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7 Day Integrative Healing Yoga Retreat in Pico Island, Azores, Portugal
Lava Homes, Santo Amaro, Terralta, Pico Island, Portugal
Healing Yoga Retreat in Portugal
In these 7 days, you will have an invitation to commune with nature in one of the most powerful environments considered by National Geographic as a hidden jewel of the world. Learning how to revitalize your body through the right diet and natural medicine, opening up to more authentic movement and expression exercises, having an emotional detox with breathwork and developing compassion, and creating a positive mindset understanding mind and emotions.
Meet the instructors
Aday & Ricardo
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Highlights
- Daily yoga lessons of different styles
- Guided healing meditation, hypnotherapy, breath exercises
- Craneo-sacral osteopathy, self awareness workshops
- Compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance through hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness and expanded awareness, authentic movement, creative dance
- 6 nights accommodation
- Daily meals
- Airport transfers
7 days with instruction
Group size: 6-12 participants
Airport transfer included:
Lisbon Portela Airport
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
11:30
Check-out Time:
11:30
Facilities
- Hot spring
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Multilingual staff
- Restaurant
- Smoke-free property
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
- Convenience / grocery store
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Ironing / ironing board
- Laundry
- Outdoor shower
Lava Homes has 14 cottages of glass and volcanic rock, with kitchens and working fireplaces, giving the impression of floating above the sea. A superb view of the Atlantic and São Jorge island, and even views to the top of Pico Mountain on a clear day.
The stylish cottages of glass and volcanic rock, with full comfort and fireplaces, give the impression of floating above the sea. Infinity heated pool, 180 degrees views yoga hall, and walking distance from the seashore where you can swim in a natural pool.
It has a restaurant - Magma, where all the meals will be served, with exclusive access times for the retreat guests. It has a yoga studio and a dome comfortable for 24 people.
Program
All of this is fully guided by the wisdom of modern psychology and ancient spiritual technology. You will be practicing self-healing, massage, guided meditations for awakening, and traditional yoga, all of this in an inspired sequence of joyful experiences.
Join them in this journey to discover a better version of yourself at one of the most beautiful spots in the world, a jewel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
They invite you to rediscover your own innate power for perfect health, happiness, and strength with this unique yoga retreat. Join them for this experience to reconnect yourself with the ancient tools of yoga and modern neuroscience.
- Yoga, kriyas, and pranayama
- Hypnotherapy sessions
- Conscious alchemic breath
- Craneo-sacral osteopathy
- Mindfulness and expanded awareness
- Guided healing meditations
- Self knowledge workshops
- Excursions and visit to natural and breathtaking spots
During this week, you will have a gradual immersion in the yoga practice as a technology to awaken a huge potential within you for self-healing, higher expressions of joy in your life as a vehicle to build up more and more confidence.
This is for you if
Are you yearning for a reset in your daily life? A pause that transcends the ordinary, infusing love and compassion into your inner world? A serene location where you can unpack the emotional baggage, realign with your passions, and envision your dreams.
If you’re ready to break out of your shell, enhance connections with others, and rediscover your inner light, this is the journey for you. Dive into gentle inner work, leave aside limiting patterns, and free your most authentic self.
Take a moment of deep integrative (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual) healing where you can nurture yourself and rediscover the essence of who you truly are, your inner truth.
No, this is not a regular yoga retreat. This is a transformational journey where their purpose is to invite you to rediscover your own innate power for perfect health, happiness, and strength with this unique retreat through yoga and psychology.
Learn to revitalize your body through proper diet and yogic practices, open up to more authentic movement and expression with dance and shamanic exercises, have an emotional detox with breathing, develop compassion with yourself and others, and create a positive mindset that understands the mind and emotions.
You will be practicing behavioral psychology, self-healing practices, massage, craneo-sacral, guided awakening meditations and traditional yoga, all this in an inspired sequence of joyful experiences.
Join them on this journey to discover a better version of yourself in one of the most beautiful places in the world, a jewel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They invite you to rediscover your own innate power for perfect health, happiness, and strength with this unique yoga retreat.
In this blissful space, they create a supportive environment where you can delve into this process full of:
- Island tranquil environment suitable for relaxation, reflection, and introspection
- Healing practices that will nourish your body, mind, and spirit
- Focus on your growth and self development, getting clarity for your purpose, and releasing past conditionings
Embarking on this journey, you will dive in
- Yogic wisdom: Strengthening physical and emotional health. So you can dive into a more healthy and connected version of yourself
- Modern psychology and hypnotherapy: Unlock the potential of your subconscious mind to understand and overcome barriers, fostering personal growth and empowerment.
