Zanzibar Retreat: Yoga, Somatic Movement and African Rhythm
Jambiani Beach, Jambiani, Tanzania
Up to 6 in group
June 20 - 26, 2024
Retreat Highlights
- Daily x2 deep yoga & movement
- 6 nights cozy accommodation @mbili_villas swimming pool on site
- African Drum, Yoga & Somatic Movement Workshop with @pepe_touz_toz
- Cacao ceremony & sound healing
- Freshly prepared meals
- Ocean Swims
- Beyond Retreats ~ Visits to grassroots organizations
- Village Walks
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Yoga has been a vital part of Mie’s life both on and off the mat for many years. She has studied yoga with various teachers and practiced different styles, while growing up in Japan, and living and working in Tanzania, Uganda, the United States, England and Germany.
Many influential teachers and masters – such as Jason Crandell, Claire Missingham, Yogeswari, Jai Uttal, Jo Tastula and Thich Nhat Hanh – have deepened Mie’s practice and influenced her teaching style. Mie is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher by Yoga Alliance. She is also an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT), which acknowledges the experience of over 1000 hours of actual teaching.
Mie strongly feels that yoga practice is for everyone, regardless of age, physical conditions, social-economic status. She does her very best to make the sequence accessible to practitioners of all levels, where we can be equally comfortable and challenged in our own boundaries.
Mie is currently based in Bonn, Germany and is one of the lead teachers at the Vinyasa People, an international yoga studio/community.
Details of this retreat
Come join this rejuvenating and high vibrational 7 days yoga retreat in magical Zanzibar! Reset and renew, just to feel to be “you”. Use this week filled with inspiring yoga, wild nature, delicious meals and great company to cultivate your own inspiration, vitality, the vibration of love, to allow yourselves to flow with life.
This personalized yoga&movement immersion week is thoughtfully designed for you by Mie who has lived in Tanzania for many years, with the unique blend of profound yoga, sound, healing touch, wild nature, healthy food, people with good energy, and unique culture in Zanzibar.
Nature in Zanzibar has special energetics, which is to Mie, one of the most ideal places in the world to practice yoga, explore movements and support the process of coming back to yourself, rejuvenate and free your energy like no other place. Zanzibar offers us space and freedom just to be ourselves: in a peaceful and supportive environment, you will be guided to deepen/begin your yoga/somatic movement practice, reflect, observe, nourish, and bring natural balance back to our body, mind, and energy. Let nature, culture and people of Africa hold you gently. This retreat will become the magical place where together we can transform, and cultivate a balance your energy, beginning to feel fully present and awake, just to feel this joy to be “you”.
During your free time, embrace excursions to Stone Town, the world heritage site, visit Jozani Forest to watch unique Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey, get on a traditional Dhow boat for a cruise and see a most beautiful sunset, learn how to kite-surf at one of the best kite-surfing sites in the world and soak up the beauty of Zanzibar beach with serene water, blue sky and white sand. This retreat includes some of the best Zanzibar has to offer and you get to do it all or stay and rest to reset. You can create the retreat you need for yourself, just the way you want and need to. Let it be an adventure inward, as well as in the external beauty of this special place.
You will go home with new energy, fully inspired, nourished and recharged.
This personalized yoga&movement immersion week is thoughtfully designed for you by Mie who has lived in Tanzania for many years, with the unique blend of profound yoga, sound, healing touch, wild nature, healthy food, people with good energy, and unique culture in Zanzibar.
Nature in Zanzibar has special energetics, which is to Mie, one of the most ideal places in the world to practice yoga, explore movements and support the process of coming back to yourself, rejuvenate and free your energy like no other place. Zanzibar offers us space and freedom just to be ourselves: in a peaceful and supportive environment, you will be guided to deepen/begin your yoga/somatic movement practice, reflect, observe, nourish, and bring natural balance back to our body, mind, and energy. Let nature, culture and people of Africa hold you gently. This retreat will become the magical place where together we can transform, and cultivate a balance your energy, beginning to feel fully present and awake, just to feel this joy to be “you”.
