5 Day Rest, Renew, and Rediscover You Wellness Retreat on Hvar Island, Split-Dalmatia, Croatia
Wellness Retreat in Croatia
This is one of the most popular yoga retreats offered in Croatia.
Take time out for yourself on beautiful Hvar Island. Join Suncokret Dream at their integrated holistic yoga lifestyle retreat center, selected among Lonely Planet's "10 Incredible Yoga Retreats in Europe for 2024." The Rest and Renew program offers a rejuvenating holistic retreat experience designed to help you boost your well-being with its signature holistic activities - a blend of beautifully balancing yoga, deliciously nourishing meals, awe-inspiring outings, and soothing meditations.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- A free consultation with their holistic lifestyle coach
- A chakra quiz to discover your current blockages and strengths
- A daily morning yoga sadhana and daily evening meditation
- Daily transfers to and from quaint towns and gorgeous beaches
- Daily free time to relax and rejuvenate your way
- Free transfers from / to the port
- 4 nights accommodation
- Daily breakfast, dinner, and light snacks
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
5 days with instruction in English
Average daily hours of activity: 6
Accommodation
Facilities
- Dining area
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Free Wi-Fi
- Library
- Parking lot
Guests are situated in rooms within three semi-attached cottages, according to both preference and practical logistics. Cottage communal areas, including bathrooms, lounges, balconies, terraces, etc. are shared between guests and hosts alike, along with life stories and special moments.
A spiritual, "shabby-chic," Dalmatian island farm-cottage ambiance prevails, and the atmosphere there is that of a supportive family of spiritually-minded friends.
Earth and fire cottage
This is a charming stone cottage, featuring a spacious, enclosed garden, which acts as the main hub for the retreat guests during mealtimes.
The cottage has just been renovated during the winter months of 2020. It features three single rooms with fans and space heaters, located on the upper floor of the cottage, and the air-conditioning and heating unit is used as needed in the common living areas.
The spacious house bathroom located on the ground floor is reserved for residential guests only. The ground floor also features the main retreat living and dining areas, which are open to all retreat participants until 22:00. The enclosed garden, with dining and lounge areas, is located there as well as the outdoor yoga terrace.
Rooms one and three offer a single bed, while room two comes complete with a double bed, perfect for individuals who require a larger mattress size.
Ether cottage
These elegant and beautiful, newly-built attic rooms come equipped with private, ensuite bathrooms and ensuite air-conditioning or heating. Room six mini-suite is suitable for a solo traveler and is furnished with a double bed and dresser as well as a private, ensuite bathroom.
The master suite features twin beds that can be placed together, an open closet and dresser, dressing table and chairs, as well as an ensuite bathroom, and is ideal for two householders or a couple.
Wind and Air cottage
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this cottage can now be booked exclusively by two friends or a family of up to four persons. The cottage features a romantically furnished room with a beautiful, metal-framed double bed, and an adjacent twin room with double doors that open to a private balcony overlooking the village.
The cottage comes complete with an adjacent bathroom, kitchenette, and covered terrace with a view of the veggie garden. The cottage has air-conditioning and heating. Both rooms can be fitted with either twin or double beds, according to the needs of those booking it.
Booking priority is generally given to friends or family members traveling together on retreat, but it may also be booked at custom rates by couples or solo travelers.
Shared facilities
In addition to the outdoor yoga terrace and airy indoor yoga studio, other shared facilities include the main living room and indoor dining area, and an enclosed garden with an outdoor dining area in the Earth and Fire cottage, as well as several other patios and decks in which guests enjoy socializing with other retreat guests.
Each cottage also features a tea-corner, where you can prepare fresh herbal infusions using freshly picked ingredients from Suncokret Dream's garden.
Guests may borrow inspiring books, magazines, music, and DVDs from the retreat library, provided that they are treated with care, and washing machines are available on a pay-per-load basis.
Though "switching off" is encouraged as much as possible during retreat time, Wi-Fi access is available in all rooms and throughout the retreat property.
