Place: Barberyn Beach Ayurveda Resort, Weligama, Sri Lanka

This 10 night retreat is truly a gift to yourself!

Take yourself to the exotic and tropical landscape of Sri Lanka for a retreat that will strengthen, balance and still your Being. This unique wellness wisdom retreat gives you the opportunity to immerse in the inseparable sister sciences of yoga, ayurveda and learn how to use essential oils according to your dosha (body type). These sciences will enhance your well-being by providing you with practical hands on ways to increase your health by discovering your true nature, cultivate inner peace, live an inspired lifestyle and be deeply connected to yourself.

The retreat offers a blend of the Sri Lankan culture with excursions, blissful Ayurveda treatments as well as yoga, qigong and meditation classes daily under the instruction of renowned Australian teacher, Jemma Rivera.

Jemma is an experienced and passionate teacher who will lovingly support you and provide you with a unique experience and personalised attention. This is a great opportunity to immerse in the knowledge and experience she has acquired over 20 years of training in the ancient sciences, transpersonal and spiritual studies.

Each day you will practice a combination of hatha and vinyasa flow yoga to help awaken and revitalize your mind, body and spirit. In the early evenings you will experience a combination of qigong/tai chi and relaxing yin yoga class to set the tone for a deep and restful night’s sleep. You will also immerse yourself in meditation classes and inspiring talks on yogic philosophy and ayurveda. Included are your Ayurvedic consultations with your own doctor to decide on the best course of treatments. Herbal tablets & medicines will be prescribed depending on your needs. The program will include up to two hours of treatments a day including synchronized massages, herbal or steam baths, acupuncture and other special therapies depending on your individual medical needs. You will leave this residential retreat equipped with inspiration, practical tools, dietary tips, lifestyle skills and yoga practices to have in your holistic health tool-kit on how to consciously express loving kindness towards yourself and live each day with joy, peace, purpose and meaning.

Place: Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort, Beruwala, Sri Lanka.

This unique wellness retreat brings together the ancient inseparable sister sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda to leave you feeling cleansed, restored, renewed and most of all deeply connected to yourself. Daily meditation, yoga, Ayurveda treatments, delicious fresh healthy food and plenty of time to simply BE will leave you feeling like brand new on every level.

This retreat is the perfect time to step away from the outside world and take your awareness inwards to find true inner peace, healing and wellness. Learn lifestyle skills, dietary tips and yoga practices that will help transform your life on every level, and that you can take away with you to continue long after the retreat ends.

The Yoga will combine vinyasa flow to help awaken your mind, body and soul and deeply relaxing yin yoga class to bring the day to a close and set you up for a deep restful night’s sleep. There will also be meditation classes and insights into the inspiring philosophy of yoga.

Our home for the retreat will be the stunning Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort, Sri Lanka’s pioneer health resort specializing in Ayurveda. Set on a long strip of beach, with a reef running the length of the resort this beautiful and elegant resort is built in a way that you can enjoy the feeling of space and light, the sounds of nature and the huge night skies.

The food is an eagerly anticipated part of the day. A wide range of healthy, fresh and delicious food is served for breakfast and at the lunch buffet. Dinner is a set 3 course vegetarian meal. The kitchen and dining room work closely together to see that everyone gets the Ayurvedic food that the doctors prescribe, so you can fully embrace and experience the advantages of Ayurvedic food.

Amir Jaan was classically trained in the Spiritual Art of Kundalini Yoga under the close observations of renowned Guru and mentors for 10 years, and is now almost two decades on from being a novice student. Amir is now a Senior Mentor to hundreds of students worldwide, having also worked with charities that support people in recovery, young offenders and those with special needs.

Amir Jaan brings a reassuring calmness into any learning environment, be it group or one to one. He has a gift for neutralizing the atmosphere of both the outer and inner world of attendees by sharing openheartedly his own knowledge of Yogic science, combined with the presence and confidence of his own wisdom earned by dedicated daily practise and patience.

During this retreat Amir will deliver a series of inter-connected workshops with an overarching theme of “KaizenMediZen” which could be translated as “in the spirit of continuous improvement – practice the medicine of Now”.

The workshops are designed with the intention to “peel off“ the layers of personality issues, psychological paradigms and preconditioned systems of belief that have been encrusted onto our minds by our environment.

This work is a genuine attempt to reveal the “real you”, naked as flame, innocent, invisible and ultimately immortal.

Place: Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort, Beruwala, Sri Lanka.

Stress, emotions and negative thought patterns take a toll on your body’s health and vitality. The combination of the ancient sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda allows you to explore your own body-mind connection and regain health and happiness. In Hatha Yoga, postures are performed with awareness of breath and body. More than that, Yoga is a lifestyle – a way of eating, breathing, exercising, thinking and acting which promotes health and happiness. Practised in combination with treatments of Ayurveda, it purifies and supports the healing process, releasing toxins and removing blockages and tensions from the system. You will come out feeling rejuvenated, deeply relaxed and with a new understanding of yourself that you can take into your daily life. Join Indian yoga master and teachers’ teacher Mani Raman for this special 8 days retreat.

