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Return To Love Yogaretreat in Bali
7 Days Yoga Retreat From March 19. - March 26.
The Island of Gods
Bali, "The Island of Gods" is calling you for this transformative experience of a lifetime!
Witness the daily ceremonies, smell the flowers, taste the fresh exotic fruits.
Immerse yourself into the Spectrum of Yoga with its inner and outer practices.
Enjoy Gayatri's fully vegan cruelty free delicious meals.
Get purified in the Water Temple.
Let the Mama Bali's magic heal and empower You.
Unleash the even better version of yourself together with us, Maja & Sanna.
We're excited to serve You on this Transformational Journey together!
Meet our teachers
Sanna Kokkonen
Sanna believes in constant learning and developing and has always remained curious. She spent the last 30 years experimenting with all forms of movement, yoga and Eastern philosophy and blends these effortlessly into her teaching. Her classes are always a journey – fun, interactive, strong yet soft and usually blended with mantra and evocation from her beloved shruti box.
She is a long- term faculty member of the RA Yoga Teacher Trainings and specialises in asana and yoga philosophy. In Europe she teaches at workshops, festivals and runs retreats. She has studied with many big ashtanga vinyasa names from Petri Raisanen to Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and many others from different yoga traditions and lineages. Sanna studied Asian Spiritual Classics and Mahayana Buddhism with Lama Marut in Singapore and was authorised by him to teach Tibetan Heart Yoga.
In India she studied under Vijay Krsna and they often collaborate at international yoga festivals and retreatws interweaving yoga with dance and bhakti. Sanna, born and raised in Helsinki, has one foot in Finland, one in Bali and her heart in both! Outside of yoga her passion is working with rescue cats and dogs.
Sanna is Experienced Registered Yoga Alliance Teacher & Education Provider | E-RYT500 | YACEP
Maja Thune
Maja Thune is a celebrated author and teacher of Therapeutic yoga. She has a BA in psychology from the University of Oslo and is an Art and Expression therapist. She recieved her Hatha yoga education in India and is a certified Yin yoga instructor. Maja has taught yoga in hospitals, treatment centers, and yoga studios for the past ten years and is a renowned speaker in Norway. Her pioneering work in bringing yoga, mindfulness, and compassion as an alternative healing modality into psychiatry has brought media attention and developed into a series of concert-seminar events called Love as Medicine. Maja also established and directs a two-year education program in Therapuetic yoga, where professionals and health care workers learn how yoga and mindfulness can be used as a healing method in the face of mental disturbance and stress, both common and clinical.
Together with her genuine warmth and disarming presence, what makes Maja so inspirational as a teacher is her personal story; after many years of debilitating mental illness and being committed to a hospital, she found her own way out using alternative healing methods, such as art therapy, yoga, and mindfulness techniques. And she has returned to the same hospitals, this time working with compassion as a therapist to some of the most mentally ill patients in Norway.
Retreat program
Sunday, arrival day:
17.00 - 19:00 Opening circle
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
Everyday:
07:30 - 09:30 Vinyasa and chanting
10:00 - 11:00 Breakfast
11:00 - 16:00 Free time
16:00 - 18:00 Yoga
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
In addition to that it will be kirtan in the evening twice this week
20:00 - 21:30 Kirtan
Sunday, departure day:
07:30 - 09:30 Vinyasa and chanting
10:00 - 11:00 Breakfast
Check out after breakfast.
Open your heart through yoga and chanting
Open your heart through daily yoga and chanting practice
Start your day with amazing vinyasa flow practise, meditation and chanting that will open your heart and get you in touch with your soul’s deepest desire. Help you to come from your head and into your heart. Creating brain heart coherence that will make you live more fully present and have more radiant life.
You will have plenty of spare time that you can use as you want. You can enjoy swimming pool and sun or exploring Ubud and everything that it has to offer.
After that it will be relaxing and grounding yoga practice and then a delicious vegan dinner. Two of the days it will be kirtan after dinner.
Ubud, known as the spiritual, cultural and arts centre of Bali, is where the island’s pilgrims have traditionally come to drink the holy water and bathe in the nearby holy springs of Pura Tirtha Umpul. These days, modern-day pilgrims from around the world also descend in droves, keen to tap into the mystical energy of Bali.
These days Ubud is brimming with yoga and healing centres, vegetarian cafes and inspirational wellness retreats. New age Western-style healers ply their arts alongside traditional Balinese priests and balians (healers), so you get your chakras tuned, have a ritual soul blessing, sign up for a crystal healing session, learn Buddhist meditation, detox, do a juice fast, lose yourself in ecstatic dance, have your colon irrigated, get some sound medicine, and delve into your past life.
Name a holistic therapy and Ubud’s got it. Throw in beautiful scenery, mystic traditions and the warmth and friendliness of the Balinese, and you have all the ingredients for the ultimate wellness holiday.
What’s included
Daily Vinyasa Practice
Daily Chanting Practice
Daily Meditation Practice
Daily Restorative Practice
Two Kirtan Practice
7 Nights at the beautiful Gayatri Hotel
Local & Fresh Cruelty Free Vegan Food. Breakfast & Dinner.
2 Excursions: Day at The Beach and The Holly Water Temple
Price
Price for one week:
Shared double room: 11 400 NOK
Shared double double room 9 900 NOK
You will pay a deposit 4 000 NOK when you sign on and you will get an invoice for the rest of amount.
Binding registration!
If canceled before January 01, we will keep a cancellation fee 2 000 NOK
If cancelled later than January 01, you have to talk to your insurance company for refund.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are our plane tickets included in the retreat price?
No, every participant must see to book their own transportation (airfare).
Which airport do I fly into?
You will fly into Denpasar to the Ngurah Rai International Airport.
How do I get to the retreat center in Bali?
We can arrange airport transportation to Ubud. Costs are about 400NOK pr person
Is accomondations shared or private?
Rooms at the retreat site will be shared. Double occupancy, meaning that two people share the bed.
We have also four manns room, with two double beds.