Yoga Retreat Koh Phangan


Make Your Island Holiday a Yoga Vacation With Drop-in Classes

 

Vacations are undeniably something that we all look forward to and it’s important to get the most of the precious free time that we are given. No matter what kind of holidays you tend to go on, there is a simple way to make this little bit better. Drop in yoga classes are one off courses that anyone can attend, either as a one off or for just a few days. They are a great way of getting some light exercise whist on your holiday and can help to make you feel energised and refreshed.

 

If you already have some experience practising yoga, then there should be no problems whatsoever, simply joining a class for a day wherever you may be vacationing. If you are a beginner then what better chance to get started than whilst you have a few days free to enjoy the sun and worry about nothing? Thailand is a country with a particular focus on promoting a healthy lifestyle. There are resorts all over the country including Yoga Retreat on Koh Phangan, which allows you to drop in and join a class whenever it takes your fancy or alternatively to sign up for a short course.


Why experience is an important to a quality yoga teacher?

 

Yoga, although easy to get into at beginner level is a true skill that takes dedication and commitment to really master, as there are always additional techniques to be learnt and various ways to advance. Becoming a quality yoga teacher such as those offering their services at The Yoga Retreat on Koh Phangan is not as simple as taking a teacher training course and getting started but rather it takes years of practise and on going experience and lessons from around the world.

 

There are many forms and styles of yoga and many of the great yoga teachers are able to take the strongest and most inspirational philosophies and practises from the different style of yoga that they have come across in order to apply them where relevant. Yoga is not only a type of physical exercise but it can also help you to become more mentally clearer and stronger. The teachers at The Yoga Retreat, will draw upon their experiences from all around the world including Thailand, China, India and South America in order to help students to benefit from Yoga in their own lives.

 

Accommodations

For students on courses or retreats the Yoga Retreat has nine rooms to accommodate you. The rooms are simple but inviting with the green jungle just outside your window. Rooms come equipped with fans to help whisk away the heat of the tropical climate and you can choose to have a private en-suite or use the shared washroom.

New courses start every Monday morning at 7:30am.

Yoga

The term yoga derives from the term “yoking” which means to connect together. Yoga is the connecting or “yoking” of mind and body. There are several schools or styles of yoga which are derived from Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The yoga practitioner, sometimes referred to as a yogi, uses physical, spiritual and mental practices to transform and balance their mind and body.

The practice of yoga seems to stem from the pre-vedic age in India. The first documented yoga practices being found in the Buddhist Nikayas. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali recorded a simultaneous development of yoga in 400 CE. Later, the popular Hatha yoga was recorded in tantra near the turn of the first millennium.

The first guru to find success in the west was swami Vivekananda who travelled abroad in the 19th and 20th centuries. By the 1980s, Indian gurus had successfully spread yoga to the west. Yoga became very popular in the west for its exercise benefits. The type first popularised in the west was Hatha yoga, and it is still the most commonly practiced style of yoga in the Western world today.

Yoga teaches that the human spirit is made of three bodies and five sheets which cover the soul (atman). It is also commonly taught that there are seven major chakras which channel energy throughout the subtle body. The alignment and flow of energy within the chakras is said to effect physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Each chakra corresponds to a unique aspect of our being. The major chakras are typically represented forming a line down the spine from the crown of the head to the base of the spine.

The physical practice of yoga, the postures and poses, can be used to improve health, reduce stress and increase flexibility. Around the world, yoga has been accepted as an excellent exercise program and acknowledge for its benefits in physical therapy.


Elements of a 5 Day Yoga Retreat

5 days can already cover a lot from philosophy to correct postures, alignment and even the eight limbs or types of yoga. You’ll be in for some intense yoga practice.

Healing Your Chakra for 10 Days

This program adds up on the basic elements of the 5 day yoga retreat by introducing self-discovery ad healing through the deeper immersion into the seven chakras or most commonly called as the inner energy centers of the body.

Techniques used are designed to intensify skills in balancing energy centers, cleansing and organizing, all to provide holistic benefits that spans the mind, emotions, spirit and physical body.

3 Day Detox and a Month of Ashtanga

That’s a full 30 days of Ashtanga. We will let you enhance your asana practice every morning all starting with a set up phase on the first week to find your rhythm while we cleanse your body in 3 days. The following weeks will make you focus more on theory and philosophy. This course should help set you into a lifelong journey of yoga and meditation.

What Does Om Mean?

Om referred to as a mantra, or vibration, which is customarily intoned toward the starting and closing of yoga sessions. It has been referred to as the sound of the universe. What does this mean?

Some way or another the early yogis understood what researchers today are letting us know—that the whole universe is shifting. Nothing is ever stationary or stagnant. All that exists throbs, making a cadenced vibration that the early yogis recognized as the sound of Om. We might not generally know about this sound in our day by day lives, yet we can hear it in the stirring of the pre-winter leaves, the waves crashing on the seashore, as well as within a seashell.

Reciting Om permits us to perceive our experience as an impression of how the entire universe shifts— the back and forth movement of the tides, the setting sun, the rising moon, and the pulsating of our souls. As we serenade Om, it takes us for a ride on these worldly shifts, via our breath, our mindfulness, and our physical strength and we start to feel a greater association that is both moving and relaxing.

65/4 Moo 8, Koh Phangan, Surat Thani | +66 77 374 310

 
 
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