Nov 28th – Dec 2nd 2024
March 5th – 9th 2025
November 12th – 16th 2025
Express your inner-wild child and explore new pathways to peace
March & November 2025
A Regenerative journey through the 5 Elements
Yoga, Somatic Movement, Meditation, Quantum Coaching, Earthing, Dance Rituals
Full Moon Flow with Sacred Fire Ritual
Price from:1295 € triple / 1495 € twin sharing / 1995 € single occupancy
“The Serai Retreat Sanctuary is so magical. It looks and feels part of the landscape, like it’s been here, connecting souls for ever and ever.”
Join Larah of Avatara Life, retreat facilitator, clinically trained yoga therapist, somatic coach, quantum medicine practitoner and founder of Ibiza Retreats, together with Viridiana Calvo, yoga teacher and professional dancer, Ayelen & Mark, retreat hosts and co-Creators of the Serai, a dramatic kasbah on the Atlantic coast.
Together with their beautiful team of Guest Musicians, Private Chefs and Serai angel-hosts we welcome you to…
Optimise your total wellbeing
Remember
how to nourish your “self”, your nervous system and your needs with personalised care from our wellness team
Revitalise
your energy levels through somatic flow, restorative and yoga nidra, breath-work, guided visualisations and mindfulness meditation practises
Reconnect
to your unique talents, your wilder side, your creativity and your passion-for-life with ecstatic dancing and therapeutic art journey
Release
stress, tensions and the fast-paced modern life of the Western World as we rest into the slower Moroccan pace of living
Refresh
your focus and clarity with personalised support to develop rituals and practices to optimise your wellbeing: personally and professionally
Your retreat includes
An immersive experience of 4 nights & 5 days @ The Serai Castle-in-the-sand
- Full board purifying & clean vegetarian cuisine, with optional fresh fish supper
- Holistic Wellness Coaching / Check-in
- Daily morning:
- Meditations
- Breathwork & Guided Visualisations
- Somatic Flow Elemental Yoga & Self-Enquiry
- Co-Active Coaching Circles for Self-Reflection & Co-Creation
- Daily evening rituals:
- Welcome Ceremony & Yin Grounding practice
- Restorative Yoga with Mantras & Sound Frequency Journey to optimise your Chakras
- Creative Art & Movement Journey
- Full Moon Alchemy fire celebration with 5-Elements Ecstatic Dance
Magical Moroccan Experiences include:
- Traditional Moroccan Hammam with full body scrub ritual & Hammam massage
- Trip into the Souk & Medina of Essaouira
- Trip to the DUNES
- Inbound Transfer from Essaouira OR Marrakech airport ** Essaouira recommended
- We highly recommend to book an extra night or two @ B and B for space and time to integrate & explore: ride horses or enjoy supper in the Medina of Essouaira
PRICES
- Triple € 1295 pp ensuite
- Twin € 1495 pp ensuite
- Ocean View Master Twin € 1695 euros pp ensuite
- Single Occupancy € 1995 euros pp ensuite
All rooms subject to availability.
Who is this retreat for?
This transformative journey draws on over 15 years of experience to help you reconnect with your true self:
Welcoming men and women of all ages – to experience the exoticism and magic of Morocco and reconnect with your freer, wilder side.
We welcome guests with all levels of experience and wellbeing: this retreat uses the 5 elements to restore balance and harmony in body, mind, and heart. You’ll gain practical tools and inspiring techniques to embrace your authentic, joyful self, awaken your passions, sensuality and rediscover your zest for life.
Daily Rhythm – what’s a typical day like?
Embody the 5 Elements and set your Spirit Free
Mornings
Start with Moroccan mint tea, Elemental meditation, yoga, and guided visualizations to energize and inspire you.
Throughout the Day
Enjoy nourishing, plant-based meals inspired by Ayurvedic principles. Let your spirit thrive with each bite.
Afternoons
Relax by the pool, stroll the beach, or explore the dunes. Optional activities include camel rides, massages, or simply resting and journaling.
Evenings
Unwind with Yin yoga, guided relaxations, Mantras and Chakra-rebalancing, a Full Moon ceremony with cacao, music, and ecstatic dance by the fire.
