6 Day 5 Elements Yoga and Ayurveda Retreats in La Palma, Canary Islands

Facilities

At La Palma Holistic Experience, they love to practice by the beautiful open-air nature with a perfect dry all over the year spring weather perfect to:

• Meditations on the prana from the ocean and plants
• Organic local food in a Saatvic way and also with a touch of delicious Mediterránean fusion cuisine, taking care of your needs and desires.
• Ayurveda medicine: personalized diet tips, herbal infusions
• Massages: Kalari Ayurveda (relax - sport - therapeutic), Thai, deep tissue, Hawaiian Lomi-Lomi, or marma points acupressure
• Natural body treatments: Exfoliating volcanic or sea salt peelings followed by purifying clay or regenerating aloe vera masks
• The team will drive to connect your inner elements with the magic of uncontaminated nature. Guests will answer a short Ayurveda test to establish their Dosha and start a personalized and healthy program based on different styles of yoga, medical herbal infusions, and herbal massage oils.

Daily schedule

Arrival day

• Welcoming organic fresh fruit juice
• Ayurveda test to find your personal dosha
• 20:00 Organic vegetarian or vegan dinner

Days 2 to 5

• 08:30 - 09:45 Vinyasa or Iyengar yoga
• 10:00 Special organic brunch
• 11:30 Daily activities or excursion (hiking, snorkeling, etc.)
• 17:00 Natural body treatment and massages
• 20:00 Organic vegetarian or vegan dinner

Departure day

• 08:30 - 09:45 Vinyasa or Iyengar yoga
• 10:00 Special organic brunch
• 12:30 Check out (all depending on your flying time departures)
• To feel the benefit of a new state of body and mind, it is also possible to choose between different funny outside activities like:
• Snorkelling at secret corners of marine reserves as La Palma Holistic Experience provides diving masks and wetsuits for the winter time
• Trekking by sacred green forests of La Isla Bonita, enjoying large bio-diversity while breathing consciously among trees and flowers and having memorable views on both side of the island
• Watching Stars as it is one of the most famous place for it with worldwide famous observatory of Roque de los Muchachos
• Walking in a long Natural sandy beach full of waves and oxygen

This rural complex is located by the entrance of one of the greenest spots of the island and the well known Cubo de la Galga. That is a route that will make you travel in time, a thousand-year-old forest that has barely changed in two million years where you will find a variety of laurel forests such as the viñátigos, aceviños, barbusanos, and laurels, mixed with ferns and linden also millenarian.

Distances

• Beach of Nogales - 5 minutes

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'Let food be the medicine, medicine be the food' - Hippocrates, 400 B.C. La Palma Holistic Experience believes the fact that you are what you eat as you can feel it after years of inner conscious listening. Their main holistic chefs, Alexander Gurukkal, (Ayurveda healer and passionate on the Mediterranean and international cooking), Rosa Lakshmi (graduated as a yoga teacher with Italian Yoga Federation 35 years ago), and Fatima will be also supported by a passionate local team.

Apart from having a long culinary family tradition based in Sicily, they practice yoga from many years and took part in 'Art of Living association' seminaries about food. They daily take organic vegetables and fruits from small local farmers to prepare them on a Satvic way, possibly raw or less cooked and steamed to maintain all alkalizing nutritional properties alive.

You feel the prana (energy) of it, prepared with love, passion, knowledge on Sicilian and Mediterranean cuisine. Only then, your consciousness will center on what you eat to just feel it in a tantric way. All meals are from local farms using a natural method of agriculture without poisons, organic certified.

• Possibility to go to the World recognized Astronomical Observatory of Roque de los Muchachos to see the galaxies
• Sail on a traditional wooden sailing boat or go for excursions aside whales with a sailing yacht
• Trekking excursion to the amazing Caldera de Taburiente, the boiler of a giant sleeping volcano with forest trails, large biodiversity, and waterfalls
• Excursion to natural pools
• Excursion to the Archaeological Museum on Pre-Hispanic Culture
• Free climbing to the most remote and wild spot by mountain and seas
• Excursion on MTB or downhill
• Excursions on kayak or SUP by sea caves with crystal waters
• Permaculture and mud workshops
• Cooking classes
• Ayurveda massages workshops
• Spanish language classes
• Surfing classes

La Palma Holistic Experience Team is happy to present you their natural wellness treatments made by Rosa Lakshmi (master of the Italian Federation of Hatha yoga for 35 years - graduated in natural cosmetics), Alexander B. Gurukkal (graduated in Ayurveda Kalari massages and herbal treatments beside C.V.N Kalari of E.P. Vasudeva Gurukkal, Kerala, 2000), and Andrea Kaluyokalanhi (Hawaiian Lomi Lomi specialist).

