Yoga Sutra Shala offers accommodation with excellent quality, assuring that you will have a pleasant and comfortable stay. During your retreat, you will be staying at a beautiful secluded retreat centre situated in Benissiva. The villa is just 15 minutes drive to one of Valencia's most beautiful and secluded beaches, Oliva.

All of the rooms have beautiful views of the mountains or the village. There are eight bedrooms, each one with ensuite bathroom to make your stay really comfortable. Two of the rooms have their own balcony and three of the rooms have a large balcony which they share with each other. All rooms have air conditioning and central heating.

Budget twin room

El LLimaner has cosy twin beds and has lovely views of the beautiful hamlet of Benissiva. The room has a lovely ensuite bathroom.

Budget double room

All double rooms can be booked by couples or single travellers as a private double room

• Tossal Gros: This room has a very comfortable double bed and a beautiful balcony with views looking over the mountains. It also has an ensuite bathroom.
• El Colomer: This room has a lovely double bed and beautiful views of the surrounding mountains. It also has a nice ensuite bathroom.

Double rooms

All double rooms can be booked by couples or single travellers as a private double room.

• La Forada: This room has a double bed and a shared terrace with lovely views of the Valencian mountains. It also has an ensuite bathroom.
• La Solana: This room has one double bed and lovely views of the mountains. It also has an ensuite bathroom.

Twin rooms

All twin rooms can be booked individually by two same sex single travellers wanting to share or by two friends booking at the same time.

• El Misserat: This room has two single beds with a shared balcony and ensuite bathroom. It has lovely views of the surrounding mountains.
• L'Albureca: This room has two single beds, a shared balcony and amazing views of the mountains. It also has an ensuite bathroom.

Deluxe double room

L'Umbria is a very special room. It has two double beds and an ensuite bathroom. The room has its own balcony and lovely views of the surrounding Valencian mountains and unspoilt countryside. It is perfect for a couple or for two friends or family members to share. For price list, please contact Yoga Sutra Shala.

Typical timetable

• 07.30 : Chanting class (optional)
• 07.45 : Pranayama class
• 08.00 : Morning Vinyasa yoga class (Yang based)
• 09.15 : Morning guided meditation
• 09.30 : Silence time
• 10.00 : Organic healthy and delicious breakfast
• 11.00 : Rest time, time for snacks
• 14.00 : Organic vegetarian lunch
• 15.00 : Free time for reading, walking, resting
• 17.30 : Pranayama class
• 17.50 : Evening yoga class (Yin based)
• 18.10 : Evening guided meditation
• 20.15 : Organic vegetarian dinner

Yoga and meditation classes

Throughout these retreats, you will be focusing on different guided meditations every day in the morning and evening to teach your mind to relax and focus on silence within. The aim is to help you return with a more positive and happy mindset. There will be different series of yin and yang based vinyasas taught to you every day - yang every morning and yin every evening - designed to slowly open up the whole body over five days so that by the last day of the retreat, every muscle within your body feels open, alive, relaxed, rejuvenated and energized.

"Free to do/attend" retreat

Note that all the classes are all optional during your yoga retreats. We want you to develop at your own pace and we want you to enjoy your stay. We want you to enjoy your yoga retreats as much as possible, to become healthy in mind and body, to learn how to relax and deal with stress and to learn how to feel at one with yourself.

"Your yoga" structure

At your yoga retreat centre, our aim is to help you develop your health, learn relaxation techniques and learn meditation so helping you to deal with stress, improve the quality of your life, your happiness and your sense of well-being. On your yoga retreats, you will be taught meditation, asana (posture), chanting, and breathing techniques. All classes will be optional as we want you to enjoy your stay and develop at your own pace.

You will be asked at the beginning of each yoga retreat what areas you want to develop in. Your yoga retreat will be personalized according to your wants and needs for your own development whether you are a new or established student of yoga.

