Holistic Wellness Retreats

A holistic approach to retreats, combining healing therapies, yoga, meditation, healthy meals and a soothing environment tends to shift people towards a more conscious and healthier approach to life. After a Retreat, participants tend to return to their busy, demanding lives with a sense of renewal, empowerment, and clarity. The experience gained helps them make a more conscious decision in life. They learn to factor in healthy practices without feeling guilty about taking time out for themselves.

As human beings, we are part of natural ecosystems and depend on them for their survival. According to a recent study, in a rapidly changing environment and with increasing urbanization, this dependence is challenged. Natural environments affect human health and well-being both directly and indirectly. Nature provides opportunities for stress recovery and physical activity. One of the great advantages of going on a retreat is that it offers you proximity to nature allowing to reconnect with the healing elements of nature.

Retreats include yoga, meditation, healing treatments, or counseling sessions by professionals who support you to find the balance and the sense of wellbeing. These sessions are personalized based on your needs, your condition helping you improve, but also provide you with simple tools and practices to take home with you to integrate into your daily routine.  

Did you know that multitasking, the addiction to digital stimulation lead to poor decision-making? In an era of email, text messages, social media, we often find ourselves doing several things at once, however, this continuous multitasking can have a negative impact on us. According to Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT the constant external stimulation, multitasking has been found to increase the production of the stress hormone cortisol as well as the fight-or-flight hormone adrenaline, which can overstimulate your brain and cause mental fog or scrambled thinking. Mindfulness, meditation is exactly the opposite; it’s the act of dedicating conscious time to your actions so you make good decisions.A retreat allows you to unplug, in addition to practicing mindfulness through meditation and yoga, your decision-making skills are enhanced. So, for your next holiday, how about a retreat to allow you to unwind and reclaim the joy of life.