About the Retreat:
Join us for a profound 4-day, 4-night retreat designed for the curious yogi eager to deepen their practice and embark on a journey of self-study (Svadhyaya). Nestled in a jungle-like oasis at the heart of Cambodia's cultural hub, our luxury accommodation offers a serene haven to reflect and revitalise, away from the lively streets of Siem Reap. Think ambient, radiant luxury with a pure soul at the heart of it all.
The Experience:
Beyond the retreat, you have the option to continue your journey with us for an additional 36 days of meditation, encompassing a full 40-day Sadhana. This extended program includes a tailored meditation practice based on Yoga Therapy and Mindfulness systems. Each day, you'll practice in a simple yet powerful meditation prescribed uniquely for you, fostering devotion through consistency and growth in a supported container post-retreat.
Support and Community:
Throughout the 36 days, we'll meet weekly online for a powerful group practice and if you wish to raise any questions, the daily meditation can be done at a time of your chosing.
It is SO powerful when cultivating a daily practice to be supported in that, in a container like this, to have a space to decipher the many questions that may arise and feel held while digesting the beginning of what can be a life altering journey.
Transformation and Support:
This retreat offers more than just a 4 day retreat from day to day living —it's a loving, grounded and supportive container for you to take those first (often tumultuous) steps in making sacred devotion a part of your every day life. At the very core of my business and facilitating foundations is a fierce passion in empowering the people, like you by handing back full autonomy in your connection to yoga, healing and holistic wellbeing. You're the guru.
Accomodation:
We have the entire estate to ourselves. 5 private rooms and two twin share options available. The property has a collection of 3 unique and beautiful Cambodian wooden villas, offering a luxury, immersive experience in a spacious tropical garden. . The design and style of each villa is a reflection of the owners’ life, intricately linked to Asian and Cambodian crafts for the past 20 years. Their private collection of paintings and photographs from Khmer, Asian and European artists, as well as the Art Deco and 1950s furniture and objects sourced since 1992 are everywhere. The estate and it's gorgeous team connects you to the essence of Cambodia through its cuisine, kind hospitality, involvement in community, its art collection and knowledge of crafts.
*Interested in exploring the option to share a room with a friend or loved one? Get in touch for rates.
The Food:
Fresh Buffet breakfast along with Cambodias most divine fruit will be served daily along with all lunches lunch and dinners provided. We've got an incredible Cambodian cooking class lined up to give you a little piece of Cambodian culinary wisdom to take home with you. Tea and coffee facilities will be accessible at all times and a nightly turn down service offered complimentary.
Every day will celebrate the flavours of Cambodia & each day begins with a lavish breakfast featuring Cambodia's freshest, divine fruits and loads of all the yummies.
Lunches will be at your own choosing either at the hotel or from our tow reccomendations if you wish to explore. Dinners will showcase the richness of Cambodian cuisines history and ethical social enterprise fine dining. Each food you experience is a delight for the senses, prepared with local ingredients and with a long history of artistry in creating soul nourishing meals.
We have an immersive Cambodian cooking class lined up for you to gain insight into Cambodian culinary wisdom and have a hell of a lot of fun while doing so.
To complement your meals, tea and coffee facilities are available round the clock, ensuring you stay refreshed and energised. Wind down each evening with our complimentary turn-down service, a thoughtful touch that enhances your relaxation and comfort during your stay.
*Please note lunches are not included in the package.
The Practice:
Daily Yoga and Meditation will be offered morning and night with a special focus on cultivating a sustainable devotional practice to nurture the vitality of your life long after retreat has ended. Often the beginning of a life changing daily practice can be the most tumultuous time to experience, with out support or some where to go to ask the questions or re-ground yourself- many people just give up and miss out on the incredible nectar a regular practice can provides your life. If you're sick of life feeling grey, if you're sick of the incessant suffering your mind facilitates, if you're sick of dis-ease ruling your life… bloody hell if your sick of it all. It's time for a change don't you think?? Step into the now and reignite the knowing that you have a choice in how you experience your life and there are ways we can facilitate monumental change, empowering each of us to take back our power every.single.day.
Why 40 days?
Yoga teachings encompass the belief that it takes 40 days to create a disciplined practice and re-pattern your mind. Bio-psycho-socially it is promoted that it takes 20 days to break old habits and 20 days to rewire new patterns with in your brain. Science states 6-8 weeks to show noticeable difference in brain volume, neurological pathways and improved cortical mapping through out the body (super handy if you're more inclined to disassociate often). To conclude there is a hell of alot-a of evidence behind the Yogic 40 day belief (In Buddhists systems it is typically 49 days) but none more evident to me than my lived experience of joining many 40 day Sadhana's and noticing the difference in my perception of my life and how empowered I felt moving forward from those experiences.
