La Crisalida Retreats is a health and wellbeing centre 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 centre. La Crisalida Retreats offers a holistic approach to health and wellbeing through their program of activities that include yoga, life makeover workshops, meditation, rebounding and more, combined with tasty nutritious plant-based food and juices.
In your life makeover retreats you can explore your mindset in our life makeover workshops, try EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as “tapping”) and learn meditation to relax and find deeper concentration. Give yourself a complete life makeover and try a plant-based diet (or juicing), packed with nutrition to feel great and bring about change from the inside out.
Life makeover workshops
The La Crisalida program of life makeover workshops are popular with many guests and are the core part of the 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 you 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.
Life coaching
If there is a significant gap between where you are and where you want to be in any area of your life whether its relationships, finances, career, health, or spirituality our coaching service can often help. The is a life coach available at most of our retreats. Please note, life coaching is an additional cost (not included in the cost of your retreat). Please contact La Crisalida if you would like more information or ask directly at the retreat when you arrive.
Yoga
Yoga is a central 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 twelve yoga classes every week. There is one all-levels class each day (suitable for beginners and intermediate practitioners) and at least five intermediate classes during the week. Classes are open to everyone however the intermediate classes are stronger and more challenging.
Most of the yoga classes are Hatha based, although we 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.
Library - mindset books and DVDs
There is a library at La Crisalida that contains a wide range of mindset books and DVDs that you can borrow during your time at the retreat.
Meditation and mindfulness
There are morning meditation sessions at the retreat, in which to practice meditation in a group setting. There are generally silent sessions and different techniques are offered during the week for you to experience and practice. There is also a weekly mindfulness workshop in which mindfulness is explored in more detail. Meditation practice involves developing your powers of concentration and is a way of developing mindfulness and self-discipline. There are many types of meditation to choose from, and at La Crisalida we prefer to work from those which are aimed at bringing you into the present moment and will relax the mind through detached observation techniques. Although meditation can be challenging, if you persevere you are likely to experience the type of benefits reported such as clearer, more decisive thinking and improved powers of concentration as well as enhancing your overall levels of wellbeing.
Daily guided walk
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.
La Crisalida Retreats program
The retreat offers a full program of activities every day that run every day of the week. The first class starts at 8 am and finishes between 8.30 pm or 9 pm (depending upon the activity). You are welcome to choose to attend all the activities that you want to. There is plenty of time for personal exploration and journaling, so remember to bring your notebook.
Sample daily schedule
- 08.00: 90 minute morning walk
- 09.30: Morning Juice or breakfast
- 10.30: 90 minute yoga class
- 12.15: 30 minute exercise class (It can be one of: rebounding, coreworks, aqua aerobics in the summer)
- 13.00 Meditation
- 13.30: Lunch, followed by siesta / relaxation time
- Welcome chat for new guests
- 15.00: 60 minute class (cooking demo or juice demo), some days
- 16.00: Afternoon juice
- 16.30: 90 minute 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 visualisation, mindfulness workshop, life makeover workshop, evening walk in the summer)
The activities on each day of the week vary, depending on the season, however there is always something in each slot for you to choose to participate in. There are twelve yoga classes every week. The start time varies, so some mornings yoga will start at 8 am and sometimes 10.30 am. There are a minimum of 3 life makeover workshops each week. 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.
