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. We offer guests from all over the world a relaxing all-inclusive retreat experience in our quiet and welcoming retreat centre. La Crisalida Retreats offers a holistic approach to health and wellbeing through our programme of activities that include yoga, life makeover workshops, meditation, rebounding and more, combined with tasty nutritious plant-based food and juices.
Imagine starting your refreshing yoga retreat with a morning meditation and then your first yoga class of the day outside on the terrace with views of the sea and mountains. Enjoy a healthy breakfast before joining in a workshop, taking a walk or maybe relaxing on your sunbed with a good book. You can try rebounding, aqua aerobics (summer only) or legs, tums and bums before enjoying a delicious plant-based lunch. After a siesta you can choose to participate in the afternoon activities, or rest around the pool. There is a weekly programme of activities on offer. All activities are optional so you can do as much or as little as you want. Find the inner peace and leave feeling refreshed, rejuvenated and more like you.
Yoga
Yoga is a core part of the La Crisalida program, and we cater for beginners and people with an intermediate level of practice. 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
There are twelve yoga every 7 days. There is one all-levels yoga class each day (suitable for beginners and intermediate level practitioners) and at least five intermediate classes during the week. Classes are open to everyone however the intermediate classes are stronger and more challenging. There is always one 90 minutes class in the morning and five days per week a second yoga class (either 60 or 90 minutes depending upon the day).
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 teachers. If you are new to yoga, this is your opportunity to try something new! 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 classes are held outdoors on the roof terrace (which has retractable shade) with views of the surrounding area, sea and mountains. We also have a lovely indoor studio in which to practice. You will leave your short yoga break feeling relaxed and rejuvenated from your time at the retreat.
Other activities
Each day there are other classes that you can take part in, like yoga-lates (a combination of yoga and pilates), legs, tums and bums, in addition to rebounding and aqua aerobics (summer only).
Yoga nidra and guided visualisation
Each week there is a wonderful yoga nidra, to enable you to deeply relax and reconnect body, mind and spirit. You will also find deep relaxation in our guided visualisations.
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.
Life makeover workshops
The La Crisalida program of life makeover workshops 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.
La Crisalida Retreats programme
The retreat offers a full programme of activities that run every day of the week, starting at 8am and finishing 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.
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)
Note there are twelve classes of yoga each week. The start time varies by day, week and season. This schedule is shown for indicative purposes, as classes can vary. You will be given a weekly programme of activities when you arrive at the retreat and a new programme is available every Sunday for the following week.
