7 - 13 Feb 2025 ~Awaken Your Heart~ Yoga Retreat in Zanzibar
Join Mie for this one-week journey of awaken your heart. Be nourished and inspired by daily yoga, Zanzibar’s blue crystal clear warm water, vibrant culture and people, delicious meals and wholehearted connection. Celebrate your week with one of Africa’s best music festival Sauti za Busara 14-16 February! This retreat is in high demand!
Highlights:
Daily Morning & Evening Yoga with Mie
Flow Yoga, Yin, Meditation and Sound
Special workshops
Delicious fresh menus (Breakfast & Dinner)
Accommodation at Swahili style Villa right on the beautiful white sand beach
Kirtan chant
Asana Clinic to revisit your postures with private instructions
Connect with like-minded people
Ocean swims
Beach fire & music
Incredible sunrises
Don’t miss Sauti za Busara 14-16 February in Stone Town, one of the best music festivals in Africa!
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, 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.
My wish is that this retreat becomes the magical place where you can participate in active self-care rituals and transform and balance your energy, beginning to feel fully present and awake, bringing more perspective to our your holistic wellbeing.
You will go home with new energy, fully inspired, nourished, and recharged.
Our Venue: Villa Bahati Zanzibar
Villa Bahati Zanzibar is a well established family run boutique hotel, the owners live in Zanzibar since the 1990s, a typical Swahili style Villa on the beautiful white sand beach of Jambiani beach. Both Villa Bahati and Villa Mapenzi offer a unique relaxation and cultural experience. Each room at Villa Bahati & Villa Mapenzi is individually furnished with antique Zanzibarian interior and equipped with an en-suite bathroom.
Yoga
The practice is open- level at beautiful and spacious yoga Shala, directly facing a tranquil white sand beach. All level welcome, including beginners to those who are experienced. You have your own space to take your practice to a new, deeper level through mindful vinyasa flow yoga approach, breathing techniques, and powerful meditations.
Typical Day:
Wake up to the gentle music of the waves, slip into a lush cotton robe, and enjoy the slow routine of the retreat. Enjoy healthy breakfast and dinner in the outside dining area with the freshwater breeze. Practice yoga and meditation as you watch the sun climb into the wide African sky from the yoga shala facing the Indian Ocean. The days are long, slow and delicious.
7:30 am Snack and warm drinks
8:00-9:30am Morning meditation and yoga practice with Mie
9:30am Breakfast
Free Time
Join beach / cultural activities, soak up the sun, enjoy the beach and relax, massage, read, etc!
Late Afternoon
4:00pm Optional Asana clinic
5:30 - 6:30pm Afternoon yoga & meditation practice with Mie / Special Program /Workshop
7:00pm Dinner
Beach fire / music/circle
You will be guided into asanas with safe, clear instructions through well-combined sequences themed specially for each day. The sequence is based on healthy alignment of the body, and a pathway to enhance your vital energy (prana), tone and open up all layers of your body.
There are two practices daily (there is no afternoon practice on 5th February Monday). 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 combination of yin practice, yoga nidra and sound. These sessions will help you to calm the nervous system, find stillness and invite positive energy towards the end of the day.
Explore Zanzibar with Eco Culture Tours
Eco Culture Tours is a local alternative tour operator with strong ecological and cultural-friendly principles. The company offer a wide range of activities including:
Blue Lagoon Boat & Snorkelling Trip - cruise Jambiani’s blue lagoon in a local fishing boat and snorkel in the crystal waters
Stand up paddle rent: Explore Jambiani’s blue lagoon by renting a SUP
Stone Town Tour - explore the capital’s old town and the rich history of this UNESCO heritage site
Jambiani Cultural Village Tour - Discover the local Swahili way of living a guided walk through Jambiani Village
Jozani Forest & Mangroves - visit the protected nature reserve and tropical rainforest. See a real mangrove forest and meet rare Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey
Spice Tour and Turtle Island - The Spice Island has cultivated wide range of spices for centuries : discover how they grow & their taste. Visit giant sea turtles on Prison Island.
Combination: Historical Stone Town & Spice Tour
Room Options and prices (per person, in Euros)
VILLA BAHATI
The uniquely designed and carefully decorated guest rooms are built around a colorful courtyard and furnished with antiques from Zanzibar. The veranda with large dining tables and lounge beds invites you to let thoughts drift away and get inspired by the islands typical sounds and smells. Both at the veranda and in the spacious garden you can enjoy the famous regional cuisine of the spice island. Villa Bahati offers 5 guest rooms, each room symbolises an element of Zanzibari culture and nature and follows an individual key colour. Their showers and basins are made of coloured and polished coral stone in traditional Zanzibari style following the individual colour schemes of the room. All rooms include: wifi, a room safe and a private bathroom.
