9 Day Rejuvenating Yoga Retreat in Karon, Phuket

Facilities

All days there will be alternative program options to choose from. If you select Program A for a particular day, you do not have to attend the Program A options for the other days. Upon booking they ask you to begin thinking about which options you want for which days and advise them as soon as possible so that CC's Hideaway can properly schedule you in for your activities. Some options like personal healing day and detox day can often be arranged on other days, so please inquire if you need additional flexibility. The daily program descriptions below reflect your full-day retreat options and not the day of check-in or check-out. The yoga sessions reflect a variety of practices. Most classes are Hatha or Vinyasa though, several Ashtanga and Yin classes are offered.

Check-in day (any day of the week))

• Private airport transfer
• Retreat consultation
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Monday - Program A - Fitness Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Surf house visit (one hour)
• Aerial yoga class or Muay Thai boxing class for beginners
• Lunch in Refuge Restaurant
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Monday - Program B - Detox Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Detox center visit: spring clean package inclusive wellness consultation, colema treatment, fresh coconut water with a probiotic
• 60 minutes massage of your choice
• Lunch in Refuge Restaurant
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Monday additional options: 4 Waters Day, Personal Healing Day or Holistic Day

Tuesday - Program A - Big Buddha Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Big Buddha jungle hike
• Chalong Buddhist Temple visit
• Lunch at an organic farm
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Tuesday - Program B - Holistic Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• 1-to-1 Reiki - Chakra balancing session
• Lunch in Refuge Restaurant
• Massage or Restorative yoga session
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Tuesday Additional options: Phuket Elephants Sanctuary (extra charge 1,500 THB), Personal Healing Day or Detox Day

Wednesday - Program A - Day on a Desert Island

• Beach yoga session
• Breakfast
• Desert Island tour - Bon Island
• Snorkeling and beach activities
• Picnic style lunch on the beach
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Seafood dinner (pre-order)

Wednesday - Program B - Thai Cuisine Day

• Beach yoga session
• Breakfast
• Fresh market tour
• Thai cuisine cooking class
• Lunch and cooking testing
• 90 minutes massage of your choice
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Seafood dinner (pre-order)

Wednesday additional options: Phuket Elephants Sanctuary (extra charge 1,500 THB), Personal Healing Day, Detox Day or Holistic Day

Thursday - Program A - 4-Waters Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• 4 Waters eco adventure
• Mangrove rivers trekking and kayaking
• Rainforest national park trekking, waterfall freshwater swimming
• Lunch by the waterfall in Phang-Nga Province
• Hotsprings Beach Resort: hot springs water, ice-cold water swimming
• Sunset on remote Natai Beach and swimming in the sea (subject to weather conditions)
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Thursday - Program B - Zero Gravity Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Floatation Therapy 1 hour with herbal tea afterwards, optional: herbal steam sauna and pool
• Lunch in Refuge Restaurant
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Thursday additional options: Phuket Elephants Sanctuary (extra charge 1500,- THB), Personal Healing Day, Detox Day, Holistic Day or Beauty Day

Friday - Program A - Viewpoints Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Phuket Lookouts Tour: Kata/Karon Lookout, Windmill Lookout, Cape Promthep,
• Black Rock viewpoint trekking, Ya Nui Beach
• Lunch in a farm-to-table restaurant with organic food
• 90 minutes massage of your choice
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Friday - Program B - Beauty Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Coconut facial treatment, manicure, pedicure
• Lunch in Refuge Restaurant
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Friday additional options: Big Buddha Day, Personal Healing Day, Detox Day or Holistic Day

Saturday - Program A - Rites of Passage Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• The Phuket Rites of Passage Adventure: Meditation in Buddhist Monastery, rainforest trekking, zipline, and canopy adventure
• Lunch in a farm-to-table restaurant with organic food
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Buffet dinner with live music in CC’s Hideaway

