3 Days Magical Yoga Package on Paradise Island Gili Air, Just Off Bali Indonesia
Exciting Meditation and Yoga Retreat Indonesia
Expert tip: This is one of the most popular yoga retreats offered in Indonesia.
With an emphasis on high quality, heartfelt teaching, service, and facilities, Flowers & Fire Yoga Garden aims to create a magical experience for all guests. Teachers are known for their soulful, creative yoga offerings and classes are open to all levels of experience. Included in your yoga retreat package is unlimited yoga, classes ranging from foundations for beginners, chakra activating vinyasa flow classes, yin, slow flow and restorative classes, pranayama (breath work) and meditation. This yoga package is designed to nourish and revitalize you, inside and out. Come to experience the beauty of the Gili Islands in the Yoga Garden. Please note that this retreat is a yoga stay package rather than a group led retreat so the start date is flexible.
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Highlights
- All levels are welcome
- Pranayama and meditation sessions
- Unlimited daily yoga (drop-in) classes
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and free drinking water and tea refills
- Swimming pool access and high-speed Wi-Fi
- Natural jute yoga mats and props
- 2 nights accommodation.
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
Accommodation
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Café
- Dining area
- Garden
- Lounge
- Smoke-free property
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Library
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Situated in the center of the Indonesian paradise island Gili Air, Flowers and Fire Yoga Garden blends traditional Javanese artisanal teak details with local bamboo and ulang ulang style structures. This has created an intimate and magical space which maximizes interaction with the beautiful surrounding environment. Their two yoga studios, cafe, and accommodation open out onto their gardens allowing a seamless indoor or outdoor experience. This reflects their site-specific design principles. These principles have meant that they preserved existing trees and created their buildings around them. Their magnificent mango tree holds space at the center of everything. All rooms have en-suites with hot water and display a high attention to detail in the linen, toiletries, lighting, and design layout. Come check out their wholefoods cafe.
With a mural of their Flowers and Fire Goddess morphing into a firebird for their cafe backdrop, they have created a beautifully crafted eating and hangout space. With antique teak pieces and details for their doors, benches, and furniture, they evoke a sense of folk magic. Their cafe is vegetarian and serves simple but delicious whole food creations with plenty of fresh, minimally processed, and enzyme-rich ingredients. Everything, from their bread to their peanut butter, to their dressings, and sauces are made from scratch using healthy and whole ingredients. Their food philosophy is that simple, hearty, fresh, healthy, digestible, and delicious food is best. But there is always space for good coffee and an extensive tea selection.
Program
This is for a three day and two night yoga retreat package. Arriving in the afternoon with a welcome lime and lemongrass iced tea. Enjoy a mellow, grounding evening practice at 4:30 p.m. ending just in time to see the sunset. Here is the schedule for the morning after your arrival and the following day. Contact Flowers & Fire Yoga Garden for longer retreat options.
Daily schedule
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast of tea, coffee, and one of the superfood smoothie bowls (can also be eaten after the class and then lunch taken later in the afternoon as desired). Can be substituted for eggs and homemade bread.
09:30 - 11:00 Morning Vinyasa Flow practice
11:00 - 16:30 Lunch offering of nourish salad bowl and iced tea followed by free time.
Explore the beauty of the island, relax by the pool in the garden space, optional snorkeling, or diving at extra cost.
16:30 - 17:45 Afternoon yoga offering.
A more relaxed class, ranging daily from Restorative, Slow Flow to Yin. There is a weekly and sometimes bi-weekly pranayama and meditation class for 90 minutes. Rest of the evening is open for you to explore the many local jewels of the island. Sunsets are not to be missed. Ask Flowers & Fire Yoga Garden for recommendations for the dinner and evening activities.
Every Monday, they host their popular curry and a movie night (additional IDR 80,000). The flow is designed to accommodate you and your retreat needs and one of the beauties of retreats and island living is the sacred time of pause and slowing down so as to savor every moment. After the final practice on Day 3 (your last morning), you will have a goodbye lunch together followed by check-out. The yoga retreats are not a group led with structured programs but inclusive yoga stays packages which include unlimited studio drop-in classes (excluding any special workshops), accommodation, breakfasts, lunches, free water and tea refills and free Wi-Fi, pool access and use of their yoga props.
You are welcome to choose from any of the morning and afternoon yoga classes (from the ‘drop-in’ class timetable). You will have the freedom and choice to co-create your own retreat experience choosing from the class offerings and the many beautiful beaches and activities to be discovered on Gili Air. With flexible meal times, you and your new yogi friends can weave together your own schedules to incorporate all the additional magical happenings available on the island. As this is a yoga stay package, the start date and length are also both flexible.
