21 Day Customized Wellness Retreat in Stanford, Western Cape

Facilities

Upon booking, the specifics of your retreat will be planned via a Skype call according to your personal needs, interests, preferences, and Tasha's recommendations. Each day incorporates either a morning or afternoon session with Tasha, engaged in one of the following:

• Yogic teachings (yoga philosophy / energetic anatomy)
• Yogic practice (breathwork / cleansing practices / pranic practices)
• Meditation instruction and practice (traditional Buddhist meditation and mindfulness)
• Conscious breathing (using the breath to access visionary states of consciousness for healing and transformation)
• Making ceremony (empowering intention, awareness, and release of outworn ways of being)
• Yoga Nidra (deep guided relaxation)
• Nature immersion (cleansing or meditative practices in wild nature: mountains, beaches, waterfall pools)
• Land art (creating in nature with found natural materials)
• Intuitive art (process art to access the sub-conscious and super-conscious)
• Intuitive movement / free dance (spontaneous expression and embodiment)
• Natural health talk (guidance on natural living, natural eating, and natural medicine)
• Herbal medicine (individual guidance on appropriate treatment and herbal medicine making)
• Vibrational medicine (individual guidance on appropriate treatment and vibrational medicine making)
• Bio energy treatment (supporting free flow in pranic pathways and energy centers for healing, insight, and release)
• Bio energy practices (learning techniques for self-care to release, regulate, and energize pranic flow)
• Plant medicine and micro-dosing talk (information and guidance around working with teacher plants)

The other morning or afternoon session will be devoted to self study. You will be given practices to complete alone; allowing for valuable time in silence and solitude, fostering awareness and intimacy with yourself. This encourages self support and confidence; building the resources needed to carry healthy attitudes and practices home with you on departure.

Practices include:

• Guided journaling
• Contemplation
• Silent meditation
• Walking meditation
• Grounding in nature / sun bathing
• Yogic practice (breathwork / cleansing practices / pranic practices)
• Gratitude practice
• Ceremony and intention
• Karma yoga (selfless service)

Sample schedule: Juice cleanse

• 07:00 Rise and have a cleansing drink
• 07:30 Yoga
• 09:30 Juice and supplements
• 10:00 - 12:00 Morning session with Tasha / self study
• 12:30 Juice and Supplements
• 13:00 - 15:00 Afternoon session with Tasha / self study
• 15:30 Juice and supplements
• 16:00 - 18:00 Therapies
• 18:30 Broth
• 19:00 Meditation
• 19:30 Movie / recorded talk
• 21:00 Retire

Program highlights

• Uncover your body’s vibrant state of being through a program of physical cleansing and natural nutrition
• Enliven your everyday experience with simple tools to support optimum nourishment, breathing, movement, and healing; forming a strong foundation for holistic well-being
• Honor creative expression; inherent and vital to the human experience
• Make contact with your natural confidence, wisdom, and compassion through meditative practice and true presence
• Experience the transformative power of ceremony, intention, and gratitude
• Realign with the deep intelligence of your own life force, the natural world, and universal consciousness

Stanford Village Retreat is ideally positioned for a quiet stay in Stanford Village, just a two-minute stroll from the main street, with its galleries and antique shops. Situated two hours from Cape Town, Stanford Village Retreat is a tranquil setting for your stay.

The Klein River offers wonderful river walks, bird watching, and swimming and is just five minutes away on foot. Pristine, wild beaches, which in season offer the some of the best land based whale watching in the world, are just 10 minutes drive away at Walker Bay and De Kelders.

Distances

• Walker Bay and De Kelders - 10 minutes
• Cape Town - 2 hours

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As far as possible, the fruit, vegetables, and herbs used are sourced locally and organically, and much of it is grown, chemical-free on site in the garden. The quality, freshness, and life force in the produce used makes a vast difference to the depth and power of the cleansing / healing processes.

All programs offer excellent, highly accessible nutrition and rest the often overloaded digestive system, allowing the body to shift into healing and repair mode. Depending on the length of your stay, you may experience a reduction in inflammation (the precursor to all disease), increased energy, natural weight loss, the eradication of minor health complaints (eg. mucus conditions, skin complaints, joint stiffness), and a noticeable improvement in more major ones.

Probiotic and fermented foods restore gut health, often a factor in chronic illness or fatigue. Light, easily digested meals may also support quietness and clarity of mind making this the ideal nourishment for the retreat space. Meals are made with great skill, care, mindfulness and love, under the guidance of a qualified nutritionist.

If you would like to receive instruction on food preparation in order to support the continuation of healthy eating and cleansing practices on your return home, this is possible. Water fasting or dry fasting support is available on request.

Several options are available for your retreat, usually used in combination:

JUICE CLEANSE

This option is excellent for detox, radical physical reset; treating chronic illness and inflammation. This includes three cold pressed juices at intervals throughout the day, as well as herbal, food, and vitamin supplements tailored to your nutritional / health and healing needs.

wheat grass, aloe, and rejuvelac are grown / wild harvested / self made by Tasha, your facilitator. Post juice cleanse raw food is served for a time for the transition out of a juice cleanse can be challenging, and its an important part of the process to move through gently and with awareness.

RAW FOOD

This option is high in life force and rich in enzymes for better digestion and absorption. Meals are served three times a day, using large amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables, and activated seeds, nuts, and grains.

Also offered are special creations such as pro-biotic nut cheeses and whole seed crackers dehydrated at a low heat to keep digestive enzymes intact. Healthy desserts are made with natural unrefined sweeteners such as dates and raw honey, which have wonderful health benefits.

PLANT BASED MEALS

This option will be supporting acid / alkaline balance of your body, your digestive health, and your hormonal balance on an ongoing basis. This meal program offers light cooked food with a large raw food component, a wonderful introduction to a healing cleansing diet if a juice cleanse is not appropriate for you at this time.

• An optional colon cleanse program (including two coffee, herbal, or oil enemas daily) is offered in conjunction with the juice cleanse, and is highly recommended for those dealing with existing health challenges
• A team of highly skilled therapists is on hand to offer treatments (subject to availability) during the 4 to 6 p.m. slot. Therapies include: massage / reflexology / Reiki/ bio-energy balance / TRE / tantric touchwork / EFT
• Plant medicine ceremony may be incorporated in your retreat (on request)
• Extended nature immersion: Overnighting at a private conservancy may be incorporated in your retreat (on request)

• 30 minutes pre-retreat Skype consultation with Tasha
• 90 minutes yoga session daily
• 30 minutes meditation session daily
• 2 hour daily workshop session with Tasha
• 2 hour daily self study session with solo practices given
• Nutritional food supplements (if opting for juice cleanse)
• Herbal treatments
• 20 nights accommodation
• All meals and juice
• Organic herbal teas

• Extra activities and programs
• Airport transfers

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 14 days before arrival.