Retreat overview
Upon arrival, you will be greeted by one of the retreat facilitators or owners and be given a tour.
During your disconnect to reconnect time with, you will be taught how to make your own nutritionally packed smoothies for breakfast and lunch. Spending time with our Certified Health Coach will allow you to become empowered to learn how to take some new skills to up-level your performance and healthy lifestyle skills home with you.
You can look forward to sunrise meditation twice a week on the beach, walks on the beach, bike rides around town, daily meditation, two yoga classes a day (except Saturday), and a variety of classes, lectures, movies, or events scattered throughout the week in the evenings.
In your free time, you will get to choose to lounge around the pools & hot tub, or hang out in one of the hammocks under the 600 square feet Seminole Indian chickee hut. You can look forward to receiving 2 spa services. Included in your package is a massage, and a hot–cold plunge spa therapy, infrared sauna with chromo-light therapy, and cold plunge.
Prior to your arrival, healing and relaxing Spa appointments are scheduled.
In the evening, many of the guests will go out to eat for dinner at the hand-picked restaurants here in the downtown Boca area. Some of the favorite restaurant list options include Farm-to-table, Thai, Asian street food, Indian, Sushi (by a famous sushi craftsman, (Izakaya Japanese tapas), Mexican, and Artisan Popsicles if you permit the indulgence – all options give you the choice of being super health conscious to more decadent! Many of the guests enjoy alfresco dining just 2 blocks away at the Living Green Cafe, our most convenient European-style cafe with all kinds of super light roasted veggies, salads, beans and home cooked style Mediterranean options (roasted chicken and fish for those non-vegans too).
Classes are scheduled ahead of time and guests are encouraged to attend for the full experience. Wellness retreats are another manifestation of the commitment to leading a true yoga lifestyle, to yolk or bring together in mind, body and spirit.
Retreat highlights
- Daily yoga classes which may include Ashtanga-inspired Vinyasa, Sivananda Hatha, Yin, Restorative, balancing chakra flow, (Yin and Restorative are now every weekend)
- Daily meditation of different styles to support all levels in deepening their practice
- Shamanic breath-work journey (held one morning per month in place of meditation - only when school is in session, subject to changes)
- Sunrise beach meditation is every Tuesday and Friday morning (weather permitting, timing based on the sun.)
- Yoga sutra class on the science of meditation Tuesday nights (only when yoga school is in session)
- Yoga philosophy and other yoga teacher training lectures are open to guests, only when yoga school is in session, (Saturdays not included)
Sample daily schedule
- 7:15: You will start your day learning to make a nutritionally balanced, alkalizing green shake for breakfast our Certified health coach will teach you how to make it on day 1 so you are empowered to gain healthy lifestyle skills to take home with you
- NOTE: Tuesday and Friday, you will have sunrise meditation at the beach (timing based on the sun). We will drive there together. It is recommended to bring a beach towel while a bathing suit is optional.
- 08:30 Enjoy practicing a variety of meditation styles under our Zen tropical palapa (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday). Monday to Friday yoga flow may include Sivananda, gentle chakra balancing Hatha flow, gentle vinyasa
- 09:00 Saturdays - Meditation followed by healing and balancing Yin Yoga -OR- choose to venture out of our retreat center to join in outdoor Vinyasa in Sanborn Square Park with our yogi community (unless it's raining or there's a Downtown Boca Event in that park).
- NOTE: Both Saturday and Sunday classes begin at (09:00)
- 09:00 Sundays Meditation followed by balancing relaxing Restorative yoga
- 10:30 Breakfast with your morning green smoothie prepared earlier
- 12:00 - 03:30 Spa therapies or Coaching if scheduled that day
- 01:00 - 02:00 Lunch - nutritionally balanced Complete protein shake - this one is more rich in your macronutrients, also GF & Vegan
- 03:30 Ashtanga-inspired Vinyasa flow - (except Saturdays)
- 05:00 Prepare for Dinner & journal, use the hot tub, chill time
- 08:00 Self-care massage and aromatherapy class on Thursdays
Evenings are for rest and relaxation. Please feel free to use the hot tub. Evening classes are slower with relaxing music. Some evenings have cozy fires in our fire pit, Yin or Restorative, Intro to Tai Chi; or other Events or Concerts happening from the amazing conscious community. (NOTE: Some evening options are not guaranteed & are subject to change)