- Craniosacral therapy: Release restrictions and imbalances in the craniosacral system, facilitating the body's natural ability to heal and self-regulate
- Authentic relating: Interpersonal sessions, providing insights and tools to enhance your relationships and communication skills
- Meditation and mindfulness: To quiet your mind, relax, and listen to your inner guidance
- Creative movement and dance: Express yourself and tap into the joy of your own body
- Nature's embrace: Rest, recharge, and connect with the natural beauty of Azores
With them, you will benefit from
- Strengthening physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health
- Gain inner clarity and attunement with yourself
- Process unresolved emotions to life your fullest life
- Tools and practices to bring home with you, to grow your self-confidence and love
- Clarity and vision, feeling aligned to make your purpose happen
- Deeper knowledge of yourself, freedom to be your authentic, unique self
- Break down walls and connect with others on a deeper level, in a supported environment
- Increased self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Time spent in nature to relax, contemplate, and replenish
- Gain enthusiasm for life, nurture your connection with yourself and the world
It’s completely normal to feel overwhelmed, but don’t worry, they're here to help. Their retreat skillfully fuses yoga and contemporary psychology to provide you with ample opportunities to unwind, acquire new insights, and engage in a satisfying personal growth experience.
Their team, Ricardo (psychology and hypnotherapist) and Aday (Yoga science and psychology), are working with creativity and joy to share a lifelong experience in human development and spiritual awakening. They have known each other for 20 years, working and studying nonstop with the human condition. Putting their hearts and tools into making this week an unforgettable and transformational experience.
Program
Day 1
- Presentation and introduction
- Guided hypnotic meditation to opening up to receiving the blessing and start with a beginning mind
- Connecting with the abundance and the gratefulness
- Yin yoga: Grounding and body awareness
Day 2
- Introduction to yoga asanas and prana kriyas (techniques to align the body and prepare the system to channelize your higher potential)
- Guided hypnotic meditation to reprogram your system to heal and achieve the best version of yourself (goal setting)
- The shore, the border-contact: Attentive awareness in trio work: Introduction to Craneo Sacral Therapy
- Sunset sungazing with chanting and mantra or dance
Day 3
- Yoga, pranayama, and self healing process (from heart to warm hands)
- Guided hypnotic meditation to reprogram your system to heal and achieve the best version of yourself (the therapeutical journey)
- Excursion with picnic. Forest bath
- Sunset sungazing with chanting and mantra or dance
- Sharing circle
Day 4
- Yoga, pranayama, and self healing process (third eye activation)
- Self knowledge workshop: Connecting with your core values and purpose
- "Buoyancy, the universe holds you": Experience of craneo-sacral attentive awareness
Day 5
- Yoga, pranayama, and self healing process
- Guided hypnotic meditation to reprogram your system to heal and achieve the best version of yourself (finding and breaking up limiting beliefs)
- Excursion with picnic. Visit to nearby natural pools by the sea
- All rivers die to the sea: Experience of attentive awareness in trio work into the heated-pool
- Sunset sungazing with chanting and mantra
Day 6
- Yoga, pranayama, and self healing process (from devotion into ecstasies)
- Guided hypnotic meditation to reprogram your system to heal and achieve the best version of yourself (power of manifestation: meeting your future self)
- Excursion with picnic. Visit to nearby natural pools by the sea
- Craneo - Sacral Therapy
- Sunset sungazing with chanting and mantra
- Closing ceremony with ecstatic dance
Day 7
- Yoga, pranayama, and self-healing process
- Farewell
Included in this price is the 2 gifts of a call with them prior to the retreat so they can make the retreat focused in your needs, and the extra yoga sessions after it, so you can keep on cultivating your inner practice, your self care, and clarity of your purpose.
Included excursions
You will visit some areas around the hotel which include a hike to the wonderful viewpoint through the forest and a hike next to the natural pools.
Instructors
Aday Isidro García Díaz
Aday went to study in Granada a master of clinical specialty in the AEPC while attending anthropology classes at Granada university. There he began to practice yoga and learn about Tantra at Escuela Vedica with Swami Shankaratilakananda. In 2013, he trained in Ayurvedic panchakarma therapy with doctor Nayana Rao, Udupi, India and participated in the organization of several detox retreats and teachings of Ayurvedic abhyangam and shirochampi massage.
