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Expert tip: This is one of the most popular yoga retreats offered in Nicaragua.
Enjoy the peace of Ometepe Island to start or develop your yoga practice. This intensive retreat focuses in identifying your personal needs and develops a yoga sequence that you can keep practicing after the program. It starts with an interview where the instructor finds out what are you looking for in the program and proceeds with a series of completely private and personalized yoga, massage, and meditation sessions that will help you to start, develop or deep your daily yoga practice.
The huts at El Zopilote Organic Farm are bioconstructions immersed in a lush green environment where you can relax surrounded by birds and monkeys. All huts have beds with mosquito nets and lockers.
In the first day you have an interview with the instructor where you will discover your expectations and main needs for the next days, so the instructor can understand what should be the focuses of the program for you. In this day you will have the first yoga class to start opening your body.
The second day starts with a yoga class designed to attend your basic needs - being to start a yoga practice, develop flexibility, release localized tension, improve strength, or anything else the instructor found out you need on the interview at the previous day. The day's program continuous with a full body relaxing massage with natural oil directed to release the tensions and toxins, energize the body, nourish the skin, and bring a deep relaxation to you mind.
In the third day the focus is to start getting familiar with a yoga routine that has been completely designed for your own necessities. You are going to receive an illustrated description of the asana (yoga posture) sequence that is going to be practice together with the instructor during a private class. In the second session of the day you will be guided to a deep relaxation technique (Yoga Nidra) to prepare for an introduction to meditation.
The last day is dedicated to deepen your familiarity with your personal sequence, improve the asanas and breathing techniques and establish a flow throughout the routine so you can practice by yourself back home or wherever you are!
As it is a private program, the sessions are going to be schedule depending on your preferences, between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. All the sessions are held in private spaces inside El Zopilote.
Cassandra Assis has practiced yoga for the last 12 years and has studied with different teachers in Brazil, India and Thailand. Her focus is to develop awareness on the body and breathing, bring a deep relaxation, and a strong concentration capacity that will allow the student to expand these feelings outside the yoga class, preparing the body and mind to the more elevated practices of yoga.
The farm has a restaurant where you can taste delicious meals with local organic products, experience farm to table nutrition on each day of your intensive retreat. Please note that this retreat does not include any meals.
Augusto C. Sandino International Airport
100 km
Transfer available for additional US$80 per person
Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport
99 km
Transfer not provided
Juan Santamaría International Airport
220 km
Transfer not provided
Please book your flight to arrive at Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR), Augusto C. Sandino International Airport (MGA), or Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO). Transfers from and to Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR) and Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) are not included in the price. Transfers from Augusto C. Sandino International Airport (MGA) is available for an additional cost of 80 USD.
From Managua, Granada, San Juan del Sur or Penas Blancas (the border) you should go to the town of Rivas. From there you may take a shared taxi (1 USD per head) or a private taxi (3 to 5 USD) to the port of San Jorge. This takes about 20 minutes. The taxi ranks are situated near the bus station in Rivas.
From Moyogalpa or San Jose del Sur, you can get a bus to Merida (1 USD per head) or to Balgue (1 USD). If you take the bus to Merida you must get off at Santa Cruz, the journey takes about two hours and you must ask the bus driver to let you off at Santa Cruz. From there walk in direction of Balguefor about 300 meters until you find the entrance to El Zopilote.
If you get the bus to Balgue you can get off directly in front of the entrance to the farm. You will spot an old yellow school bus which is the bushop. Ask the bushop girls if there are free places on the farm and if the answer is yes, just walk along the signposted route to the reception (10 minutes walk). Please note that there are no buses on Sundays.
From Moyogalpa, you can get a taxi directly to the farm. (one hour) the taxi drivers offer their services at the port. It is a good idea to contract the price before getting a taxi. The price depends on the number of passengers and is usually about 20-25 USD.
From the port of San Jorge, there are various ferry boats (2 USD per head) or boats (1.50 USD per head) which will take you across the lake to the town of Moyogalpa (one hour from land), or to the town of San Jose del Sur (one and a half hours from land).
You can also take your car but you must reserve a place for your car on the ferry beforehand. There are three ferry boat companies. “Rey del Cocibolca” is the largest ferry boat and goes to San Jose del Sur port. Or there is “Che Guevara” to Moyogalpa and “Milton Arcia” also to Moyogalpa.
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