Ayurveda New Zealand is hosting it’s next Autumn Cleanse Retreat at beautiful Parohe on Kawau island from 21-24 March 2024.
Sarita and her team are taking a small group of guests back to Parohe for the fourth time to offer an authentic ayurvedic experience in a stunning setting right on your doorstep.
Only an hour's drive north from Auckland and a 20 minute ferry ride from Matakana, you arrive in an island paradise and can leave all your stress and worries behind.
A range of boutique accommodation options are available in various settings including your own private room or a twin share. Delicious ayurvedic plant-based meals will be prepared by reputed Little Bird chef Gawain Cowley. We also offer an inspiring ayurvedic cooking class demonstrating the principles of dosha-specific food preparation.
Every guest will receive two ayurvedic treatments as part of the package and can purchase additional treatments if desired.
Part of the retreat programme is a workshop during which we will practise ayurvedic cleansing techniques. Every morning and evening we will have a restorative yoga practice.
During your spare time you can go on native bush walks, paddle board, kayak or swim. There is also a sauna and an outdoor bath to enjoy.
Here is what guest Claire Bradbourne, branding expert and mother of three, had to say:
This retreat was a game-changer for me. To be honest, I thought I was in for four days of hard-core deprivation. I had signed up for a lot of ‘no's'. No caffeine, no alcohol, no sugar, no animal products. Feeling rinsed after a hectic few years, I needed more than an alcohol-free day or a home juice cleanse. I needed some soul restoration.
Something deeper and more meaningful, and Sarita and her ayurveda retreat came along at exactly the right moment in time, so I signed up. I had no prior knowledge of ayurveda and was a casual yogi at best.
This retreat completely blew my mind. Rather than an exercise in deprivation, it was a complete joy. The connection with these 'strangers' that came from our time together and the isolation in nature was the most enriching and unexpected part of it.
The wisdom that passes between women of different generations and backgrounds.
The lack of judgement as you’re there with messy hair on a yoga mat at 7am; or walking around blissed out with a turban on your head after a magical hot oil treatment.
The laughter that comes as you eat together and share life stories – there were peals of laughter all night long and many aching cheeks at bedtime.
The foooooooood. Gawain is a savante. I never knew vegan could feel so indulgent. We’d gather for meals and wait with the excitement of five-year-olds on Christmas Eve. It was the ultimate respite from being to the one who is always doing the feeding, to being fed in such a beautiful way, three times a day.
The morning and evening rituals that enveloped the day. The most ancient forms of self care, centuries old, that make you feel beautiful and alive.
The ayurvedic aspect was the wrapping, the glue, the scaffolding, the base from which everything else made sense. It wasn’t just yoga and vegan food, it was an education in a new way of living and being in our bodies that I have woven into my everyday life, and I've never felt better.
So much fun, so good for the soul. Want to do it all again with this same group of stranger-friend-goddesses.
Contact Sarita to book a spot for the next 'Ayurveda Autumn Cleanse' retreat in March. sarita@ayurvedanz.com.
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February 2024