Yoga and Your Health
“A person should always develop their ability to do goodness. Make yourself better; this should be every person's goal.”
∼ Immanuel Kant
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Yoga and Your Health

Yoga and Your Health - The Practical Approach to a Balanced Lifestyle

October 30 - November 6, 2010

With Claudia Jones

About the Retreat

The Yoga and Your Health retreat offers a practical approach to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. This retreat is for those wishing to make positive changes in their lifestyle to combat the pressures of today's modern living and its impact on our health.

On the Yoga and Your Health retreat you will enjoy:

  • Delicious home-cooked healthy meals
  • Fresh fruit and vegetable juices
  • Fresh wheatgrass juice
  • A variety of nutritious healthy supplements

Practical afternoon sessions include:

  • Healthy cooking class
  • How to make your own nutritional health supplements
  • Neti (nasal cleansing),
  • Tratak
  • Introduction to self-massage, hand and foot reflexology.
  • Talk on healthy, balanced living
  • Discussion, Q & A

Yoga classes include:

  • Guided asana practice.
  • Ashtanga Yoga Mysore style will be available for those with an established self-practice
  • Restorative yoga
  • Breathwork, pranayama and meditation

Upon arrival you will receive your complimentary Samahita Wellness 'Yoga and Your Health' Welcome Kit.

We recommend you take the opportunity to relax and rebalance further by adding on one of our Samahita Wellness Balanced Living packages over the 7 days:

(please note there is an additional cost for these to the standard retreat rate)

Simple Balanced Living Radiant Balanced Living Pure Balanced Living
7 individual 'Body and Soul' therapies:

You can choose from any one of the following 60 minute 'Body and Soul' therapies each day:

  • A Touch of Ayurveda
  • Traditional Thai massage
  • Therapeutic massage
  • Aromatherapy massage
  • Swedish massage
  • Sabai massage
  • Thai massage with herbal compress
  • Foot reflexology massage
  • Relaxing Foot Massage
7 individual 'Body and Soul' therapies as described under Simple package.

Plus

You can choose 3 of our 'Radiance' Treatments:

  • Apricot facial massage
  • Facial treatments
  • Exfoliating body scrubs
  • Nature's touch: hands & feet

and 3 Far Infrared Sauna sessions
7 individual 'Body and Soul' therapies as described under Simple package.

Plus

3 'Radiance' treatments

Plus

the following detoxifying therapies:

3 Far Infrared Sauna sessions
2 Colon Hydrotherapy Treatments
2 Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage

About the Teacher

Claudia is the Director of Samahita Wellness at Samahita Retreat. Claudia expertly guides and supports our guests through detox and wellness programs and has done so since the program's launch. She is instrumental in the ongoing development of our detox programs and the growth of our wellness center. Claudia brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of complementary health and wellbeing from her holistic health and yoga center in the UK, which she ran for many years till selling in 2006. She completed her Centered Yoga Training in 2007, has taught retreats in Goa, India and on the Greek Islands and is a resident teacher here at Samahita Retreat. She has spent time in study in both Mysore with Pattabhi Jois and Sharath and also at The Kaivalyadham Yoga Institute with Sri Tiwari for pranayama. For more please see her full bio

The Daily Schedule

The program begins at 5pm on the first day of the retreat with a group welcome and departure is at 12pm on the last day.
The schedule is subject to change at the discretion of the teacher.

7:00 am               Morning cleansing practices.
Herbal tea
7:30 am Intention and Day Opening
Breathwork-Pranayama and Meditation
8:15 am Asana Practice: Guided asana practice. Ashtanga Yoga Mysore style will be available for those with an established self-practice
10:00 am Breakfast of fresh fruits, juices and cereals
1:00 pm Lunch of soup, steamed vegetables, rice, salads
4:00 pm Practical sessions including: healthy cooking class, how to make your own nutritional health supplements, neti (nasal cleansing), introduction to self-massage and hand/foot reflexology talk on healthy, balanced living, discussion, Q & A
5:00 pm Restorative yoga asana and breath work
6:00 pm Dinner of soup or broth, steamed vegetables
6:00 - 9:00 pm Steam room available
7:30 pm Evening program - video, tratak, meditation

Based on request and availability, you are welcome to arrive early or extend your stay, our Residential and Wellness Programs details are on http://www.yoga-thailand.com/yoga-holidays.html

The rate is inclusive of:

  • Full yoga program
  • Fully equipped accommodation with AC
  • Full brunch and dinner buffets
  • Mineral drinking water
  • Herbal steam room
  • Salt water swimming pool
  • Wi Fi internet
  • Service charge
  • VAT government tax


Thank you and we look forward to you joining us.