“This Magical place is a gift = reconnecting me with my creativity”
Extras
- Integration post-retreat Holistic Mentoring
- Full-body Massages & further on-site treatments
- Private transfer at preferred time (group transfer leaves from Marrakech airport at approx 12:30 / 1pm on day of arrivals
- Return transfer (we organise for as many of the group as possible to return together)
- Horse rides
- Camel rides
- Surfing & Wind-surfing
A typical day
(times change slightly according to the season)
- 07:30 – Moroccan Teas, juice elixir & light bites
- 08:00 – Earthing mindfulness silent beach walk & Somatic & Primal Movements
- 09:00 – Juice or Smoothie of the day
- 09:15 – Yoga, Somatic Movement, Meditation & Breathwork of the day
- 11:00 – Brunch
- Afternoons for Chillaxation, Treatments, Self-Reflection and Morocco Adventures
- 15:30 – Moroccoan Tea & healthy snack
- 18:00 – Evening sessions includingL Welcome ceremony, Restorative yoga, Mantras, Chakra-rebalancing yoga, Ecstatic Dance, Music & Cacao-Fire Ceremony
- 19:30 – Supper & Star-gazing
About the Serai
Over 17 years Mark & Ayelen co-created this inspiring retreat sanctuary with the local community, on a piece of land that had, powerfully, chosen them both. Bringing the first materials to the site by camel, they taught themselves and their fishermen neighbours to build with ancient techniques, learnt Arabic and formed a bond with all that surrounded them. The dream was the journey, to build and grow and laugh at adversity.
The whole feeling here is of rugged Peace and Harmony. Just 5 minutes walk down to vast Atlantic beaches with secret caves, flanked by forest and hills that give you the feeling of coming home.
About Essaouira
A MAGICAL OCEAN FACING VILLAGE
Arrive a day early – or stay on for a few more days to enjoy Essaouira Medina.
Colourful, Friendly, hospitable, with an open-minded international community, Essaouira has a calm, welcoming energy and is renowned as a hub of artisanal creativity.
Explore the ancient, walled Medina. A labyrinth of colourful, narrow streets; Cannons jutting out over the Atlantic waves, a busy fishing harbour and sunset-facing beach. Tiny artisanal workshops, restaurants and cafés to suit every taste.
“If you find yourself here it has been divined by a higher energy.”
Yoga, Pranayama (Breathwork), & Meditation
This practice takes you on a journey through the 5 elements, helping you explore key qualities within yourself:
- EARTH: Ground and stabilise through your body, focusing on alignment and modifications to feel both strong and comfortable.
- AIR: Use breath (prana) to purify and energise your body and mind, with Vinyasa flow linking breath to movement.
- WATER: Tune into your emotions, balancing dynamic sequences with restorative, yin-style poses to create fluidity and receptivity.
- FIRE: Connect to your inner power (Agni) and Shakti energy, expanding through Viridiana’s dynamic, dance-inspired flow.
- ETHER: Set intentions (Sankalpas) to refine a self-practice that supports both your yoga journey and everyday life.
Nourish and purify with our plant-based, consciously created cuisine.
Our talented private chefs source the finest, freshest produce which is local, seasonal and as regeneratively grown as we can.
Blending Moroccan tradition with International flavours and Nutritional awareness, our chefs love to create taste sensations that will satisfy even the most tender of taste-buds –
Your daily nourishment includes:
- Pre-yoga herbal teas & moroccan pre-bites
- Post-yoga super-food-smoothies
- Abundant brunch buffet
- Afternoon snack
- 3 course plated supper beneath the stars
- Rehydration (water) stations, tea-self-service and fruit throughout the day
About the evening immersions
- Welcome Ceremony – from a gentle yin-restorative flow we welcome you to “land” gently into your retreat journey with Altar co-creation and setting of intentions.
- Chakra Opening Restorative Session with Yoga Nidra & Mantras
- Shakti Rising: Ceremonial Cacao guided journey to activate voice and subtle energies and embody your sensuality
- 5-Elements Ecstatic Dance: depending on the time of year we welcome different musical inspiration from local Musicians based in Essaouira as Viridiana guides us to dance the 5 elements and explore our potentiality.
Meaningful testimonials
I arrived to the retreat when my marriage was ending: in need of nourishment, holding and renewal. I felt immediately welcome and safe to let go: I felt seen, supported and cared for by Larah and her incredible team, coming back into my body through the Somatic Yoga, learning to care for my heart with Stephanie’s meditation and self-enquiry – purifying my mind with the breath-work, and with every treatment and therapy offering the personalised journey that has empowered me to embrace the passionate, joyful woman that I truly am.
I feel ready and excited to rise and thrive…. This time, equipped with magical and practical tools and self-care rituals to stay connected to my truth, clear in my mind and grounded in the earth as I navigate my new life chapter…
“There is a feeling of great generosity here, as if our journey happens at precisely the right place, at the right time. We are, eight women and one man, united in how wonderful it feels… and happy to have found this place.”
The team members for your Magical Full Moon Morocco Retreat
Combining over 100 years of experience in yoga, holistic wellness and energy work. We are here to support you in every step of your journey with us. We hold the space and gently encourage you to open and unwind consciously, awakening yourself and coming back to your essence. Supporting you to find your flow, with laughter, playfulness and spontaneity in the mix, on the always exciting group journeys.
