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8 Day Small Group Juice Detox Retreat with Yoga, Massage, and Coaching in Girona, Spain
Moli d'en Salom, Barri Vilartoli 7, 17751 Sant Climent de Sescebes, Girona, Catalunya, Spain
Invigorating Juice Detox and Yoga Retreat in Spain
This retreat offers you a complete package on all levels so you can work on your mental, physical, and emotional health. There will be daily yoga and meditation sessions, and one-on-one counseling or coaching to work on personal issues. The retreat is being offered as a support for lifestyle changes towards healthier, relaxation, and self-healing.
Meet the instructors
Aleid & Doby
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Highlights
- 1 60-minute Reiki or massage session
- 2 individual sessions of your choice (individual yoga, coaching, breath work, massage)
- 2 individual coaching sessions
- 3 juices daily, made fresh from organic vegetable and fruit produce, much from our own garden
- 6 90-minute yoga, relaxation, and meditation sessions
- 7 nights accommodation
- Short excursions to the mountains or beach
- 3 short meditation practice sessions
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
6 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Dutch, French, German, Spanish
Group size: Maximum of 5 participants
Airport transfer available:
Girona–Costa Brava Airport (US$ 76 per person)
Girona–Costa Brava Airport (US$ 76 per person)
Airport transfer available:
Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport (US$ 76 per person)
Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport (US$ 76 per person)
Accommodation
Facilities
- Sauna
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Table tennis
- Café
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Labyrinth
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Restaurant
- Smoke-free property
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Free bicycle
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Laundry
- Library
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
The 4 guest rooms are all different and are offered as a service for people who do yoga and therapeutic sessions, with a maximum of 5 guests. The rooms would cost more if rented as a B&B. Even more beneficial is that our retreat guests get to use our rooms for single use without extra costs (only the large double has a small surplus or can be used by 2 individuals).
There are 3 doubles with queen-size beds and one large double room with a large bed, optional 2 single beds, all with their own bathroom (3 attached, 1 in the hall).
There is no TV (on purpose) and no air-con, but all rooms have ventilators and central heating. The guests do not get to choose the room online. It can be discussed by phone before booking. Guests are never placed in a shared room unless they travel together.
The retreat center is in Aleid and Doby’s home, 3 rooms together are on the ground floor connecting to the dining room and the patio, and one room is on the first floor next to the yoga room. The owners have separate private quarters on the first floor.
There is pure water from a natural source nearby and an ecological waste water system, please bring only biodegradable soap and shampoo, no chemicals please.
Please take a look at the images provided to have the right expectations. The house is comfortable, in a great location, and your hosts will do all in their power to support your needs. You can relax on sunbeds or puffs or take a hammock to where you want, the flower garden, our river beach, the yoga deck, the patio, the statue garden or the wild northern part of the land.
Extra information
For the yoga classes, mats, and meditation pillows are provided. The yoga has a maximum of six participants and the classes are outdoors whenever possible. From April to October, you can be sure to enjoy outdoor yoga. In January, March, November, and December, yoga classes mix outdoor and indoor instruction. As soon as the sun is out, Aleid uses an outdoor coaching "office," which is available most of the year.
You can also use the six bicycles and the infrared sauna (still under construction), and ofcourse the river and the pool of the neighbouring house.
Your hosts will try to find a balance between connecting and private space for them and for you. You will have quite some time for yourself to rest. You are welcome to bring your own books, movies, or music. You can also use the house's collection. Your hosts like to share what they have, so if you need a specific thing, tool, fire pot, paint, or clay, do ask.
Eco-practices
- Use of organic cleaning products, recycled toilet and kitchen papers, and avoiding single-use plastics. Organizer donates towards innovation, especially in plastic replacement. They separate garbage.
- Guests are given reusable water bottles.
- Besides the fact that they do not over-use electricity, their electricity provider is 100% sustainable (creating more green electricity demand)
- The cooking is mostly organic and vegetables are from own produce, the host's shops as much as possible locally produced and they look at packaging options.
- No pool because the river is great and more sustainable. They have an outdoor shower. On retreats involving the neighbouring property there is a pool.
Yoga and Coaching Retreats are location near a High Speed Train stop connecting to all of Europe. They would ask people to use flights consciously.
They participate and invest in the '8 billion trees' project and can highly recommend that. This company also intends to show that sustainable production and care can be a rewarding social enterprise.
Program
Example day program
- 08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast juice and tea
- 09:00 - 10:30/11:00 Yoga in a small group (in summer earlier and sometimes on the beach)
- tea and personal check-in of detox needs after yoga
- 12:30 - 13:30 Individual session
- 13:30 - 14:30 Juice lunch together, siesta (walk / swim / cycle, etc.)
- 17:00 - 18:00 Massage or meditation walk
- 19:00 - 20:00 Juice dinner (together or take it where/when you like)
- Enjoy a session of infra-red therapeutic light in the evening if you like
- Once a week a special extra option for mantra singing evening, visiting the Dali museum, or visit a concert, a longer walk/cycle tour, etc.