Program
Take time to rest and renew. This custom retreat is all about you. Indulge in a mini wellness retreat that is designed to help you boost your well-being with Suncokret Dream's signature holistic activities - a blend of beautifully balancing yoga, deliciously nourishing meals, awe-inspiring outings in nature, and optional holistic treatments a la carte.
Take time out for yourself on a paradise island in Croatia. The program is overseen by your host and program manager, Evening Marie, a yoga therapist with over 20 years of experience leading top-rated retreat programs on Hvar, together with her partner Stipe, a certified chef, agro-tourism expert, and Hvar Island native who will act as the chef and local guide during the retreat.
Together with their visiting team of holistic yoga lifestyle instructors from around the world, Suncokret provides a masterful retreat program in a safe and cozy shelter that will enable you to explore the various levels of your being.
This retreat is all about you and is available during spring and autumn, as scheduled, and is best suited for fit and healthy participants between 25 to 65 years of age.
Holistic lifestyle program
- A free consultation with a holistic lifestyle coach
- Chakra test to assess your overall state of being
- A daily integrated morning yoga sadhana practice
- Daily evening meditation sessions
- Daily outings to places of interest
- Daily free time to relax and rejuvenate your way
- Free use of a yoga kit (mat, mat bag, block, strap, blanket, cushion, and protective foam mat)
Sample schedule
Arrival day
- 16:30 Transfers from Stari Grad Port and check-in
- 17:30 Holistic consultation
- 18:30 Dinner
- 20:00 Evening meditation and chakra checkup
Daily
- 08:30 Morning yoga sadhana
- 10:30 Breakfast
- 12:00 Daily outings to discover the island, followed by dedicated free time
- 17:30 TLC by appointment
- 18:30 Dinner
- 20:00 Mediation
- 21:00 TLC by appointment
- 22:00 Mauna (quietude)
Departure day
- 08:00 Morning yoga sadhana
- 09:30 Breakfast
- 10:45 Transfer to Stari Grad Port for 11:30 ferry to Split
Included excursions
There will be optional daily outings to gorgeous towns, villages, and beaches, including a walking tour of Dol, a visit to the best spots on the island, including Stari Grad, Vrboska, and Hvar towns and their beautiful nearby beaches, plus a tour of the UNESCO-protected Stari Grad Plain where you can visit a vineyard and olive grove.
Instructors
Evening (Eve) Marie
Working together with Evening Marie, you will discover a refreshing, spiritually enriching, and deeply profound retreat experience - one that blends tradition with intuition to render a transcendental journey that is appropriate for both new and seasoned path walkers alike. Evening Marie is a highly qualified holistic yoga therapist with over 500 hours of training and 22 years of teaching practice running back-to-back weekly retreat events who is able to adapt to and challenge varying levels of experience.
Stipe Suncokret
Stipe (Steve) is Suncokret's Co-Founder, Head Chef, and Island Host. A Hvar Island native with a lifetime of hands-on experience in the local customs, culture, and cuisine, Stipe is a certified Agro-Tourism manager and a trained and gifted Chef who creates nourishing meals for our retreat guests, sourced from local ingredients, often those found in his family gardens and fields. Stipe's role at Suncokret as a head chef, local guide, logistics manager, and all-around good guy is a natural extension of the skills, interests, and natural talents he was born with and values.
Tanja Novojevska
Tanja is a traveling international yoga teacher with a background in the fitness and wellness industry. She completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Ashtanga Vinyasa & Yin Yoga studies at "Bend it Like Buddha Yoga Algarve" in Portugal; and her Advance Yoga Teacher Training in Hatha Yoga at "Yoga Skyros Academy" in Athens, Greece. After experiencing a personal evolution through her yoga practice, she believes that the heart is the most powerful element in the human body and she invites her students to take a journey into the heart-opening practice of yoga.
Bethany Demelza
Certified Yoga, Meditation, and Flow Dance Meditation Instructor Bethany started practicing yoga nearly 7 years ago when she had just had a baby and needed something to feel restored after sleepless nights. But it was when she began to experience a difficult time in her life through loss and trauma that the true benefits of yoga really shone through. Yoga became a channel to connect to herself, to come home to her body, and to set herself free. She knew then that she needed to share this healing technology with others and this is when she enrolled in a yoga teacher training course in 2019.
