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Ayurveda Rejuvenation Retreat

A New Year Reset Weekend for Body, Mind & Soul.

January 12 – 15, 2024.

Cotswold Park Barns, near Cirencester.

Clear the effects of the heavy festive season diet from your tissues and kickstart total mind-body-spirit wellbeing for the new year.

 

  1. Ayurveda foods to  cleanse and strengthen the digestion and organs of elimination. 
  2. Herbal formulas for your Ayurveda type to clean the inner channels of your body.
  3. Special teas to support the cleansing and rejuvenation process.
  4. Daily Ayurveda Yoga classes to nourish and revitalise not only the body, but mind and spirit too,
  5. Guided sacred chant and meditations to clear old habitual tendencies from the mind and create new and positive pathways for the year ahead.
  6. Daily talks on self-care with Ayurveda by the log fire.
  7. Walks around the beautiful Cotswold Park Estate 
  8. Optional Ayurveda body treatments. 

 

“My deepest wish for these Ayurveda Rejuvenation Retreats is that they give back health and vitality to your body, peace and balance to your mind, and the love and joy to your heart that is your birthright.”

Sara

On the Ayurveda Rejuventation Retreat you will be supported to: 

  •  Restore balance and vitality to body and mind.
  • Optimise digestive function to support your ongoing health and longevity.
  • Release toxicity and stagnation from the body and mind which sap your innate vitality.
  • Expel excess dosha (humour) to relieve debilitating symptoms from the body and mind. 
  • Reconnect with the spiritual heart of your being and its qualities of deep love, peace and joy.
  • Uncover , step into, and prepare to live from your Essential nature and innate goodness.
  • Understand the way your unique metabolism functions and how to support it to sustain health and balance in the months and years ahead.
  • Connect with that place of stillness, joy and love within that you can return to long after the retreat is finished.
  • Find much-needed rest and nourishment to enjoy a total reset body, heart and soul

“Because we cannot scrub our inner body, we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda”.

Sebastian Pole

 

Daily Schedule:

On the residential part of the programme, a typical day will look like this:

  • 6.00am wake up with morning self-care rituals, cleansing and herbal formulas.
  • 6.15am Warming detox tea in the quiet of your room.
  • 7.00am Yoga and meditation class
  • 8.30am An Ayurveda breakfast to set you up for the day ahead.
  • 9.30 – 12.00 Your personally-prescribed therapeutic body treatment of the day with one of our Ayurveda Therapists: AND/OR FREE TIME. See below for free time suggestions.
  • 12.00 noon An Ayurveda self-care talk, with Sara
  • 1.00pm Your lunch-time detox formula and Ayurveda balancing, nourishing meal.
  • 2.00pm Your personally-prescribed therapeutic body treatment of the day with one of our Ayurveda Therapists: AND/OR FREE TIME. See below for free time suggestions.
  • 5.00pm Restorative Yoga practice or Yoga Nidra
  • 6.00pm Your evening herbs and a nourishing, balancing Ayurveda supper
  • 8.00pm Evening guided meditation to prepare body and mind for deep sleep.
  • 9.00pm Your bed-time herbs.

During your free time enjoy rest and recuperation in the privacy of your room, reading a good book in one of the lovely open communal spaces, walks in nature, resting in the shade of the nearby woods for quiet reflection, and journalling with our Retreat self-enquiry processes. 

We will also gather at times around the wood burner for healing sacred chant, stories and music! Plus, for the braver souls in Winter time, there’ll be a chance for a daytime dip in the outdoor hot-tub!

Accommodation and Food on the Residential Part of the Programme:

Accommodation is purpose built. You will have single occupancy of double rooms, with private bathroom for extra comfort and privacy during the retreat process, unless you plan to join with a friend or partner. 

All meals will be cooked according to Ayurveda principles, and will be easily digestible to support the cleanse process, spiced to kindle the digestive fire and to  reduces cravings. Meals are vegan apart from the use of ghee which can be substituted where necessary. 

Ayurveda Body Treatments on the Residential Part of the Programme:

Ayurveda body treatments are far more than a massage. They are therapeutic treatments which detoxify, stimulate or calm, strengthen and rejuvenate the body and mind.

On the Ayurveda Rejuvenation Programme they include the use of healing herabalised oils and finely ground herbal powders, herbal pastes and poultices, and skin nourishers. 

The application of herbal oils to the body is a prized treatment in Ayurveda giving incredible benefits which you can read about here.  The treatments reach ways beyond the muscles, benefitting the internal body systems, the mind and emotions.

