8 Day Active Yoga Retreat Tour in Ecuador with Quito and Cotopaxi Volcano Sightseeing

With the exception of the first day on this Ecuador Active Yoga Retreat, you will practice yoga each morning and some evenings after the tour activities planned for each day.

Practices will be customized to your needs and preferences. It means that you don’t need to be an expert to join. You just need a good attitude to learn about this wonderful activity or improve your skills if you already practice yoga.

During the Ecuador Active Yoga Retreat, you will practice yoga every morning and on some evenings after the day's activities. The classes are tailored to your needs and level, so you don't need to be an expert. Just have a positive attitude to learn or improve your practice. Guide Ecuador invite you to discover Ecuador's beauty through yoga.

Practice yoga in the Andes and the Amazon with the best certified yoga tour guides from Ecuador. Creative sequencing and strategies will facilitate profound learning.

Maybe the best thing about this Active Yoga Retreat Ecuador is that you won’t rush. You will also have time to explore some deeper philosophical concepts, progress your movement, and settle deep into the body in the present moment. It’ll be truly glorious.

Day 1:Arrival in Quito

Upon your arrival, you'll have an overland transfer to your hotel in Quito. Guide Ecuador's guide will be at the Airport to meet you and take you to your hotel for an overnight stay.

• Duration: 1 hour
• Meals included: N/A
• Accommodation included: Overnight at a hotel

Day 2: Quito sightseeing and yoga

After enjoying Quito's attractions and learning about the city and culture, Guide Ecuador has the perfect activity for the end of the day. You'll have a warm-up to work on some mobility moves to release tension and get ready for a nice yoga flow.

Your teacher will guide you during the entire session, so you will learn all the asanas (postures) correctly to improve alignment. Practice sun salutation closer to the sun.

• Duration: 6 hours
• Meals included: Breakfast
• Accommodation included: Overnight at a hotel

Day 3: Otavalo market and yoga

In the morning, the group will visit Otavalo Market and its surroundings. This is a great location to admire the volcanoes and enjoy your cultural roots. Before lunch, you will get some flowing energy from the water. In this magnificent tour, you'll see lakes that have so much history and energy flowing from the Andes.

The yoga session will include asanas to absorb some of this energy and mobility to feel even more relaxed.

• Duration: 6 hours
• Meals included: Breakfast
• Accommodation included: Overnight at a hotel

Day 4: Cotopaxi Volcano

Early in the morning, there will be another yoga session in the Andes. Then, the destination will be to visit one of the most important National Parks in the central Andes.

Located 86 kilometers from the city of Quito, Cotopaxi National Park will give you the opportunity to change the panorama of the cars and buildings towards the Andean Páramo and the Chuquiraguas (endemic plant of the highlands).

Through the Panamericana Sur or more well-known as “Avenida de los Volcanes,” you can see volcanos such as Atacazo, Corazón, Ilinizas, Pasochoa, and Rumiñahui, among others, to finally reach the entrance to the Cotopaxi National Park.

Then, the group will continue towards Baños for an overnight stay. Upon arrival, you will meditate at the hotel garden.

• Duration: 8 hours
• Meals included: Breakfast
• Accommodation included: Overnight at a hotel

Day 5: Yoga and waterfalls

After the amazing day trip in the magical surroundings of Baños, you deserve some relaxing time. A pranayama session (breathing technique) will be ideal to start the day's yoga session and continue with a nice flow to energize the body with the elements around you.

• Duration: 4 hours
• Meals included: Breakfast
• Accommodation included: Overnight at a hotel

Day 6: Yoga in the Amazon

The Amazon - what a dream place for a yoga session - after being seated in a car for a while, there is nothing better than practicing some mobility and yoga to stretch the back, legs, and improve posture to enjoy the Amazon at maximum, just before the sunset.

• Duration: 5 hours
• Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Accommodation included: Overnight at a hotel

Day 7: Jungle adventure and yoga

Waking up with the noise of the jungle wildlife is something that is considered a welcome to the most diverse forest in the world.

After breakfast, you will take a motor canoe ride on the Napo River, visiting some villages like Misahualli, known as 'The Monkeys Town' (there are capuchin monkeys all over the place), then you will continue the canoe ride to Arajuno River. Yoga will be from a great location to admire the sunset.

• Duration: 5 hours
• Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Accommodation included: Overnight at a hotel

Day 8: Transportation to Quito - fly home

Early in the morning, it be the last yoga session before you start your journey to Quito. Unfortunately, you have to say goodbye.

However, if you desire to add one more night in Quito City or extend your stay in Ecuador, Guide Ecuador can always help you out with free advice to make sure that you can optimize the time and continue exploring this paradise called Ecuador.

• Duration: 5 hours
• Meals included: Breakfast
• Hotel stay not included