An uplifting, conscious, 6 night holiday of invigoration and rejuvenation through movement. Packed with mindful urban dance, yoga and meditation to cultivate inner awareness, balance the body and free the mind. An opportunity to find yourself in the beauty of movement, music and nature. Led by co-founder and lead trainer El who has over 30 years of professional training and over 10 years of work experience in the entertainment industry with A-list artists in Los Angeles, and who also is a certified yoga teacher. El brings her unique approach to dance and teaching dance, guiding you to the empowerment and healing properties it holds, and helping you find your dance. If you're feeling goofy, silly, awkward or nervous, and even if you're feeling confident in your dance, this retreat is for you!
08:00 - Morning session
09:00 - Breakfast
09:30 - Yoga Practice
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Free time (massage, workshops)
17:30 - Fitness class
18:30 - Stretch and mobility
19:00 - Dinner
Are you ready to connect? When you are connected to yourself, you know who you are, what you want and your worth. And that you deserve it ALL! You know what you need to prioritize in order to live happy, balanced lives that benefit yourself and the people you care about. You know to invest your time and energy in things that are aligned with your true nature and in turn gives you satisfaction and fulfillment, which fuels and energizes you! Instead of chasing, you become MAGNETIC attracting everything you want to yourself. Instead of trying to fit in, you allow yourself to boldly stand out and express yourself. The world needs your unique perspective and actions! This retreat's program is curated for you to achieve this through dance and yoga practices, along with additional mindfulness practices and experiences.
Dance is a powerful tool for connection.
Dance is a very powerful practice to achieve this self-connection, self-expression and empowerment - rejuvenating us from the inside-out with long-term lasting benefits. Instead of receiving the benefits dance gives us depending on substances momentarily - in this retreat you’ll receive the guidance to obtain these benefits on your own and retain them - making them forever yours.
And you don’t have to be a dancer. Because not everyone is a ‘dancer’, right? Wrong..! %Dance has always been a natural part of human existence. Since the dawn of days, people have used dance to mark important occasions, celebrate, for battle, for ritual and prayer. It’s only in modern times that we’ve become so focused on the mind, that we’ve lost our natural connection to our body, heart and intuition. Dance is a natural form of human expression and has always been a part of us - it’s just a matter of having the right guidance to reconnect with it.
Although you’ll learn a bunch of dance moves, it’s not the point…
So even if you have 2 left feet and absolutely no coordination, and also if you’re confident in your dance - it does not matter! In this retreat, although you’ll learn various foundational dance techniques, nowadays popular dance moves, freestyle and dance choreography, the real goal is to use dance to achieve mind-body connection, authentic expression and self-empowerment.
Highlights:-
You will be served a delicious Michelin Star chef-designed vegan menu, utilizing as many local and homegrown ingredients as possible. The food is Sri Lankan fusion, as the hosts believe you should eat the food of where you are, although better if it’s somehow more familiar.
The kitchen is open plan in the villa’s main living area: the cooks are on display as they prepare all meals. A merger between a commercial and a local kitchen, meaning food can be cooked, baked or made almost in any way, but still have a home cooked taste.
Michelin chef Elspeth Humm designed the menu and trained the kitchen staff. The venue worked with Elspeth to develop a specific, repeatable, seasonal, and health-focused menu, that contains as much as possible from the garden. In combination with the excellent local staff, you will experience her incredible menu coming to life every day of your stay, promoting a detox both mentally and physically.
In-house Grown Food
The venue contains more than ten fruit trees, including: jackfruit, mango, coconut, donka, rambutan, curry leaf and more which are used throughout the year. To expand on this, the team has planted many more of guests favorites trees such as Papaya and Mangosteen, and have a broad veggie and spice garden which feeds everyone in the venue throughout the year.
The following meals are included:
The following drinks are included:
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