Your personalised programme of body treatments will be agreed during your initial Ayurveda consultation. 

CLICK HERE to read about the various treatments on offer. 

How You Will Prepare for the Residential Programme:

Before the programme begins you will be invited to an in-person or online 1-1 Consultation with Sara.

From the findings of this consultation, Sara will create your personalised Rejuvenation Programme dietary, herbal and body treatment prescriptions. 

You will then receive a manual, shopping lists, and instructional videos to support you with foods and daily routine through the first three days of the programme. 

On days 1-3 of the programme, you will follow the manual and recipes to prepare body and mind for the cleanse and rejuvenate 5-day programme.

You will have Sara’s full support through these days via whats’ app.

How You Will be Supported on Days 9-10 and afterwards, following the residential programme:

On leaving the resdential programme, you will be given the special Ayurveda foods to support your journey home, so that you can keep to the programme. 

On the morning after your arrival home, or the next morning after that,  you may choose to do an optional purgation with castor oil to eliminate from the gut all the toxins released from your deeper tissues during the programme. 

Sara will then guide you with dietary after care. 

You will be supported to continue with the detox and any other prescribed herbs for one month.

Sara will schedule a follow-up consultation with you (included in the programme fee) so that you can agree on dietary, lifestyle and herbal protocols that are going to support the build-up of the body’s strength and vitality for two months following the programme. 

You will also be guided to integrate programme insights and newly-found postive mental-emotional states into your daily life in the months ahead. 

“I’m feeling so much better and more energised….I feel reset and I’m looking forward to incorporating the practices and Ayurveda into my daily life”.

Ayurveda Cleanse and Rejuveante programme participant.

 

DAYS 5-9 RESIDENTIAL VENUE:

For the residential part of this programme we will be staying at the stunning Cotswold Park Barns. This is a purpose built retreat venue on the beautiful Cotswold Park Estate close to Cirencester and Cheltenham. 

Click HERE for pictures of this wonderful venue. 

There are beautiful, extensive grounds to wonder around, gentle woods with natural seating to rest in and connect with Mother Nature, log burners, and a light, spacious Yoga room with underfloor heating. 

All bedrooms are beautifully designed and have ensuite shower/bathrooms. 

PROGRAMME FEES

Single accomodation, including all herbal and body treatments, consultations, Yoga and Ayurveda foods:

£1700.00 for the full 10-day programme. 

Shared double/twin accomodation (if you are joining with a friend, relative or partner), including all herbal and body treatments, consultations, Yoga and Ayurveda foods:

£1400.00/person

Deposit of £500.00 is required to secure your place on booking. 

The balance is due December 9th 2023.

A payment plan is available depending on your booking time. Please CONTACT US  by clicking the Discovery Call button below to find out more in a 15 minute chat with us. 

To reserve your place, please click the button below and contact us via email or by text to register your interest and we will reply with a registration form. 

Testimonials

“I’m feeling so much better and more energised….I feel reset and I’m looking forward to incorporating the practices and Ayurveda into my daily life”.

“.. (the programme) has reset me to make better choices. I am taking away some good practices to continue.”

“It has been fascinating to learn about Ayurveda with Sara. With her usual heart-felt and thorough delivery, she has demystified these ancient teachings and now some of the practices have become daily rituals which  feel totally natural to me”.

“I’m so grateful to have had, and continue to have, the opportunity to learn about and experience the Ayurveda diet, treatments and practices. Totally life-changing and enlightening”.

“Huge thanks to Sara for all her dedicated teaching, Learning to live in tune with the natural rhythms of life is a rather beautiful choice: inspiring guidance from  Sara in practical and more subtle ways”.

“I have greatly appreciated Sara’s sharing of Ayurveda wisdom and our relationship with Mother Nature and the seasons. I have realised Yoga isn’t a destination to get the postures right, it’s a journey into and between ourselves”.

I” am new to Ayurveda. I really appreciate the way Sara offered the teachings in a recent weekend retreat. The retreat went beyond didactic teaching as it was offered in a generous and knowledgeable manner. I was left feeling that I had an authentic taste of Ayurveda which has captured my curiosity to enquire futher. Thank you Sara for sharing your knowledge and experience of Ayurveda”.

 

 

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Can’t make the Retreat programme?

You can always book the same 10-day Ayurveda Rejuvenation programme on a 1-1 basis with 5-days residential treatments with Sara in her dedicated Ayurveda treatment space in Startford Upon Avon, Warwickshire. 

Please click the button below for more details.