Alternative Christmas Retreat

Rest, Relax, Rebalance

Looking to relax and enjoy an Alternative Christmas with like-minded people? Escape the pressure of the festive season and instead, cultivate a calm and quiet nervous system. Honour body, mind and spirit with nourishment, peace and love in place of arbitrary stresses and over-indulgence.

Gift yourself 5 days to explore focused workshops, daily restorative yoga, sound healing meditations, onsite massage, pampering and deliciously healthy food. Enjoy the time, space and compassionate support to just be. Reconnect with yourself and bring balance back into your life. Forge new friendships and make room for more joy, laughter, compassion, love and awareness.

Next Retreat: 22 December - 26 December, 2021

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Program

Start: 22 December with check-in at 2pm and 4pm retreat start
Program ends 26 December with check-out until 1pm. Please book travel accordingly.

• Workshops to allow for deep rest, restoration and gentle loving awareness. Learn techniques to calm the nervous system, explore traditional herbal skin-care and tea recipes and easy to implement dietary changes to nourish your body. Leave feeling truly relaxed, at peace in your being, and connected with yourself.

• Workshops will include: an Introduction to the Polyvagal Theory & Tools to Calm and Ground the Nervous System, guilt-free sweet treats and mindful eating, incorporating mindfulness into the every day, discover the properties of traditional herbs, spices and roots and make an organic face mask and herbal teas at An Farm.

• Each day you’ll practise the art of conscious rest with a gentle and deeply restorative yoga class, focused on bringing awareness and harmony to the body-mind connection. All sessions will take place in our stunning open-air yoga sala.

• Allow the powerful healing vibrations of a daily sound-bath meditation journey to take you into alpha-state and encourage deep and restorative sleep. All you have to do is lie back, relax and be.

• During this retreat you are invited to enjoy a 60 minute massage of your choice (Thai, hot stone, deep tissue, relaxing, foot)

• Upon arrival, you will receive a beautiful booklet to guide your journey, not only during the retreat, but for when you transition back into your daily life.

Can’t make it in 2020? Join Gratitude Vietnam on this retreat in 2021 from 22 - 26 December, 2021

Daily Schedule Sample*

6:45am - Morning Yoga
8:30am - Breakfast
9:30am - Meditation, Workshop, Discussion
1pm - Lunch
Afternoon - Optional independent guided activities, reflection time / explore Hoi An / 1:1 Sessions / additional massages
6pm - Dinner
7pm - Sound Bath Meditation Journey

* Subject to change slightly, day to day. View the full, detailed program here.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• 4 nights' accommodation

• All food, soft drinks and snacks

• Cookery course at Tra Que Vegetable Village

• Dinner in Hoi An old town

• All scheduled yoga classes, meditations and workshops

• Transfers to / from Danang International Airport

• Welcome pack and retreat booklet

• Pool / use of communal facilities

• Use of bikes throughout your stay

• Use of yoga mats, bolsters and props

what’s not included

• Flight costs

• Alcoholic drinks

• 1:1 sessions or in-house massage (available)

• Additional excursions (not included above)

• Visas  

• Health / Travel Insurance

• Extra nights – you are welcome to extend your stay at an additional cost

SAVE $20 USD when you book with Yoga in Vietnam. Keep scrolling for details.

Accommodation

With private ensuite accommodation in Gratitude Vietnam’s eco-friendly retreat centre, you are promised four days of relaxation, self-exploration, and space to begin your personal journey into this beautiful and grounding energetic healing technique.

Book through Yoga in Vietnam and claim an exclusive $20 USD discount off the retreat rate.

Retreat Investment with YIV Discount (Early Bird til 22 September, 2020)

#.1 private room: $975 USD / per person

#2. Shared twin: $879 USD / per person

#3. Shared triple: $729 USD / per person

#4. Shared couple: $1,778 USD / per couple

Full Price Rates per person/couple effective after 22 September, 2020:
Private: $1,195 USD | Twin: $999 USD | Triple: $849 USD | Couple: $1,998 USD

To save your mat, a non-refundable deposit of 16% of the retreat rate is required. The remaining balance is due directly to the organizers by 30 November, 2020.

naomi rowan, reiki master and sound bowl healer

“Formally a music teacher and pastoral leader of 12 years, my ‘previous’ life was focused on bringing young people into alignment with themselves, developing confidence, nurturing self-worth and enabling children to find their creative energies, so often quashed by the ‘need to achieve and succeed’.

Having taken a leap of faith and left a stable career to pursue a lifetime passion for mindfulness, meditation and energetic healing modalities I am now a Reiki Master/Teacher, Sound Bowl practitioner and retreat leader, and fortunate to be in a position to combine the tools and experience of the teaching profession with my core beliefs and practices. 

A ‘trauma’ geek (and trauma aware), I have read, digested and assimilated current and historic writings surrounding the concept of the body-mind connection, whether neuroscientific, energetic, physiological or psychological. I believe that modern science is only now beginning to touch the surface of ancient wisdom and through engagement in daily awareness of our thoughts, bodily sensations, intuition, actions and reactions, we are able to retrain our habitual patterns into a life of gratitude, love and compassion towards self and other.

Through my own journey, I have explored various modalities and found many tools along the way that enable individual empowerment. Now practicing at the Gratitude Vietnam Retreat Venue in Hoi An, I seek to serve the community through provision of compassionate, loving and vibrational healing.”