Instructors
Emily Christian
As an artist and yoga practitioner, she has always been interested in the relationship between creativity, mindfulness, and the body. Through her own studies and practice, she has explored both creativity and the healing arts in a wide variety of areas, from textiles, performance, pedagogy, art, and filmmaking to yoga, massage, and meditation. As a teacher and creative director of flowers and fire, her aim is to weave together the disciplines of yoga, meditation, and creative manifestation to support the transformative journey towards a more graceful, mindful, and creative state of well-being.
Retreat location
Welcome to the beautiful island Gili Air. Flowers & Fire Yoga Garden is delighted to welcome you to their yoga garden and cafe, located in the heart of the community. The local community are incredibly welcoming and accepting of the different cultural customs of tourist guests and it is always appreciated when guests have some understanding and respect for their customs in return.
As Gili Air is a Muslim island, there is a mosque in the center of the island which broadcasts the call to prayer five times a day. It is normally only about 5-10 minutes, though sometimes a longer sermon is also broadcast (normally on Fridays which is the most significant day of the week in Islam). It can be heard over most of the island but can be quite meditative and a nice reminder to check in.
Flowers & Fire Yoga Garden loves that their location offers their guests a birds-eye view of this unique local community and they enjoy a friendly and respectful relationship with their neighbors. As a way of maintaining good relations, they request that their guests be respectful to the local culture and religion by not walking / riding a bicycle through the streets in a bikini or crop / midriff tops (for women) or shirtless (for men), a dress or top / vest and shorts are fine. Bikinis (women) and just shorts (men) are fine however on the beachfront.
Food
Your retreat will include accommodations in one of the artfully designed rooms, breakfast, and lunch at the whole foods cafe where everything is made on site from scratch. Flowers & Fire Yoga Garden is more happy to accommodate various dietary requirements.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Raw food
- Lactose Free
- Whole food
- Yogic
Things to do (optional)
Snorkel trip
Snorkel trip (privately chartered boat snorkel tour to three sites and lunch on Gili Meno. You are almost 100 percent guaranteed to see turtles, 10 USD per person).
Lombok Monkey Forest
Hike and local food foraging tour with Ikbal, the extremely entertaining and informative local guide (25 USD per person)
Other activities
- Remedial or relaxation massage and energetic treatments
- Tarot readings and workshops
- Bike hire
- Stand-up paddleboarding (10 - 35 USD per person depending on activity)
- Free-diving and scuba (discover scuba day for those uncertified.)
- Cooking classes
- Boat tours
- Day trips
- Mount Rinjani hike
- Lombok waterfall tour (30 USD per person boat or car transport, entry, and tour guide included)
What's included
- Unlimited daily yoga (drop-in) classes
- 2 nights accommodation
- Breakfasts and lunches
- Swimming pool access
- High-speed Wi-Fi
- Free tea and drinking water refills
- Use of all our natural jute yoga mats and props
What's not included
- Flight costs
- Pick-up and fast boat transfer from Bali or Lombok (they have a great agent you can contact to organize this directly with them. They’re friendly and professional and offer reasonable prices)
- Special yoga workshops outside of the normal schedule
- All the activities mentioned under 'Things to do'
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Ngurah Rai International Airport
109 km
Transfer not provided
Lombok International Airport
48 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by plane
The closest airports to them are either Denpasar (Ngurah Rai International Airport) (DPS) in Bali or Lombok (Bandar Udara International Airport) (LOP) in Indonesia. To get here from Bali you will need to get a fast boat over from Padang Bai harbor (also there are a few options nearer the airport but Padang Bai is the main harbor to Gili Air). Please leave at least half a day to get here - the shuttle pick up (which is included in the fast boat ticket price with the bigger boat companies) will be in the morning (around 7 a.m.) and takes about 1.5-2 hours depending on where you are in Bali. The fast boat (most leave at around 9 a.m.) from Padang Bai to Gili Air takes just under 2 hours so it'll get you to the island before midday. There are some fast boats leaving around 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. as well.
If you need help with organising a transfer and fast boat from Bali you can contact the agent they use who is reliable and offers affordable prices. You can pay him directly in cash on the day.
If you are coming from Lombok airport you’ll need to get a taxi from there to Bangsal harbor (which takes just under 2 hours) and then a 15 minute boat ride to Gili Air. The last public boat leaves around 4 p.m. but you can always get a private boat after this time which is more expensive. They have a great agent that they use who will be able to organise a taxi pick/boat ride for you and you’ll just need to pay him directly (in cash) on the day.
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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