Mona Bektesi
Certified Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Ever since her first Vinyasa yoga class, yoga has fascinated her with its unique blend of breath and movement. It doesn't matter whether she wants to relax or needs more energy, she feels completely in good hands when she practices. Yoga is now an integral part of her life and is always an exciting path to her center, which gives her strength and peace at the same time. As a yoga teacher, Mona aims to accompany her students to be loving and careful with themselves and to get to know and expand their own limits again and again.
Annie Niswanger
Annie is a yoga teacher & movement educator with a background in dance & performing arts. She completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in New York City and gained her Personal Trainer Certification through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Her work is rooted in trauma-informed, injury-preventative movement, with an emphasis on helping students feel safe, supported, and confident in their bodies.As a dancer, she has years of experience studying the body through movement. However, it wasn’t until she found yoga that she discovered movement could be medicine.
Retreat location
Suncokret welcomes you to retreat in the charming village of Dol Sveta Ana, a pristine 12th-century hamlet discretely nestled into the verdant brush that majestically rises above the island's oldest settlement, Stari Grad on Hvar Island, Croatia. Stari Grad is located two kilometers from the retreat, and they offer free transport from there to the venue.
Dol Sveta Ana is often compared to Provence and Tuscany, with its sprawling vineyards, noble olive groves, fragrant lavender plantations, fertile fields, and charming stone cottages, so eloquently framed by the distant blue sea and open sky.
The village is brought to life by the colorful sounds of friendly sun-kissed locals and their range of hearty farm animals going about their day-to-day lives. Located only minutes away from the island's major attractions, yet peacefully tucked away from bustling tourist towns, St. Ana provides an ideal escape from ordinary life to an extraordinary organic haven.
The complex of semi-attached stone villas is nestled into a secluded corner of Dol, Sveta Ana. The retreat neighborhood remains unpopulated much of the year, providing deep peace and tranquility for the guests.
During summer months, however, the village tends to fill up with holidaymakers, including natives taking up residence in their ancestral summer cottages that have been in the family for generations. The atmosphere becomes a more vibrant one - a true immersion into the authentic village lifestyle on Hvar.
Village offerings versus town conveniences
The village features two local restaurants and a local cafe with Wi-Fi access within walking distance from the retreat. There are no shops, banks or ATMs, post offices, etc., so please plan ahead, though there is plenty of pure nature with inviting footpaths to explore, and unlimited supplies of fresh air to help you relax and disconnect from the stresses of city life. Enjoy it.
Getting around
For your convenience, as part of the foundational retreat program package, Suncokret Dream provides complementary scheduled transport to and from various points of interest each day of the retreat week. Guests may opt to remain at the retreat for quiet time during the day instead and arrange their own transport needs.
The nearest town, Stari Grad, is located two kilometers from the retreat. The journey to Stari Grad takes about 40 minutes on foot, 10 to 15 minutes by bike, and only five minutes by scooter or car (rental options are available in Stari Grad).
Distances
- Stari Grad, 2 kilometers - 40 minutes on foot
Unique features
General
- Dining area
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
Services
- Free Wi-Fi
- Library
- Parking lot
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
Included in your package are daily breakfast, dinner, and light snacks. Free water, mineral water, tea, and herbal drinks at each meal are also available.
During the retreat, Suncokret Dream offers two fresh, tasty, and nutritious "Dalma-Veg" meals per day. The meals are inspired by international vegetarian dishes with a distinctive Dalmatian twist and are predominantly made up of fresh, organic, locally-produced island ingredients (often their own), and are prepared with love and care.
Their fusion cuisine is conceptualized to support the energetic work of the weekly yoga sadhana practice, and is therefore chakra-balancing, nurturing, and fulfilling.