Saturday - Program B - Spa Day

• Morning session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Spa visit: 2 - 2.5 hours program of your choice in award-wining spa center
• Lunch in Refuge Restaurant
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Saturday additional options: Phuket Elephants Sanctuary (extra charge 1500,- THB), 4 Waters Day, Personal Healing Day, Holistic Day, Detox Day or Zero Gravity Day

Sunday - Program A - Cultural Heritage Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Lunch in Refuge Restaurant
• Old Town Cultural Heritage tour: Visit beautiful Buddhist temple, Old Town Cultural Heritage walking tour, Sunday Old Town Street Market, Thai fruits and snacks tasting, Phuket City viewpoint visit
• Dinner in the famous Thai restaurant with city view

Sunday - Program B - Personal Healing Day

• Morning yoga session in the studio
• Breakfast
• Acupuncture treatment: for beauty / weight loss / relieve pain / release tension
• Lunch in Refuge Restaurant
• 60 minutes massage of your choice followed with herbal tea and fruit snacks
• Sunset yoga session in the studio
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

Sunday additional options: Phuket Elephants Sanctuary (extra charge 1500,- THB), Big Buddha Day, Holistic Day, or Detox Day

Check-out day (any day of the week)

• Morning yoga session
• Private airport transfer
• Fresh juice or a healthy mix
• Dinner in Refuge Restaurant

During the retreat, you will enjoy a number excursions and tours to popular attractions in Phuket. All included tours are listed day by day in the weekly program.

Big Buddha Jungle Trek

Challenge yourself to a trek through the Thai jungle on this Phuket eco tour. Follow your guide through the wilderness on a challenging hike with plenty of good views, then head to the Phuket Big Buddha and Wat Chalong, Phuket's largest Buddhist temple. Complete your tour with a healthy lunch at organic farm.

4 Waters Eco Adventure

Escape Phuket’s tourist hotspots to explore off-the-beaten track mangroves, rainforests, and beaches on this full-day eco-adventure trip. Ride or paddle a kayak through mangrove rivers, trek through rainforest at Khao Phra Taeo Wildlife Sanctuary, visit remote beaches, and relax at a beachside spa. On route, enjoy the opportunity to bathe in 'four waters;' a waterfall, the sea, and the spa’s hot springs and ice-cold pools.

The Phuket Rites of Passage Adventure

This exhilarating Phuket Adventure is intended to evoke your reflection on the spirit of voyaging. By completing all stages of the Phuket Rites of Passage Eco Tour we hope you will emerge feeling a little more self-sufficient, reflective and heroic. You’ll combine jungle trekking, zip lining and visits to serene places in one tour.

Old Town Cultural Heritage Tour

Discover the fascinating history and culture beyond Phuket’s beaches on a small-group tour of Old Phuket Town that includes a family-style dinner with a spectacular view. Walking through the historic center of Phuket is great for up-close views of markets, pagodas, and colorful architecture, while door-to-door transport makes this a convenient, hassle-free way to experience the city at night.

Phuket Lookouts Tour

One of the best things Phuket has to offer is it’s Lookouts. The hilly Island has this great advantage: you can find stunning views everywhere. The many Phuket lookouts offer fun photo opportunities as it seems to be the human nature to climb on top of every hill around the island. You will relax on small and hidden Yanui Beach, trek to secret Lookout - Black Rock, and eat healthy Lunch at Organic Farm.

Desert Island - Bon Island Tour

Discover the marine life and natural beauty of Bon Island on this guided tour that includes transportation on a traditional longtail fishing boat. After a 15-minute ride from Koh Phuket you’ll be walking the beaches of quiet Bon Island observing its birds, hermit crabs, lizards and more. Sit down to a picnic lunch served on the beach and spend the afternoon boating to remote areas around the island.