The juice detox program
This 6 day Juice detox fast is great for changing unhealthy habits and for enhancing clarity of the mind. It will reinspire you towards good dietary choices and shows you your emotional attachments connected to nutrition. For mild alcohol addiction, this can provide a supportive push (severe or long-term addiction needs specialized professional help and/or AA support)
You will break the fast on the last day and will receive detailed instructions for preparation and to slowly build up after the retreat. The juices can be adapted to each person and the daily reaction of different organs of the digestive system. These can also be supported with specific yoga poses and breathwork.
This juice detox consists of six days (out of eight) with only juice, tea, and water intake. On booking, you will receive instructions for home preparation, one week before, and build up preparation, one week after the retreat.
The juice detox is great for heightening your awareness and observing your emotional relationship with food. It is also an excellent first step towards change. When detoxing, at least a 30-minute walk or swim per day is advised, besides the daily 90-minute yoga classes. Most days, a guided walk will be offered. Feel free to choose between the full juice detox or check out the detox-light program for a lighter version depending on your needs.
The reason Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats prefers to offer an eight-day program with six full juice days and not offer shorter detox breaks is that they believe that breaking habit needs time and also the first two or three days are normally the most challenging. After that it becomes lighter, the head gets clearer and you really start to feel the positive effects of the detox.
If you do it for a short time, you may set yourself up to only feel the first detox symptoms and not the positive amount of energy the system gains after getting used to the lightness. Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreat also believe that a detox week is good to do once or twice a year, but not more often. It is working as a reset for the mind and body to help you keep healthy habits.
Please take notice that in the hottest weeks of summer, Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats advise you to not do a full juice detox. For this program, it is better to wait until before or after summer.
Medical information
When doing a juice detox, it is strongly advised that you provide relevant medical background information. You stay responsible for your own medical conditions. The retreat does not provide medical advice and there are no medical doctors on location on a permanent basis (a psychologist is).
The retreat provides a very pure detox technique without many supplements or chemical additives, no pills, and powders except for kelp (seaweed for minerals and psyllium husk, for healthy intestinal movement). The juices contain vegetables and fruits.
About the organizer
Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats offer luxury through 24/7 personal attention, quality of guidance, long term experience. So the cost of retreats with us is based on that, not on luxury in a sense of material wealth. In most retreats, you pay extra for single use of a room with a bathroom, and for individual sessions. Here all is included except travel costs. So, you will benefit from:
- Daily personal attention of chef and life coach/yoga teacher, 24/7 available
- Limit of 5 persons per week
- No extra pay for single use of double rooms with bathroom
- Open in winter, all year round several weeks per month, flexible dates.
- Sustainable tourism
- Catering for any diet and on-location adaptation to your needs and preferences.
The instructors, specialists, and the instruction
- Licensed Psychologist (Masters Clinical Psychology)
- Licensed couple therapist.
- 22 years of experience as a psychologist and life coach
- Senior yoga teacher with 24 years of yoga experience with over 4000 teaching hours and received over 1000 hours of teacher training
- 10 years of facilitating experience and running a successful retreat center as a couple.
- Very consistent positive ratings.
Note
There will be no juice detox in July, August until September 14th, 2024. This is because Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats discover that for many people the summer temperatures are higher than they are used to and difficult to combine with fasting.
Instructors
Aleid Warmelink
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Aleid is a qualified yoga instructor who utilizes her knowledge of evidence-based psychology and Eastern knowledge to gain a wider perspective and approach to healing. She is a licensed psychologist (Masters Clinical Psychology), licensed couple therapist and licensed EMDR therapist with 24 years of experience as psychologist and life coach. Senior yoga teacher with 26 years of yoga experience with over 4000 teaching hours and received over 1000 hours of teacher training, 10+ years of facilitating experience and running a successful retreat center as a couple. Very onsistent positive ratings.
Doby van den Berg
Doby comes from a family with a curiosity towards many different cultures, especially culinary culture and music. He started helping his mother in the kitchen from a young age and never stopped liking the process of preparing world food and the joy of eating together. Doby trained as a cabinet maker first to allow him to live and work anywhere in the world and building beautiful kitchens was a favorite. After going trough cancer, Doby took up healthy, tasty cooking as a new profession and loves it.
Location
This retreat will take place where the lower Spanish Pyrenees roll down into the mediterranean sea just under the South of France, the Costa Brava. The nature reserve around the retreat center is called 'Albera', an ancient historic meeting place for travellers with many dolmens and menhirs (8000 year old ritual stones) and a unique flora and fauna with dear and otters and eagles. All the villages sell their own wines and olive oils.
The retreat center is in the midst of nature alongside a small river (the house is built as a mill in medieval times) at a 15-minute walk from the small Sant Climent village where there is a supermarket, a local delicacy shop, a bakery, a pharmacy, a tobacco and bar and a pizzeria. There is 1 neighbouring house, a rental home, which Sharanam also rents to add on to their retreats.