Tap water, mineral water, herbal tea, and homemade organic cordials are provided with each meal, while a morning coffee can be ordered on request.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Detox juices
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Whole food
- Yogic
Exclusive Gifts
Suncokret Dream has prepared a few special surprises for you, including unique experiences and thoughtful extras to make your journey even more memorable.
Free Oracle Reading
Things to do (optional)
Suncokret provides a range of holistic therapies and workshops that you can take while on retreat. Please send an inquiry for details.
Spa treatments
Spa services are available on request.
What's included
- A free consultation with a holistic lifestyle coach
- Chakra test to assess your overall state of being (at retreat start)
- A daily 90-minute integrated morning yoga sadhana practice adjusted to the participants' level
- A daily 60-minute evening program with meditation, journaling, and discussion
- Optional daily outings to places of interest
- Dedicated free time each day to sightsee and recharge
- Free use of a yoga kit (mat, mat bag, block, strap, blanket, cushion, and protective foam mat)
- A selection of TLC services (holistic treatments / workshops) that can be added to your package, a la carte
- Free transfers from and to the Stari Grad or Jelsa Ports
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free access to a library of books, magazines, music, films, games, and art supplies
- Essential toiletries
- 5 days and four nights in ambient facilities and accommodation that will help you rest and reflect
- Daily breakfast, dinner, and snacks
- Free water, mineral water, tea, and herbal drinks
- A daily helping of seasonal fruits and snacks
- Free access to tea corners with organic herbs
Included Exclusive Gifts
Free Oracle Reading
Ask any question and let the Oracle intuitively guide you to discover the answers that are secretly hidden deep within your psyche.
What's not included
- Airport transfers
- Flights
- Holistic treatments and workshops
- Spa treatments
- Anything not included in the above package
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer not provided
Split Airport
48 km away from your destination
Transfer not provided
Franjo Tuđman Airport
289 km away from your destination
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Zagreb Airport (ZAG). From there, you can book a connecting domestic flight to Split Airport (SPU). From Split, you will have to take the ferry to get to Stari Grad. You will be picked up by Suncokret Dream from the Stari Grad port at 16:30 to be transferred to the resort.
From Zagreb Airport (ZAG), you can also book a bus transfer with Flixbus to Split, which takes approximately two hours, and then a ferry from Split to Stari Grad.
When you arrive at the Stari Grad port, you will be picked up by Suncokret Dream at 16:30 to be transferred to the resort.
Arrival by bus
Outside the Split airport, a bus operated by Croatia Airlines departs from just outside the terminal door. You can buy the ticket from the driver, which costs about 4 EUR. It takes about 30 minutes to get to the city center.
There is also a local bus that goes to the bus station in Split to and from Trogir every 20 minutes from a stop on the road in front of the Airport Terminal. The price of the ticket is approximately the same.
After you have reached Split Port, you will need to get a ferry transfer from Split Port to Stari Grad Port. You will be picked up by Suncokret Dream from the Stari Grad port at 16:30 to be transferred to the resort.
Arrival by ferry
After your bus transfer to Split Port, you will need to get a ferry transfer from Split Port to Stari Grad Port. The airport bus stop is just next to the old town. From there, you can see the ferry, a short walk away.
Next to the ferry / bus / train / taxi station are ticket booths for Jadrolinija, the ferry company, where you can buy your ferry tickets. Alternatively, you can buy your ticket at the booth in the ferry terminal itself or online.
You will be picked up by Suncokret Dream from the Stari Grad port at 16:30 to be transferred to the resort.
Suncokret Dream provides free transfers from the Stari Grad Ferry Port on the event start date at 16:30 and from the retreat at 10:45 on the retreat end date (in order to catch the 11:30 ferry back to Split).
The ride from the port to the retreat takes about five minutes.
Arrival by taxi
From the Split airport, a taxi to Split old town costs about 33 to 40 EUR. You can book a taxi online, or Suncokret Dream can book one for you for a small processing fee. Once you have reached Split Port, you will need to get a ferry transfer from Split Port to Stari Grad Port.
You will be picked up by Suncokret Dream from the Stari Grad port at 16:30 to be transferred to the resort.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 21 days before arrival.
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