Why to go on a Yoga Retreat?
- Deep Blue Retreat
- Feb 16, 2023
- 4 min read
Updated: Jan 31
Everything you need to know about the benefits of going on a yoga retreat.
Has the thought of going on a yoga retreat piqued your curiosity but you are not sure of what the benefits from the experience could be?
Let’s explore the benefits of taking part in a Yoga Retreat.
Benefit from a Yoga Retreat: Time
Time is not infinite, and some might consider that the more years you experience, the quicker each year passes. With time becoming a modern currency, people are beginning to take how they spend their time much more seriously.
On a Yoga retreat, in essence, you buy yourself time. Time to simply, be. Yes, the amount of time is the same as if you were at home, but for the time during a retreat, you practice presence in your life. Providing an opportunity to quieten the noise of our typical daily schedule. To step off life’s fast-track, providing the space to return to a more comfortable walking pace.
In a yoga retreat you are isolated from the usual distractions that often too easily determine the outcomes of our day. Deep Blue Retreat for example, is an adults-only retreat, so for those amongst us that are parents, a retreat gives you the space to reconnect with yourself, separate from your identity of being a mother or father.
Deep Blue Retreat promises to take care of its guests every need, from your morning flat white coffee to organising in-house masseuse treatments. We all know that our home lives do not bear us the same luxuries but by removing the daily to-do’s, you make space for your individual growth by making intentional actions in what you truly want to do.
Benefit from a Yoga Retreat: Nourishment
Time & nourishment go hand in hand. Time provides us the capacity to nourish ourselves.
What nourishments can be gained on a Yoga retreat?
Classical yoga teaches students to follow a vegetarian diet due to the gut-cleansing benefits and to quieten the relationship between the thinking mind & your gut. Deep Blue Retreat immerses guests to 7-day’s of Organic Vegetarian dishes, using fresh produce sourced locally. Many retreats follow suit, often focusing on one or several culinary specialities including, Ayurvedic dishes, sugar-free & gluten-free. All with the intent of leaving guests feeling energised, cleansed and healthier.
Nourishment is also experienced by an early-to-bed, early-to-rise routine. Using natural sunlight to reset our circadian rhythm, we increase melatonin levels before bed and increase serotonin levels when you wake. By calibrating one’s circadian rhythm, hormone levels can begin to stabilise, symptoms from sleep disorders like insomnia can begin to reduce. Our usual 16:00 o’clock energy crash can be managed into a 30 minute window rather than two hours. Some retreats may encourage you to not use your cell phone, particularly after sunset, to inhibit your exposure to blue light prior to sleep. These daily habits aid us in creating a steady state of mind that has the energy for action with the stability to maintain focus throughout your day.
Benefit from a Yoga Retreat: Practice
Yoga retreats all have an underlying focus on the philosophies of yoga- it’s in the name. For many practitioners this will include delivering Yoga Asana classes- the movement on the yoga mat. The time, isolation and focus, allows students to immerse themselves into a deep yoga practice. Yoga retreats will often see students practice twice daily, over consecutive days, allowing the physical body to soften, lengthen & open while also developing physical strength, mental resilience and concentration. Due to gained time, often a much deeper practice is accessed than one can achieve when at their home studio.
Students attending a yoga retreat can expect to deepen their knowledge of the practice, deepen their capacity within each Asana, and to savour some of the fruits from a consistent, whole-hearted, body & mind practice.
Benefit from a Yoga Retreat: Wellbeing
A yoga retreat curriculum will often have the overall intention of improving its guests' wellbeing. Wellbeing by definition is to be in a state that is self-serving & healthy. Yoga retreats afford guests the opportunity to assess, evaluate & reflect on what in your current life is of benefit, and what is no longer serving you. With scheduled down-time each day, you have the space to contemplate what your goals are and if your current daily-habits are serving that ultimate goal. If not, there is time and often tools taught, to develop intentional mindfulness, into how you can live a life that serves you better and your community.
Summary of the benefit from going on a Yoga Retreat:
In summary, if you are considering if a yoga retreat will be of benefit to you, consider what it is that is stirring your curiosity. Is it that you are enjoying the pleasures & challenges that come with your current yoga practice and you would like to deepen your learnings. Maybe you are struggling to get to sleep or stay asleep due to a racing thinking-mind and you are ready to place actionable routines into your life that improve your sleep hygiene, decrease stress & anxiety and improve your overall well-being.
Likely you are working hard, balancing many plates and putting a lot of energy into those around you and you are ready to invest time into yourself, your own health and your longevity. For some, there may be a big change on the horizon, or, you are currently experiencing exciting but turbulence in your typical life-routine, and a shift in your goals and habits need to occur to guide you in the direction that is right for you.
Once you have established your why, from here you can make a better judgment of if a yoga retreat is right for you, and if so, what type of yoga retreat will best serve you.
Enjoy the exploration into one self. The deep dive.
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Founder of Deep Blue Retreats.
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