Special Promotion on Fasting Retreat 14th – 21st April at the breathtaking Buddha House

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A wonderful opportunity awaits you here in Ibiza, you can experience a brand new concept of the Buddha-House-Ibiza Fast.

Cleansing on all levels
Physical, Mental, and Emotional/Spiritual. You will leave as a new being, equipped to face the daily on-goings with ease, contentment and a rooted balance inside, thus experiencing more happiness and peace on all levels. With Ilona Pantel, your fasting facilitator and host, experience daily yoga sessions, meditation, mountain walks, Thai-yoga massages, reflexology, talks, relaxation (around the pool and in your private room) as well as guided visualisations.We invite you to join us on this new journey for a Promotional Price of €1100 all inclusive.

contact cheryl@ibizaretreats.com for further info

Spring clean your lifestyle!

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Ahhhhhh the sun is coming out and it is time to enjoy longer evenings and brighter days again. Nature is blossoming with fresh vigour.
Are you feeling a new sense of motivation? Any new ideas and inspirations coming through? As you breathe a deep sigh of relief that the sun is coming out and the summer wardrobe can too. Why not take this opportunity to detox your clothes and your lifestyle? Enjoy plenty of space and clarity to make the most of the delicious new spring-time energies.

Begin by detoxing the clothes and shoes that no longer fit or that you feel good in.

How to do this when there are emotional attachments.

Simply give each piece a mark out of 10 for how good you feel when you see yourself in it!

Anything under 7 out of 10 can head straight for the recycling bin (or off to the vintage or charity shop).

Then check through your environment beginning with your bedroom.
We are constantly calibrating and synthesising our environment at an unconscious level so when you have bits and stuff and clutter around you, even subtly hiding in your surrounds, you are cluttering up your sensory airwaves with a crackling grey matter. It prevents you from seeing and hearing and feeling clearly, it can cut you off from your sense of inner-guidance and intuition.

By clearing your space you are clearing energy and creating a space for you to think, feel and breathe more easily. You may notice how much lighter and brighter you feel, almost immediately! Are you emotionally attached to pieces given to you by friends, yet feel they are in the way? Put them somewhere special and store with the contents clearly marked so that you can reconnect with them for doses of nostalgia and positive reconnections.

Surround yourself with some happy, positive and warm and loving photos from nature to nurturing family and friends to remind yourself that you are loved, protected, cared for and supported.

Enjoy ever more feelings of relaxation and comfort, so that you can fully recharge and if in your office space, enjoy an influx of plenty of opportunities.

UPCOMING spring retreats, classes and workshops.

Spring Retreats, Classes and Workshops

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Spring is in the air, a great time to try something new, a yoga, meditation or pilates class, from Iyenger to Ashtanga there is something for everyone, for the most advanced student I would recommend one of Sebastien Carincotte’s Hot Yoga classes in Ibiza Town and for yummy mummy’s to be Pregnancy Yoga with Jacqueline Purnell. If you prefer a private lesson Ana Santos teaches the Pilates Method. Feeling a tad more exotic – Zorah’s Oriental Dance will bring out that inner goddess!

 


Workshops
Reiki Level 1, 2 and 3 initiation & attunements from €100 with Belinda and Toby of Ibiza Reiki.

Events
This Sunday the 27th of March, from 4pm, you are invited to attend a special fund raising event at Casita Verde, to support the group organising a series of world peace events during April and June this year – “2011 Ibiza World Peace Action Festival”. This first event will represent a warm-up for the following two events, and aims to raise some very necessary funding for the promotion and organisation of the future events.

The lineup for the day, starting at 4pm is as follows:

  • World Peace Days information stand
  • Tasty vegetarian food and special fruity juice cocktails at the bar
  • Live music and special DJ performances
  • Drum Circle percussion workshop
  • World Peace meditation
  • Bhangra Dance Performance
  • Kids activities
  • Massage and well-being area

Ibiza Healing Day
After last years successful event the second one takes place on the 1st May at the exquisite agroturisimo spa hotel Atzaro for Ibiza Healing Day. A Day of Vitalisation and Inspiration for the Mind, Body and Soul. Explore and sample a variety of amazing healing experiences and therapies.  Experience for yourself the benefits of proven healing methods aimed at enhancing the Mind, Body and Soul, for life. Find out more information on the facebook fanpage.

