Name: Akasha Wellness Retreat
Item: Akasha Wellness Retreat
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Join us for a week of learning how to create variety in your kitchen through plant-based seasonal, wholesome, healthy cooking, principles of Integrative Nutrition, and clean eating.

We will jointly create dishes that can be enjoyed by all and learn how to combine ingredients to create a plate of goodness, a plate that you can be grateful for, that is good for you and it’s not just another meal.

No diets, no fads, nothing fancy, nothing fake. Simply home cooking that is plant-based, fresh & healthy.

We’ll start each day with sunrise yoga session, breakfast & daily cooking demonstrations and presentations that will surprise and inform you on how to form good habits and how to create a healthy home menu for yourself and the whole family.

Enjoy the privilege to practice a simple philosophy inspired by nature, clean eating, relaxation, spirituality, and a balanced healthy mind and healthy body lifestyle.

Come discover and return to a healthier and happier you.

Jasmine Sara
Jasmine first came to yoga 11 years ago aged 15. She found it to be incredibly valuable during a stressful period of her life. Since then, having used her own Yoga and meditation practice to deal with various issues, she has a good understanding of the ways in which Yoga can help to lead a more balanced and centred life, and help to build resilience. She is passionate about sharing this with others.

She trained in Astanga Vinyasa Flow Yoga in India and went on to study advanced modules in Yoga Therapeutics with Yoga Therapies, UK. She teaches Slow Flow, Dynamic Vinyasa, Yoga Nidra, Meditation, Yoga for beginners, Astanga, Yin and Yoga Dance.

In the UK, Jasmine was teaching around 10 classes a week at various locations from gyms to yoga studios to community centres. She also led and assisted at surf and yoga workshops as well as organising community based yoga events and volunteer teaching with a local charity. She is currently travelling South America and was most recently teaching on retreats in Brazil.

Jasmine’s gentle, calming and supportive approach holds a safe space for you to come to the mat and flow through your Yoga practice. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced yogi, her classes will give you the time and space to reconnect with yourself, relax and nourish your body.

Jane Anderson
Jane Anderson is a yogi, both teacher & eternal student; a holistic health and movement coach & a bodywork and massage therapist.

Jane celebrates the joy and potential of optimal health and happiness through integrated practices exploring movement and stillness.

In early life Jane was a track athlete which immersed her in many principles and methods of movement & optimal training. Participating in a diverse array of sports both competitively and for fun cultivated a love and fascination for the human body.

Since becoming a movement coach in 2012 - Jane progressively began to cultivate a more holistic approach.

Jane incorporated massage & bodywork therapy to allow for a more healing and balanced method. Using aromatherapy, sound, breath, intention and intuition to cultivate deeply restorative states.

Practicing yoga for around 20 years led Jane to deepen her own practice and complete 200hour YTT in early 2018 with Andrea Everingham. Feeling profound shifts in her life with the application of asana and other limbs of yoga compelled her to learn this ancient art to share in her way with the people she encounters.

From dynamic and sweaty vinyasa, fun animal shape classes to deeply restorative and more breath and meditation focussed sessions - Jane is happy to meet you where you are on the day and at this stage of your life.

Jane teaches in London and travels with clients worldwide to help them stay happy, healthy and balanced.

Robert McWilliams
Originally from Ireland, Rob is our current Yoga Resident Teacher at Akasha Wellness Retreat until the beginning of May. With a background in musical theatre, Rob has been teaching yoga for over 10 years. Having a passion for developing yoga and meditation workshops, and yoga classes both for adults and children, he has gained years of experience teaching students in both performing arts and yoga.

Rob qualified in India and is a registered ERYT200 & RYT500 yoga instructor for Ashtanga Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Kriyas, Pranayama, Meditation and Myofascial Release. He has also certified in Canada with the WPA as a Water Safety, Stand up Paddle-Board Yoga & fitness instructor.

During this retreat, you will be served three organic vegan and vegetarian daily meals. Upon booking your retreat, you will be asked about your diet preferences and we can cater for special diets such as lactose or gluten intolerant.

All meals are at set times in the dining area and are shared among all guests and teachers. The menu consists of a combination of Romanian & Western vegan dishes.

A typical breakfast and lunch are served buffet style consisting of organic produce such as porridge, chia seed smoothie bowl, fruits, brown rice, quinoa, sweet potato, salads, homemade whole grain bread, and many more mouthwatering dishes made by their chef.

For dinner, they offer a sit-down family style meal with hot soups, lentils, stuffed peppers, vegan sarmale, polenta, and much more.

Their delicious plant-based menu is designed to fortify your overall health and well-being using organic unprocessed seasonal produce with the highest nutrient content possible.

A combination of ingredients that not only work in a delicious mouthful but act as anti-inflammatory and alkaline foods that balance hormones, blood sugar, and blood pressure.

The application of chakra balancing foods and integrative medicine principles creates a colorful and complete menu balanced in carbohydrates, good fats, and proteins full of minerals, vitamins, and bioflavonoids (the color pigment of fruits and vegetables that have an important role in strengthening the immune system).

Food that is not only delicious and easily digested but deeply nourishing, sustaining, healing, and energy-boosting.

The aim is that you will pick up good habits from being on the retreat and that you will continue to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle back home using essential principles about food and nutrition that are easily applicable in your daily lives.

Eating organic is about avoiding chemical additives and genetically modified organisms, eliminating an unnatural, potentially harmful component from your health equation.

Organic produce grows slowly because that is how nature intended it, unaltered by pesticides and chemicals designed to prolong shelf life. Organic is also about supporting and encouraging your local farmer and fruit and vegetable supplier.

When you eat organic, you also eat seasonally, you become aware and appreciative of what is available now, rather than all the varieties you could have instead.

You appreciate the food by what it is, when you have it and how much more nutrient and flavor it has when it is eaten and cooked fresh.

They visit the farms they work with, they look at how farmers produce their food and they only choose sustainable and certified organic produce.

What is not offered:

Alcohol
Soda
What is offered:

Alkaline spring water
Ginger, lemon, and hot water
Infused spring water
Natural spring water
Organic herbal teas
Chakra balancing juices and smoothies, these daily chakra balancing smoothies are made with cold-pressed juices, vegetable, milk, organic fruits, vegetables, and essential fatty oils such as flaxseed oil and organic superfood powders.

Each juice is dedicated to one specific energy center and they guarantee it will make you radiate energy throughout the day.

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