During your free time, embrace excursions to Stone Town, the world heritage site, visit Jozani Forest to watch unique Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey, get on a traditional Dhow boat for a cruise and see a most beautiful sunset, learn how to kite-surf at one of the best kite-surfing sites in the world and soak up the beauty of Zanzibar beach with serene water, blue sky and white sand. This retreat includes some of the best Zanzibar has to offer and you get to do it all or stay and rest to reset. You can create the retreat you need for yourself, just the way you want and need to. Let it be an adventure inward, as well as in the external beauty of this special place.
You will go home with new energy, fully inspired, nourished and recharged.
Schedule
There are two practices daily. Morning practice is focused on connecting movement and breath to awaken your energy and move it through all energy centers (chakras). Authentic and creative practice will include mantra, meditation, purifying breathing practices and well-rounded body movement. The morning session concludes with a profound full-body relaxation & sound healing.
Evening yoga sessions are designed to bring you back into the present moment and to help you release deep-seated tension in your muscles and tissues. You will be able to surrender and relax with a yin/restorative practice, which will help to activate meridians along the whole body and balance the flow of energy. This session will help you to calm the nervous system, find stillness and invite positive energy towards the end of the day.
Both practices will end with deep full body relaxation and sound healing.
7:30 am Snack and warm drinks
8:00-9:30am Morning meditation and yoga practice with Mie
9:30am Breakfast
Free Time ~ Join beach / cultural activities, soak up the sun, enjoy the beach and relax, massage, read, etc!
4:00pm Optional Asana clinic (one day)
5:00 - 6:30pm Afternoon yoga & meditation practice with Mie / Special Program /Workshop
7:00pm Dinner
Beach fire / music/circle
Evening yoga sessions are designed to bring you back into the present moment and to help you release deep-seated tension in your muscles and tissues. You will be able to surrender and relax with a yin/restorative practice, which will help to activate meridians along the whole body and balance the flow of energy. This session will help you to calm the nervous system, find stillness and invite positive energy towards the end of the day.
Both practices will end with deep full body relaxation and sound healing.
7:30 am Snack and warm drinks
8:00-9:30am Morning meditation and yoga practice with Mie
9:30am Breakfast
Free Time ~ Join beach / cultural activities, soak up the sun, enjoy the beach and relax, massage, read, etc!
4:00pm Optional Asana clinic (one day)
5:00 - 6:30pm Afternoon yoga & meditation practice with Mie / Special Program /Workshop
7:00pm Dinner
Beach fire / music/circle
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Tarakwai Safaris, Jambiani Beach, Jambiani, Tanzania
Directions
We will arrange your airport transfer on arrival day from Zanzibar International Airport (ZNZ) to your villa in Jambiani (one hour away).
For departure, we are happy to help you arrange your own transportation. We have connections with many affordable taxis.
For departure, we are happy to help you arrange your own transportation. We have connections with many affordable taxis.
Accommodation
Mbili Villas is located within just a few minutes’ walk to the beach and features a private pool, a garden, and has tastefully decorated rooms, an ample area for lounging. The Yoga Shala can be found upstairs in a spacious well-ventilated mezzanine covered in natural Makuti thatch.
This is a private master en suite bedroom.
Master en suite bedroom based on double occupancy.
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
Mbili Villas is a cozy small boutique hotel located in Jambiani, Zanzibar. The whole area in Jambiani is surrounded by lush tropical vegetation and gazes over the expansive Indian Ocean. The village has its own uniqueness with a beautiful long stretch of coastline with soft white sand and turquoise water, that is embedded in local culture and communities.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Meals will be prepared by a private chef at the villa. Ingredients are fresh and locally sourced with flavourful spices Zanzibar Island is known for. There will be plentiful fresh fruits included.
What's Included
- All Breakfast and Dinners
- 6 Nights Accommodation
- Yoga Twice Daily
- Cacao Ceremony
- Sound Healing Workshop
- Special Traditional Drumming and Movement Workshop
- Sunset Dhow Sailing
- Guided Village Walk
What's Not Included
- International airfare
- Tanzania entry visa
- Lunches (we prefer people to have the freedom to explore the island and enjoy choosing for themselves)
- Activities not listed above