Mother Love Retreats
4 days of nurturing, sharing, circles, yoga, massage and gentle treatments, coaching, connecting with you, rediscovering your needs and how to find strength and space for yourself within your new life role.
Date: Residential – Sunday 28th April – Weds 1st May – stay an extra night or two if you wish to!
Day Retreats Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th open to island residents and Mothers needing some love-time staying elsewhere on the island. Please ask us for details.
Extra nights possible on request!
You are welcome to stay full board for 180 euros + tax per (198 euros inc IVA) for each extra night (including brunch, light lunch & dinner) to relax and enjoy. Further babysitting can be provided accordingly if you wish for more spa time, more yoga and/or more pampering treatments.
About the Retreat: Mother Love is for independent women and free spirits who have begun – or are in the midst of – the transformational journey of motherhood. Mother Love allows you to admit, to accept and to grow with the challenges that your new life brings with it. Supporting you to come into harmony with yourself and your needs whilst enabling a harmonious rhythm for you and your relationship, your baby, your family.
What is included: All-inclusive of accommodation, with a suite for each mother and baby as well as:
* Daily post-pregnancy and rejuvenating/restorative yoga, yoga-lates with pelvic floor focus
* Gentle meditations
* Life and wellness coaching to help you create new life-as-a-mother balance
* Atzaro signature full-body massage and a Signature Facial to pamper you thoroughly
* Yoga for post-pregnancy & motherhood workshop with Jacqueline Purnell (Monday 29th)
* Baby massage & reflexology workshop (Tuesday 30th)
* Nourishing food with menus designed by Naturopathic Nutritionist Zoe Palmer-Wright to support your body and energies to balance and fortify.
Babysitting is provided for 5 hours a day within the package, with 1 professional baby-sitter from www.kidsinibiza.com per 1 – 2 babies to take great care of your precious one whilst we take care of you!
We welcome up to 6 mothers and babies (up to 1 year) in residence to ensure we can give you plenty of personalised attention, plus essential “you-time” for resting, for treatments, for just being and for sleep! Helping you find your way back to what you need to be the life force and centre of your family.
About the venue: Atzaro is a stunning sanctuary amidst the orange groves in the heart of the island. An agroturismo (boutique finca hotel) that meanders through lovingly tended herb gardens down to the 42 foot lap pool, gym, Balinese spa, sauna and hammam. It is an exotic escape surrounded by fields of sheep, olive trees and rust-red soil. With chill-out and mini sushi point there is often some gentle art or fashion action to enjoy in the high season evenings, spring-time sees you enjoying all the comforts of this luxurious home-from-home. Each suite has a deep Moroccan style bath, tea & coffee facilities and facilities will be provided for you to make up milk supplements and formula feeds before the breakfast/brunch bar opens.
About your Hosts
Ann: mother, wellness expert and a successful career woman.
Inspired by the challenges she faced during her transition to motherhood, Ann brings to Mother Love retreats, her research, knowledge and learnings about the affect a new baby may have on relationships, work, and self. Ann has co-created Mother Love Retreats in response to a calling for support from other mothers on their journey and to guide people to find the support and help they need. Founder of MyBestTreat.com, a community for health for body and soul, Ann is now based in Ibiza as a conscious lifestyle choice to enable her family to form new roots and blossom.
Larah: Is a mother of 1, conscious entrepreneur, holistic life coach, yoga teacher and founder of Ibiza retreats.
She found the transformational experience of becoming a mother incredible powerful and is passionate about supporting mothers to continue to learn to harness the new-energy of motherhood, secure time (somehow!) to take care of themselves properly and to find a new sense of freedom to live even richer and more beautiful lives within motherhood and the family unit. After giving birth, feeling huge surges of creative energy and inspiration Larah also found herself needing support and help in many new ways, She feels blessed to have been able to tap into the island-wide network of teachers, therapists and womens’ groups to support her and her wish is to make these available to you too. She has been living in Ibiza for 5 years.
Jacqueline Purnell: Mother of 2 and world-renowned ERYT 500hr Yoga Alliance BWY teacher trainer specialising in pre and post-natal yoga. Postnatal Recovery, Baby Massage and Baby Yoga. “The postnatal and baby yoga courses offer you the chance to work on deep restoration of your body shape and to maintain reserves of calm to really enjoy this special time in all of your lives. And the babies can be involved too! An introduction to baby massage and a special time to connect with your baby and other mums.”
Emma Nathan (PranaSol): ITEC qualified Holistic Therapist since 2000 and RKY Yoga 280hr guides you through a wonderful soothing and relaxing workshop of Baby Massage and Reflexology to enhance your life, your baby’s and the bond you share. Learn how to help your baby digest food – and life – in their new adventure.
Daily Schedule
07.30 – 09.15am – Gentle wake-up – teas and tiny bites of fresh fruit and nuts from the brunch table (please eat lightly for you before yoga)
09.15 – 10.45am – Morning yoga, for mum only – babies with babysitters finishing with some gentle hands-on healing for all
10.45m – Breakfast / Brunch – delicious a la carte & buffet for all nutritional needs, baby-sitter on hand to care for your baby whilst you eat if you wish too.
12.00am – 14.00 – you-time for sauna, spa, treatments & therapies – baby-sitters on hand to care for your baby whilst you care for you
2.30pm – Light healthy lunch bites
Free time – afternoon siesta, relax, swim and sunbathe
Optional afternoon walks in nature – with baby in buggy or on your chest!
16.30 – tea-time reconnecting and sharing
17.00 – 18.00 – evening workshop – mum & baby for yoga / baby massage & reflexology
19.00 onwards – dinner when you can join us and around your baby’s “go to bed time”
Based on request and availability, you are welcome to arrive early or extend your stay – ask us for details and see our recommended places to stay.
Cost €1390 all-inclusive of IVA for mother & baby
- 3 nights accommodation at 5 star boutique hotel Atzaro
- Delicious organic, full-board cuisine
- 5 hours of babysitting daily by professional babysitters www.kidsinibiza.com
- 3 yoga classes & a private 1:1 yoga session to create your own mother & baby practice
- Full body massage Atzaro signature massage combining easter & western techniques with aromatic oils
- Atzaro signature purifying and rejuvenating facial
- Head & Feet massages daily at the end of your yoga practice
- 2 optional guided meditations
- Guided walks in nature
- Morning Gentle Coaching & sharing circles
- Evening workshops for mother-baby yoga for life focus & baby massage & reflexology
- Breath-work for releasing blockages
- Energy tools and techniques for balancing you in body, soul & mind
- Mother goddess foot-bath rituals
Thank you and we look forward to hosting you!