4 Days Progressive Meditation and Yoga Retreat in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Facilities

You will be staying at the Blue Indigo Yoga Retreat Center located 10 minutes away from the Siem Reap riverside. The center is designed as a spiritual retreat center and suits your needs very well. The center comprises of comfortable seven wooden cottages with a ceiling fan to keep the atmosphere cool, mosquito nets and a lovely bathroom.

The cottages are nestled in a tranquil area surrounded by trees and flowers for a lovely atmosphere. Note that this is not a ‘5 star Dubai’ type accommodation. There is a very shady restaurant space for meals.

This retreat center provides you with comfortable cottages, daily yoga sessions, and health-oriented meals. It is a small and intimate retreat center providing a peaceful environment allowing you to learn or deepen your practice of meditation and yoga, complementing your visits to the magnificent Angkor temples. It is in downtown Siem-reap in quiet gardens, yet near restaurants and easy access to temples.

You will be able to relax body and mind through the practice of yoga, meditation, and deep relaxation, and learn how to implement the art of relaxation into your daily life. This will help reduce stress, increase your immunity, improve your mood, and ability to make clear decisions.

The program emphasizes a fun, non-commercial, laid back, intimate experience with non-pretentious, cool people. They welcome you at whatever level or stage of life you may be at, beginner, advanced, spiritual, urban, and such. Variety is the spice of life.

Flow or Vinyasa

Vinyasa means "breath-synchronized movement," and Vinyasa yoga is a series of poses that will move you through the power of inhaling and exhaling. Vinyasa movements are smoothly flowing and almost dance-like.

Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra or yogic sleep is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, like the "going-to-sleep" stage. It is a state in which the body is completely relaxed, and the practitioner becomes systematically and increasingly aware of the inner world by following a set of verbal instructions. This state of consciousness is different from meditation in which concentration on a single focus is required.

Daily schedule

The exact schedule may vary depending on the season and the teachers we have with us at the time, however, as a guide, the below example is what you can expect during your stay here.

• 06.00 – 07.30: Pranayama (breathing exercises) and Hatha yoga
• 07.30 – 08.30: Breakfast
• 10.00 – 11.00: Meditation / lecture / discussion
• 11.00 – 12.00: Vinyasa flow yoga
• 12.00 – 13.00: Lunch
• 17.00 – 18.00: Flying yoga
• 18.00 – 19.00: Yin or restorative yoga

This retreat will take place in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Siem Reap is renowned for its magnificent temples. As the largest religious and spiritual monument known today, the area has a unique culture and vibration, with deep roots in Theravada Buddhism. You will experience that spiritual culture while practicing at the center or in the countryside, under the shade of centenary trees and archeological wonders.

Blue indigo cottage yoga is a retreat center dedicated to holistic health. The goal is to provide you with a thoughtfully designed, friendly, and peaceful environment during your holidays, allowing you to learn or deepen your practice of meditation and yoga. Such spiritual, physical, and culinary experience will help you let go mentally and physically.

Daily breakfast and lunch with water and tea are included in the price. Serves essentially Khmer vegetarian meals, with seasonal fruits and vegetables. These meals are perfectly balanced and participate in your physical and spiritual welfare.

The food served during your retreat will be a nutritious and homemade variety of vegetarian dishes with local ingredients and an added French twist. Meals are served in a shaded garden, simple, and friendly.

Breakfast typically starts around 07:35 which includes honey, bread, porridge, yogurts, and oats. Teas are specialty and mixes of the house, with flower aromas. Lunch is served at 12:00 which includes home-made vegetarian raw and cooked dishes.

On your free time, you can just relax or do outside activities. You can also visit temples and meet local monks and nuns to discover local Theravada Buddhism. You can use their bicycles, pet the cats, hang out in the salas when there are no classes, nap in the hammocks, or have tea in the garden sofa enjoying the flowers and trees.

• 3 nights accommodation
• Daily breakfast and lunch
• Daily yoga and meditation sessions

• Additional activities
• Airfare
• Airport transfer
• Meals not mentioned in the itinerary
• Soft drinks
• Spa treatments
• Yoga mats

Arrival by airplane

Please book your flight to arrive at Siem Reap International Airport (REP). From Siem Reap International Airport (REP) to the retreat center, you may take tuktuk for a cost between 5 - 7 USD.

• A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.