“YOU CAN’T STOP YOUR EMOTIONS BUT YOU CAN LET THEM FLOW AND RIDE THEM LIKE A WAVE.”

Wild Sisters and Inma of Aloha Yoga Surf house have joined forces to introduce

Spirit Embodiment Surf Retreat

1st – 6th November 2017
Andalucia, Spain

Catch some last minute waves under the Spanish sun before summers end.

This unique retreat facilitates awareness of the wisdom of our body and soul
through surfing, yoga, meditation, dreams and nutrition.

The retreat will take place in the surf village El Palmar, Andalucia. We will be an intimate group of six and we will live in
a beautiful surf house, just meters away from the ocean.
Our intent is to create a relaxing playful space where we can let go of our
constant ‘doing’ and surrender into ‘being’.
We will explore our bodies’ innate wisdom and connect with our hearts truth by
being present in our own experience.

Weaving awareness with surfing, yoga, meditation, dreams will induce learning
the language of our whole being and reading the signs that are all around us.
Healthy vegetarian food and the elements; beach, wind, sun, ocean, will nurture,
inspire and empower us.

You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.
You can’t control your emotions but you can learn to surf their energy and flow through life with grace.

Meet The Team

Alja enjoys sharing her love for nature and surfing. She is a yoga teacher and psychotherapist. She draws from existential philosophy, shamanic wisdom and her own experience to facilitate waking up to ever greater freedom of being in awareness and living our own truths. Embodiment and dreams are her tools on the way of walking that path.

Beth has a positive and truth seeking soul with a passionate love of life, surf and anything to do with nature. Her greatest sustenance and joy comes from healthy and consciously-prepared foods, and empowering other souls to live out their inner beauty and light by finding their own flow in the world.

Inma is a local surfer and a yoga teacher sharing her spirit of aloha with anyone she meets. She created Aloha yoga surf house as a sanctuary for souls seeking an adventurous and relaxing break from the daily busy life.

For this retreat our intention is to create a safe, loving space for self growth and learning. There will be plenty of activities through out the retreat, which will help us to connect to our spirit, however the experience will be at your own pace to do as you feel. As it is important that we give our selves time to process and reconnect with our inner guidance system.

Surfing can be a wonderful form of meditation, a way to connect and listen. When you are among the waves you are faced with the powerful, unwavering element of water alone. When we fight the strength of the ocean, we fight against ourselves. But when we surrender to the great power and learn to go with the flow, we are able to make an almighty connection and let the sea guide us. We hope to give you the opportunity to find your flow.

Whether or not you can surf is irrelevant for this retreat, as it is about the inward journey.

What’s included:

5 Nights at the beautiful Aloha yoga surf house, wake up to the ocean everyday!

(The 1st and 6th of November will be allocated to travel)

2 Vegetarian meals a day (including welcome dinner and goodbye breakfast on travel days)

3 X Surf classes with local experienced surf instructors

Unlimited use of surf equipment

Daily yoga

Daily Meditation

Daily dream work

Daily embodiment : Learning a deeper connection with our body, emotions, feelings

The cost for this adventure is €590 pp. (If you reserve before the 20.10.17. After this date the price is £650.)

To reserve your place on this retreat or to simply know more go back to the home page and go to The Spirit Embodiment Surf Retreat Registration Form. Fill in the form and then we will send you an email with more information and payment details.

Having trouble finding the form??

Use this link: lovelifeandgethealthy.com/portfolio/spirit-embodiment-surf-retreat/

Or just email us 🙂 soulsurfingretreats@gmail.com

(there are no silly questions:)

Cancellation policy

Deposit of 150 euros to be payed via Pay Pal to reserve a place for you. (Send us your form and we will contact you or send us an email and we will send you the payment information). 0% deposit refund for cancellation 0-14 days before event. The remaining balance (total price, minus deposit) is due upon arrival.

What’s not included:

Flights: We have found these! Check out these flights to Seville from Skyscanner.com (It is also possible to fly to Malaga)
Optional airport shuttle from Seville (€30 one way)
Car hire – if you would prefer to have your own transport, click here
1 meal a day (this gives you the opportunity to check out local restaurants or prepare yourself a meal in our beautiful kitchen.)
Travel insurance: we recommend you have even basic travel insurance.

We are looking forward to sharing this adventure with you & see you in the flow!

Alja Lah

Spirit embodiment surf retreat, November 2017

” This was a crazy wholesome experience in all aspects. I went there from London with such autumn heaviness, swimming in hurt and frustration. Just by arriving to Aloha Yoga Surf House everything changed in an instant, I felt like I was high from energy. Every day there I was feeling lighter and lighter. Cleaner, more aware, more free. The ocean embraced me like it always does, no matter how long I have been away. It is always there, present, even when I am not It was simply blissful to be in that nourishing space, with soul sisters, doing what I love, being who I am. Breathing. Breathing, surfing, yoga, meditation bringing me into my body. Into this moment. Into being. Liquid being.