Namit will be using his highly developed teaching system during each class at your yoga retreat at Yoga Sutra Shala to teach Vinyasa Yoga. Your yoga retreat centre will be run specifically as a shala - a place of refuge and a place to find inner peace. Your shala will be a perfect place to escape the stresses of the modern world and develop a sense of peace, calm, well-being and happiness.

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  Namit Kathoria

  Namit has a strong family tradition of yoga and has studied yoga all over the world including in his native India. His background as a leading health professional allows him to apply and explain the health benefits of yoga scientifically and to a high level. Namit has yoga teaching qualifications from Rishikesh in India (the birthplace of yoga) and also from Dharamsala in the Himalayas in India (the current residence of His Royal Holiness the Dalai Lama). He has also spent time deepening his own practice in the Shala of Shri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India.

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  Maru Ortiz

  Maru is a KPJAYI Authorised teacher. Her interest in Yoga started a very young age when she started studying Buddhism from her mother. In 2016 she received the blessings of her guru and was authorized to teach the primary series of Ashtanga Yoga. She also adds warmth, friendliness, compassion and a positive energy that will make you grow, learn and develop your health further still as well as become more peaceful, more internalized and happier.

Retreats are based at the yoga and meditation retreat centre in Benissiva, a village in the province of Alicante, Valencia, Spain. The retreat centre is surrounded by 8 beautiful mountains and it is situated in complete silence. The retreat center is only 15 minutes drive to one of Valencia's most beautiful and secluded beaches, Oliva.

Healthy, delicious vegetarian, 100% organic meals will be provided using locally grown organic fruit and vegetables on every yoga retreat. The recipes used will be created by health and nutrition experts including Namit and Maru, the founders of Yoga Sutra Shala. Wholemeal foods will be used as well as foods low in saturated fat during your yoga retreats. All meals are based on the principles of good nutrition, health and good taste.

There is no meat or fish on the yoga retreats. All the food is vegetarian in the tradition of yoga and ahimsa (non-violence). The yoga tradition encourages the vegetarian diet during the practice of meditation in order to increase the experience of peace.

Instead your meals at the yoga retreat centre will contain beans, nuts, avocados, tofu, seeds and other vegetarian sources of protein, allowing you to build core, back and other muscle groups that have been developed from practicing yoga postures by yogis for millennia.

Other special dietary requests such as vegan, dairy free, and wheat free will also be catered for. Gluten free and lactose free diets as well as other allergies can also be catered for. Our chefs will make delicious alternatives for you.

During your free time, you can go for a nature walk and admire some of the stunning views of the surrounding mountains as well as breathe in some of the lovely mountain air. You can also arrange a trip with a local taxi driver to the surrounding villages or to one of Valencia's most beautiful and secluded beaches, Oliva. Most people, however, like to relax by the pool, read, chat to new friends at your yoga retreat centre or listen to quiet music.

There are people from the local villages who come to the shala and offer deep tissue massage. Treatments tend to cost around 60 EUR each. Please feel free to send an inquiry to Yoga Sutra Shala if you want to find out more.

• 5 nights accommodation in the cosy villa
• Fun and professional yoga and meditation classes twice a day
• 3 delicious organic vegetarian meals daily
• Use of the swimming pool
• Over 20 of the best quality organic teas from around the world which you will have available to drink whenever you want to
• Wi-Fi available for the entire length of your stay
• A library of books on yoga, philosophy, meditation and travel
• A library of CDs with mantras, meditation music, philosophy lectures and classical music
• A library of blue ray discs and DVDs with documentaries on nutrition, yoga and philosophy
• Fresh organic fruit from the local organic farmers available all day for you to snack on

• Airport transfers (30 EUR one way)
• Flights

Arrival by airplane

The nearest airport is Alicante (ALC). Yoga Sutra Shala can help you organizer a transfer from Alicante airport to the venue and from the venue to the airport during scheduled times below:

• On Sundays at 12pm (airport - venue)
• On Fridays at 1.45 pm (venue - airport)

The cost is 30 EUR each way.