1-week Establish Your Own Yoga Practice Retreat
Overview
Practising Yoga in a class environment has great advantages. Having your own Yoga practice, which you can do wherever and wherever you want, based on which you can build your strength and flexibility- has even more advantages.
Join our featured retreat, if you want to know more about yoga, alignment of postures, and sequencing and if you want to come back home with your own practice of Hatha/ Vinyasa yoga which will enable you to practice as often as you want and to build your practice at your own pace.
During the retreat, except morning and afternoon yoga class, you will have 3 workshops, 2-hour each, during which the teacher will explain you the structure of the sequence, give you options according to your advancement in yoga and answer any of your questions.
Daily Schedule
Day 1: Sunday
- 15:00 Arrival and settling in
Day 2: Monday
- 07:00 Gokul Vinyasa Yoga
- 09:30 Balinese offering
- 11:00 Private Yoga Workshop
- 15:00 Canang (Balinese offering) making class
- 17:00 Dynamic Yoga & Laughter Yoga
Day 3: Tuesday
- 07:00 Meditation
- 07:30 Hatha
- 09:30 Balinese experience tour (visiting a traditional, Balinese house, Banrong dance, learning how to make coconut oil and plant rice paddies)
- 17:00 Yin/Restorative (1,5 h)
Day 4: Wednesday
- 07:00 Vinyasa yoga & Pranayama and Meditation
- 11:00 Private Yoga Workshop
- 15:00 Cooking class
- 17:00 Hatha / Restorative yoga
- 18:00 Kirtan (30 min)
Day 5: Thursday
- 07:00 Hatha Yoga (1,5 h)
- 15:00 Balinese Dancing class
- 17:00 Yin & Restorative Yoga (1,5 h)
Day 6: Friday
- 07:00 Gokul Vinyasa Yoga (1,5 h)
- 9:30 Private Yoga Workshop
- 15:00 Jamu (traditional herbal healing drink) making class
- 17:00 Hatha Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation (1,5 h)
Day 7: Saturday
- 10:00 Departure
What’s included:
- 6-night accommodation in one of Shanti Toya’s villas and suites
- 3 vegan meals daily
- 1 coconut water daily
- unlimited herbal water
- 2x daily Yoga classes
- 3x 2h yoga workshops (please book additionally to your retreat, + 135$USD)
- classes (offering making, herbal drink making, cooking, dancing)
- Balinese experience tour
- 60 minutes Balinese massage
- pick up from the airport (for twin, double and premium rooms)
What’s not included:
- airfare
- drop on/off at the airport or another destination (possible to order)
- travel insurance
Accommodation
During this retreat, you will be staying at one of Shanti Toya Ashram’s villas and suites. Shanti Toya offers an authentic taste of Bali, nestled in the quiet hillside of a lush jungle ravine and surrounded by the rice paddy farmlands of Penarungan village.
The property itself is the home of a peaceful gurgling river and an abundant holy spring water source. In addition to the four new villas (each with guest rooms and bathrooms) and two private villas, there is also a beautiful second story thatch-roof bamboo yoga shala, communal open-air dining and lecture hall, reception, store, spring water-fed swimming pool, bale, and an organic vegetable garden.
There are plenty of nature walking opportunities just outside the ashram, through the quaint village and beautiful rice paddies. Shanti Toya Ashram is set in an intimate setting, perfect for retreats of up to 22 guests.
Instructors
Ni Kadek Artuti Pradnya
Yoga Assistant @ Gokul Yoga Bali
Pradnya is an E-RYT 500 with yogarts.com.au at Yoga Alliance. Has 100++ certification with Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh India Yin yoga instructor certification by (One Song Yoga) @ ( Bali Yoga Teacher). Since 2012 Pradnya is studying Advance Yoga Asana & Philosophy with Jani Jaatinen a.k.a. Mahayogi Gokulacandra Das. Pradnya is teaching Gokul Hatha and Gokul Vinyasa (asana, pranayama, and meditation) as well as Yin Yoga.
During all these years of teaching, she had many opportunities to deepen her experiences as a professional yoga teacher by traveling all around the world. Together with Ary & Kalina, she’s creating Gokul Yoga Bali school.
She is the founder and co-creator of Shanti Toya Ashram, a retreat centre for yoga and wellbeing.
Pradnya began her journey at the age of 6 when she began her lifelong study of classic Balinese dance. Her passion for dance then expanded to Modern Javanese, Balinese style as well as into Contemporary Western & Latin dance. This eventually led Pradnya into Yoga & since then she immersed herself into trainings throughout Bali and world.
I Ketut Aryantha
Yoga Assistant @ Gokul Yoga Bali
I Wayan Suwitra
Yoga Assistant @ Gokul Yoga Bali
Food
During the retreat, you will be served daily vegan breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as unlimited herbal tea and one coconut. Gokul Yoga Bali offers Indonesian lunch and international dinner. All meals are prepared freshly by the chef.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following dietary requirement(s) are served:
- Vegan
Things to do (optional)
As an additional activity, Gokul Yoga Bali offers a set of three yoga workshops which will help you establish your own yoga practice (3 workshops at additional fee 135 USD)
You can also pamper yourself with traditional Balinese spa treatments for hair, face or whole body.
Shanti Toya also offers meetings with the healer.
Reservation & Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is fully refundable if the booking is
cancelled up to 29 days before the arrival date. - The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.