Alternative New Year Retreat

Reflect, Release, Manifest, Renew

Looking to unwind after Christmas, avoid the crazy parties and welcome in the New Year with a clear head and like-minded people? Feeling a little stuck and wanting direction in place of arbitrary (and unachievable!) resolutions? We are often so busy that we do not have time to stand still and work out what we really want. Make 2021 the year to address these unmet needs - give yourself the gift of change and time for transformation.

The new year is a powerful time to reflect on the past and set intentions for the year ahead. Kickstart 2021 with mind, body and soul in alignment.

Give yourself 6 days to explore focused workshops, daily yoga, meditation, reflective writing and deliciously healthy food. We offer you time, space and compassionate support to take a step back and evaluate ways in which you can immediately make change to bring your values and lifestyle into alignment.

Bring gratitude as an action into your life, for all that is, has been and is yet to be. Enjoy a grounding ceremonial puja to release the things that no longer serve and make room for more joy, laughter, compassion, love and awareness.

Next Retreat: 27 December 2021 - 2 January 2022

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Program

Start: 27 December, 2020 with check-in from 4pm
Program ends 2 January, 2021 with check-out until 1pm. Please book travel accordingly.

• Grounding ceremonial puja to release the things that no longer serve and make room for more joy, laughter, compassion, love and awareness.

• Daily meditation practices, including: Sound Bath Meditation with beautiful Tibetan singing bowls, Inner Child Meditation, and Guided Imagery and Music Meditation, Affirmation Meditation, Loving Kindness Meditation.

• Daily morning yoga sessions (Hatha and Yin) in a stunning open-air yoga sala.

• Workshops are designed to allow for deep self-reflection and mindful awareness.  Reflect on the relationships in your life - with yourself and others - how you spend your time, your internal thought processes and belief systems.  Leave with direction and clarity on achievable changes you can make immediately to improve your quality of life for the years to come.  Learn to make decisions made from the heart.

• Workshops will include: Journalling and reflective writing, Mindful creative activities, Reflective activities to review your own life and ways in which you can incorporate mindfulness into a busy schedule, Being ‘in the body’ – mindful awareness of intuition, felt sense and bodily sensations, Awareness of thought and self-compassion, Manifesting in multi-colour, Finding your true North

• Your stay will include a fun, informative and delicious Vietnamese cookery course and you will also enjoy a fabulous dinner in Hoi An to further sample local Vietnamese cuisine. These excursions will be private to the Alternative New Year Retreat participants.

View the full, detailed program here.

Can’t make it in 2020? Join Gratitude Vietnam on this retreat in 2021 from 27 December, 2021 to 2 January, 2022.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• 6 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 $25 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 $25 USD discount off the retreat rate.

Retreat Investment with YIV Discount (Early Bird til 20 September, 2020)

#.1 private room: $1,424 USD / per person

#2. Shared twin: $1,274 USD / per person

#3. Shared triple: $1,074 USD / per person

#4. Shared couple: $2,573 USD / per couple

Full Price Rates per person/couple effective after 20 September, 2020:
Private: $1,669 USD | Twin: $1,499 USD | Triple: $1,269 USD | Couple: $2,998 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.”