Yoga Rejuvenation Brazil

Yoga Rejuvenation Brazil 2023

7 days / 8 nights

6th to the 14th of October 2024

Daily Yoga classes, Yoga Nidra deep relaxation and Meditation with your hosts Shuddhachittam and Namrata.

You will be staying in fabulous apartments surrounded by a beautiful tropical garden. In your free time you can have a dip in the refreshing swimming pool that also features a swimming lane or walk to the stunning beach.

A retreat is the chance to leave daily responsibilities behind and experience the benefits that continuous daily practice and personal reflection bring. Taking time on a retreat is one of the most effective ways to start to grow your yoga and meditation practice.

About Pipa Park

Pipa Park is situated in an ideal location just 600 meters from the centre of Pipa. Offering lovely comfortable apartments, swimming pool, barbeque area plus a reading and relax area, its just the place to let go of all stress and slip into another pace of life.

There are two onsite yoga areas where we will be running classes. One is in our yoga shala beside Pipa Park, a natural area under the trees. We also have a newly built undercover yoga space surrounded by lush gardens. Here we inspire peace, health and strength.

The apartments are air conditioned and each have a kitchen to use. The retreat centre also has 24 hr security and free Wifi.

Accommodation

Places are limited to 16 people.

Each apartment accommodates 4 people and has a fully equipped kitchen for your self catering: fridge, microwave, coffee machine, blender and sandwich maker.

There is a private terrace with table, chairs and hammocks.

Parking is available.

Visit the Pipa Park Website for more details and photos of your beautiful apartment.

Here are two accommodation options for your stay:

Shared room with two single beds toilet and shower.

Early Bird: $2050 Aud per person

Normal price: $2250

Private room double bed with ensuite

Early Bird: $2350 Aud single occupancy

Normal price: $2550

Early Bird: $2050 Aud per person double occupancy for couples

Normal price: $2250

Early Bird prices finish 1st June 2024.

Health Bar

In addition to immersing yourself in Yoga and Meditation Pipa Park also offers healthy organic food. We serve organic green juice every morning, either before or after practice. After the morning practice we offer breakfast with several kinds of tropical fruits, homemade yoghurt from untreated milk and natural organic homemade cereal. Breakfast is included in the price.

A short stroll from the retreat centre you will find many restaurants and cafes where you can purchase meals.

Retreating with Yoga at Pipa Park is an opportunity to use your holidays to calm down, cultivate yourself, your body and your spirit, and to connect with the world around us.

Cancellation policy:

$350 of the total fee is non refundable. The remaining fees can be refunded on application up to 3 months prior to the retreat.

What you can look forward to:

Sample Schedule:

7-8.30am Morning Yoga

8.30am Breakfast on site or in town

11.30am-12pm Yoga Nidra – deep relaxation

Free time to swim, go to the beach, relax, read, explore

5-6.30pm Yoga, Pranayama and relaxation

8.30-9pm Meditation

Healing mantra ceremony Saturday night.

Additional activities are available at an extra cost:

• Surfing lesson 1 to 1 - approx 40 AUD (150 brazilian reais)

• Surfing lesson - group of several - price negotiable

• Surfing board hire ONLY - approx 9 AUD per hour (30 brazilian reais)

• Kayaking trip 2.5 - 3.0 hr duration - approx 17 AUD (60 brazilian reais per person for entire trip duration - max 15 participants) - also availability to eat at the beach following kayaking as company also has a beach bar - at extra cost according to the menu - variety of options available

You can find reviews of previous retreats here.

About your hosts:

Shuddhachittam and Namrata are both trained in Satyananda Yoga and hold Diplomas in Yoga teacher training (1400hrs). We met while we were residents at the Bihar School of Yoga, India and have stayed friends since. We also met up again when Namrata was a resident of Mangrove Mountain Ashram, NSW, Australia and Shuddha was completing her Diploma there.

More about us:

About Namrata (Natasha Da Silva Bjornstad):

Qualifications:

4 month yogic studies residential course - 2011/2012 - Bihar School of Yoga

Yogic Studies - 2013 to 2014 - Mangrove yoga ashram, Australia

Bachelor of Physiotherapy - 2015 to 2018, Oslo Metropolitan University

Group Instructor Course (Les Mills Nordic/Scandinavia) - 2016

UK L2 Group Instructor certificate 2020

UK L3 Personal Trainer certificate, 2021

Msc Neuro Physiotherapy - Ongoing

In 2010 I set out on a journey to find inner peace after realizing that I couldn’t continue to live with myself after years of struggling with my body & mind.

I had battled existential crisis for many years, with depression, anxiety, fear and ultimately the thought of not existing. One of the many reasons for my struggle was suffering a brain injury that left me with residual mild right-sided muscle weakness as well as challenges with balance and coordination. This left me wondering how living in a body could feel so restrictive.

Additionally, moving schools a lot whilst growing up left me vulnerable to bullies. My biggest bully, however, turned out to be within myself. For this reason, I left everything I had ever known, by the age of twenty, to travel the world in search of a deeper sense of meaning, connection, and satisfaction. The journey led me to a yoga ashram in India, where I would begin to learn the depths of the practice.

Reflecting back on it, I feel yoga literally saved my life.

After a few years of yogic studies, self-inquiries, and extensive months of voluntary work throughout the world, I felt a strong urge to further my academic knowledge and have more tools in my toolbox of life to help others.

So in 2015 I decided to start studying a Bachelor of Physiotherapy.

I finished my degree in 2018 while also certifying as a gym group instructor, beginning to teach classes involving the principles of cardiovascular and progressive resistance (strength) training.

In 2020 I also began a master of Neurophysiotherapy and obtained a certificate in Personal Training.

My style of teaching involves focusing on acceptance and exploring the physical, mental and emotional states without judgment. It is a constant journey of learning and growing, sometimes painful, sometimes pleasant - but always changing - such as life.

About Shuddhachittam ( previously known as Anna Ellery)

Shuddha teaches Traditional Hatha Yoga, guiding students to witness the body, breath and thoughts, creating mindfulness through Yoga. She believes that mind and body healing can be experienced through the traditional Yoga postures, bestowing benefits to the practitioner by holding the poses and repetition. Shuddha also has an ardent interest in alignment in her classes and regularly attends Iyengar classes to deepen her experience of postural awareness.

Shuddha’s interest in spirituality started from a young age when she practiced meditation with the desire to astrally project and see auras… unfortunately she didn’t succeed at that time! She has travelled to India 8 times and has attended various courses in the Tantric traditional practices of Chakra Shuddhi, Prana Vidya, Tattwa Shuddhi, Puja, Havan and Yajnas.

Shuddha started practicing Yoga when she was 14 years old at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Perth. 9 years later she completed her first teacher training and started teaching in 2005. Shuddha has completed over 1900 hrs of Yoga teacher training and lived as a Yoga Monk (Sannyasin) at the Bihar School of Yoga from 2011-2013. She has her own daily practice of Yoga and Meditation and frequently attends Vipassana meditation silent retreats to deepen her practice. Meditation is one of the main passions in her life as it has helped her to gain greater insight into herself and the tools to help maintain emotional equilibrium through the ups and downs that life offers.

Shuddha is also a qualified Hypnotherapist, Theta Healer and Ayurvedic Consultant and Massage therapist.