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Here Are 7 Yoga Retreats You Don’t Want to Miss In 2018

Yoga retreats are the perfect opportunity to restore, reflect, rejuvenate, and renew. They give us the opportunity to step away from the busy, and choose to invest in our own health and wellbeing.

When we’re removed from our daily responsibilities and habits, we can be free to be at peace. We can examine our unhealthy patterns, and meet whatever rises up with wonder and kindness.
 

The Benefits of Yoga Retreats

In my experience, when moving through the day to day, there can be a part inside me that shuts off. I can lose my presence when I move too fast, or get over-consumed with work life, city life, relationship life, parenting life, or doing life.
 

Yoga retreats offer an opportunity to tune in. To refuel, reignite, and remember the divinity and wisdom within.

 
Yoga retreats invite us to slow down, and they offer all sorts of possibilities to play and see ourselves more clearly. There’s space to listen to the quiet whisper in each of our hearts that often can’t be heard through all the external noise, and there’s time to tend to that whisper.
 

Here Are 7 Yoga Retreats You Don’t Want to Miss in 2018:

1. 7-Day Yoga and Play in Nosara, Costa Rica with Valerie D’Ambrosio and Cristen Malia

Dates: March 10-17
Cost: From $1700
 
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Valerie D’Ambrosio and Cristen Malia lead this heart-opening, expansive, fun, and restorative week in Nosara, Costa Rica at the lovely Bodhi Tree Yoga Resort. Nosara is by far one of the coolest yoga surf towns – yummy and healthy food, all-levels surf, and yoga twice per day nestled in the jungle with an ocean view.
 
There will be lots of time for play and adventure as well as resting and rejuvenating. Cristen and Valerie’s offerings of yoga blend perfectly together, they bring years of guiding yoga and self-exploration, alignment based movement, self-inquiry to support you in deepening your intuition, Bhakti Flow Vinyasa, yoga philosophy, and chanting. They will support you in finding a connection back to the endless well of wisdom within.
 
Go on this retreat!
 
 

2. 7 – Night Yoga Getaway in Tulum, Mexico with Billy Potocnik

Dates: March 31 – April 7
Cost: From $2200
 
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Billy Potocnik is Creator and Founder of BillyYoga and manages the yoga program at Pura Vida Fitness and Spa in Denver, CO. Billy will guide you through daily meditation, yoga, breath work, and other activities and conversation that bring us deeper into our hearts.
 
This yoga retreat will be held at the beautiful and intimate Shambala Petit boutique hotel on the south beach of Tulum. Each casita has its own private bath and stunning ocean views just steps away from the ocean. Activities will include a trip to the world famous Cenotes, a traditional sweat lodge, dinner out a local restaurant, and snorkeling and SUPYoga.
 
Go on this retreat!
 
 

3. 10 – Day Release Your Demons; A Yoga, Surf and Cultural Retreat in Bali

Dates: April 10-19
Cost: From $2095
 
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Colorado-based yoga teachers, Carrie Varela and Dr. Jonathan Bloch will guide you through yoga, meditation, pranayama sessions, and the best of Bali. You’ll stop off in two different locations, where you’ll stay in 4-star accommodations on this 10-day excursion.
 
Experience Balinese culture on temple tours, surf, enjoy your free time, all with optional outings for shopping, art, cooking, or dance lesson. You could also get a tattoo that’s available in-house by one of Bali’s best artists. Yep, you read that right, an in-house tattoo artist! Awesome.
 
Go on this retreat!
 

 

4. 7 – Day Yoga and Kirtan Getaway to the Montana Rockies with Nat Kendall

Dates: June 16-22
Cost: From $1780
 
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Bhakti sweet songs offered from the phenomenal musician and teacher, Nat Kendall and the Majestic Montana Rockies? Yes please! Nat is a celebrated San Francisco based yoga teacher, and has studied extensively with Rusty Wells, Janet Stone and Jai Uttal, but his roots are in Montana.
 
You’ll stay at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, one of the oldest centers for conscious living and yoga retreats in the country. It is a vibrant and peaceful oasis. Enjoy sunrise, meditations, playful afternoon workshops, delicious vegetarian cuisine, hiking, canoeing, and wildlife viewing, all under the vast Montana sky! Don’t let this one pass you by.
 
Go on this retreat!
 
 

5. 1- Day Point Reyes Yoga and Hiking Retreat with Rachel Meyer

Date: June 23
Cost: $50
 
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Join this one-day retreat with Rachel Meyer. Rachel keeps it real and authentic, and humbly shares her life experiences as a mother, yoga teacher, philosopher, and human in a way that we can all relate to and learn from.
 
This retreat is an annual thing, people plan for it . . . and it will sell out, so sign up soon! The yoga will happen at MC Yogi’s studio in Point Reyes station, where you’ll rock out an old-school vinyasa, meditate, and then head out doors to ramble through the wilds of Inverness and Point Reyes National Seashore on a 2-3 hour hike.
 
Go on this retreat!
 
 

6. 7-Day Yoga and Horseback Riding Retreat with Stephanie Snyder in Wyoming

Dates: July 15- July 22
Cost: From $2900
 
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Stephanie Snyder is the founder and lead teacher at Love Story Yoga Studio in San Francisco. She teaches internationally, is a presenter at many yoga festivals, and her intelligently crafted classes can be found on yogaglo. Stephanie wisely weaves together the flowing movements of Vinyasa with rich philosophy.
 
This retreat will include daily yoga with Stephanie, horseback riding through the Bitterroot Mountain Range, and delicious food that’s farm to table fresh. Exhilarating rides and excellent yoga while playing in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Giddyup!
 
Go on this retreat!
 
 

7. 7-Day Paris Yoga and Travel Adventure with Mira Valeria

Dates: September 20-September 27
Cost: From $2475
 
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Mira Valeria is a San Francisco based teacher. She is the perfect guide to lead you from your morning cafe au lait and patisserie, through your Vinyasa and pranayama, and then out to explore Paris.
 
You will wine and dine, visit historic sites, and have plenty of time to stroll, shop, and museum hop. Seven nights at the beautiful Maison Pierre Chanzy, a boutique Bed & Breakfast located in the 11th arrondissement, and morning and afternoon yoga will be offered by Mira at a nearby studio.
 
Go on this retreat!
 

2018 Yoga Retreats: The Takeaway

I’ve found that to thoroughly nourish my being, it works best to completely step away from the doing, remove myself from the distractions, and tired worn-out patterns.
 
In retreating I create space from the way I’ve been living, providing clarity and cultivating wisdom so I can decide what I want to keep on doing, and even to reignite passion and pleasure, fueling a fuller and more joyful way of living.
 
Just remember this: we’re worth it. And many of us can often forget it. As they say, we cannot pour into the cup of another, not even our mother or brother, if we let our own well run dry.
 

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Cristen Malia

Cristen currently serves on Rusty Wells' Bhakti Flow Yoga teacher training staff, is a spiritual teacher for the Foundry Addiction Recovery Center and teaches weekly classes in Steamboat Springs, CO. She's currently attaining a Masters Degree in Mindfulness-Based Counseling. Cristen provides an inviting and compassionate platform for students to connect lastingly to an intrinsic source of joy and inspiration, encouraging all to new heights.

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