Vihana Retreat offers plenty of options that would reenergize your primal energy reserve and improve your vitality. As they say in French, "c'est la vie," which means "this is life." The retreat is, therefore, put together for you to make you feel your very best. A retreat for depression at Vihana has its unique properties to help combat anxiety and depression.
Taking a yogic approach, the anti-stress program looks closer at health issues, imbalances, and more biological factors that can be impacting mental health and encouraging negative thoughts.
Depression is considered as a negative response to circumstances and can have physical and psychological impacts on a person. It can quickly throw both the mind and body out of balance, which may affect every aspect of life.
Focus
Vihana Retreat provides the environment for total body recovery, therefore, resetting your health and well-being. It offers you a scientifically formulated, powerful, and educational retreat for depression program designed to attack your depression and stress issues at their very core to find lasting solutions.
This is combined with great food, an exercise regime, and a range of naturopathic therapies that, as a result, will heal, soothe, and cleanse your body.
They have purposely limited the number of guests that they can take at any one time. This means that you are guaranteed personal attention from professional clinicians, instructors, and wellness staff. Vihana Retreat's program has been developed to uplift and motivate you for positive change, renewed life, and lasting results.
Why join this retreat?
The partial belief is that a healthy lifestyle will allow the mind to be healthier, so exercise is incorporated into the program with several private sessions with yoga trainers. A healthy diet is also prescribed to help rid the body of toxins and unnatural ingredients.
Scientific studies have shown that simply being in nature causes stress levels to decrease and, therefore, happiness to rise. For thousands of years, people lived in direct harmony with the world around them.
Subsequently, there is something within you that is still soothed by this experience. However, there is a little more to it than that. A temporary change in environment sets you up for success. In addition, it creates an opening for new ideas and allows you to create a new routine free from the constraints of your usual daily life.
Once you can focus entirely on the changes in front of you, you will be able to commit to them much more deeply.
Goals
Where most stress management programs fail is that they equate time off work and being pampered as the solution. While taking time off will help, within a few months, you will be back to the same stress levels, requiring yet more time off, and the cycle continues.
Gratitude meditation
Gratitude meditation is a type of meditation that focuses on expressing gratitude for the things in your life. Buddhist monks begin each day with a chant of gratitude for the blessings of their life. Native American elders begin each ceremony with grateful prayers to Mother Earth and Father Sky.
Laughter therapy
Laughing yoga is a popular movement and breathing exercise that aims to bring out your inner child, cultivate joy, and help you get rid of daily stressors. Laughter yoga also allows a greater intake of oxygen, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system (your body's natural relaxation system).
Pranayama (breath control)
Pranayama refers to a set of yoga breathing exercises. Recent evidence suggests that the practice of pranayama has positive effects on measures of clinical stress and anxiety. This study explored the impact of a Bhastrika pranayama training program on emotion processing, anxiety, and affect.
Stress management techniques
Stress can be, well, stressful. It comes at you from all angles and sometimes can make life and work much more difficult than it needs to be. Vihana’s stress management course teaches positive and easy-to-learn coping strategies to help you manage stress, anxiety, and related symptoms.
Daily schedule
- 07:00 - 08:00 Meditation and pranayama class
- 09:15 - 10:15 Breakfast
- 10:15 - 11:15 Ayurveda therapy
- 11:15 - 12:15 Restorative yoga
- 12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
- 13:15 - 15:15 Break
- 15:15 - 16:15 Vinyasa flow, Hatha, or Ashtanga yoga
- 16:15 - 17:15 Outdoor activities
- 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
Please note that there will be no classes on Sunday as it's a day off for all the teachers.