I, little me, support or feel good towards this situation?

What a gift to pick up the new DeTodo.  An Ibiza-wide broadsheet that helps you find “almost everything” that you are looking for in Ibiza.  Lovely David Moss, the editor, has revamped and revitalised De Todo Good News Paper for 2012: it is officially Ibiza’s first GOOD NEWS PAPER! Check them out online here: http://www.detodoenibiza.com/

To write a GOOD NEWS story, the focus needs to be on encouraging the reader to think and feel positively towards the situation.  To put a situation in a positive light, a cup “half-full” approach, this needs to be the new angle for journalism.

Science is increasingly meeting with spirituality in the new consciousness that “everything is energy”.  Quantum physics can be both proved and also can blow our mind with concepts our conditioned mind cannot yet grasp fully, about time-space reality.

What more and more of us are agreeing with is that the power of our thought is phenomenal.   That when many minds get together to meditation, to pray, to think the same thing collectively, this has an enormous impact, consciously and subliminally on a person, a situation or event.

This has been used negatively in the past, to drive fear and create support for violent and aggressive actions.

Yet we can all come together, wherever we are in the world and choose to think and feel positively about situations that are happening.  Like the millions of people around the world who prayed simultaneously for the water to be clean and clear after the radioactive waste disaster in Japan.  These situations more and more are encouraging us to take positive, affirmative, life-enhancing action.

Our next blog is about the Water of Life… and the power of meditation, of choosing your thoughts, of the words that we think and feel on us and the world around us.  So that your power to positively change your world – and the world around you, will be, like a clear glass of water, clear and life-givingly transparent.

Lots of Love x

Sunset at the pool - Shunya, Ibiza

Set in a beautiful location and specially-chosen for it’s inspirational setting, this retreat will provide you with the perfect environment to really focus on your writing. With top author and Booker Prize nominee Carol Birch and her team to guide you.

An ancient finca in lush countryside – with sunset views over the infinity pool.  Nourishing food, the odd yoga class if you so wish and beautiful beach walks.

Relax, open your mind and let the creativity flow….

Dates: 19th – 26th May

Cost: £1150 per person

Includes

* Accommodation
* Full board (apart from free day when breakfast is provided only)
* All tuition and workshops

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Just Stop! Yoga and Life Coaching Retreats this Spring Time

Just Stop! Yoga & Life Coaching for a wonderful Lifestyle Detox this springtime!

Dates: March 27th – 31st

Join Larah Davis, Rebekah Fensome and the team of world-class teachers & therapists from Ibiza Retreats that make up the Just Stop! team to tailor-make your retreat to bring you life-enhancing benefits for body, soul and mind.  Refuel with plenty of tools & techniques.  Empower your spring into summer-time. Find fresh focus and feel fabulous in body and mind as we support you to reconnect with your life path, your life purpose and plenty of inspiration from beach trips and cliff-top walks on our beautiful white island.

In the heart & soul-warming Can Morrel, with sabina wood beams, beautiful fig trees and hectares of countryside around, just 10 minutes from the turquoise waters of Benirras beach.  Soak up plenty of Ibiza’s magical natural energy!

- A professional and experienced team of teachers & therapists

- Study of yoga to develop your own practice

- Life Coaching & Wellness Coaching to support you with practical strategies to maintain your balance when back in reality

Cost from €860 (sharing) including

• Room and delicious full-board fresh, seasonal organic cuisine
• 5 yoga sessions (for all levels) with pranayama breathwork and meditation
• Life Coaching 1:1 session, Wellness & Energy Coaching 1:1 session
• Full body stress release massage or cranio-sacral therapy
• Mind Body Spirit Concierge service with Ibiza Retreats

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How is everything happening? Precisely in the way you willed it to for this year…. or, are you needing to think and be flexible?  To find new “positions” that help balance situations?  Just like on the yoga mat?

Here are some practical tips to become more of a “witness” to be able to “observe” the situations unfolding, rather than feeling “stuck in the middle” of situations, of negotations between clients and suppliers, this will allow you to respond in the best ways, with courage, with fluidity and with grace.

Just like a chameleon, you can watch and listen and learn and await with poise for the perfect moment to say the right things.. without pushing or pressing an agenda….

This is brilliant for resolving challenging situations and changing situations within all types of relationships – at work, within your romantic relationships, families and friends.

It will set you on a life-yoga path for your year ahead and help you be more in the flow of life – where the right things that really are best for you flow to you more easily!

If we feel ourselves striving and pushing to hard, it is because we are going against the current.

So give this a go and learn how to flow….  simply:

Be like a chameleon!

The animal card for a chameleon talks about being sensitive, being the silent witness, rather that reacting on emails and writing hurriedly to try and save and resolve, rather step back, allow yourself to become still and to breathe and to blend in with the background.  Then, as you watch events unfold, you can contribute sensitively to support the way that the situation is meant to flow.  This is not about being passive, just as in many yoga asanas, like Tadasana (Mountain Pose) we are actively engaged with life, rooting to the earth and to nature, relaxed in our body yet strong and connected, all muscles are prepared and ready to respond at the right moment, for the clearest next movements, following the next conscious breathe.

1.  Stop – look – listen:

To the emails, to the conversations, allow others to speak, to offer their perspectives, their ideas and their insights (every challenging or uncomfortable situation offers a LOT of growth and learning)

Watch the correspondence, look at the patterns in different people’s actions and behaviours, listen to the dialogues.

2. Remember – what is the HIGHEST GOOD? What is it that all of us in this situation wish to happen, to achieve, to transpire?

What is our common goal?

What is YOUR truth in the situation?  Does the achievement of the original goal REALLY feel good to you – or, now that you have looked and listened more deeply, are you happy if events happen in a different way? Could this open up more space and time for other opportunities to blossom?

3. Reflect – on the truth – and when you are asked for a response – reflect the truth!  That is all you need to do! Just like a chameleon allow the light and the true colours to flow through you.   This will help you see things for what they are, to help you clarify the best path of action for you and for everyone concerned.