Escape Christmas retreat 2023

Escape Christmas Retreat 2023

After last years epic retreat, we are delighted to annouce that we are ready to start taking bookings for this years award winning Escape Christmas retreat.

Skip the festive madness this year to join us in the sun kissed Spanish mountains for our Escape Christmas Retreat. Enjoy a week of fun-filled and relaxing time away from the Christmas hype. Nurture your body & mind with daily yoga classes, lovingly prepared vegetarian meals, guided meditations and a sound healing gong bath. 

Re-energise with stunning hikes, live music, a fun acro yoga workshop, fresh dips in our salt water pool and a lively kirtan session in the om Dome. 

Cuddle up by the fire with a hot chai latte from our Amirta Cafe as you get lost in a book or treat yourself to a massage with one of our specialised massage therapists.

Yoga Workshops and Classes – Superb Live Music – Festive Cuisine – Guided Meditations – Kirtan – Sound Healing Gong Bath – Mountain Walks – Games – Unforgettable Time – Quality Sleep Practices

Your day will start with an energising Vinyasa Flow Yoga class and end with a mellow style of yoga: Restorative Yoga, Yin yoga, guided Meditation or Yoga Nidra practices.

As part of the retreat, we will also go on a couple of stunning hikes, visit a local Spanish town, experience a healing gong bath session, enjoy a flamenco dancing class, exquisite live music and AcroYoga class.

We will also snuggle around a log-fire and watch movies.

relaxing yoga session in the dome

Food

We will have daily home cooked organic meals prepared using local and seasonal ingredients. Warm up after a fresh walk with herbal teas or a speciality hot coffee, golden milk or chai from our cafe. 

There will be many delicious treats including mulled wine and Tofu Turkey prepared for our Christmas day feast. After our Christmas feast be tempted by a selection of cheeses, crackers, snacks and homemade desserts.

Yoga Sessions

• Vinyasa Flow Yoga (with a different focus every morning)

• Yin Yoga and Chinese Meridians Workshops

• Healing Sound Bath with Gongs

• Yoga Nidra Meditation

• Deeply Restorative Yoga Workshops

• The Art of Pranayama (extension of the life force energy through breath work)

Our intention with this retreat is to:

• Offer nurturing yoga practices that allow deep self-exploration

• Celebrate with like minded group of people

• Give you the tools to skilfully and safely advance your yoga practice

• Holding a space where you can restore, rejuvenate and energise your body and mind

• Grow or develop your self practice

• Explore the local area and immerse in nature

Optional extras: Horse riding, Thai Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, fresh cold pressed juices and hot drinks from the Amrita Cafe, transfer from and to the airport.

The highlights of the week include...

🌞 Dharma talks and yoga

🌞 Deep restorative and invigorating yoga practices and hiking

🌞 Breathwork & cold plunge sessions

🌞 Sacred singing and Gong Baths

🌞 Live classical Indian music

🌞 A permaculture tour

🌞 Authentic flamenco music

🌞 Epic live music and dancing

Not to mention sauna days, group games, creative writing, chats, and laughs. It was a jam-packed week full of inspiring practices and inspiring people. We are already looking forward to the Escape Christmas collaborations with local and international talents who make our 'Escape Christmas' retreat so special.

Retreat Leaders

Vidya is Suryalila’s and Frog Lotus Yoga International Director. Read more in Vidya's bio.

Lidiya is a resident teacher at the beautiful Suryalila Retreat Centre in Southern Spain where she also leads Adventure & Yoga. Yoga has been a central part of Lidiya’s lifestyle since discovering the practice more than ten years ago.

Her yoga classes are vigorous and energising, and at the same time balanced with more gentle and calming sequences. Lidiya puts strong focus on breath work while drawing awareness within to inspire conscious integration of the physical body and the mind. She is an attentive teacher and aims to inspire her students to bring meditation into movement. Leading the practitioners with a feeling of strength, freedom and inner calm. Her classes usually end with singing bowls sound therapy.

Apart from vinyasa flow she teaches yin yoga, pranayama, restorative and AcroYoga classes.

ENLIVENING VINYASA YOGA 

The purpose of the morning class on the retreat is to awaken and  amplify your energy. You'll be inspired to bring meditation into  movement and feel powerful from within. Each day there will be a  particular focus depending on what you, as a group, will benefit  from the most. The perfect balance between strength, integrity of  breath, and alignment, this class will leave you brimming with  energy well after it has ended. 

DEEPLY NOURISHING RESTORATIVE, YOGA NIDRA AND  MEDITATION SESSIONS 

Awakening to the power of conscious rest is the intention behind  each afternoon yoga session. These practices are big energy  regenerators and help you find sustainability in your life.  

You'll use various forms of props, and will experience sound therapy  to assist the body to fully release to gravity and to open to its own  rejuvenating powers. You will have the opportunity to find rest on all  levels while refining and settling your awareness into the present.  

PRANAYAMA 

These sessions can assist you in feeling mentally empowered and  alert, physically purified, and energetically vibrant and fully alive. 

During our retreat week you'll dive into in depth exploration of  various balancing, energising and soothing breathing practices. This  will help develop discipline, and enhance the quality and the  mobility of the life force (prana) within you. 

Pranayama is considered one of the most valuable tools that the  Yogic tradition offers to influence our mind. It sets the ground for  meditation, bringing us closer to our inner stillness and wisdom.  

Hopefully you'll be inspired to create a regular practice after the  retreat ends.