If you feel lethargic, grumpy, experience an afternoon slump (that sometimes lasts all day?), feel tired some (or all) of the time, it may be that your body is crying out for a chance to detox. A five day detox can help to relieve all of these symptoms and leave you full of energy.
For La Crisalida, detox and weight loss means eating the foods that support your bodies to cleanse and to help you move towards your ideal weight. The nutritionist has designed juices and meals that cleanse and rebalance your bodies, whilst maximizing the essential nutrients required by our bodies for good health.
You have the option to juice or to eat during your stay at La Crisalida. Rather than adopting a starvation diet where you are always feeling hungry, all the food they serve support your bodies to cleanse and to help you move towards your ideal weight.
By combining yoga with a healthy diet, you will find your body starting to gain tone, flexibility and generally feel amazing from the inside out.
La Crisalida Retreats is a health and wellbeing center located in the quiet seaside town of Albir, north from Alicante on the Costa Blanca, Spain. They offer guests from all over the world a relaxing all-inclusive retreat experience in their quiet and welcoming retreat center. La Crisalida Retreats offers a holistic approach to health and wellbeing through the program of activities that include yoga, life makeover workshops, meditation, rebounding and more, combined with tasty nutritious plant-based food and juices.
Detox
The detox retreat program at La Crisalida is designed to create health, vitality and energy in your body and your life, by clearing away physical toxins from the body and for some people, releasing emotional “toxins” that have built up in your life too.
The most effective way to detox the body is to juice – drinking only the freshly prepared vegetable and fruit juices throughout the day – however, you will also detox by eating the alkaline food. For a detox, they recommend juicing for three days, but you are free to choose to juice for longer (or shorter).
You will notice changes in your skin tone, eyes (they will be brighter and clear) as well as feeling lighter in your body. You can follow this detox program, even if you do not want to lose weight.
Weigh tloss
For the best weight loss results, you are recommended to participate in as much of the program as you can, including one yoga class per day, one guided walk and at least one other exercise class. However, La Crisalida Retreats is not a boot camp, you can participate in the activities that you choose.
Please note, La Crisalida cannot guarantee the weight loss results you will get as every person is different and your results may differ from others who have attended their detox and weight loss retreats. However, an average weight loss can be two pounds per day, when the juicing program is also followed.
Before attending this retreat, you will need to complete a health questionnaire, which will be sent to you before you arrive.
Yoga
Yoga is a core part of the La Crisalida program, and they cater for all levels of ability - so if yoga is something you have never tried before, this is your opportunity to try out something new. Studies have proven yoga to be one of the best ways to reduce stress, lower blood pressure and relieve symptoms such as insomnia, depression and anxiety. Yoga also helps to improve overall fitness, strength, and flexibility.
Yoga classes at La Crisalida
Being a core part of La Crisalida Retreats offerings, yoga is catered for all levels of ability - the goal is for you to leave feeling relaxed and rejuvenated from your time at the retreat. There are a daily yoga classes every morning (either 8 am or 10.30 am) and in a 7-day period there are 12 yoga classes.
There is one all-levels class each day (suitable for beginners and intermediate) and at least five intermediate classes during the 7-day week. Classes are open to everyone however the intermediate classes are stronger and more challenging.
Most of the yoga classes are Hatha based, although they offer a range of different yoga styles, including Yin, Restorative, Kundalini and Hatha flow. There are four or five yoga teachers each week, so you can experience different styles and different teachers. The common theme underlying yoga at La Crisalida is to help you to get back in touch with the inner you, to find balance, strength, flexibility and inner peace.
Where possible, the yoga sessions are set outdoors on the roof terrace with views of the surrounding area, sea and mountains. They also have a lovely tranquil indoor yoga studio.
Rebounding
As part of the detox, weight loss and yoga retreats it is recommended that you try a 30 minute rebounding session. If you do not know what rebounding is, rest assured you will find it to be the best activity bar none for burning calories, detoxing the body, and having fun all at the same time! Rebounding is bouncing on mini trampolines to music. It is fantastic for activating the lymphatic system, which helps to support your detox.
