Imagine going to a retreat and not feeling this innate desire to transform your whole self over the course of a weekend. Imagine that you meet me in the middle and we look at learning from our patterns of holding and getting to know, understand and accept ourselves instead. If that sounds good, then come explore more!
Come join me for not just your average nurturing retreat - this weekend has some extra special things for you to enjoy and benefit from, including an exploration of pain workshop (sounds nicer than the title), sushi making night and candle lit meditation.
Are you ready for a yoga retreat? Us too!
Join me and Patri of Espai Taronja studio, Altea.
What's more, this retreat is a little more special. We want to invite you to a long weekend where we can explore the body and mind from a deeper connection and understanding of ourselves. Working together means we can provide so much more for you.
With Patri’s wonderful yin yoga classes, with a therapeutic and functional approach to yoga and Sophie’s background and fascination in anatomy, yoga and massage we aim to bring you a weekend to understand where restrictions in our body and mind come from.
This weekend I invite you for another lovely weekend in Villabasil, after the lush success of the January retreat. Enjoy a few days of disconnection, surrounded by beautiful walks, time to sit and do nothing, in between classes and receive a massage, if needed.
If you have a desire to move this January, to stretch, breathe and prepare for the year to come then join me in the beautiful greenery of Villabasil in the province of Burgos, northern Spain!
A weekend of active stillness, moving how your body needs and reconnecting with yourself. Unwind and refresh yourself ready for the new year and guiltlessly escape a little. I am no fan of resolutions. As we strive to be productive and keep going in a way that may not be working for us, this weekend will open up space to reflect and consider what does work, without setting limits and boundaries that can leave you feeling defeated if not perfectly fulfilled.
To book please contact me
£325 1st 5 people booking
£620 if you book with a friend
£375 full price
Come join me for a weekend of treats from mind to mouth….and the rest of the body will follow!
Take a break from the daily grind, stresses in your life - take time for yourself and recharge the batteries.
I invite you to the countryside of cantabria for 4 days of focus on yourself, taking your nervous sytem ouf of ‘fight or flight’ and into rest and repair. We will focus on relaxing and releasing, while building strength, both physicaly and mentally. While nurturing your needs with yoga, great food, great settings and more treats to come, relaxing will come easy.
Spring retreat - Vilassar de Mar
A long weekend treat for mind and body
4th-7th April
£450
Please get in touch for how to book your place.
Included:
Around 12 hours of yoga
Yoga and massage workshop
3 delicious vegetarian meals a day
Coffee/tea/snacks
Shared accomodation - 2 people sharing per room (mostly single beds)
Plunge pool in the garden
Early Bird Fees : £235
After September 15th : £255
To book please contact me
We will be focussing on the more restorative side of yoga, finding our softness and support - with some stronger classes looking into holding poses and building strength for the coming darker months.
Retreat
This weekend will help provide us with the support we sometimes need for the winter times - surrdounded by the colours of the autumnal farm and the warmth of the fires. The retreat allows for you to focus on your yoga practise but also yourself and your needs : time for walks, reading, contemplating in the beautiful surroundings of the farm. With the added extras of fires, hot tub and cake this weekend allows you to explore the change in the season. The yoga will be focusing much more on slowing down with some softer more restorative classes but also some stronger classes to build strength in mind and body. The combination of classes can really help develop your practise - teaching us how to switch on and off our muscles and minds!
Returning to Ragmans always brings me a strong element of ease and excitement! Everytime I arrive I know I am in for a great weekend - and hopefully the retreatees feel so too. We will be focussing on bringing energy back into the body, starting from the feet up. Some hatha classes mixed with some hatha flow/vinyasa classes - looking at some inversions and the strength we will have built up over the weekend.
Sound and Flow : with Sophie and Lucy
£25 (£20 concession)
To book please contact me here
Come and join us at Matter Wholefoods for an afternoon of treating the nervous system. As the winter drags on (not long to go now until Spring!) we need some focus and strength. Sophie and Lucy will be leading this afternoon of nurturing down time – allow time for movement, strength and softness. Bring layers for the slower parts of the class to feel cosy and supported.
All levels welcome
Flow at your level and your mood for that day - listening to what your body needs.
Sophie will bring a flowing class to combine with the sound. We will work with the breath to begin to focus on slowing down and getting into our bodies and out of our busy minds. We will then build up to some slow movement, flowing a little faster to get the blood flowing and warm the muscles, ending with some longer held poses to give time for those muscles to ease into deeper focus and inward looking – as well as time to absorb the sound surrounding us.
The sound bath works on the level of vibrations - sound vibrations connect with our mind and bodies in different ways at different times'. Allowing time within the movement and during relaxation to absorb the effects of working internally and externally with sound immersing yourself fully. Sound baths can help alleviate stress as well as working on a deeper level of vibrations affecting you on a cellular level. Look at the effect sound waves has on water, it's like internally massaging the inside of the body, helping you feel more connected with yourself.
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£20 per person or £35 per couple (any two people)
Come with your partner, friend or family member to this 2 hour workshop with Sophie. We will work in pairs looking at how working with both yoga and massage can help support yourself and your partner. Learn how to be more confident with massage, looking at different techniques of how to apply pressure to help relieve tension and pay respect to your bodies.
We will start the session with breathwork and a yoga practice to connect with our mind, body and breath, enabling a deep focus on the energy we need for ourselves and our partner. We will break up into our pairs for partner yoga using each other to deepen into certain poses.
The second half of the workshop will be about different ways of massaging- applying pressure and helping release tension be it physical or emotional, allowing time and space for support of you and your partners needs. We will use oils and lavender during the massage.
Spend this Saturday giving yourself and a loved one a treat - leave relaxed and knowing a little more of how to relax each other.
