Yoga Retreats

“I felt so connected to the world” - Pip Mecallef’s Experience on Retreat in Nepal

“I felt so connected to the world” - Pip Mecallef’s Experience on Retreat in Nepal

“I felt so connected to the world” - Pip’s Experience on Retreat in Nepal

About this time last year, I saw a promo for Yoga for the Soul Retreats’ Nepal retreat. I had been attending yoga classes for my mental health whist in a challenging time of my life. I had brought up a beautiful family but had lost myself on the way; and was suffering from anxiety caused by burnout from work and family life. And BING! — the pamphlet for the Nepal and Bali retreat landed on the yoga class table.

Take Your Yoga Off the Mat: An Introduction to the Itties

Take Your Yoga Off the Mat: An Introduction to the Itties

During this uncertain time, more than ever, our yoga practice has a LOT to offer us. The challenges we’re facing are various and different people will, of course, be suffering in different ways and to different degrees.

But if you practice yoga, or are interested in it, now is a really good time to find new ways of taking your yoga off the mat and integrating it into your way of life. Really, that’s what yoga is — it’s never just postures on a mat. Sometimes, we need the motivation of new challenges to make us see that.

Empowering The Young Girls Of Nepal

Empowering The Young Girls Of Nepal

When my feet landed on the cold cement floor I could hear the familiar sound of chanting and the smell of incense on the breeze…

 

4 am was the new 6 am, where I’d make my way to the Gompa room for my early morning yoga practice…

 

For the past eight months the Ganden Yoga Chozin Buddhist Meditation Centre,

Pokhara, Nepal had become my home as the resident yoga and meditation teacher. 

 

This small cabin… Well, it really was nothing more than a cement slab, four sheets of fibro and a tin roof, but it was my place of solitude.  Yes, freezing in winter!!