CREATE & CONNECT
21.-28. April 2024, Portugal
How about finding inspiration and fully recharging your batteries? Feeling a strong connection to you, other strong women and nature? Imagine you meet women from all over the world and grow beyond yourself. Learn to surf, practice yoga and meditation every day and enjoy healthy delicacies in a fantastic location. Welcome to the SeaYa Retreats Community. We don't follow a strict schedule or forced detox. Instead, we create an open-minded place where you feel safe, where you can really let off steam and enjoy a powerful retreat experience with like-minded women. Yoga, meditation, creativity-CREATE & CONNECT:A week full of inspiration and women's power, with a variety of opportunities to reconnect with your inner artist and creative intuition.
YOGA
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Yoga is fun and that yoga asana in particular has many advantages for our physical well-being is no longer a secret. If we practice regularly on the mat, not only does our body become more flexible, but also our mind. By regularly changing our perspective, the way we perceive ourselves and our surroundings and shape our lives changes. Flexibility in the head increases our creativity.
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GO WITH THE FLOW - INTUITIVE MOVEMENT - In the yoga practice we use our breath and our inner alignment to get into the state of 'flowing'. The state where everything around us becomes blurred and we are so present that we actually focus on the 'here and now'. This state is similar to when we are totally immersed in a creative project and become so absorbed that even the concept of time recedes into the background.
While yoga is often viewed as a tool to help us relax the body, quiet the mind and get in touch with our true nature, it can also help us to tap into and nurture our creative selves. We can redesign the way we practice yoga as often as the needs in our lives change. One day we are inflexible in body another day we are inflexible in mind. Every day we bring something new to the mat. We learn to stop and notice and learn to give ourselves what we need that day. We use our creativity in the form of flexibility in our posture to continuously adapt our yoga practice to our needs. As we become more perceptive in our yoga practice, we also become more open and perceptive in other areas of life, including the artistic process.
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CREATE
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The question is not whether you are creative or not - the question is rather how deeply you are connected to your intuition and your own creativity. The regular yoga practice, intuitive movement and meditation workshops will help you. to go back more connection. In addition, in the daily guided creative workshops you will receive a wide range of input and different tools to let your creativity run free. Different materials and colors lead to very individual experiences and ideas. Together we create a new work of art every day, give each other homemade body butter or create a small painting. Paulina guides you with a lot of passion and feeling and lets you easily lose your fear of the blank sheet of paper. Let's do pottery, watercolor painting and much more together
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SOULFOOD
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Did you know that you can also express your creativity in the kitchen and the way you prepare food? Paulina and I are both passionate hobby cooks. At our retreats, we attach great importance to a varied and healthy diet. Look forward to creative vegan and gluten-free dishes that not only look delicious, but also taste delicious. We will also be creative together in the kitchen one evening - stay tuned.
SURROUNDINGS & ACCOMMODATION​
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An hour upriver from Porto along the Douro is the former bakery that has been lovingly converted into a modern five room guest house. The rooms with double beds and seating are simply and stylishly furnished, flooded with light thanks to large windows and all have their own bathroom. The center of the house is the large living room with open kitchen, in which we prepare two meals a day for you and with you, as well as the large dining table where we can all find space. From the living room you have direct access to the outdoor area of the house, which borders the 4.5 hectare freely accessible forest property. Just a few minutes' drive away, there are numerous opportunities to enjoy a break in nature with waterfalls, rivers or hiking trails.
YOUR ALL-INCLUSIVE SELF-CARE PACKAGE​
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6 nights in an idyllic Portuguese farmhouse(double room with private bathroom)
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daily meditation and asana practice, Vinyasa Flow Yin Yoga,
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two healthy vegan & gluten free meals daily
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fresh snacks, smoothies, juices and tea
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5 creative workshops (tying your own journal, macrame braiding, linocut and batik with vegetable dye)
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Brunch by the river, cold water dip, trip to the waterfalls, hike, sunrise meditation on the Douro, shared cooking class
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lots of free time to relax in the middle of nature
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Investment: Private single room - 1500 €
Shared double room - 1290 € p.p
Dieses Retreat ist bereits ausgebucht, wir freuen uns, wenn du bei einem anderen unser Retreats dieses Jahr mit dabei bist.
HOW TO GET THERE
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The nearest airport, which is served several times from Germany, is Porto (OPO). The accommodation is easy to reach by rental car within an hour. A special option is to arrive by direct train from Porto on the "Linha do Douro". The destination stop is only a few minutes away from the accommodation. We would be happy to organize a transfer for you here. If you have any further questions about your arrival, please write to us. We look forward to spending time with you. Line & Jani