Yoga Vacation – Integrative Yoga Therapy

The Ayurveda and Yoga Healing Retreat

This retreat offers you a full week of healing with Ayurvedic treatments, Yoga classes with a focus on healing all facets of your being, nourishing and delicious vegetarian and/or vegan meals and walks along some of the world’s most beautiful coastline.

The site for your retreat is Enchanted Mountain Center, one of the largest Yoga retreat centers in South America. The accommodations are comfortable and there is a natural pool fed by a freshwater spring on the premises. The center has its own Ayurvedic spa offering a complete range of ayurvedic massage and other treatments. Enchanted Mountain is located on one-hundred acres of tropical rainforest with over two hundred varieties of birds including toucans and the beautifully colored surucuá.

The center is in Garopaba, in the south of Brazil, home to ten of Brazil’s most beautiful beaches and mountains draped in rainforest. Your host for the healing retreat is Joseph Le Page, founder of Integrative Yoga Therapy, one of the pioneers in the Yoga Therapy field.

Joseph, along with Maria Shamas, and the English – speaking Enchanted Mountain team, will offer daily healing yoga classes as well as pranayama, meditation, Yoga nidra and restorative Yoga.

Each day will offer healing experiences for a specific facet of you being, including healing the physical body, healing the chakras, healing the mind and emotions, and healing into a deeper connection with our spiritual being.

Ayurvedic treatments are included in your retreat – one Shirodhara treatment and two Ayurvedic Massages. You can book additional treatments for your leisure time.

You will also experience three walking trips to some of the world’s most beautiful coastlines and have time to lounge on pristine uncrowded beaches as well as secluded waterfalls.

About the Presenters

Joseph Le Page founded Integrative Yoga and Integrative Yoga Therapy in 1993, and is a pioneer in the field of Yoga therapy training programs. He began teaching yoga therapy in hospital settings in 1995 and continues up to the present as Director of The Healthy Heart Program, which conducts Yoga Therapy group programs in public health settings in Brazil.

Joseph has been a speaker at major conferences including Yoga Journal, the International Association of Yoga Therapists, the Kripalu Yoga Teacher’s Association, the International Association of Yoga and Ayurveda, and others. He is co-founder and director of the Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center in Garopaba, Brazil, one of the largest Yoga retreat centers in South America.

He is the co-author of the book Yoga Toolbox for Teacher and Students, one of the most widely used materials in teacher training programs in the US and in Brazil, published by Integrative Yoga. He is also co-author of the book Mudras for Healing and Transformation, also published by Integrative Yoga.

Maria Shamas (formerly Mendola), RN, MS, C-IAYT, Director Functional Yoga Therapy and MariaAlive Therapeutics

Maria has been an avid practitioner of yoga for 45+ years, teaching for 40 years.

Maria is a Registered Nurse with a background in rehabilitation and women’s health. She has completed several certifications, including Integrative Yoga Therapy; Structural Yoga Therapy; Trauma Release Training, Neurokinetic Therapy, and Ayurvedic Health Counselor training. Maria maintains a private yoga therapy & Ayurvedic consultation/bodywork practice and manages her school Functional Yoga Therapy. In addition, she holds several faculty positions with other schools across the nation for teaching yoga therapy.

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