Larah Davis: Retreat Leader & Co-host
Holistic Life Coach, Yoga Teacher, Clinically trained Yoga Therapist, Integrative Quantum Medicine™ (IQM) Specialist, Wellness Guide
Larah is an international renowned Retreat Facilitator, Clinically Trained Yoga Therapist, Somatic Yoga Teacher, Holistic Life Coach and Leadership Mentor, Integrative Quantum Medicine and NLP Master Practitioner.
Yoga and holistic medicine empowered her to self-heal the chronic back-pain of a severe car crash: Inspiring her to travel and study with tteachers and Gurus around the world from India to New York, UK, Australia and Ibiza.
Larah founded Ibiza Retreats in 2007, created 2 retreat centres in Ibiza and has led 100’s of retreats and 1000’s of personalised transformational wellness journeys in Ibiza and internationally.
Larah offers retreats as community journeys: as “medicine” for healing, transformation, alignment and evolutionary leadership. Weaving 20 years of wisdom and experience, yogic, shamanic and quantum healing philosophies and practices : Larah is passionate about empowerment: welcoming all who come to reconnect with their purpose, pleasures and curiosity for the magic of life.
Viridiana Calvo: Retreat Co-host
Viridiana is a Yoga, Dance and Meditation Teacher
Viridiana began practicing yoga as part of her training as a professional dancer in cartagena, Colombia when she was 8 years old in 1995. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Studies of Dance and left her professional dance career to start a family and focus on her yogic practice. Hatha Vinyasa and Tantra Yoga.
She sees herself as a student of yoga for life and regards her teaching as a deepening of her own practice.
Viridiana’s dance background provides a dynamic and fluid focus for her classes. She uses precise transitions and observes the spaces that carry us from one place to another. Her emphasis on posture alignment allows a safer practice and invites us to arrive at stillness and meditation offering a path inwards to self discovery and cultivation – or her in her guided Elemental Ecstatic Dance – full self-expression and liberation.
Nadine
Conscious Chef & Kitchen Fairy with Sahara nourishment assistant & house host-angel
Our holistic chef Nadine takes loving care care of our culinary well-being during the retreat. Her style of cooking plays with the magic of an infinite combination of flavours and textures, weaving delicious Vegan plant-based cuisine, with vegetarian options and always integrating her knowledge of Ayurveda & The Five Elements so that our nourishment compliments the retreat journey.
Nadine sources vibrant local ingredients and blends with spices and vital-nutritents to create delicious nourishment inspired by her nternational travels. Nadine will explain her creations and share her knowledge during our meals.
Vanessa: Massage Therapist and Multi-level Bodyworker
A Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy (BSc), Physiotherapist and Massage Therapist, Yoga Teacher and is passionate about holistic fitness.
With over 25 years of experience, Vanessa is a highly experienced and practised therapist of the body, with a profound knowledge of the nervous system and subtle energies.
She has developed an exquisite sense of touch which allows her to provide a Holistic Healing Massage Therapy journey – integrating Reiki and Somatic feedback into a complete revelationary experience.
Vanessa’s treatments combine Deep Tissue, Sports, Fascia Release, Lymphatic Drainage, Pregnancy, Facial massage, Neck & Jaw release, Shiatsu & Reiki.
Ayelen & Mark: Co-Creators of The Serai Eco-Riadh
Mark began the journey in 2005… when the ground below the Serai was just rubble and rock – and when he met Ayelen – and brought Camels and donkeys to dig a well the size of a blue whale, working only with members of the local community Mark & Ayelen’s love for this slow and conscious co-creative experience, the SERAI rose like a Castle from the Sand.
Envisioned into being, co-created by heart and hand: two children arriving into Ayelen’s & Mark’s lives, as a family they co-created the SERAI to feel like a home for all who come – as Mark says “realising that the true value in this project lay in the journey, not in the end result, we turned the construction of the Serai into a lifestyle choice.”
“It made it all so much fun. Friends and strangers alike flocked to help us, to toll alongside fishermen from the village.”
Ayelen may well guide us through the Dunes, or Caves…her inspiring life stories inviting all of us to be our most adventurous, authentic, joyful beings.
Prices and options
All rooms have their own entrances – the Triple, Twin and Single Occupancy double have entrances into the central courtyard and side patio. The Master Twin has its own Ocean Facing terrace with french windows, the Family & FriendsTwin or Triple has Ocean Facing doors and terrace too.
All rooms have a beautiful spiral, turreted shower, finished by hand in classic Moroccan plaster, every detail in each room is made by hand and created from locally sourced and artisanal materials. Full of unique and graceful Moroccan charm.
Enquire now
Email us personally or speak to a lovely human voice.
Phone:
+34 670 248 292 (Spanish, French)
Morocco
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