Description
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 hosts for the healing retreat are Joseph Le Page and Maria Mendola Shamas. Joseph is the founder of Integrative Yoga Therapy, one of the pioneers in the Yoga Therapy field. Maria is a Yoga Therapist with 30 years experience, and founder of Functional Yoga Therapy™ (FYT).
Joseph and Maria, along with 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.
Retreat Details:
The Ayurveda and Yoga Healing Retreat includes the following:
7 nights of accommodation in double or single occupancy.
3 vegetarian meals daily (both lactose and lactose-free options).
2 50-minute Ayurvedic massages and 1 Shirodhara treatment of 1.5 hours.
Daily morning meditation and yoga classes.
3 half-day outings including two costal walks and one hike to a secluded waterfall.
Daily afternoon gentle yoga or somatics.
Daily Yoga Nidra.
Evening healing meditations or Restorative Yoga.
Transportation to and from Florianopolis International Airport is available for an additional cost of approximately U$50 each way.
Check in time is 4pm on Friday, March 2nd . The first meal is dinner on March 2nd.
Check out is 2pm on Saturday, March 9th with lunch provided.
*Brazilian visas are required for Americans and Canadians and can be obtained online.
*Brazilian visas are not required for most European passports.
Next Available Retreat:
March 2nd – 9th , 2024
Cost for March 2 nd – 9th, 2024:
USD$1595 (double occupancy)
USD$1995 (single occupancy)
For registration information contact: iytbr@fastmail.fm