There are walking and cycling paths from the house into the Albera Mountains with the dolmens, and into typical Mediterranean backlands with forests, flowers, olive, and fruit trees, dotted with small historic villages.
At a 15-minute drive you reach Llanca at the Costa 'Brava' meaning brave, because of the beautiful wildness of the rugged coastline with cliffs and caves and volcanic rock formations. Sharanam will show you their favorite secret beaches.
South of Llanca starts the Cap de Creus Natural Park with the beautiful town of Cadaques where Miro, Picasso and Dali all lived and worked.
In Port de la Selva there is an enormous old monastery, Sant Pere de Rodes, absolutely stunning. And many picturesque coastal towns like Empuriabrava, L'escala, l'Estartit, Palafrugell. Find the bird sanctuary Parque Natural Aïguamolls de Empurda and Forum Romana de Empuries, with a Roman and Greek city. Figueres with its famous Dali museum is the nearest city. Girona is also very near and can be chosen as one of the most beautiful medieval towns worldwide.
Going inland to the West there is the Garrotxa volcanic area with forests and viewpoints to see the craters and coloured earth, and the medieval town of Besalu. And the lake of Banyolas another natural pearl. And many river gorges driving towards the higher mountains.
Food
You will be served light vegetarian, sugar, and dairy free food. Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats already liked cooking fresh homemade world food. However, after Doby (the chef) suffered from cancer, Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats seriously start to study alimentation that supports the system to heal and to be as healthy as one can without losing the joy of cooking and eating. Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats will gladly pass this knowledge on through the daily instructions and tips for healthy cooking.
Aside from that, there will be also a possibility to do a six-day juice detox without any additional costs. You will be guided in the preparation and you will spend six days with only three fresh juice daily and the guided build-up.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Detox juices
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Pescatarian
- Naturopathic
- Lactose Free
- Yogic
- Other dietary requirements on request
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)
- Body workout exercises without weights (optional)
- Visit the Dali museum
- Visit medieval Girona, one of the most beautiful towns in Spain
- Visit nature reserves, Albera
- Cycling tour
- Hiking excursions
- donkey walks
- Sailing
- Snorkeling
- Stand-up paddleboarding
- Visit the neighboring villages, medieval villages
Spa treatments
During the retreat, you will enjoy a 60-minute session of Reiki or massage treatment.
On location, the guests can book more sessions with Doby or Alex, a naturopath and massage therapist.
Also, beauty sessions or essential oil workshops can be booked.
Included in your retreat is the use of a river spa, a natural lake with an outdoor shower, a steam sauna, an individual infrared sauna, red light therapy lamp, a yoga swing and a bank for inversions.
What's included
- 1 60-minute Reiki or massage session
- 2 individual sessions of your choice (individual yoga, coaching, breath work, massage)
- 2 individual coaching sessions
- 3 juices daily, made fresh from organic vegetable and fruit produce, much from Sharanam's own garden (during the week Sharanam also provide a special soup on the last evening, plum juice or Epsom salts for pre-cleanse, algae minerals against hunger, and psyllium to support digestion)
- 6 90-minute yoga, relaxation and meditation sessions
- 7 nights accommodation
- Short excursions to the mountains or beach
- 3 short meditation practice sessions
- Body workout exercises without weights (optional)
- Use bicycles (not pro), maps, guide books, creative materials
- Use of river pool with outdoor shower, red light therapy lamp
- Transfer from the train station
What's not included
- Additional activities
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
- Donation fee for use of bicycles
- Donation fee for use of infrared sauna
- Personal expenses
How to get there
Recommended Airports
BCN
Barcelona–El Prat Airport
142 km
Transfer not provided
GRO
Girona–Costa Brava Airport
57 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 76 per person
PGF
Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport
39 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 76 per person
Arrival by airplane
If you fly into Barcelona airport, from Barcelona airport there is a service to the main station, Barcelona Sants. There you can book the High Speed train (AVE, 50 minutes) to Figueres Vilafant. Sharanam does a pickup from Figueres Train Station for 25 EUR per drive.
Arrival by train
Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats find it very cool to be near a High-Speed train station (TGV/AVE/ICE). You can reach Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats by train from all over Europe. Europe is finally updating its international train services, over the coming 2 years more sleeper trains to Barcelona and better ticket pricing. You should stop at Figueres-Vilafant, the 1 stop before Barcelona if coming from the North.
Transfer from the train station to the retreat center is included in the price.
Check-in and out times are not specified as Sharanam Yoga and Therapy Retreats try to accommodate international guests' flights/train schedules. So discussing your needs with them, the retreat host personally works best.
Arrival by taxi
A one-way taxi trip from Girona airport costs 100 EUR.
Airport: Girona–Costa Brava Airport
Airport transfer available:
Girona–Costa Brava Airport (US$ 76 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Airport: Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport
Airport transfer available:
Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport (US$ 76 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 15% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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