Retreat of the week! 5 day ‘Time to be’

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Join Shambala and Sandra for a 5 day retreat designed to help you leave your troubles behind! 

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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Love is a wonderful thing! How do you make sure you feel love every day?

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Love helps you glow with the radiance of an innocent child…. it helps you see the good and the beauty in the world… it lifts you up and it helps your heart sing.

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!

What do you most love reading to begin the day?

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Do you delve back into a novel? Re-engage with a thriller? Or open up the newspaper to find out “what’s going on in the world”?

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: https://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

Retreat of the Week Just Stop! Yoga Lifestyle Detox with Coaching to Empower your way!

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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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Be like a chameleon! Life Yoga Coaching to Learn to witness and observe…

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As the new year energies gather pace, projects adapt and situations change.  Have you noticed this?  

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.