20-26 June 2024 Zanzibar ~Energize Your Heart~ Yoga, Somatic Movement and African Rhythm Retreat
Come join this rejuvenating and high vibrational 7 days yoga retreat in magical Zanzibar! Reset and renew, just to feel to be “you”. Use this week filled with inspiring yoga, wild nature, delicious meals and great company to cultivate your own inspiration, vitality, the vibration of love, to allow yourselves to flow with life.
This personalized yoga&movement immersion week is thoughtfully designed for you by Mie who has lived in Tanzania for many years, with the unique blend of profound yoga, sound, healing touch, wild nature, healthy food, people with good energy, and unique culture in Zanzibar.
Nature in Zanzibar has special energetics, which is to me, one of the most ideal places in the world to practice yoga, explore movements and support the process of coming back to yourself, rejuvenate and free your energy like no other place. Zanzibar offers us space and freedom just to be ourselves: in a peaceful and supportive environment, you will be guided to deepen/begin your yoga/somatic movement practice, reflect, observe, nourish, and bring natural balance back to our body, mind, and energy. Let nature, culture and people of Africa hold you gently. This retreat will become the magical place where together we can transform, and cultivate a balance your energy, beginning to feel fully present and awake, just to feel this joy to be “you”.
During your free time, embrace excursions to Stone Town, the world heritage site, visit Jozani Forest to watch unique Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey, get on a traditional Dhow boat for a cruise and see a most beautiful sunset, learn how to kite-surf at one of the best kite-surfing sites in the world and soak up the beauty of Zanzibar beach with serene water, blue sky and white sand. This retreat includes some of the best Zanzibar has to offer and you get to do it all or stay and rest to reset. You can create the retreat you need for yourself, just the way you want and need to. Let it be an adventure inward, as well as in the external beauty of this special place.
You will go home with new energy, fully inspired, nourished and recharged.
What’s included:
6 nights comfortable accommodation (shared or private) at Mbili Villas, a cozy family run villa, swimming pool on site
Breakfast and dinner with locally sourced fresh ingredients
Daily x2 deep yoga and movement practice with Mie, sequenced specially for each day
Cacao ceremony and sound healing
Special Traditional Drumming and Movement workshop
Sound - Mantra chanting
Personal advice and help from Mie preparing for your trip to Zanzibar
A visit and join grassroots activities at nearby villages with Mie (optional)
The Venue: Mbili Villas
Mbili Villas is a cozy small boutique hotel located in Jambiani, Zanzibar. The whole area in Jambiani is surrounded by lush tropical vegetation and gazes over the expansive Indian Ocean. The village has its own uniqueness with a beautiful long stretch of coastline with soft white sand and turquoise water, that is embedded in local culture and communities. It is one of the best places on the island to gain insight into local life as you share the beach with local Zanzibari communities: you can see the fishermen return with their catch in the early morning, leaving their dhow boats dotted across the shoreline, and the women tend seaweed farms.
Mbili Villas is located within just a few minutes’ walk to the beach and features a private pool, a garden, and has tastefully decorated rooms, an ample area for lounging.
The Yoga Shala can be found upstairs in a spacious well-ventilated mezzanine covered in natural Makuti thatch.
The location of the villa offers access to charming nearby local life but also tranquility and seclusion.
Yoga & Daily Schedule
The practice is all-level at beautiful and spacious yoga deck. Take your practice to a deeper level through mindful vinyasa flow yoga approach, breathing techniques, and powerful meditations.
There are two practices daily. Morning practice is focused on connecting movement and breath to awaken your energy and move it through all energy centers (chakras). Authentic and creative practice will include mantra, meditation, purifying breathing practices and well-rounded body movement. The morning session concludes with a profound full-body relaxation & sound healing.
Evening yoga sessions are designed to bring you back into the present moment and to help you release deep-seated tension in your muscles and tissues. You will be able to surrender and relax with a yin/restorative practice, which will help to activate meridians along the whole body and balance the flow of energy. This session will help you to calm the nervous system, find stillness and invite positive energy towards the end of the day.
Both practices will end with deep full body relaxation and sound healing.
7:30 am Snack and warm drinks
8:00-9:30am Morning meditation and yoga/movement practice with Mie
9:30am Breakfast
Free Time ~ Join beach / cultural activities, soak up the sun, enjoy the beach and relax, massage, read, etc!
4:00pm Optional Asana clinic (one day)
5:00 - 6:30pm Afternoon yoga & meditation practice with Mie / Special Program /Workshop
7:00pm Dinner
Beach fire / music/circle
** There are no afternoon programs on 21 June Friday
Workshop: 3-6pm 22 June, Saturday ~ Flow to be You ~ A nourishing afternoon of exploration of movement, breath and rhythm
Movement is the practice, the purpose and the expression.
Come join this special afternoon of exploring the experience of movement, of being moved into action, combined with powerful breath and rhythm of African drums. Free our body, mind and spirit, flow to be you.
The workshop includes:
~ Movement Philosophy
~ Exploration of various movements
Mpepe is a drummer, originally from Mbeya region in Tanzania. He grew up in a musical family, always surrounded and nurtured by music and rhythm. Mpepe shares his passion for drum music and traditional Swahili culture through shows, gigs and events throughout Tanzania&Zanzibar and internationally. He is currently based in Jambiani, Zanzibar and is a member of Dhow Countries Music Academy.
~ 90 minutes practice of vinyasa flow yoga and movement, guided by mindful breaths and rhythm of African drums
~ East African drums
~ A closing tea ceremony with sacred mantra singing
Explore Zanzibar’s Culture & Nature - optional activities/excursions:
Natural caves
Jozani Chaka Bay National Park, home of rare Zanzibar red colobus monkeys
Stone Town, UNESCO cultural heritage site
Spice Tour
Kite Surfing
Snorkeling / Scuba diving
Paddle boarding
Sunset Cruise wth a traditional Dhow boat
Room Options and Prices (per person):
**If you would like to avoid the payment of 7% tax, please contact me via Whatsapp (a button below) or email, so that I can direct you to other forms of payment (Paypal & bank transfer).
Single Room ensuite : €960
Double Room ensuite: €795
Single room with shared bathroom (with one other person): €850