Energy Week
This wellness & healing congress takes place from 7th  – 13th April at the hotel Aguas De Ibiza in Santa Eulalia with talks, lectures and workshops on many interesting topics from the fields of health and healing, wellness, consciousness, self-development and spiritual growth.

It is open to everbody who is interested to learn more about the energy of life and the mechanisms that keep the body, mind and soul in balance.
For more info visit – https://www.energyweekibiza.com/

Spring retreats
4 Day Detox or a 7 Day Fasting retreat with Ilona Pantel held in the cosy-comfort and relaxing surroundings of Buddha House high on a mountain-side, with breathtaking views and plenty of oxygen, even the air that you breath helps to purify your body and mind.

Mindfulness Energy Retreat
Join Cindy, Coco and Bianca on a journey of the senses on the magical island of Ibiza …

See – hear – smell – feel and taste the beautiful sights, sounds, scents and flavors of mother nature, relax and reconnect to your inner nature with calming mindfulness meditation, re-energizing yoga, joyful dance, nature walks, reiki and massage!

Brought to you with love and joy by mindfulness teacher Cindy Ritmeester, yoga & dance teacher Coco Bliss and reiki master Bianca Meeuwissen.
Check out our retreats and workshops calendar for all the latest yoga retreats and teacher training courses and our fanpage.

 

What is yoga?

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Yoga, a Sanskrit word meaning ”to yoke,” or “to unite” is a set of disciplines that address the body-mind split in many powerful ways. Meditation, concentration, physical postures, breath control and so forth are some of the better known ones. Certainly, the physical postures, “asanas” are the best known form, and contain much of the benefit of the other branches. Yoga is particularly good for the back and joints.

Yoga  originated in India more than three thousand years ago. Its purpose is to help each one of us achieve our highest potential and to experience enduring health and happiness. With Yoga, we can extend our healthy, productive years far beyond the accepted norm and, at the same time, improve the quality of our lives.

Benefits of yoga

Physical flexibility: Stretching your tight body in new ways will help it to become more flexible, bringing greater range of motion to muscles and joints. Over time, you can expect to gain flexibility in your hamstrings, back, shoulders, and hips.

Strength: Many yoga poses require you to support the weight of your own body in new ways, including balancing on one leg (such as in Tree pose) or supporting yourself with your arms (such as in Downward Facing Dog). Some exercises require you to move slowly in and out of poses, which also increases strength.

Muscle tone: As a by-product of getting stronger, you can expect to see increased muscle tone. Yoga helps shape long, lean muscles.

Pain Prevention: Increased flexibility and strength can help prevent the causes of some types of back pain. Many people who suffer from back pain spend a lot of time sitting at a computer or driving a car. That can cause tightness and spinal compression, which you can begin to address with yoga. Yoga also improves your alignment, both in and out of class, which helps prevent many other types of pain.

Better Breathing: Most of us breathe very shallowly into the lungs and don’t give much thought to how we breathe. Yoga breathing exercises, called Pranayama, focus the attention on the breath and teach us how to better use our lungs, which benefits the entire body. Certain types of breath can also help clear the nasal passages and even calm the central nervous system, which has both physical and mental benefits.

Mental Calmness: Yoga asana practice is intensely physical. Concentrating so intently on what your body is doing has the effect of bringing a calmness to the mind. Yoga also introduces you to meditation techniques, such as watching how you breathe and disengagement from your thoughts, which help calm the mind.

Stress Reduction: Physical activity is good for relieving stress, and this is particularly true of yoga. Because of the concentration required, your daily troubles, both large and small, seem to melt away during the time you are doing yoga. This provides a much-needed break from your stressors, as well as helping put things into perspective. The emphasis yoga places on being in the moment can also help relieve stress, as you learn not to dwell on past events or anticipate the future. You will leave a yoga class feeling less stressed than when you started.

Body Awareness: Doing yoga will give you an increased awareness of your own body. You are often called upon to make small, subtle movements to improve your alignment. Over time, this will increase your level of comfort in your own body. This can lead to improved posture and greater self-confidence.

Check out our calendar of classes, retreats and workshops for the latest yoga news and happenings around Ibiza or contact cheryl@ibizaretreats.com

Daily rituals for a happy and healthy life

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1. Daily meditation

Meditating daily has numerous benefits, from improved health, reduced stress and anti-aging benefits to the gifts of clearing and raising energy, inner peace and centring, connecting to your Higher Being, and receiving divine inspiration. Even just 5 minutes once a day will be beneficial. You can extend that to 2 (or 3) times a day, and move from 5 minutes to 10, then 20 minutes.

