Suitable for all levels
This day retreat will provide you with the opportunity to work on your individual self care, while being in a friendly group. Carla will be available throughout the day for questions and advice.
You may learn:
– How yoga can enhance good health
– Breathing techniques to support a healthy mind reducing stress and anxiety
– Relaxation techniques to aid a healthy night sleep
– Specific poses and routines to bring vitality to the body
– Posture alignment and correction
– How to soothe your mind spa as you emerse yourself in the Crystal sound healing bath
– How to help ease aches and pains, enhance sleep, reduce stress and increase vitality
Why do yoga?
The short answer is that yoga makes you feel better. Practising the postures, breathing exercises and meditation makes you healthier in body, mind and spirit. Yoga lets you tune in, chill out, shape up – all at the same time. Specifically, research shows that yoga helps manage or control anxiety, arthritis, asthma, back pain, blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, headaches, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, stress and other conditions and diseases.
What's more, yoga:
– Improves muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina
– Reduces stress and tension
– Boosts self esteem
– Improves concentration and creativity
– Lowers fat
– Improves circulation
– Stimulates the immune system
– Creates sense of wellbeing and calm.
And that's just the surface stuff. In fact, most of the benefits mentioned above are secondary to yoga's original purpose. Developed in India, yoga is a spiritual practice that has been evolving for the last 5,000 years or so. Yoga means "union" in Sanskrit, the classical language of India.
About Carla Williams
Carla has worked in the dance industry as a professional dancer and choreographer with more than 20 years’ experience specialising in contemporary jazz, fusion, urban, ballet and Latin.
Her career took her overseas on cruise liners and to the West End. Commercially, Carla’s career naturally progressed into the dance and fitness industry and she has taught a multitude of classes in the southern region.
Carla is a Champneys guest presenter as well as a yoga dance and meditation specialist. She works internationally, also hosting retreats in Tuscany, Italy, Ibiza, Spain, Santorini and at numerous UK locations around the south coast.
She has also trained with the international yoga network in unity yoga, and teaches flow yoga, vinyasa, family yoga, seated yoga, yin yoga, and Kunda dance, and finds that teaching yoga is a wonderfully rewarding job as she is passionate about wellbeing and offering people skills to aid a greater capacity for joyful living.
how DOES it work?
The first session will focus mainly on a Shakti organic flow of yoga postures working stringing poses together so that you move from one to another, seamlessly, using breath. The second session will focus mainly on relieving stress and tension.
Yin is the feminine, passive, receptive, reflective, withdrawn, cool, introspective aspects of life. The Yin yoga practice will incorporate to penetrate deep into connective tissue expanding flexibility while invigorating the energy centers of the body (nadis) to release blockages and increase your chi energy flow both practices will aid any anxiety, insomnia, self- esteem and it will also teach you valuable relaxation techniques. Then we treat your mind to a soothing sound healing bath before drifting off into deep relaxation in a Yoga Nidra practice before we depart.
Your body will be immersed in sound to soothe the soul and relax the mind
Use of state-of-the-art gyms
Free sessions and classes, including gym intros, aqua classes, virtual classes, walks and talks.
Plus, up to 20 fitness classes each day
(additional charges apply)
Terms & Conditions
There is a minimum number of people required for the break to run.
Breaks will be cancelled if numbers are insufficient two weeks before the start of the break.
Retreat sold out?
On occasion, the retreat may appear sold out online. We may have reserved spaces available, which do not appear on the website.
If this is the case, please email cer@champneys.com and include the title and date of the retreat you would like to book.
Alternatively, please call us on 0343 210 1939.
This soul-soothing retreat includes mixed ability hatha & vinyasa flow yoga, core strengthening yogalates classes, guided mindfulness meditations, sound healing, wellbeing talks and relaxation sessions.
Reverse the clock naturally in 2025 with a luxurious weekend of Pilates and Yoga for your body & face.
