This course offers guests the opportunity to practice yoga and learn about how to prepare delicious and healthy vegetarian dishes.

The retreat programme includes:

• Three delicious, nutritious meals a day made from local, organic produce
• Two yoga classes every day with experienced teachers, offering you a range of practices from a strong vinyasa flow to more supported, restorative postures, meditation and pranayama (breathing exercises)
• Daily cooking classes where you will learn how to prepare a variety of tasty and healthy vegetarian meals
• Classes on nutrition and healthy eating, food combining, sustainable living, and other ways to improve your diet and lifestyle
• Access to a variety of holistic therapies and treatments such as massage and reflexology

see the sample weekly menu from our last Healthy Eating retreat click here

Why Healthy Eating?

We all eat too much processed food, animal protein, fat and sugar, which contribute to acid build up and degradation in our body. To counteract this we need to eat less of the stuff that is bad for us, and more of the good things. This does this mean having to give up or cut down on some of your favourites, but we can show you delicious alternatives to processed junk. Making simple changes to your diet will aid your digestion, give you more energy and help you to ward off disease and weight gain. Isn’t that worth making a bit of an effort for?

Practicing Yoga

Yoga is extremely effective in increasing flexibility by exercising the different joints, tendons and ligaments of the body, and is an excellent way to tone muscles and build up physical fitness. It is also perhaps the only form of activity that massages all the internal glands and organs of the body. This stimulation and massage of the organs helps to prevent disease, and improves our awareness of our bodies. Yoga also helps the body to detoxify. By gently stretching muscles and joints as well as massaging the various organs, yoga ensures the optimum blood supply to various parts of the body. This helps in the flushing out of toxins and can lead to benefits such as delayed ageing and improved energy levels. Yoga helps to harmonise the mind with the body to relax and rejuvenate the mental and emotional systems of the body as well as the physical. Further details on our yoga teachers can be found under Jiva Healing Team