INDIA: Varanasi to Kerala Winter Rejuvenation Retreat (Kerala Portion)

Name: INDIA: Varanasi to Kerala Winter Rejuvenation Retreat (Kerala Portion)
Start: 2025-02-15
End: 2025-02-22
Location: Samudra School of Living Yoga

Soma Manaltheeram Ayurvedic Hospital & Research Centre Kovalam Kerala - 695501, India

Up to 20 in group

February 15 - 22, 2025

Retreat Highlights

Daily Prana Flow Yoga with Shiva Rea
Nourishing local foods
Daily sunrise & sunset meditation with your new Global Tribe
Daily Yogadventures (i.e. visiting local temples, sacred sites, pilgrimages etc)

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Shiva

Shiva Rea

Movement is life for Shiva Rea, M.A, global prana vinyasa teacher, activist, and innovator in the evolution of vinyasa yoga around the world from large-scale festivals and conferences to unplugged retreats. She has taught thousands of students, teachers, and movers and shakers how to integrate yoga as a way of life.

As founder of Prana Vinyasa & Samudra Global School for Living Yoga, she integrates the roots of vinyasa, yoga, ayurveda, and tantra in creative and life-transforming online courses, workshops, retreats, and trainings. Her studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage, kalarippayatu, world dance, yogic arts, and somatic movement infuse her approach to living yoga and embodying the flow. Shiva has collaborated across many fields and is known for offering the synthesis form of Vinyasa Flow throughout the world, bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic, and life-transforming ways for over 25 years around the globe. She is a pioneer in reviving the art of namaskar through diverse namaskars or salutations as well as developing wave-sequencing, three-part vinyasa to teaching alignment in the flow, energetic alignment, multi-dimensional sequencing, mandala circular wave-sequencing, rasa prana vinyasa, and integrating the creative, spontaneous movement known as “sahaja” in post-modern yoga. Since 2000, Shiva has created and offered over 27 award-winning DVD-CD’s for home practice as well as served as an ambassador for prAna, Banyan Botanicals, and the catalyst for Yoga Energy Activism and the Global Mala Project which has raised awareness and funds for local and global climate change. She is a contributor/featured author in media from Origin, Mantra, Yoga Journal Magazine, and featured in the LA Times, Vanity Fair, and Self. Her latest book, Tending the Heart Fire – Living in Flow with the Pulse of Life is about living vinyasa, our energetic heart, and our energy future. She has led free-form movement in festivals from Wanderlust, Chant 4 Change, Yoga Journal Live, Yogini Conferences, Bhakti Fest, Lightening in a Bottle, Barcelona Yoga Festival, Earthdance, Beloved, Bali Spirit Festival, TEDx, Tadasana Festival, and Burning Man. Shiva has collaborated with many DJ’s, artists and musicians to bring the art and healing power of music into the flow of yoga live and through the compilation and original music for yoga as a moving meditation for everybody.

Details of this retreat

KERALA: Embodying The Sacred Flow
Shiva/Shakti Tandava - Winter Rejuvenation
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February 15 - 22nd
PART OF OUR WOMEN IN RHYTHM SERIES
Moon Path - Pancha Karma - Regeneration Package
Solar-Lunar - Rasa Prana Flow, Sacred Training
Our special India Yatra (sacred journey) is for the art of life rejuvenation while opening to pilgrimages of ancient power and giving back.
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Women in Rhythm - Shakti Sadhana
From our spiritual home of Kerala overlooking the Indian Ocean on the Malabar Coast, our curated offering brings you connected with the roots of Bhakti, SHAkti,Tantra, Ayurveda, as we as learn evolutionary Prana Vinyasa yoga centered in the Shiva - Shakti Temples.
Embodying Shakti - Shakti Prana Flow Women in Rhythm Retreat - Kerala Living Flow Journey - Integrating Ayurveda, Tantra and Soma
We will include tantric philosophy, dance, drumming, Sanskrit chanting, meditation, Shakti Prana Vinyasa (solar + lunar yoga), yantra, mantra, mudra , Jyotishi (Vedic astrology) and Ayurvedic Life-style
Enjoy a winter ritual cycle for rejuvenation ojas generating self-care as we experience the greatest gathering of women in the world for the Attukal Pongala Festival as well as enter the world's tallest Shiva Lingam. Rejuvenate and awaken your life-force with our winter retreat focused in our retreat CENTER and nearby temples, resting in a different rhythm. with Ayurveda massage and consultation
INCLUDED:

Prana Vinyasa Yoga

Gourmet vegetarian buffet (Brunch/Dinner)

Five Ayurveda Massages and Ayurveda Consultation

Transfers from Trivandrum Airport

Includes: yoga, kirtan, meditations, pujas etc

NOT INCLUDED:

Tips

Transportation

Extra excursions on your own

Temples - all donations to temples on your own

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Intimate Offering * Super reasonable
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Healing Healthy Sanctuary just south of Thiruvanathapuram

Enjoy the traditional enivronment overlooking the Malabar coast and Azhimala Siva Temple.

