Sacred Root Yoga Retreat

Relax, unwind and reconnect with yourself in nature

Join Sophie and Freddie for a week of inspirational and transformative yoga, meditation and workshops in the beautiful Cambodian countryside between 9 and 16 November 2019.

Our tailor-made schedule of daily meditation, yoga and workshops is designed to help you rebalance your mind and body in four ways:

Reset – nourish yourself in nature
Reconnect – learn to listen to your intuitive wisdom
Expand – stretch your body and mind’s potential with movement and fresh perspective
Explore – allow yourself to be curious to the world around you

Each day, we’ll explore a different theme, such as how to find balance in your everyday life and how to live fearlessly. We’ll consider each topic during a daily workshop and throughout our yoga classes that day. By the end of the week, you’ll have a basic toolkit to help you make lasting positive changes in your life.

We’ll be staying in a traditional Khmer farmhouse, nestled between the foothills of the Phnom Vor mountains and the south coast. Relax by the pool, take a stroll through the pepper vines and explore the beautiful coastline. As well as our daily schedule of meditation, yoga and workshops, we’ve arranged a Khmer cooking class, sunset paddleboard tour through the mangroves and a trip to Kep and the local village.

Each day will begin with a guided meditation. You’ll have two 1.5 hour yoga classes each day where we’ll explore a range of different yoga styles, including vinyasa, slow flow, hatha, yin and nidra. Rather than following a rigid format of one or two styles of yoga, we prefer to keep our classes creative and playful, and adapt them according to your needs and energy levels. However, as a general rule, our morning session will consist of a dynamic flowing asana practice and our sunset session will be more mellow and nurturing, drawing on a combination of yin yoga, restorative practices and yoga nidra.

We're so excited to be teaming up with Freddie Valente-Perfeito for this Sacred Root Retreat. Freddie is a Portuguese Yoga teacher who speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Freddie loves to teach a range of different types of yoga, including Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Hatha and Yin. She is known for her creative and engaging teaching style, and intuitive understanding of the body. Her classes are strong and powerful with a focus on alignment and stability, as she believes that this is the best way for us to find balance in our everyday lives. She believes that we create so many imbalances in our body in the way that we walk, stand, sit and sleep, which when combined with mental and emotional tension, throw us out of synch. Yoga is a wonderful tool for bringing us back into balance. She loves to include pranayama and meditation in her classes, which she believes helps to quieten the mind and soften the body.

Freddie has been practising yoga since 2014 and she received her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training certification in India in 2015 in a mixture of different types of yoga, including Hatha, Vinyasa, Sivananda, Ashtanga and Yin, followed by a further 50 hour Training course in Yin. She recently completed a further 300 hours Yoga Teacher Training course in India, which gave her a greater understanding of alignment, anatomy, yoga therapy and meditation.

Our meals will be prepared using delicious, fresh products grown in the organic fruit and vegetable garden and locally-sourced, seasonal ingredients. You can expect a range of mouth-watering soups, salads, curries and stir-fries, as well as home-made breads and kombuchas.

All meals are included in the cost of the retreat and served at the property with the exception of lunch, which we’ll prepare during a Khmer cooking class near Kampot and dinner at a stunning water-front location in Kep.

We’ll be serving delicious vegetarian and vegan food during our retreat. Let us know in advance if you have any specific dietary requirements or food intolerances and we’ll do our very best to accommodate you.

Unlimited fruit from the organic garden, herbal tea and filtered water will be available throughout the week.

Our Cambodia retreat will take place in a beautiful, traditional Khmer farmhouse, which is set in 35 acres of peaceful, green farmland. The property is exclusively for our guests on this retreat. Its three wooden floors overlook the foothills of the Phnom Vor mountains with views stretching across tropical greenery. The property includes an organic pepper farm, fruit and vegetable garden, swimming pool with day beds where you can relax and soak up the sun, tranquil chill-out areas and a massage area.

It has two areas dedicated for our daily yoga and meditation practice; an outdoor yoga studio and a breezy open-fronted room on the third floor of the property with stunning views of the surrounding countryside.

The property offers a range of rooms to suit your needs and budget. We have a limited number of single rooms available and can also offer rooms with triple occupancy.

Available room types include:

Standard room with shared bathroom
Standard room with ensuite
Superior room with ensuite
Superior plus room with private balcony and ensuite

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