Ayurveda is an ancient medical science from the time of Vedic scriptures in India (5000 years) based on a natural way of healing made of personalized yoga, diet, massages, and more.

Ayurveda Kalari massages

The first part of the massage is based on large movements throughout the entire body, focus on balancing the flow of life energies through the nadis (nervous system body channels), balancing chakras, their circular center energies, strengthening lymphatic system, balancing bloody circulation and nervous systems, preparing the body for a second phase with muscles decontracting techniques. It helps to clean and revitalize the entire body and mind as combined with pranayama (breathing techniques) and Shavasana (conscious full relaxation).

It is divided into three main forms of therapies and massages:

• Sukha Tirummu or Kacha Tirummu: the relaxing one or a sport massage with yoga postures into it
• Raksha Tirummu: a therapeutic treatment made with a cotton bag full of 20 medical plants in powder (Marma Kizhi) heated on the Ayurvedic oil and spread over an inflamed area. It helps relieve sciatic nerve, neuralgic pain, arthritis, post-trauma discomfort, disc problems, muscles contractures, etc.
• Marma points acupressure: Through the pressure of fingers on special vital points (108) throughout the entire body, it is possible to balance various systems

Natural body and face treatments

Aloe body and faces masks

Aloe vera barbadensis grows here as they collect it right before use to maintain its innumerable qualities as it has been done since the ancient Egyptian including rich in vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, and amino acids that help regenerate the skin from the subtle tissues and remove hit from the sun, recovering from burns and skin dryness. During the subsequent treatment of the massage and combined with medicinal plant oils, it helps the natural absorption and assimilation of these.

Clay body and face masks

La Palma Holistic Experience uses different kinds of clays or muds, mixing them with mineral or sea waters from local marine reserves. They help draw blood and impurities to the surface of the skin. Depending on kinds of clays, you can receive different effects such as anti-inflammatory, tightening, antiseptic, cleansing, nourishing, etc.

Volcanic and sea salt peelings

La Palma Holistic Experience uses local volcanic soft sand and sea salt rich in minerals that purify your skins. Before starting a massage, it is good to have a gentle exfoliation, removing the outermost layer of dead skin cells, and leaving it softer and smoother, ready to better receive all nutrients of personalized healing plants and oils.

Thai yoga massage

It is a sequence of pressures and passive stretchings sequence dancing' on synchronized breathing of therapist and receiver. It helps gain flexibility, great muscles release, getting a new feeling of lightness.

Sport and deep tissue massage

Mainly indicated for those who practice high-intensity sports and need a deeper pressure which penetrates below the superficial layer to relieve contractures after practicing a sport or stimulate the activation with less pressure before practicing sports.

• Welcoming organic fruit juice
• 5 nights accommodation in a single or shared double room and private bathrooms in a villa with garden
• Ayurvedic diagnostic with a personal diet
• 5 Hatha integral yoga classes all levels of 90 minutes each with small groups of a maximum of five guests with a mix of Vinyasa, Nidra, and Iyengar styles
• 3 Ayurveda or Thai massages of one hour each with the use of personalized oils and techniques depending on your dosha
• 3 body and face treatments with local ingredients made of ocean salt scrub and mask, maybe clay or aloe vera upon your needs
• 5 Daily yogi menus made of organic and fresh vegetarian or vegan brunch, picnic and dinners
• Unlimited water, Ayurveda herbal infusions, and advice on a Personalized Diet depending on your dosha
• 1 excursion to an amazing magic national park of Laurisilva Forest
• 1 excursion to the longest sandy beach of the island with crystal waters and waves full of oxygen
• 1 Cooking class on Ayurveda medicine
• Transport from airport to villa and back

• Airfare tickets
• Shoes and dress for trekking
• Additional things to do

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 16.94% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.