Nuture your health in safe, Ayurvedic center - our home for last 15 years

Relax in a swinging hammock beneath the shady coconut palms

Bathe in the brilliant sun on the beacH

Swim in the soothing waves or pool overlooking the ocean

At sundown, soak in the beauty of a thousand lamps as they gleam from fishing rafts at sea and enjoy the beautiful sunsets

Rejuvenation Massage - Experience five Ayurvedic massage treatments as part of daily regeneration

Experience Kerala-style, flowing Ayurvedic massage and a menu of add-on treatments from shirodhara, to ayurvedic panchakarma

Please visit www.ShivaRea.com for additional retreat details and stay connected with the tribe through Shiva's PULSE e-newsletter.

Registration questions can be directed to retreats@yogadventures.com

Getting Here

Samudra School of Living Yoga, Soma Manaltheeram Ayurvedic Hospital & Research Centre Kovalam Kerala - 695501, India

Accommodation

Kerala - Standard Room (double)

Shared room. This room is ideal for couples or friends traveling together. Standard rooms are lovingly furnished according to European standard and properly ventilated. Standard rooms are replete with a bedroom and attached bathrooms with hot and cold water facilities. The rooms are properly ventilated and provided with A/C and mosquito nets. Pricing is per person

Kerala - Garden Cottage (double)

Shared room. This room is ideal for couples or close friends traveling together. There are beautiful gardens in front of the cottages, which is the perfect place to spend a lazy day close to nature. Rectangular or circular in plan, garden cottages are A/C accommodation facilities, built with local materials and properly ventilated for maximum air flow. Most of the rooms provide hammocks for the occupants. Pricing is per person Garden Cottages are independent cottages with beautiful garden view. It is built with natural materials of mud and bricks. All accommodations are double/twin bed, replete with a bedroom and attached bathroom with hot and cold water facilities. They are properly ventilated and provided with fan and mosquito nets.

Kerala - Special Cottage (double)

Shared room. This room is ideal for couples or friends traveling together. Special Cottages are independent round or square shaped thatched cottage with full/partial sea view. It is built with natural materials of mud and bricks. All accommodations are double/twin bed, replete with a bedroom and attached bathroom with hot and cold water facilities. They are properly ventilated and provided with A/C and mosquito nets. Pricing is per person

Kerala - Standard Room (single)

This room is typically a shared room but can reserved as a single for one person. Standard rooms are lovingly furnished according to European standard with A/C

Kerala - Garden Cottage (single)

Private room. This room is ideal for those who enjoy their privacy, and wish to relax completely. Cozy, homely atmosphere and the chance to build an intimacy with the ambiance of Somatheeram. There are beautiful gardens in front of the cottages, which is the perfect place to spend a lazy day close to nature. Rectangular or circular in plan, garden cottages are A/C accommodation facilities, built with local materials and properly ventilated for maximum air flow. Most of the rooms provide hammocks for the occupants. Garden Cottages are independent cottages with beautiful garden view. It is built with natural materials of mud and bricks. All accommodations are double/twin bed, replete with a bedroom and attached bathroom with hot and cold water facilities. They are properly ventilated and provided with fan and mosquito nets.

Kerala - Special Cottage (single)

Private room. This room is ideal for those who enjoy their privacy, and wish to relax completely. Special Cottages are independent round or square shaped thatched cottage with full/partial sea view. It is built with natural materials of mud and bricks. All accommodations are double/twin bed, replete with a bedroom and attached bathroom with hot and cold water facilities. They are properly ventilated with A/C and mosquito nets. Air-conditioned cottages are optional.

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

Meals

Menu Types

Vegan

Vegetarian

Pescetarian

Ayurvedic

Includes Meat

Organic

Gluten Free

Dairy Free

Nut Free

What's Included

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What's Not Included

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