Ricardo Márquez
Teaching the path to authenticity and the achievement of inner freedom. Originally from Tenerife, Ricardo has lived the last years in Scandinavia trained in mindfulness, Tantric philosophy, communication, coaching, and emotional intelligence as well as other aspects related to personal and social development. These processes and methods together with his experience as a psychotherapist and team coach are blend into a holistic approach to guide you into a higher version of yourself.
Location
Lava Homes is located in the village of Santo Amaro, in Terra Alta, on the north coast of the island facing São Jorge island. Located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, half-way between Lisbon and New York. Breathtaking views of the ocean, the majestic Volcano of Pico and the neighbor São Jorge island in front.
It is about 20 kilometers from São Roque do Pico and 32 kilometers from Pico airport. Lava Homes is like a small village on Pico Island, chosen for the breathtaking views, it was built perched on a cliff.
Distances
- São Roque do Pico, 20 kilometers
- Pico airport, 32 kilometers
Features
Activities
- Hot spring
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
General
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Multilingual staff
- Restaurant
- Smoke-free property
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
Services
- Convenience / grocery store
- Free parking
- Ironing / ironing board
- Laundry
Food
You will have a delicious vegetarian menu by their excellent chefs. All meals included. Their food's aim is to nourish and ignite vitality, perceiving nutrition holistically, as everything you intake and considering different latitudes of food.
Mostly plant-based, although with no fundamentalisms. The kitchen is eco-friendly and sustainable, respecting zero waste philosophy, concentrating on local, seasonal, and fresh products, giving preference to what he calls nutraceuticals - low mass to a high concentration of nutrients, to promote energy instead of wasting it during its digestion.
Francisco follows Ayurvedic principles such as "we are not what we eat but what we digest" and therefore promoting Agni - primordial fire; is a constant factor on his gastronomic line.
His cooking can also be described as international, inspired on different cultures and techniques, from Ayurvedic, Japan, Middle East, to a vegetarian reinterpretation of Portuguese gastronomy. Francisco sees cooking as an act of love and promoting consciousness, being food, as well, a vehicle for cultural wisdom, activism, medicine, and art.
Also, fruits and drinks will always be available at all times. Let them know if you have any allergies or intolerances. They will do their best to provide the best meals for you. They recommend if you want to explore the surroundings to arrive before or leave after the retreat to enjoy the hikes.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Ayurvedic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
- Massage: 65 EUR
- Individual coaching session: 65 EUR
- Couple coaching session: 80 EUR
- Hypnotherapy session: 70 EUR
They highly recommend you to book some days before or after the retreat to visit other island areas! Please inquire if you want to know more about this.
What's included
- Yoga, pranayama, guided meditation
- Hypnotherapy
- Self knowledge workshops
- Mantra, chanting, dance
- Sharing circle
- Excursion with a picnic and forest bath
- 2 gifts of a call with them prior to the retreat
- 6 nights accommodation
- Daily meals
- Airport transfers
- Use of internet facilities, gardens, pool, and common areas
What's not included
- Airfare
- Travel insurance
- Individual sessions (massage, coaching, hypnotherapy)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
LIS
Lisbon Portela Airport
1649 km
Transfer included
Arrival by car
On Pico island using a car, the best way to reach them is via the ER1 road along the coastline. On the day of check-in, especially if it is done at night, they do not advise the mountain road.
Arrival by airplane
Please arrange your flight to arrive at Lisbon Airport (LIS). To get to the island of Pico, there is the possibility of taking direct flights between Lisbon and the island of Pico or making a stopover in the islands of São Miguel, Terceira, and Faial.
On Monday, direct flights from Lisbon in Sata Airlines depart at 8:00 am arriving in Pico at 9:45 am. A transfer will take you to Lava Homes, which is 20 kilometers east of the airport.
On Saturday, direct flights from Pico in Sata Airlines depart at 10:40 am and arrive in Lisbon at 14:10. A transfer will depart from the resort at 8:00 am on Saturday. Airport transfers are included in the package.
Airport transfers are included in the package.
Arrival by ferry
In addition to flying, you can travel by boat (ferry) from the island of Faial and the island of São Jorge.
GPS
If you use a GPS application, you can put the location: 38.452901, -28.146818, or look directly for Magma restaurant or Lava Homes.
Airport: Lisbon Portela Airport
Airport transfer included: Lisbon Portela Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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