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ABOUT YOGA X LIFE RETREATS
Some things need
more than an hour.
Retreat is where we make room for the questions, practices and possibilities that ask for more of our attention. It might be a turning point in life, a wish to understand your practice more deeply, or the feeling that there is something here you want to follow.
Our programmes give that curiosity a place to go. Over several days, teaching builds into experience. You have time to ask, try, reflect and return to the work, with teachers who can get to know you and help you explore it in depth.
[ HISTORY ]A living story of practice,
place, and people transformed.
The roots of Yoga x Life Retreats reach back long before 2015, to when Debbie began attending Esther’s retreats in Tuscany. Those experiences began years of work together and a relationship with deep practice that would shape everything that followed. In 2015, Debbie devoted herself to the retreat programme and formalised what had been growing from that shared work.
Today, Esther, Debbie & Chris bring decades of combined teaching, study and personal practice to that story. Longstanding relationships as teachers, students and colleagues have allowed different ways of understanding the body and human experience to inform one another. Debbie’s background in specialist neuro-physiotherapy and years of shamanic study with Esther sit alongside Chris’s decade leading teacher training in the North East. Across these different paths runs a shared commitment to deep understanding: knowing the practices through experience, asking better questions and discovering how the teachings can become part of everyday life.
From Ibiza and Bali to the places still calling us, we choose each setting to complement the curriculum. The landscape, culture and historical connections are part of what we go there to meet. Within that setting, there is time to get to know your teachers, draw on their experience and follow the questions a class rarely has room for. Our intention is that you return with more than memories of somewhere beautiful: real knowledge, a deeper relationship with practice and new possibilities for the life you come home to.
Immersion, with room to live.
The days around the teaching matter too. Immersive practice, nourishing food and space to unwind or explore more all belong in the experience. There are meals that turn into long conversations, time outdoors and quiet moments to let things settle. You can be part of the group without giving up your own space.
Some friendships begin over a shared meal on retreat and continue over a cuppa at the studio. That connection is part of why we keep bringing people together.
Part of a continuing practice.
Retreats sit within the wider Yoga x Life community, alongside studio classes, workshops and teacher training. Each offers a different way to keep learning. Time away can open something up; the practice you return to gives it somewhere to grow.
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The calendar brings together the current programmes. Each retreat page explains the curriculum, teachers, setting and room choices, so you can understand the experience before you book.
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