Pure Soulshine Retreat | Saturday 6th to Friday 12th July

About the Venue and Teachers

• Soul Shine Retreats

  Soulshine Retreat's VisionThe perfect opportunity to explore, develop and deepen your Yoga and Meditation practice whilst gaining a greater understanding of Holistic healing. All within exceptional, inspiring and fabulously fun environments around the world. Much more than simply a ‘yoga holiday’, the entire ethos and dream for Soulshine Retreats and all that it encompasses, is to provide healing, empowering and utterly digestible life-changing skills and experiences that allow individuals to embrace positive transformation and live to their greatest, healthiest and most joyful potential. 
• Lead Teacher - Richard Woodall

  A yogi, a writer, a thinker, a t-total drinker; a seeker of calm, of peace. A lover of stillness and breath, of the ocean and nature. Rich loves seeing people where ever they are in their spiritual journey, embracing the dance. Inspiration for him when people find the moment they can tune into their super bright, true core awesomeness – even if it’s just for a moment. Rich is our incredible Soulshine Manager and lead Yoga & Meditation teacher for our Soulshine Snow Yoga Adventures. What to expect Rich’s classes always have a philosophical approach delivered in an utterly accessible way. His flow classes are dynamic and strong, and occasionally a little challenging. He has also been known to throw in a joke or two and he will often encourage you to lift the corners of your mouth and smile! With playlists that range from traditional chanting, and mediation music to Bob Marley and The Beatles, his classes come with dancing, laughter, and lots and lots of love. His Yin classes are slow, and deep and will encourage you to really allow yourself to be still and at peace with your body and practice. With a focus on finding space, in every sense of the word.
• Lead Teacher - Rachel Spain

  Yoga warrior, professional dancer, Pilates expert and long-time devotee of the magic of Yoga, Rachel holds the powerful intention to make the world a better place, one OM at a time.   “I’ve loved every delicious minute! I’ve been comforted, inspired, nourished and pampered. Everything was simply restorative and pleasurable. Rachel made yoga accessible for a complete beginner with support and care.” – Stef   About Rachel Rachel’s journey to yoga started when her Nana to her to a dancing school aged just 8 years old – she was instantly hooked. Dancing provided Rachel with the similar feeling to Yoga – when you dance you are completely in the moment and nothing else matters. When attending a Yoga workshop during her time as a professional dancer Rachel became instantly entranced by the Yoga magic and the immense feeling of lightness that she experienced when practicing. With the realisation that Yoga was much more than just stretching and strengthening the body, she carried this curiosity on to a teacher training with Claire Missingham. The training changed her life on a profound level, sending her on an inward journey to seek her highest potential in order to help others and try to make the world a better place in whatever small way that she could. She started to see the world in a more open and flexible way, learning to handle and embrace the ebb and flow of life. With the understanding that Yoga and all that it encompasses is a lifelong journey and a lifelong practice, she aims to cultivate grace and gratitude in every moment.   What to expect Rachel’s classes are fluid, flowing, challenging and with strong intention. As a trained Pilates teacher she provides clear, precise, safe and alignment focussed classes. Synchronising movement with breath, expect to be guided through a dance of asana (yoga pose) sequences to stretch and strengthen both the body and mind, releasing physical and mental tension held from any stress and worry. Her aim is to teach each individual to find their own inner teacher, to avoid rising to the ego and forcing or straining beyond our current limits and to develop a compassionate approach to our needs, both on and off the mat. By cultivating acceptance, an understanding that change is constant and the ability to go with the flow, she hopes to help each student on their journey to Santosha – a place of joy, peace and contentment.   Her inspiration Claire Missingham, Stewart Gilchrist, JIvamukti and Annie Carpenter