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In this program, you will undergo cleansing through yoga practice and organic liquids that will surely leave your body cleaner inside and more energetic outside. Keeping the body free of toxins, free radicals, and other nasty things that can end up in your insides is essential to maintaining a healthy life. Most importantly, consider this wellness retreat as a loving gift to yourself. Om Shanti Yoga and Holidays is the first yoga center that offers detox for some years and has a lot of experience now.
Detoxifying the body through yoga brings additional benefits which cannot be achieved through other means of detoxification or diet alone. Also, detoxification through yoga improves the function of internal organs and removes impurities from them. In this six-day seminar, three and a half days will be a cleansing process with smoothies, soups, green smoothies, juices, herbal teas, and water. On the first and last day, you will have some light vegetarian meals, salad and smoothies, and fruits to begin and end the detoxification.
There are asana classes with meditation and pranayama every morning and afternoon to detox the body and mind. The days will start with drinking warm lemon water to give a kick to the lever. Next will be one and a half hours of morning Hatha yoga practice, with asanas, pranayama, and meditation sessions. You will then get to enjoy a morning smoothie, followed by group sharing and inspiration-evoking activities. After this, a mid-day smoothie will be served, and participants will be given their daily free time to enjoy relaxing leisure activities in the retreat center or explore the gorgeous beach nearby.
For one of the days, you will be able to enjoy an oil massage featuring special flowers and herb essences to detoxify the skin. During the evenings, you will come back to the center for another set of an hour and a half of Hatha yoga practice. Soup will be the evening meal,. A cacao cermony with mantra and kirtan is offerd one evening . You also have the option to spend your free time basking in the silence of the mountain village surrounding the center.
Sample schedule
- Tongue cleaning and Jala Neti (nose cleaning)
- Warm water with lemon to give a kick to the lever
- Daily morning and evening yoga (one-and-a-half-hour of asanas, pranayama, and meditation)
- Yoga Nidra
- Morning smoothie
- Group sharing and inspiration
- 1 oil massage (with special flowers and herbs essences to detoxify from the skin)
- Midday smoothie
- Free time to go to the beach or just relax in the center
- Evening yoga session
- Evening veggie soup
- Cacao cermony Mantras, kirtan, free time
Instructors
Anja Hettich
Anja, also known as Apinaya, is an alternative healer, teacher of the new consciousness, and qualified Shivananda yoga teacher. She also teaches Yin Yoga, yoga flow and playing harmonium and singing mantras. She has also been studying with Iyengar yoga teachers for quite some time. Originally born in South Germany, she came to Crete, the island of light. Realizing that life is much more than what the eyes can see, her inner journey began and yoga and meditation came into her life, as well as different energy healing methods and massages. She has also been a Reiki master for more than 20 years.
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You will be accommodated in a double room in Om Shanti Yoga & Healing Crete which are all cleansed for a safe stay at this time. The house is an old stone house with a garden and a view of the Libyan Sea from all the rooms. There is space in the garden for relaxation in many private places. They have restored all rooms to the original style of the house with natural stone, giving a refreshing feeling for the summer.
There are three double rooms that will be shared during the program, all with mosquito nets and natural Coco-mat mattresses. Apart from the retreat, you can use also the yoga shala for private practice. Bathrooms are one closed shower with an old olive tree inside and one outside shower under the fig tree as well various toilets and sinks. There is a space for having breakfast and dinner and also a fridge you can use and prepare cold plates.
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