The villa rooms are separated from the common area by its own private garden and a natural wooden fence. They are comfortable holiday home, whilst retaining many Swahili features and its authentic atmosphere. The original layout of the Riad house with a pool in the central courtyard guarantees privacy and comfort for an intimate, relaxing vacation. Rooms have with their own pool and back patios. Rooms are all beautiful and are all sizeable with en-suite bathrooms. There are options to take the room as a single room, or to privately share with two people. There’s an option adding an extra bed.
Crystal Blue
A double room furnished with Zanzibarian antiques. It features a Zanzibarian style double bed made of coconut wood, a sitting area for two and a Zanzibarian teak cupboard. It has direct access to the veranda and the beach. It features a blue stone bathroom with a shower and hand wash basin made of terrazo polished stone. The room has 1 double bed and a ceiling fan.
Single Occupancy : €1140
Coconut
A spacious double room for a romantic couple. The double bed is a masterpiece of Zanzibari craftsmanship and the ceiling fan and mosquito net make for dreamy nights.
The en-suite bathroom with shower and hand wash basin are finished in traditional yellow terrazzo polished stone. The room has 1 double bed and a ceiling fan.
Single Occupancy: €1225
Double Occupancy: €895
Aloe Vera
Twin room furnished with Zanzibarian antiques. It features a Zanzibarian style double bed made of coconut wood, a sitting area for two and a Zanzibarian teak cupboard. It has direct access to the veranda and the beach. It features a green stone bathroom with a shower and hand wash basin made of terrazo polished stone. The room has 2 single beds and AC.
Single Occupancy: €1225
Double Occupancy: €895
Hibiscus
A double room furnished with Zanzibarian antiques. It features a Zanzibarian style double bed made of coconut wood, a single Zanzibarian antique bed, a sitting area for two and a Zanzibarian teak cupboard. Find your restful sleep under the ceiling fan, protected by a mosquito net. The en-suite bathroom with shower and hand wash basin are finished in traditional red terrazzo polished stone. The room has 1 double bed, 1 single bed, and AC.
Single Occupancy: €1225
Double Occupancy: €895
Cardamon Suite
Cardamon Suite occupies a large part of the ground floor of the main house, Villa Bahati. The spacious living area with its twin beds and sofa set has direct access to the veranda. In the back is the master bedroom and private bathroom in blue polished coral stone.
The room, as all rooms of Villa Bahati Zanzibar, is individually designed and decorated. Due to its comprehensive size, the suite feels like a house within a house and offers the utmost privacy. It has 1 double bed, 2 single beds (in a separate room) and a ceiling fan.
Triple Occupancy: €865
Quadruple Occupancy: €780
Villa Mapenzi - Frangipani Sweet
VILLA MAPENZI features the roof top Mapenzi Suite and groundfloor Frangipani Suite both with a large balcony view over the turquoise Indian Ocean, the ideal place for private leisure and romantic time, Frangipani Suite offers additional relaxing space in an outdoor garden bathroom. All rooms include: wifi, a room safe and a private bathroom.
A private garden suite on a ground level featuring a large outdoor terrace with an open-air shower. The suite comes with a big double bed, a single antique Zanzibar bed that can be used as a daybed or sofa, a desk and chair for work and a coral stone bathroom. The room, as all rooms of Villa Bahati Zanzibar, is individually designed and decorated. You can experience the most privacy here with a separate seating area in the garden just below the rooftop suite. It has 1 double bed, 1 single bed, and AC.
Double Occupancy: €955
Triple Occupancy: €825
Villa Mapenzi Suite
A private roof-top suite featuring a large private terrace facing the garden and Indian Ocean. The suite comes with a big double bed, a single antique Zanzibar bed that can be used as a daybed or sofa, a desk and chair for work and a coral stone bathroom. It is also equipped with air conditioning. The room, as all rooms of Villa Bahati Zanzibar, is individually designed and decorated. You can experience the most privacy here with a separate seating area in the garden just below the rooftop suite. It has 1 double bed, 1 single bed, and AC.
Double Occupancy: €955
Triple Occupancy: €825
What’s included?
6 nights 7 days accommodation at Swahili style Villa right on the beautiful white sand beach of Jambiani beach, swimming pool on site
Breakfast and dinner with locally sourced fresh ingredients
Daily x2 deep yoga with Mie, sequenced specially for each day, at yoga platform directly facing the turquoise water of Indian Ocean ~ Asanas, meditation and pranayama, yoga nidra and yin yoga
A special workshop
Dhow boat sunset cruise
Asana clinic (A private session to look into your asanas/postures)
Mantra chanting / Kirtan
Breathwork Journey with Greg
Special Opening and Closing circle
Drinking water
Personal assistance in preparing for the trip to Zanzibar
One month free subscription of Flow with Mie Online Membership
What’s not included?
Flights/local transportations
Insurance
Drinks apart from water
Optional activities & spa treatments