teacher trainingA Week of Discovery, Excitement, Luxury & Rejuvenation
Sicily Yoga Retreat
13 - 20th September 2008
Book your place - 020 8202 9188
What's included in the price:
- Expert guide...
- Yoga - 4 hours daily ...
- New friends...
- Free Massage...
- Villa Accomodation...
- Food - Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner...
- Airport & beach transfers...
Your expert guide...
Dr Elena Voyce
Elena with her wealth of experience and huge heart will be bringing her wonderfully delicious body-awakening and vinyasa flow to the morning practice. She is also available as a fount of knowledge for all things body related, and will be leading early evening Hatha Yoga sessions with varying focus, to enable her to share her fresh inspirations and cater for the needs of the group.
Elena has an absolutely amazing appetite for learning, and while us mere mortals need a moment to rest, she will be devouring the latest yoga books, DVD's & anything she can get her hands on, taking it's essence and incorporating it into her already abundant understanding and deliciously inspiring guidance showing us how to re-awaken our bodies.
Once you have experienced her teaching, it will come as no surprise that names as prestigious as Shiva Rea rely on her as an assistant and mentor.
4 hours daily yoga...
This will be split with two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon/early evening. Elena is perticularly keen to provide extra input for advanced yogis, yoga teachers & trainees to ensure that all who attend take their practice to the next level.
The style of yoga is Hatha yoga with a therapeutic awareness. You will be amazed how great you can feel in your body, and how much this will improve your whole outlook on life.
Elena has experienced many forms of yoga and her current influences draw from Anusara and Vinyasa flow. This combined with her ability to read a body with a glance means that almost every student feels like her classes are tailored just for them!
Make new friends...
There will be a minimum of two AcroYoga workshops.
This is a form of partner yoga that builds trust & connection through fun activities that also
build strength, flexibility, body awareness & the ability to let go. Therefore if you are retreating on your
own, you are sure to make friends and meet like minded people. If you are coming with friends or family
you can learn some fun new ways of passing the time.
more about AcroYoga
Therapies included in the price...
This is a luxury holiday, and our onsight masseur offers a range of treatments including deeply relaxing Reflexology, Whole Body Thai Massage and Therapeutic Flying sessions, where you will have the sensation of floating while also having gravity lengthen your spine while you discover how to let go more than ever before! If you want something more energising, these flying sessions can also be used to increase body awareness, co-ordination, strength & flexibility.
You will receive a 1 hour session of your choice, and can upgrade for longer or book additional treatments too.
Your onsite therapist...
Jesse Saunders
Jesse with his unique expertise, will be giving Thai Massage and Private Flying sessions, as well as leading some AcroYoga workshops to give you the skills to connect with this amazing and fun form of partner yoga.
Jesse has a very intuitive style of working, which combined with his physical strength and gentle, caring sensitivity, translates into deeply relaxing and rejuvenative bodywork. His flying work involves taking people off the ground which can be both therapeutic and exhilarating. He's privileged to share this work with people of many backgrounds and situations including people twice his size, and he has even been able to work with people who are normally wheelchair bound!
His teaching style is safe, informative and infectiously enthusiastic!
Home for our stay...
We really have struck gold with this one; our beautiful home is just 20 mins from Catania and the Sicilian coast, and has been described as 'a peaceful, shaded oasis at the centre of an historic nine-hundred acre citrus plantation.
Guests are accommodated in beautifully restored farm buildings set in a grove of monumental palms, umbrella pines and cypresses, surrounded by lush gardens dotted with papyrus-fringed ponds. Every amenity is provided in the three large and very comfortable antique-filled suites, and a full complement of staff is at hand to prepare meals or provide touring advice. One could, however, enjoy a very Sicilian experience without leaving the property: a short walk beyond the gardens reveals a view of Mount Etna and the ruins of a farmhouse dating Magna Graecia. Tucked among the trees is a lovely pool and a volleyball court, a driving range for golf has just been installed on a hilltop within the plantation and ponies and mountain bikes are both available for riding around the estate.'
Breakfast, Dinner and self serve lunch...
After the morning practice, there will be a catered breakfast for everyone to tuck into.
Lunch will be available as a self serve meal, or if you choose to spend the day at the beach we will send you off with a beach bag to keep you going till dinner.
After the early evening practice, dinner a la carte will be served.
We guarantee to offer a tasty vegan menu, and are happy and able to cater for a range of dietary needs. If you do have specific dietary needs, please let us know at the time of booking.
Airport & beach transfers
We will ensure you are picked up from and dropped off at Catania, the local airport; and will run a daily transfer to the local beach each day.
We also plan to take those interested to the local natural phenomena of a live volcano, ensuring that this retreat is a truly memorable experience.
Please note that flights are not included, but competitive fares can be found through Alitalia.