Tashi has been a practitioner of yoga since her teens and since studied with many wonderful teachers around the world including Sharat and Manju Jois, Godfrey Devereux, Simon Borg-Oliver, John Ogilvie, Kristina Karitinou, Eddie Stern, BNS Iyengar, Mark & Joanna Darby & many, many others.

Her classes are creative, sensitive and enjoyable as she invites students to practice a gentle yet invigorating vinyasa flow guided by the dynamic yoga training method. She is an experienced and professional yoga instructor with over 10 years of teaching experience, qualified in Thai Yoga and Ayurvedic massage as well as having a Masters in Community Cultural Development.

Moving the body with awareness and experiencing the rhythmic breath allows us to move into a state of ease, space and a willingness to surrender. We naturally release from tension as we witness the transformation of doubt, agitation and stagnant energy when we embrace yoga as a life practice. This retreat will focus on how we can use our yoga practice to expand our centre, to live with steady ease, to create the platform for more skillful action in all aspects of our life. Drawing on philosophy, nature, creativity and human experience Tashi encourages the group to creatively explore their experience of yoga.

Fly into Lisbon or Porto perhaps enjoying a night or 2 in those charming European cities before heading to the mountains on the Sunday afternoon coaches to Oleiros together with the others coming on your week.

Daily schedule

- Sunday afternoon arrival from Lisbon at 5pm or from Porto at 8.30pm. Sundays are just to arrive, settle into your accommodation, meet the team and the others on your group and have dinner together.

- Monday to Friday

7.30am Kitchens open for tea, fresh fruit and nuts

8am Silent led meditation walk through the forest

8.30am Yoga 2 hour class with your teacher for the week

10.30am Big breakfast, a variety of delicious rice and grain porridges, fruit salads, toasted seeds, local honey and freshly squeezed juices

11.30am Free time / massage treatments / swimming / walking

2pm Large nutritious lunch

3pm More free time / massage treatments / swimming / walking

5pm Yoga classes/workshops

7pm Light evening meal

One afternoon in the week we head off to the nearby Rio Zêzere for a wild swim and mud bath weather permitting.

-Friday evening party with music and dancing

-Saturday check out 7am for 8am coach to Porto or Lisbon.

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