6 Day New Year Clarity Yoga Retreat In Sunny Andalusia, Cádiz, Spain

Gourmet organic vegetarian cuisine At Suryalila Retreat Centre, they pride themselves on their outstanding vegetarian fare. Meals are delicious, diverse, and beautifully presented, using all organic and mostly local ingredients. They are working towards supplying more and more production needs from their own organic farm and garden! The vegetarian kitchen The kitchen is a happy and bustling environment and the cooks are all very creative and talented. The Suryalila Kitchen specializes in gourmet international vegetarian cuisine, using the freshest seasonal, locally sourced organic fruits and vegetables available, artfully prepared in a varied and truly eclectic international menu. Eggs are gathered daily from their own happy chickens and when the season allows, you will enjoy the freshest fruit picked from their own orchard of apricot, peach, fig, and pear trees. They regularly accommodate vegan, gluten-free, and non-dairy diets, so if you have any special dietary restrictions, just let them know. If you are a little nervous about going vegetarian, don’t be! The gourmet vegetarian cuisine will be one of the greatest food experiences of your life and they promise you, you will be raving about the food long after you return home! Indoor and outdoor dining They also believe that where you eat is almost as important as what you eat! They provide dining tables both indoors and outdoors so that you can eat in the large beautiful dining room or enjoy your meal al fresco, watching the stunning sunsets over the Andalucian hill-towns. Dining room hours They serve delicious organic meals three times per day. The usual meal times are: 09:30 Breakfast 13:30 Lunch 19:00 Dinner Amrita Cafe and Juice Cafe Amrita bar is a vibrant addition to the retreat center. They offer a menu of cold-pressed organic juices, scrumptious smoothies, delicious snacks, Kombucha, and delicious health-conscious hot drinks such as spicy Indian Chai, Vegan bulletproof coffee, Ceremonial cacao, Mocacao, and the personal favorite, Golden Milk, which contains a super-healthy blend of exotic spices. Wine by the glass and artisanal beer bears are also available. Suryalila organic olive oil - Liquid gold They harvest olives in late October. They usually enlist a few locals to help with this, as it is quite skilled labor. The trees must be pruned every year, which is hard work with so many trees and involves skillful use of a chainsaw. Harvesting the olives involves shaking the trees onto a tarpaulin and also hand-picking, the way it has been done for thousands of years. After shaking the olives off the trees, they need to clean them and then either soak them in brine or take them to Zahara de la Sierra where they get them milled. In harvesting season, when you go to the olive mill, you need to wait in line. You are given a number, like in a busy office, and have to wait for your number to be called. They will call you half an hour before your turn and in the harvest season, the mill works 24 hours, so you might be called up in the middle of the night. After your olives are milled with big grindstones, you are given a number of huge containers of olive oil. These containers contain ample olive oil to last the kitchen the whole year and also allow them to sell some to guests in the shop, with their own label designed by Rebecca, the artist and founder of Yoga Will Save the World. Suryalila olive oil is nutty and sweet and bitter at the same time and has a deep gold color with a greenish hue. They are experimenting with different kinds of marinade to flavor the olives for eating. It’s possible to add chili and garlic and peppers and different herbs and they are still looking for that perfect recipe. NOTE: please let your hosts know any diet requirements beforehand. The following meals are included: Breakfast Lunch Dinner Drinks The following drinks are included: Water Coffee Tea The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for: Vegetarian Vegan Gluten Free Organic