If you want to learn how you can truly be in charge of your thoughts, actions and the whole of your life, then join Michaela Olexova for this transformative Yoga and Ayurveda retreat in the world renowned Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort in Sri Lanka.

This is your chance to explore, balance and connect with your ‘prana’ (or the life force energy) to help you release tension and blockages throughout your body and mind in order to create more space to connect with yourself from the physical to the deepest spiritual level of your being.

This retreat has been designed to inspire, transform and enhance your wellbeing through the combined science of Yoga and Ayurveda, two of the most effective and practical self-healing methods to reduce the effects of stress on your body and mind. Michaela promises you a fun life-transforming experience so you can return home glowing on the outside and feeling fantastic on the inside!

With awareness of breath (prana), you’ll be guided through a beautiful fusion of Hatha and flow yoga, softly opening and strengthening your body, providing just the right amount of challenge to balance and bring peace and clarity to your mind. Michaela Olexova has been practicing yoga for over 14 years and worked as a certified yoga teacher since 2006 and Reiki therapist since 2009 in London. She trained in India, Nepal and the UK and combines Ayurvedic principles into her classes.

Place: Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort, Beruwala, Sri Lanka.

The experts from Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram (in Neyyar Dam in India) bring the classical yoga teaching recognised worldwide for its authenticity and purity to a week long retreat at Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort. The program will teach sequential asana (postures) complemented with meditation and devotional music and chanting.

The retreat will attract seekers of consciousness and truth who want to experience the combined practice of Authentic Ayurveda and Yoga to enjoy the healing that comes from within.

Find the balance between mind and body, to connect to your own inner energy; gain an insight into the yogic way of life and experience the joy and peace which is your true self.

This retreat is open to everyone, no previous yoga experience required.

It is part of a wider program conducted by the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram, India (http://www.sivananda.org/neyyardam) and the Abhina Yoga Ashram of Sri Lanka to introduce and popularise yoga practice in Sri Lanka. Barberyn is the main sponsor of a conference and a tour of Sivananada Yoga Gurus in Sri Lanka.

Place: Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort, Beruwala, Sri Lanka.

The yoga teacher, Daphne McCartney-Williams, is a certified British Wheel of Yoga Teacher, with 13 years of Hatha teaching experience. Additionally qualified in pranayama and meditation, from the Rinpoche lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, these practices are intended to assist healing.

The programme will include restorative postures using props as in the Iyengar method, and energising, repetitive Kundalini practices to help de-toxify the system. Daphne will guide and help each student individually in asana practices.

There will also be an introduction to Shamatha (Calm Abiding) Meditation and Kum Nye Tibetan Healing exercises which are easily learned, slow in movement, yet revitalizing. All the teachings will be practical, and become a toolkit that can be continued upon your return home.

Place: Barberyn Reef Ayurveda Resort, Beruwala, Sri Lanka

Bring together the sister sciences of yoga and Ayurveda to inspire vibrant health and wellness at a beautiful retreat at the edge of the ocean, with clear air and fresh food.

Combining yoga with its sister science of Ayurveda is optimal for physical conditioning, improving illness symptoms and relieving stress. Ayurveda is great for detoxification and rejuvenation. Vinyasa flow yoga is great for energising, purifying, and overall fitness. Experience your body vibrant and peaceful from cleansing from within.

Unwind, let go and relax into a slow-paced and expansive experience surrounded by an exotic tropical landscape of Sri Lanka’s top Ayurveda resort Barberyn Reef, under the guidance of renowned Jemma Rivera.

This ten day retreat blends Sri Lanka’s traditional Ayurveda with yoga, Qi gong meditation and traditional local culture.

Experience a powerful combination of the gifts of the two sister sciences – Ayurveda and Yoga. Discover your inner self and get empowered to greater health, vitality and wellbeing.

Learn more about the philosophy of yoga, practice Vinyasa Flow and Ayurvedic Yoga – the two powerful practices for purifying, balancing, energizing all levels of your being. Discover and incorporate into your regime an invigorating, uplifting and balancing practice of Qigong. This ancient practice will bring a sense of peace, tranquility and calm by helping to remove stress, tension and toxins from the body through series of movements.

Take on this unique opportunity to learn and experience the gifts of Authentic Ayurveda at its best in natural surroundings.

Learn lifestyle skills, dietary tips and yoga practices to bring about change for the better that lasts beyond the end of the retreat and easily integrated into your life. Come and join us for this exquisite retreat to nourish your Body and Soul regardless of age, health or fitness levels.