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8 Day Rest, Release, and Restore Yoga Retreat with Josie and Heleen in Andalusia
Finca El Moro, Fuenteheridos, Andalusia, Spain
Spain Yoga Retreat
A gentle yet deep retreat in the high hills of Southern Spain. Josie and Heleen's intention for the week is your deep rejuvenation. Release tensions of mind and body and relax back into your natural state of steady ease. This week is for you if you’re longing for peace and quiet in the depths of nature to rest, relax, release, and restore. This isn’t for you if you’re craving high-speed asana practice and daily excursions!
Meet the instructors
Josie & Heleen
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Highlights
- Daily morning and afternoon yoga
- Daily asana, pranayama, and meditation
- Plenty of free time to relax and rejuvenate
- Enjoy the farm’s certified organic vegetable gardens
- Stay in a gorgeous cottage or experience glamping in a bell tent
- Daily delicious, vibrant, vegetarian, home-grown food
- Group transfers from and to Seville are included
- 7 nights accommodation
Yoga styles
8 days with instruction
Group size: Minimum of 8 participants
Airport transfer included:
Seville Airport
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
17:00
Check-out Time:
10:00
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Garden
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
Finca El Moro is the special place where Heleen and Josie bonded on their first retreat as students. They think it’s a healing paradise and they’re overjoyed to be returning there to teach again in 2022, won’t you join them?
The cottages are all quite independent. Each with its own pool, they are not visible from one another but within a few minutes walk of the beautiful hill-side open-air shala, the main house, and each other. You will not feel overcrowded there.
- Chestnut cottage: A charming 6-person cottage with a large private pool
- Hill cottage: Stunning views from the rooftop in this 4-person cottage with a private pool
- Cork cottage: A romantic getaway for 2 people with a private pool
- Glamping: Stay in a bell tent/tipi with twin beds
Program
Nothing about your week will be rushed. The idea is to awaken back to yourself with a restored and relaxed sense of balance. The quiet mornings begin with Hatha yoga: asana, pranayama (breathing practice), and meditation. Following delicious sustenance at the main house, it’s time for a siesta, a dip in one of the three pools, journaling, reading, a gentle walk, or simply being.
Each peaceful afternoon, your practice is intended to be deeply relaxing; Restorative, Yin, and Yoga Nidra are all on the menu. Dinner is served on the finca’s terrace. There are optional extras; massage, horse riding, and the farm shop, selling homemade and local delights to take home.
Instructors
Josie Sykes
Josie has taught on every continent (well, not the Ant/Arctic ones), on 500-hour YTTs, countless workshops, and retreats. She has managed a traditional yoga school with three locations and hundreds of students. She has experienced a myriad of disgraced gurus and teachers and the shifting grounds of commercialized yoga. 20+ years of practice and 15+ years of teaching, yoga-supported life lessons, and living in three different countries; here she is! Ready, willing, and joyfully able to offer you what has held, nurtured, and ultimately, set her free!
Heleen Dankbaar
Years ago, Heleen got involved in a serious car accident in Ibiza; she spent two months in a coma. Yoga reconnected her with her body, her life, and the people around her.
Retreat location
The retreat setting is a beautiful Andalusian Finca (farm) with its horses, olive trees, and certified organic fruit and vegetable gardens, Finca El Moro is a magical place.
Combine your stay at Finca el Moro with a trip to the beguiling beauty that is Sevilla. Get lost wandering the orange-lined streets and indulge in the Arab-influenced architecture. A perfect city break for food lovers and bargain hunters.
Unique features
Activities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
General
- Garden
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
Daily meals are included in the retreat. Your cottage kitchen will always have fruits, tea, and coffee to hand. The delicious vegetarian food is homegrown in the farm’s certified organic gardens and orchards. Water is from the farm’s own pure water source.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- Daily morning and afternoon yoga
- Daily asana, pranayama (breathing practice), and meditation
- 7 nights accommodation
- Delicious, vibrant, vegetarian, homegrown food daily
- Group transfers from/to Seville
What's not included
- Personal expenses
- Extra activities
- Airfare
How to get there
Recommended Airports
AGP
Málaga Airport
234 km
Transfer not provided
SVQ
Seville Airport
85 km
Transfer included
FAO
Faro Airport
153 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by bus from Seville
Buses leave Plaza de Armas bus station twice a day to the nearest village Fuenteheridos and cost 8.69 EUR. Tickets can be purchased online or at the bus station up to 15 minutes before departure.
Arrival by taxi from Seville
Finca el Moro can organize a private taxi for you for 165 EUR for one way (1-4 people) to the village of Fuenteheridos and then they will offer a pick-up service from there for 5 EUR.
Arrival by car from Seville
If you have rented a car please use these directions and not Google Maps. The retreat is 2.5 kilometers (10 minutes) from the main road down a rough but serviceable farm track.
- Enter directions to Fuenteheridos. Do not actually enter the village of Fuenteheridos but when you are at the KM97 post on the N433 from Seville, turn right onto an unsurfaced track.
- Keep going on this track for 2.7 kilometers. You go down a cobbled hill and cross a ford and then up another small hill. Soon after this, you arrive at a large fork in the track. The main track bears left but you go straight on, up a hill in front of you.
- Up to the top and down the other side and you will arrive at Finca el Moro. It is quite passable for ordinary cars but you must take it slowly and if you have a small car with lots of people and luggage, slower still!
Arrival by train
For high-speed train connections from Seville to Madrid, Barcelona, Cordoba, and Málaga, please visit the Renfe website. Fina el Moro offers a 10% discount to those trying to reduce their carbon footprint and travel all the way to Finca el Moro by train. Please let them know if you do.
Airport: Seville Airport
Airport transfer included: Seville Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
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