ABOUT THE RETREAT
Dates: 21th - 26th October, 2023
Price: €750 to €1,100 depending on the room
Come on a 5 day retreat combing ART & YOGA for a spiritual journey of reflection in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal. The retreat will be held in a family-owned estate called Monte da Japonica, surrounded by olive groves and cork forests. Join us for a spiritual journey where we settle, focus on just being and letting creativity flow.
With Yoga, Meditation, Breathworks, Gong bath and Hiking not to mention fantastically good Vegan food and visits to local places such as farmers market, local potteries and cork forests where we can paint what we see in real life or in our imagination.
Come to this quiet place and let your creativity flow, while being able to settle, reflect and establish a connection with nature using different breathing, yoga and meditation techniques. At Monte da Japonica you will see the sunrise and meditate under a pitch-black night starry sky.
When we go out on our walks, we bring our own tools such as drawingblocks, canvas sketch, painting, watercolor and whatever is your painting/sketch medium.
Here you will find a path to be inspired, to get more focus and to just reflect on life and one's creativity and well-being, to just be.
A pool is available for those who want to cool off during the day. Rita who cooks amazing fresh healthy vegan food and Paul who takes us secret corner of the cork forest places will team up with Anayah who leads the yoga, meditation and art element.
Vegan food, tea, coffee drinks, fruit and accommodation for 4 days are then included. Contact us for different allergies and needs.
The rooms and range available:
Super Luxury: 1,100 Euros. Private suite with bathroom, double bed and study.
Luxury: 950 euros. Available: 2 Twin Sharing Luxury and 1 single bed luxury
Comfort: 850 euros. Available: 1 comfort double
Budget 750 euros, the rest is budget singles share room.
Transport from Lisbon can be arranged for 40 euro each way. If you want spend some extra days in Lisbon the check airbnb, hostels.com and more...
Fly if you are coming from Gothenburg. Direct flights then depart from Copenhagen with Norwegian and Air Portugal.
* We arrive on 21 October. You need to book your own ticket to Lisbon. You need arrive by the latest 19.00 hours for the airport pick-up.
https://www.flytap.com/sv_se/flyg-fran-sverige
https://www.norwegian.com/se/
If you come early for tourism purposes, there will be transportation from the airport to Monte da Japonica (cost €40-€50 depending on the number of people.) You can also get a bus from Lisbon to Redondo (€14]. The return transportation will go to the airport. Those staying in Lisbon can be dropped off close to the city center.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Anayah Roots, 42 years old, is a certified Yoga teacher in Kundalini Yoga, Yin, Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Tera mai Egyptian Healing. She is a musician and holds sound healing and gong classes classes every week at Hagabadet Spa in Gothenburg and teaches at Hot Yoga West in Yin Yoga Nidra and holds PT classes from a Holistic perspective with Yoga, breathworks energy work. food, detox and sound. She is an artist with several international song releases and played around the world as a solo artist with a team in Spain. Anayah has also been always very active in art and has been a creative spirit from an early age. She has participated in several workshops for artists in Gothenburg, Sweden where she is based for the moment and also won scholarships and has been teaching in art & music as well as holding workshops in art schools. She is multi-skilled and always work from a spiritual and natural perspective. Her music can be find at Spotify as Anayah Roots Levi. She been very active in the Swedish cultural scene.