hiking & yoga
Put your current life on pause and come to nourish yourself on all levels here at Suryalila, dubbed to be “One of the most beautiful places on earth”.
DATES
16 – 21 September, 2024
11 – 16 November, 2024
15 – 20 March, 2025
20 – 25 September 2025
8 – 13 November, 2025
This all-inclusive 6-day retreat combines transformative yoga practices that guide you deeply inward with stunning hikes designed to inspire and immerse you in nature.
The hiking trails on this retreat range from longer, more challenging hikes to shorter, easier ones, offering you a varied exploration of the area's stunning landscapes. Each edition of this retreat is unique as many people return over and over again.
Our yoga sessions are designed to complement your day – starting with more dynamic classes in the morning to energize you for the hikes, and concluding with serene, deeply nourishing sessions in the late afternoon to help you find restoration on a deep level.
This is a unique Hiking and Yoga Retreat for all nature lovers. Discover the local treasures in the nearby Natural Park Sierra de Grazalema with the help of experienced guides while being in an environment where you can focus completely on yourself and be nourished and supported at all levels.
The goal of this retreat is to help you deepen your yoga and self-care practice in a beautiful retreat environment while exploring the breathtaking nature of Andalusia and the Spanish countryside.
Join us
"The Perfect Holiday Cocktail"
Nourish and restore yourself deeply with this carefully crafted “Experience of a lifetime” Retreat which will leave you floating long after it ends. Expect stunning off-the-beaten-track hikes and wildlife observation in one of the greenest Natural Parks in Spain, Superb Yoga and Meditation, Sound Healing Relaxations, life-changing Restorative and Nidra workshops.
This retreat is an invitation to awaken to the healing power of stillness and nature in a community of like-minded people.
Also at Suryalila, you will be spoiled by divine massages, eco sauna and salt water swimming, unmatchable sunset views and truly delicious meals.
YOGA
You will enjoy two to three yoga workshops a day. Accessible for beginner practitioners but also deepening and refining the practice of more experienced yoga teachers and students.
Imagine starting your morning with meditation practices as the sun rises, followed by superb energising yoga before a delicious breakfast buffet awaits you. The more mellow afternoon sessions will be a perfect way to recharge and energise after the hiking activities and come back with well-established self-care practices.
The Yoga Classes and Workshops will be focused on Alignment, Restoring the body, Moving with Integrity, Powerful Breathing, Nidra and Sound Healing Practices. There will also be a fun and bonding Acro yoga class. Learn more about the style of yoga classes on the hiking and yoga retreat.
Focus on the Yoga Sessions:
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Advance your practice
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Find inner quietness and new depth in your practice
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Connect to the subtleties in the fiscal practice to allow expansion of your awareness.
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Find your unique physical expression and alignment
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Provide Techniques to increase your connection and energy flow to your centre
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Tools to strengthen the nervous system and find clarity and alertness in the mind
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Facilitate deep rest, replenishment and clear perception
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Release stored tensions
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Improved breath capacity
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Working on refining your awareness during the postures in preparation for deep meditation
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Learning how to enter a deep yet attentive state of relaxation
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Inspire you to take some of these tools into your daily self-practice
Styles of yoga on this retreat
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Mindful Energising Vinyasa Flow
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Restorative Yoga Practices with a different focus
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Pranayama and meditation
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Myofascial Release and Yin
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Sound healing and Yoga Nidra
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Acro Yoga – Games and Fun
HIKING
The retreat will include hikes that are off the beaten track in the nearby mountains of Sierra de Grazalema which boast more than 200 species of birds, 40 species of mammals, and outstanding Mediterranean flora. It’s also home to the unique Spanish Fir.
On one of the days, there will be an option to do a bird-watching tour and animal observation with special equipment and expert guidance. All the activities are carefully curated to be both invigorating and relaxing. During some days there will be two hiking options provided – a shorter, easier route and a more moderate, longer hike to suit everybody.
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Hike in the breathtaking Grazalema National Park with focus on Biodiversity and birdwatching
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Riverwalk and swim in refreshing rock pools flowing with pure mountain water
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Hike from the beautiful whitewashed hilltop village into the mountains
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Hike to a local village with a view over the stunning highest peak in the Natural Park
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Permaculture tour around our 50 acres of land flourishing with organic vegetable garden, food forest, ancient olive groves and farm animals
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Relaxing in the Eco Sauna and enjoying the Salt water swimming pool
Retreat Leader
Lidiya is a resident teacher at the beautiful Suryalila Retreat Centre in Southern Spain where she also leads Hiking & Yoga, Adventure & Yoga and Escape Christmas Retreat. Yoga has been a central part of Lidiya’s lifestyle since discovering the practice more than ten years ago.
Her yoga classes are vigorous and energising, and at the same time balanced with more gentle and calming sequences. Lidiya puts strong focus on breath work while drawing awareness within to inspire conscious integration of the physical body and the mind. She is an attentive teacher and aims to inspire her students to bring meditation into movement. Leading the practitioners with a feeling of strength, freedom and inner calm. Her classes usually end with singing bawls sound therapy.
Apart from vinyasa flow she teaches yin yoga, pranayama, restorative and AcroYoga classes.
With her students, she loves sharing what yoga has given her – balance in life, inner wellbeing and radiant health.
Lidiya was elated to discover Frog Lotus Yoga International, a school which is influenced by Ashanga, Iyengar, and Forrest Yoga. She studied to become a vinyasa flow yoga teacher with the internationally acclaimed, Vidya Heisel. Recently she has completed a yin yoga training with Sara Powers and Thai Yoga Massage with Tripple Gem School of Thai Massage.
In addition to teaching yoga, Lidiya is a tourism management specialist, with a background in product development and organisation of wellness retreats. Her holidays are deeply nourishing, fun, adventurous and explorative.
retreat cost
Four-bed Mini Dorm – €880
Bell Tent (Twin) – €845
Bell Tent (Single Occupancy) – €1115
Twin Yurt – €940
Yurt Single Occupancy – €1100
Twin room – €1040
Eco Casa Twin – €960
Eco Casa Single Occupancy – €1100
Superior Double Room (Single Occupancy, shared bathroom) – €1150
Superior Double Room (Shared) – €1040
Deluxe Double Room (Single Occupancy, private or ensuite bathroom) – €1260
Deluxe Double (Shared) – €1120
Deluxe Suite (Single) – €1370
Deluxe Suite (Shared) – €1180
Honey Moon Yurt (Shared, private bathroom) – €1180
Own van – €850
*You will be sharing the twin type of accommodation with other participants of the same sex. Feel free to book it even if you come on your own.
To book email info@adventureandyoga.com
