3 Days 1-to-1 Mind & Movement Medicine Yoga Retreat for Emotional Healing in Gili Islands, Indonesia

Facilities

Mind and Movement Medicine Yoga is more than just asana practice. It's a transcendental method of hypnotic and sensory-awakening self-exploration through fluid and spiral yoga movement, expressive vocal, emotional, and breath freedom technique.

A fully immersive incorporation of therapeutic yoga, dance, and somatic experiencing, the retreats will re-establish a sense of balance, friendship, and therefore safety within yourself through developing an understanding of your physical symptoms as mentioned above, as being your body’s way of communicating to you what it needs.

With the added elements of sound vibration alongside transformational lifestyle guidance, this system of healing will propel you towards creating the life you yearn for, simply by unearthing you and your spirit once again.

Bohemia is a free-spirited state of mind and bohemian way of living that you will experience for yourself when you join one of our retreats on the beautiful Gili Islands in Indonesia. As part of your retreat program, you’ll have the option to swim with turtles, horse-ride along the beach at sunset or bathe and swim with elephants. You will reconnect deeply with nature and yourself in this eco-sanctuary and will leave empowered with the tools and ability to enable your self-healing process to begin.

Swim with turtles, horse-ride along the beach at sunset or bathe and swim with elephants. Part boho, part chic, their ethos there is to also combine all the luxuries of a boutique yoga retreat in the tropics, nurturing guidance, personal care, and attention, without costing you the Earth.

Daily schedule

• Flushing fresh fruit or vegetable juice and tea
• Yoga Mind and Movement Medicine practice with meditation and freedom journal writing
• Floating breakfast or brunch of plant-based smoothie bowls
• Private consultation and lifestyle guidance session
• Free time for lounging, sleeping, excursions, exploring the island, swimming, and snorkeling with turtles, diving or surfing. Extra workshops or treatments are also available
• Soothing sunset practice with sound healing gong bath and yoga Nidra
• Free time

Check in is available from 2:00 p.m., followed by a pampering pajama yoga Nidra to settle you into Bohemia.

Meet the instructor

With a free-spirited childhood spent in Africa, Cyprus and the UK and originally trained as a dancer, Carolina is a Yoga Instructor, Reiki-Vibrational Energy Therapist and Lifestyle Influencer. She has designed and hosted yoga retreats, training, workshops and treatments around the world before finding her feet in the beautiful Gili Islands.

Her ethos is about "meeting yourself on your mat" as a means to truly self-heal and create the life you are meant to be living. As a linguist, (fluent in English, French, and Spanish) she believes that our physical symptoms are our body’s way of communicating with us and that true self-healing is all about exploring our bodies through movement and sound as a means to understanding that language.

By opening up these communication lines and fusing together the power and intelligence of nature, your mind, and your body, you can bring yourself back to life again.

Known as Barefoot Bohemia, she has recently developed her own Mind and Movement Medicine Method that deals specifically with chronic stress, anxiety, trauma, panic attacks and PTSD Recovery owing to a motorbike accident she suffered in 2016.

Her teaching stems from her personal self-healing journey and passionately opens her student's eyes to their own intrinsic energy medicine. By accessing that energy and giving it the voice & freedom it deserves, she inspires and aids people from all over the world to transcend immobility and find movement in every aspect of their lives. She encourages her students to be free, open, trusting, laughter-loving, strong and fearless through her classes, inspiring meditations, lifestyle coaching, and workshops.

Join this retreat in the beautiful Gili Islands, just off Bali and Lombok, and immerse yourself in Bohemia. The Gili Islands are unique in the way that there are no motorized vehicles allowed on the island so transport is via foot, bicycle or horse-drawn cart.

There are also a number of horse riding stables that offer lessons for the lesser experienced as well as those wanting to gallop their way through the surf to Sunset Beach of an evening. Being Indonesia, the island is Muslim with a call to prayer being heard five times a day. It normally lasts around 10 - 15 minutes and just further enhances your immersion into this warm ethnic community.

The venue is located just a short 10-minute walk or bike ride away from Turtle Beach, where swimming with turtles in their natural habitat is a daily treat for the senses. You will also find plentiful shops selling local handicrafts alongside a multitude of beachfront cafes and restaurants, all just a short walk or cycle ride away.

Gili Trawangan being the largest of the three-island archipelago is just a short boat ride away from neighboring Gili Air and Gili Meno for any island hoppers. With picture-perfect white sand and turquoise waters, peace, and zero pollution, this island and Barefoot Bohemia retreats will help all life’s troubles melt away, re-introducing you to you, your capabilities, and your potential to take back hold of the reins and steer your life the way you want it to go.

Distances

• Turtle Beach - 10 minutes

Our plant food menus creatively combine beauty for the belly and the brain: picture post-yoga floating breakfasts in our pool surrounded by luscious tropical jungle. Our signature superfood smoothie bowls are set upon floating banana palms adorned with medicinal edible flowers local to Indonesia.

Homemade and with locally sourced, fresh ingredients, our optional lunch and dinner menus have been specially designed and inspired by my worldly adventures and offer a fusion of taste-bud tantalising Balinese delights, nutritious Javanese, Moroccan and West African curries, raw-some rainbow colored creations and decadent yet healthy ice cream desserts, raw cheesecakes and Bohemia Banoffee Ppie.

We serve and/or cater for vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free and offer raw food options.

Detox/ juice fast package options available - please enquire for more information.

Our on-site kitchen is available for use should you wish to prepare your own meals.

• Snorkel trip
• Diving
• Surfing
• Lombok Elephant Safari Lodge - swim with elephants
• Lombok Monkey Forest
• Cooking classes
• Stand up paddle boarding and SUP yoga
• Mount Rinjani trek
• Lombok Waterfall tour

Optional workshops, private treatments, and therapies available

• African rhythm healing with sound and body drumming
• Pathway through trauma, anxiety, panic attacks, and PTSD
• Somatic experiencing
• Hypnotic headphone yoga
• Sensory-awakening blindfold yoga
• 80’s themed dance classes
• Post TTC mentoring programs for new teachers
• Sacred gong ceremonies and yoga Nidra
• Thyroid healing
• Learn the art of self-massage, tapping, and trigger point therapy
• Chocolate making workshops
• Natural beauty product making (boho sun butter, peppermint boca balm - the signature toothpaste, body bliss butter)
• Raw food workshops
• Chakra healing elements and workshops
• Breathe and re-boot transformational breath workshops
• Reiki and vibrational energy healing treatments with sound therapy

• Pre-arrival 20-minute online consultation to discuss your personal needs
• 2 Yoga Mind and Movement Medicine practices per day in the tropical jungle garden
• Guided meditations, pranayama, sound healing, gong baths, freedom journal writing, yoga Nidra
• 1 private consultation and lifestyle guidance session per day
• Your own personal Barefoot Bohemia notebook for freedom journal writing
• Unlimited water, tea, and snacks / fruit throughout the day
• Floating breakfasts
• 1 traditional Balinese or Lombok massage
• 2 nights accommodation
• Unlimited use of the private pool
• Wi-Fi

• Flights and transfers
• Extra workshops, treatments, and therapies
• Travel insurance
• Airport transfers from Denpasar or Lombok
• Extra activities: volcano trek, diving, elephant bath, surf lessons

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.