Thai Cuisine Cooking Class

Start with a Fresh Market Tour with our Chef Thip. Together you will discover all Ingridients you need to cook authentic Thai Dishes. Did you know that in Thai Curry we use 3 kinds of Eggplants? Try all Thai Herbs we use for famous Tom Yam! For your first Cooking Class Chef Thip will teach you how to cook:

Tom Yam Goong (Sour and Spicy Soup with Prawns); Green Curry with Chicken; Fresh Spring Rolls with Shrimps

The lush hills and nearby beaches of Kata and Karon will be your vibrant playground for this escapade. Phukets finest beaches are within reach. Kata beach, just below the hills is actually made up of two main beaches, Kata Yai and Kata Noi. Kata Yai (big Kata) has soft, powdery sand meeting turquoise water which swings from a millpond in dry season to a small surf beach in the wet. Commercial areas are also nearby, streets teeming with restaurants, accommodations and other business establishments. With vast views of the Andaman sea, fine beaches and nearby commercial centers, this is the perfect location for a fun and invigorating retreat.

Nearby places

• Big Buddha - 7 kilometers by road
• Chalong Pier - 4 kilometers
• Karon Beach - 1.1 kilometers
• Kata Medical Clinic - 700 meters
• Kata Noi Beach - 2.5 kilometers
• Kata view Point - 3.6 kilometers
• Kata Yai Beach - 1 kilometers
• Patong Hospital - 10 kilometers
• Rawai Pier - 7 kilometers

Delight your taste buds with the wide array of flavors at CC's. Ranging from delectable Thai cuisine to American, Italian and other western recipes, the choices are many but each is definitely a feast of deliciousness. Breakfast at CCs is all you can eat and will be from an ala carte menu or a breakfast buffet. We also offer Smoothie Bowls of the day as a option. On the other hand, lunch and dinner can be any two items off the retreat menu, excursion menu or if a buffet is served, it will be all you can eat. For each meal you'll have choice of soft drinks including fresh coconut, tea or coffee. A freshly prepared juice or healthy mix of your choosing will be served daily.

• Additional massages
• Private yoga and meditation classes

Body and soul (2 hours)

With the body and soul package, the guest chooses between a 60-minutes body scrub or body wrap, followed by 60-minutes of aroma therapy oil massage. The former treatments improve skin moisture or renewal, while the aromatic oil treatment provides ultimate relaxation and skin protection.

Heavenly relax (2 hours 45 minutes)

A value combination of Foot Reflexology (45 mins) and Thai massage with hot herbal compress (120 minutes) for guests who need a full break after a long day of activity, especially walking. The oil-free Thai massage helps reinvigorate the body, while foot reflexology promotes oxygenation of all body tissue, both aiming to restore your energy for the rest of the day.

Simply Thai (2 hours 30 minutes)

This exclusive spa program lets the guest enjoy the lush of Thai Herbs, carefully mixed and match to make the perfect, relaxing scent. The treatments consist of 30 minutes of Thai herbal steam followed by a 2-hour Thai massage with the hot herbal compress. Due to the tropical ingredients used, one would not easily find the opportunity to experience this outside of Thailand.

For Tan (2 hours 15 minutes)

This “tanning” package is actually a great overall soothing and comforting package. A luxurious chocolate wrap will moisturize and soften the skin, a coffee peeling will clean it. Then you will receive an aroma massage and facial massage that will fill you with energy and give your skin some nutrition and hydration. Sauna, steam room, and hydrobath are also included.

Spa packages are available on Saturday program B.

• 8 nights accommodation
• 2 Yoga classes daily, Meditation, Pranayama
• Fresh juice or healthy mix daily
• 3 Meals daily: healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Roundtrip airport transfer, or transfer from other hotels in Phuket, ferry pier or bus station
• Beach shuttle and transportation for all activities
• Eco Adventures & Cultural Tours (check weekly schedule)
• Special Classes: Muay Thai for beginners, Aerial Yoga, Beach Acro Yoga, Surfing, Thai Cooking
• Free Wi-Fi

• Alcoholic Beverages
• Airfare

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• 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.