Ibiza’s Leading 5 Star Holistic Wellness Retreat Destination
Announces Stunning New Luxury Mountain-top Retreat Destination
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“These delicious retreats are run by Larah and Susie, who we swear can deal with anything from a broken heart to a career meltdown.”
Ibiza Retreats is one of the leading yoga and holistic wellness retreat destinations in Europe with over a decade of experience creating and facilitating group and private retreats in Ibiza. This month they celebrate their ten year anniversary with the opening of a luxurious and stylish new retreat destination, Can Luminosa, modern yet nestled high in the ancient hills of the heart of the island.
Ibiza Retreats hosts over 30 group retreats throughout the year along as well as private, bespoke and corporate retreats with an established team comprising of some of the world’s best yoga teachers and therapists. The majority of the retreats will take place at the stunning and newly renovated hilltop finca, Can Luminosa with additional further retreats held at Casa Lakshmi Luz, a tranquil and bohemian Atroturisimo finca in the middle of the Ibizan countryside near Santa Eularia.
More than simply yoga retreats, the programmes at Ibiza Retreats are designed to nurture all parts of mind, body and soul. Fully supported and delicately programmes offer gentle, yet profound and sustainable transformation. There is a range of retreats designed to suit all needs: from stressed out city workers needing to rest and restore (The Bliss Sanctuary) to women’s empowerment retreats for those looking to reconnect to your natural cycles and rhythms (Nourish); Mindfulness, therapeutic yoga and Lifestyle Detox retreats (Harmonise) and 21st century over-active, mind, Retreats to help you get your glow back (Get Glowing) to retreats with the added elements of fitness, nutrition and self care (Rejuvenate).
All retreats invite digital detox, with a “phone-s” altar on the white-salt of the island to eliminate the EMFS (that overcharge your system). Each programme sets out to empower guests with wellness coaching and a holistic toolkit of vital techniques for self-care, enabling them to maintain their own health and happiness when they return home.
New for 2018, as a great alternative for those not ready to embrace the full group retreat experience, Ibiza Retreats are launching Yoga Bed and Brunch– a ‘style it yourself’ 7 night retreat hosted at for independent travellers wanting daily yoga in a lovely surroundings along with the freedom to explore the island or take things at their own pace without the structure of a group retreat. There is a yoga deck for you to self-practise and enjoy meditation and a delicious brunch is supplied every day. Therapies can be booked whilst you are there and a host is on hand.
What happens on a retreat?
The Ibiza Retreats experience is all about experiential learning. From meditation, breath work and yoga in the morning the day unfolds through to time spent on personal development, or enjoying therapies or treatments. In the evening you have a chance to take part in experiential workshops including MET workshops, sensory yoga and meditation, sound healing, (with chocolate!) and Kundalini and Qui Gong sessions. There is also time to explore hidden beaches and some of the beautiful scenery the Island has to offer.
New for 2018 THIS YEAR at Ibiza Retreats there will be a deepened focus on Earthing. In an age where we are consumed by digital devices clients will be encouraged to digitally detox and get back to their natural self, reconnecting with nature through barefoot forrest walking, sitting in hammocks and simply learning to exhale. Quiet peaceful reflection is encouraged around the grounds with hilltop teepees and dedicated areas to relax and just breathe.
Co-founder Larah Davis says “Barefoot bliss will be your mantra as you walk, in mindfulness, on the warmth earth of the fragrant pine forests, relax into hammocks to reconnect with the birdsong and exhale all stress into the ether, as you inhale the stunning mountain-top views over the Island and nearby Formentera’.
Eating at Ibiza Retreats is about abundant pleasurable nourishment as well as ceremony and community. Each retreat has its own private chefs who devise specific nutritional menus tailored specifically to each retreat. All the food is clean eating locally sourced, vegetarian (and vegan) and is stimulant free. Food is in abundance. Ibiza Retreats also have their own Nutritionist to give you personalised advice and inspiring information about how to reach the point of optimum nutrition. The food at Ibiza Retreats is certainly a colourful delicious and satisfying highlight – people have been rebooking retreats time after time for the food alone!
Retreats for 2018 include:
NOURISH – WOMEN-FOR-WOMEN –Women’s Empowerment. 5 nights
To benefit those who are feeling overwhelmed or exhausted by life, recovering from burn-out, adrenal fatigue, experiencing insomnia, depression or anxiety or becoming increasingly sensitive to news/social media and the fast pace of society or those ready to embrace your life purpose more fully & looking for clarity & inspiration to achieve this.
For those wishing to release the make-it-happen, alpha-male conditioning of modern life, this retreat is for like-minded souls seeking nurture and nourishment.
– HARMONISE – LIFE DETOX & MINDFULNESS – 5 nights LOW SEASON / 6 NIGHTS HIGH SEASON
The ultimate digital, physical and emotional detox, this retreat focuses on furnishing you with practical tools to manage anxiety, overwhelm and the excess of 21st century pressures through mindfulness, holistic life coaching, NLP, MET (tapping – emotional freedom technique), therapeutic flow, yin and restorative yoga, purifying cuisine and sound healing
– GET GLOWING – 5 nights (mid season) and 6 nights (high season)
Get your glow back in body, mind and heart, with a unique combination of disciplines and modalities including holistic energy coaching, re-energising massage, reiki self-healing workshops, sound healing, daily Chakra-opening meditations, Vinyasa flow yoga and more.
– REJUVENATE – YIN-YANG YOGA, HOLISTIC FITNESS & NUTRITION – 5 nights LOW SEASON / 6 NIGHTS HIGH SEASON
Incorporating a mix of yoga, fitness, meditation and clean eating, Rejuvenate will help get you out of your head and into your body. This retreat is ideal for those seeking to cultivate their own practice, find strength and balance and learn more about healthy nutrition.
– THE BLISS SANCTUARY – 4 nights
For stressed out city workers and high fliers in need of swift and deep release. Holistic hands-on therapies alongside daily vinyasa flow yoga, mind-unwinding meditations, energising mountaintop Qi Gong, medicine drumming circle and magical sound-healing, promise to get you out of your head and into your heart.
– YOGA BED AND BRUNCH – UP TO 7 NIGHTS
Yoga Bed and Brunch is a ‘style it yourself’ retreat hosted at Ibiza Retreats sister location Casa Lakshmi Luz for independent travellers wanting daily yoga in a lovely surroundings along with the freedom to explore the island or take things at their own pace without the structure of a group retreat. Hosts will check in daily and you can book massages, treatments and therapies for the following day. They will also be on hand to advise how to experience the best of Ibiza.
Retreats are suitable for all abilities from complete beginners to practised and proficient yogis, with highly qualified teachers who can adapt and modify for all levels.
Ibiza Retreats also organise bespoke tailored retreats for Women in Leadership and Corporate packages.
A YOGA AND HOLISTIC WELLNESS RETREAT WITH break with Ibiza Retreats costs from €1,445. For further information visit www.ibizaretreats.com.
Jemma Mornington Kidd:
“ Ibiza Retreats offers a truly heart-felt experience. Susie and Larah look at you from the inside out to create the most beneficial healing experience. Both highly qualified in their fields, I trusted them 100%. I felt safe, nurtured and the whole experience was fantastic. “.