Our deep embodiment work developed further my ability to be with everything I am, all the fear, love, sadness, anger, joy… I learned to reside in love. Accept all aspects of my dark and light self and bring them into wholeness. Peace. Balance. When I get thrown out of balance, I breathe myself into balance again and again. Play with balance. Like playing in the waves.”

Beth James

“My personal experience of the Spirit embodiment surf retreat was an extremely powerful and growing one. The people that attended, came from all over the world, UK, Spain & Peru to join us! They were a beautiful, open hearted group, who each brought the perfect dynamic. The space, which we shared together was the Aloha Yoga Surf House a home from home. The space is open planned and perfect for an intimate group to relax & share together. Alja, Inma and I held the space for the group to open and expand their bodies and hearts with surfing and yoga. These practices invite the fears and insecurities to come up and be faced which reveals to us our own personal joyous gifts within.

It was magical to see our group enter into deep learning and growing processes, which also aided Alja, Inma & I to delve into our own self discovery/learning journeys. When we combine activities like yoga and surfing we create the opportunity for our bodies and minds to be vulnerable, which often causes emotional release. In a held space we are able to share that vulnerability & let it go with love and respect. The experience has helped me to take steps towards honoring my body and mind and has helped me to put in place healthy daily personal practices. The energy exchange during the retreat was very powerful, as situations arose the whole group pulled together to support and nurture, with a natural, community feel. Our intent was to build up our own personal connections with self, which by working on our selves helped us to over flow and give back to each other.

The retreat was an opening for us to reset and get clarity for the next stages in our lives. The time after the retreat was where I started to truly see the impact and lessons that I received from my time in Spain. I began the process of peeling away my self worth from the anchors of others, I felt the mask of pretense, which I have always hid behind dissolve away. It was like the ocean and the loving energy, which we created together caused a chemical reaction that striped away the mask, and I finally met my true self. It helped me to embody my spirit and connect to the divine inside. The experience showed me how to do as I feel, to be present and not to compromise my self because I feel I ‘should’.

My favorite moments were: Surfing small, clean waves till the sun went down. Feeling so free and alive that I just had to run into the sea! Sharing stories and making food together. Exploring ancient cities teaming with history and adventures. Morning sunrise meditations. Amazing yoga sessions with Inma. Witnessing my body getting stronger and opening due to the yoga and surfing! The feeling of connecting with the human family during the Temazcal (sweat lodge) it gave me the feeling that I would never be alone again! Standing on a cliff being able to see Africa on the other side of the water. Sitting in the sun learning Spanish while my sides ached from laughing. Hosting a women’s circle, where we got to let go and share. Last but not least, doing yoga on the beach on our last day, when a pod of dolphins came to wish us farewell.

This retreat changed my life. If it feels right come and experience this magical place and the incredible teachings it has to give us in May. Peace and love Beth ” X

Inma

Inma Mercant

“The most important thing in my life is to have the opportunity to share, everything, whatever you do or whoever you. We are always better together.

For me, the time we were together here was a perfect moment to feel my own self with the help of others, the equanimity of Alja and Beth, the sensation of a save place, anyone who comes to this safe place can feel security and the possibility to not be judged by acting or speaking of one way or another. The possibility of being loved and accepted without established social patterns.

What is surf to me? It is my best therapist, since the first day I entered in the water, I understood this very well, in the sea, the connection with it is immediate. Entering Dharana is immediate. I do yoga to help me with surfing, it is very effective for me and it is something that I do without effort. Both surfing and yoga are my daily feedback to let me know that there is always clarity within me.

About the food we had, I said only one thing….blissful….. we are what we eat! And, oh! I will remember the moment with the dolphins for the rest of my life, its a pity we can’t hire them to come back for yoga on the beach on the last day of the next retreat.”

Ale Vargas

“It was quite novel for me to experience those new things that I lived in El Palmar with the group that I now consider my new friends and sisters on the planet, surfing, vegetarian food, living together in those days, helped me a lot to see me myself through another, through the beautiful place where I was lucky to be. “

Ale made a video of a relaxed session in the surf during the Spirit Embodiment Surf retreat. Check it out: Surf Relax En La Orilla De El Palmar

(“Fue bastante novedoso para mi experimentar esas cosas nuevas que viví en El palmar con el grupo de las que ahora considero mis nuevas amigas y hermanas del planeta. El surfing, la comida vegetariana, la convivencia en esos días, me ayudaron mucho a verme a mi misma a través de ustedes, a través del hermoso lugar en el que tuve la suerte de estar”.)