Flow with Mie in Zanzibar February 2025
Join Mie for this one-week journey of coming home to yourself. Be nourished and inspired by daily yoga, Zanzibar’s blue crystal clear warm water, vibrant culture and people, delicious meals and wholehearted connection. Celebrate your week with one of Africa’s best music festival Sauti za Busara! More details coming soon - this retreat is in high demand, pay just €150 deposit to secure your spot.
Daily Morning & Evening Yoga with Mie
Flow Yoga, Yin, Meditation and Sound
Special workshops
Delicious fresh menus (Breakfast & Dinner)
Accommodation at Swahili style Villa right on the beautiful white sand beach
Kirtan chant
Asana Clinic to revisit your postures with private instructions
Connect with like-minded people
Ocean swims
Beach fire & music
Incredible sunrises
Don’t miss Sauti za Busara 7-9 February in Stone Town, one of the best music festivals in Africa!
During your free time, embrace excursions to Stone Town, the world heritage site, visit Jozani Forest to watch unique Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey, get on a traditional Dhow boat for a cruise and see a most beautiful sunset, and soak up the beauty of Zanzibar beach with serene water, blue sky and white sand. This retreat includes some of the best Zanzibar has to offer and you get to do it all – or stay and rest to reset. You can create the retreat you need for yourself, just the way you want and need to. Let it be an adventure inward, as well as in the external beauty of this special place.
My wish is that this retreat becomes the magical place where you can participate in active self-care rituals and transform and balance your energy, beginning to feel fully present and awake, bringing more perspective to our your holistic wellbeing.
The practice is open-level at beautiful and spacious yoga Shala, directly facing a tranquil white sand beach. All level welcome, including beginners to those who are experienced. You have your own space to take your practice to a new, deeper level through mindful vinyasa flow yoga approach, breathing techniques, and powerful meditations.Typical Day:
Wake up to the gentle music of the waves, slip into a lush cotton robe, and enjoy the slow routine of the retreat. Enjoy healthy breakfast and dinner in the outside dining area with the freshwater breeze. Practice yoga and meditation as you watch the sun climb into the wide African sky from the yoga shala facing the Indian Ocean. The days are long, slow and delicious.
Approximate daily schedule:
7:30 am Snack and warm drinks
8:00-9:30am Morning meditation and yoga practice with Mie
9:30am Breakfast
Free Time
Join beach / cultural activities, soak up the sun, enjoy the beach and relax, massage, read, etc!
Late Afternoon
4:00pm Optional Asana clinic
5:30 - 6:30pm Afternoon yoga & meditation practice with Mie / Special Program /Workshop
7:00pm Dinner
Beach fire / music/circle
You will be guided into asanas with safe, clear instructions through well-combined sequences themed specially for each day. The sequence is based on healthy alignment of the body, and a pathway to enhance your vital energy (prana), tone and open up all layers of your body.
There are two practices daily (there is no afternoon practice on 5th February Monday). Morning practice is focused on connecting movement and breath to awaken your energy and move it through all energy centers (chakras). Authentic and creative practice will include mantra, meditation, purifying breathing practices and well-rounded body movement. The morning session concludes with a profound full-body relaxation & sound healing.
Evening yoga sessions are designed to bring you back into the present moment and to help you release deep-seated tension in your muscles and tissues. You will be able to surrender and relax with a combination of yin practice, yoga nidra and sound. These sessions will help you to calm the nervous system, find stillness and invite positive energy towards the end of the day.You will go home with new energy, fully inspired, nourished, and recharged.
The Venue:
Villa Bahati Zanzibar is a well established family run boutique hotel, the owners live in Zanzibar since the 1990s, a typical Swahili style Villa on the beautiful white sand beach of Jambiani beach. Both Villa Bahati and Villa Mapenzi offer a unique relaxation and cultural experience. Each room at Villa Bahati & Villa Mapenzi is individually furnished with antique Zanzibarian interior and equipped with an en-suite bathroom.
The uniquely designed and carefully decorated guest rooms are built around a colorful courtyard and furnished with antiques from Zanzibar. The veranda with large dining tables and lounge beds invites you to let thoughts drift away and get inspired by the islands typical sounds and smells. Both at the veranda and in the spacious garden you can enjoy the famous regional cuisine of the spice island. Villa Bahati offers 5 guest rooms, each room symbolises an element of Zanzibari culture and nature and follows an individual key colour. Their showers and basins are made of coloured and polished coral stone in traditional Zanzibari style following the individual colour schemes of the room. All rooms include: wifi, a room safe and a private bathroom.
The villa rooms are separated from the common area by its own private garden and a natural wooden fence. They are comfortable holiday home, whilst retaining many Swahili features and its authentic atmosphere. The original layout of the Riad house with a pool in the central courtyard guarantees privacy and comfort for an intimate, relaxing vacation. Rooms have with their own pool and back patios. Rooms are all beautiful and are all sizeable with en-suite bathrooms. There are options to take the room as a single room, or to privately share with two people. There’s an option adding an extra bed.
Optional extras:
Eco Culture Tours is a local alternative tour operator with strong ecological and cultural-friendly principles. The company offer a wide range of activities including:
Blue Lagoon Boat & Snorkelling Trip - cruise Jambiani’s blue lagoon in a local fishing boat and snorkel in the crystal waters
Stand up paddle rent: Explore Jambiani’s blue lagoon by renting a SUP
Stone Town Tour - explore the capital’s old town and the rich history of this UNESCO heritage site
Jambiani Cultural Village Tour - Discover the local Swahili way of living a guided walk through Jambiani Village
Jozani Forest & Mangroves - visit the protected nature reserve and tropical rainforest. See a real mangrove forest and meet rare Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey
Spice Tour and Turtle Island - The Spice Island has cultivated wide range of spices for centuries : discover how they grow & their taste. Visit giant sea turtles on Prison Island.
Rates:
Included:
6 nights 7 days accommodation at Swahili style Villa right on the beautiful white sand beach of Jambiani beach, swimming pool on site
Breakfast and dinner with locally sourced fresh ingredients
Daily x2 deep yoga with Mie, sequenced specially for each day, at yoga platform directly facing the turquoise water of Indian Ocean ~ Asanas, meditation and pranayama, yoga nidra and yin yoga
A special workshop
Dhow boat sunset cruise
Asana clinic (A private session to look into your asanas/postures)
Mantra chanting / Kirtan
Breathwork Journey with Greg
Special Opening and Closing circle
Drinking water
Personal assistance in preparing for the trip to Zanzibar
One month free subscription of Flow with Mie Online Membership
Combination: Historical Stone Town & Spice Tour
Excluded:
- International flights
- Local transfers
- Visa
- Travel insurance
- Anything not mentioned
Event Dates:
Scheduled for: 31 January 2025 ~ 6 February 2025
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