You can just sit back, relax, and allow the meditative experience. Even simple breath awareness or mindfulness meditation, where you focus on your body and breathing, and any sounds in your environment, to become very present and still, allowing thoughts and feelings to come and go without attaching to them, allows you to become centered and clear, detached from your linear thinking mind, more grounded and in your heart.

2. Daily manifesting routine

A daily manifesting routine can be integrated or added along-side your daily meditation. It could be something as simple as visualizing your goals for a few minutes each morning and/or night. You might also want to read a goals list each morning and/or evening of the current goals you are focussing on.

3. Gratitude

Allow yourself to feel grateful for at least 5 things in your life each morning as part of your blissipline routine, and at the end of the day for things that happened during your day that you are grateful for. This will align your vibration to that which is good, true and beautiful in your life, to that which you love and appreciate, and attract more of the same at an expanded level into your life.You might want to keep a gratitude journal too, but remember, the key is FEELING the gratitude more than thinking about it or writing it down so don’t make it an intellectual process, let it be a feeling one.

4. Time in nature

Spending time in nature is healing and recalibrating, and aligns your energy to beauty, harmony, peace, love and enchantment. The wondrous energies of flowers, plants and the nourishing energy of Earth herself, have a very rejuvenating and transforming effect on your being.

Being in nature will also ground and discharge negative energies, as well as open your heart and uplift your spirits – food for the soul indeed!It can also give you time to stop, reflect, be at peace, and be with yourself to receive insights and inspirations and ponder.

5. Do more of what you love

Doing more of what you love and what brings you joy will raise your vibration significantly and attract more success, happiness, joy and opportunities into your life in all areas! All work and no play makes for a dull day. For a high vibration that will boost your all-round attractor factor, be sure to add regular FUN to your weekly schedule!

6. Open to receive

When you try to do everything on your own, you will burn out and become exhausted. Life doesn’t have to be a struggle. Ask for help when you need it. Choose partnership. Be courageous enough to be vulnerable, to receive, to be open and transparent. Ask the universe for help regularly and be open to receive the outer promptings, synchronicities and opportunities that come your way.

7. Love and accept yourself

“No amount of self-improvement will make up for a lack of self-acceptance”. Robert Holden. The more you accept yourself as you are, the more you let go of what you’re not. Quit the self-punishment, blame, inner criticism and self-condemnation. End feeling guilty for it serves no one. Forgive yourself and clear your limiting self beliefs (at this link), and embrace more of the love, light, innocence and WONDER that you are.

8. Take responsibility

As James Allen says, “Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him to himself’. The more you take responsibility for your life, the more you are able to change it. Become conscious of the thoughts, feelings, beliefs and attitudes that are creating your world. Take responsibility for them and choose those that serve you.

9. Follow your intuition.Your intuition holds the key to your brightest future and all the guidance you need to craft your life optimally. It enables you to engage the grace and magic of CO-creation! When you access and apply your intuition, AMAZING things start to happen!

10. Act on opportunities

Follow your heart and act on the opportunities the universe is offering to you and the doorways that are opening. When you apply your intuition and work with the law of attraction, opportunities will present themselves that will take you to your goals in magical and effortless ways…So it’s important to ACT on them!

You might want to write down any synchronicities and the outer ‘promptings’ in your world, as well as insights through meditation and dreams, that you feel are pointing you in the direction of your bright future.

11. Be yourself

Be yourself; you’re the only one qualified, plus you’re amazing!Dare to be unique, dare to be you, dare to shine your colours, glorious and true.Being yourself is not only the key to success in your life, it is the best way to serve others and your world. Don’t hide yourself or your gifts. It’s why you’re here.

12. Love <3 love <3 love

Love yourself and others.

There may be times this is easier than others, but make it your overriding intention. Love lies at the heart of all that you seek, and separation from it at the root of your troubles and pain. Let love be a guiding light in your life that will steer your ship through stormy waters back to the shore of truth, happiness and joy. We all love to love and be loved! It doesn’t get better than that! Love is the highest vibration in the universe. The more you love yourself and others, the happier, brighter and more successful your life will become.

Love yourself and the rest becomes easy! And know you are loved. You are loved totally and unconditionally by the source of creation.There is nothing you need do to win that love and nothing you can do to lose it.

Becoming aware of this truth connects you to your inherent value, increases your sense of worth and deserving, heals pain of separation and loneliness and opens you to the love that is there for you in every moment.