Other classes
They also offer other 30 or 60 minute classes, for example yogalates (a combination of yoga and Pilates focusing on your core, legs and bottom), aqua aerobics (in the summer months only), core works, dance based classes and legs, tums and bums.
Detox juices
Drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices is a core part of the La Crisalida detox and weight loss program.
You can choose to juice for your whole 5 night / 6 day stay, which is recommended for the optimal detox and weight loss experience. However, many people will still experience a detox by juicing for a shorter period (e.g. 3 days) or by combining juicing for one or two meals each day, with eating the wonderful plant-based food for the other meals. Before you leave the retreat on your last day, it is recommended that you eat at the retreat.
Many guests find that their energy levels and vitality reach new highs after only a few days juicing. Most people report the juices prepared to be refreshingly tasty and enjoyable. However - watch out, if you have a rich diet (e.g. a high proportion of sugars, meat and/or dairy), you may find that it can take a little longer to adjust to the natural and fresh flavors.
Life makeover workshops
The La Crisalida program of life makeover workshops are popular with many guests and are the core part of your life makeover and yoga retreats. They are designed to explore and enhance your sense of mental well-being. These workshops compliment the meditation at the retreat and although are light hearted and fun, they seek to capture the base cause of your experiences in life.
A key fundamental is that to have outer harmony in life, there must be inner harmony and for there to be inner harmony there must exist mastery of the mind.
In these workshops, you can explore very practical ways of developing inner harmony. You can also look at the role motivation plays in your life and role of your inner self, thoughts and feelings in creating your own very personal reality. You can start to explore the often overlooked aspects of experience that we desire - those relating to inner riches.
Workshops include topics like: “Finding the authentic you”, “Creating Balance in your life” and “First love yourself”. You might also want to try vision-boarding - using the power of attraction to create a vision of the life you want to live. They also offer a weekly EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) workshop. Personalized life coaching sessions are also available.
Daily guided walks
La Crisalidas location by the sea and close to a natural park and woodland makes the surrounding area a great one to explore, enjoy the scenery, sea and fresh air. La Crisalida encourages all guests to join with the daily guided walks, which gives you some of the very best views on the Costa Blanca.
Various routes can be followed depending upon your desired level of activity. The walks are graded as easy, moderate and challenging. You are also free to walk around the area by yourself or other guests. If you are counting steps, then you can reach 10,000 steps before breakfast on some mornings, for example if you choose to go on the beach walk.
La Crisalida Retreats program
The retreat offers a full program of activities that run every day of the week, starting at 8 am and finishing between 8:30 pm or 9 pm (depending upon the activity). There is always an activity in each slot. You are welcome to choose to attend all the activities that you want to – or you might choose to go exploring the local area on foot!
Sample daily schedule
- 08:00 90 minutes morning walk
- 09:30 Morning juice or breakfast
- 10:30 90 minutes yoga class
- 12:15 30 minutes exercise class (It can be one of: rebounding, core works, aqua aerobics in the summer)
- 13:00 Meditation
- 13:30 Lunch, followed by siesta / relaxation time
- Welcome chat for new guests
- 15:00 60 minutes class (cooking demo or juice demo), some days
- 16:00 Afternoon juice
- 16:30 90 minutes class (It can be one of workshop, exercise class e.g. yogalates, yoga)
- 18:30 Dinner: evening juice or healthy meal
- 19:30 Evening activity (It can be one of: yoga Nidra, guided visualization, mindfulness workshop, life makeover workshop, evening walk in the summer)
The activities in each time slot and on each day of the week vary, depending on the season, however there is something in each slot for you to choose to participate in. There is a minimum of one yoga class every morning (either at 8 am or 10.30 am to enable you to sleep in). This schedule is shown for indicative purposes, as classes can vary. You will be given a weekly program of activities when you arrive at the retreat and a new schedule is available every Sunday.