In this nurturing workshop, we will be focusing on settling into forward folds, closing in to the more introspective poses, allowing time for inward looking.
We will work with partners and with many lovely supported restorative poses (cushions galore!) to allow you to deepen your postures through support and learn how to use physical pressure to relax further into it.
We will explore the effect of touch on the body and the nervous system - learning techniques to help feel more confident when massaging friends and partners but also to be open in receiving massage. Learning to understand the importance of using breath to aid the parasympathetic nervous system to kick in and help restore our systems.
Bring a friend as you will be working in partners, but you are also welcome to come alone as we will pair you up appropriately!
Expect a cosy Saturday afternoon, moving into deep supported yoga poses and be rewarded by massage throughout. We will be working with oil and lavender essence, so prepare to truly be nurtured and relaxed this winter's afternoon!
£20 1 person, £35 any 2 people!
Retreat for the winter - taking time to explore the beautiful colours of Ragmans Lane Farm, time to focus on you, your practise, your mind, body and breath will come so easily.
For 5 weeks we will be spending an hour looking at the different techniques and the benefits of slowing down on the nervous system - restore and refresh.
A yoga retreat away from the city - 4 days of relaxing, focussed and strengthening yoga, time to reflect and of course time to eat all of the delicious vegetarian meals.
The back, neck and shoulders are the most common areas of tension for most people. We will be working on the muscles of the shoulder girdle and opening up the chest to release the shoulders and back in order to create more space for our expansive breath. We will explore different techniques and benefit of holds, deep and soft pressure massage on these areas.
This workshop is part of our Yoga & Massage Focus series with Sophie. Each session explores the area of the body through breathwork and yoga, deepening their focus with the massage in the 2nd half. The focus areas of each workshop looks at the way in which you can affect the whole body through working on just one area. By bringing into focus the holistic nature of relaxation, we stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system which allow our systems to restore and hence our mind and muscles to relax.
This 2 hours workshop is £20.
If booking all three Yoga & Massage Focus workshops, please speak to Reception or email contact@trikayoga.co.uk to pay only £55 for all three!
Take time to focus on supporting our body while supporting others.
We will spend 1 hour and a half working on releasing tensions through bodywork – using partner yoga and breath work to deepen our yoga practise seeing the effects of soft pressure within poses. While looking at how to keep strong in your daily posture and therefore when massaging.
Then going onto earning techniques to help you feel more confident with massage, providing space and support for friends and family through soft tissue release. In turn learning how to receive massages – the art of letting go and give over to releasing the muscles and stress.
Lavender eye bags and bolster will be used to help soften the body with a true relaxation at the end to bring all that focus back together.
By bringing into focus the holistic nature of relaxation, we stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system which allow our systems to restore and hence our mind and muscles to relax.
This workshop is £18.
Please contact Trika for bookings.
Give your overworked heads and hands a well deserved rest. They work so hard together and don't always get the respect they deserve!
Join Sophie for this workshop which aims to release tension in the temples and jaw to release the muscles that are tense from stress. We will work down the arms and into release of tension in the wrists, palms and fingers.
This workshop is part of our Yoga & Massage Focus series. Each session explores the area of the body through breathwork and yoga, deepening their focus with the massage in the 2nd half. The focus areas of each workshop looks at the way in which you can affect the whole body through working on just one area. By bringing into focus the holistic nature of relaxation, we stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system which allow our systems to restore and hence our mind and muscles to relax.
This 2 hour workshop is £20.
If booking all three Yoga & Massage Focus workshops, please speak to Reception or email contact@trikayoga.co.uk to pay only £55 for all three!
£200(book before 31st January)
£235 (book after 31st January)
Ragmans Lane Farm, Forest of Dean
To book please contact me
Spring doesn't have to feel so far away. Take time away for yourself to help celebrate the end of the winer hibernation period and be ready for the exciting brighter Spring months. I invite you to a weekend of focussed yoga, delicious organic seasonal food, relaxation, fires, hot tubs and massage - creating space in the mind and body.
"Thanks again Sophie, was a lovely retreat. I cannot tell you how much better I feel, both inside and out. I feel total renewed, like I've got myself back " Emliy Tuffen, 2016
Create a stronger bond between you and your body and learn how to work safely with your body, using massage in helping others release muscle tension and relax.
This workshop will start with breathing techniques, bringing focus to your body, mind and breath and how they work together. We will then limber up with a yoga practice, putting focus on your inner strength and calm.
Breaking down into pairs, we will enjoy some simple partner yoga, using our bodies to apply gentle pressure on our partners to deepen the poses. We will continue in these pairings to use knowledge from the first three parts of the workshop to learn how to massage others.
Wear comfortable clothing, and be prepared to learn, deepen your understanding of the body and leave completely relaxed.
£20 - To book Click Here
RETREAT WITHIN
Prepare for winter with a digital detox, time for you and your yoga practise - with the added bonus of bubbles in the hot tub, tea time on Saturday and a soothing massage (at an extra cost).
£200 Early Bird fees
£235 After 15th September
CONNECT & SUPPORT
Create a stronger bond between you & your body.
Give yourself confidence to massage, help promote relaxation.
Held at SEA, 1 Greenbank Road
£20 - concessions available
This 2 hour workshop will look at breathwork, using yoga poses to start to focus on your own inner stregnth and calmness, to then bring you closer to how to work safely with your body while helping others release muscle tension and relax - looking at using massage during and out of yoga, applying pressure in a much more confident and assured way.
Tons of yoga, delicious vegetarian food in the beautiful surrounding of Ragmans Lane Farm - with the added bonus of time in the hot tub and for an extra cost a massage.
