Vessel - 100h Authentic Flow Training

About the course

This is full 100h towards a 300h Yoga Alliance certified training with us (ERYT200 needed).

VESSEL takes you on a journey to the more physical side of Yoga. 10 day indepth study into fully Embodying your home. It's all about asanas and how you should not "use" your body to get into asanas but to allow asanas to get into your body in the best and most nurturing way possible. EveryBODY is different, unique and amazing. Let's feel it all to see it all!

• Asana
• Advanced Anatomy
• Embodied Flow
• Pranayama, chanting, meditation
• Authentic teacher

Yoga Shala
The Yoga practice shala floating over the kitchen gardens with views up and down the valeys, has capacity for 25 students, so plenty of space for the group sizes we have beds to accommodate. The shala is fully equipped with good mats, bolsters, blocks, belts and blankets. Plus a yoga swing and a shoulder stand chair.

Food
We serve 3 delicious vegetarian Ayurvedic meals a day. Restorative food is such an important part of the retreat experience. Our first e-cookbook, "Nourish: Healing Meals from Vale de Moses", has all the recipes and more that we serve here on retreats. We're also open to working with you on compiling a menu for your retreat. Inside or outside the Ayurvedic framework.

Staff
We have a chef, housekeeper, groundsman and manager, along with 2 Karma Yoga volunteers per month. Plus therapists, local cleaners, laundry service, gardeners and taxi drivers as well as a couple of local ladies who produce honey and olive oil and also handmade soaps, pressed flower oils, jams, broaches and other gifts for your students to buy for their loved ones back home.

Massage and Acupuncture Treatments
We have a team of therapists and acupuncturists available. We've found over the years that the mix of daily yoga, great food, mountain walks, swimming in natural river pools and treatments has a profound effect on our guests health, even within just one week. So all our teachers so far have included a half hour health consultation and an hour's massage for their students in their package, as we do on all our own retreats. But that's up to you. Prices are 75€ per 90 minute session.

Travel
If you're planning to come on the same flight with your group of students, it is quicker to hire a minibus from the Airport to Vale de Moses and back (2 hours). But if not, there are 2 national coaches to Oleiros daily from Lisbon (3.5 hours, 25€ return) and Porto (5 hours in total with two 45 minute stops, 34€ return). See our Come and Go page for links to timetables etc. We can arrange taxis to pick you up from Oleiros.

Explore
Hiking, cycling, climbing, exploring these beautiful valleys. If people hire cars, then there are historic villages and towns half an hour to an hour's drive away in all directions. We're in the middle of a remote and depopulated part of Portugal, which makes a lovely place to retreat to but not so full of tourist attractions or tourists. We can arrange a Friday afternoon trip for a swim and bud bath in the local Rio Zêzere. And we have a Swiss friend Christian who lives in our village, a mountaineer who doesn't charge much to take guests on climbs and longer hikes.

Useful information

• Start date: 7th July 2017
• End date: 16th July 2017
• Location/address: Vale de Moses, 6160 052 Amieira, Castelo Branco, Portugal
  • City: Portugal
• Price: Early bird: 1590€ Paid full before 29.3.2017
• Reservation fee: 600€ (paid when booking)
• Teacher:
  • Satu Tuomela E-ryt 500, Reiki healer
  • Tiina Ravelin E-ryt200, physiotherapist, thai yoga massage wizard Yoga style: Authentic Flow
• Please let us know if you have a friend or a spouse you can share a bed with, we will give you some discount.

We will be staying in the most beautiful, serene, place in Portugal! Vale de Moses. We have space for 20 students. There's a stone cottage guest house with 4 single beds, a stone Monastic Adega with 3 single beds, 3 private bedrooms in the farmhouse (each with double beds), 5 Soulpads and a large Tipi (each with double or twin single mahogany beds, carpets, electricity, hammocks and solar lights outside).

Daily schedule

(can change)

• 06.30 - Pranayama, chanting, meditation
• 07.30 - Asana
• 09.30 - Breakfast
• 11.00-13.00 - Lab
• 13.00-15.00 Lunch & break
• 15.00-17.00 Lectures, teaching
• 17.00-17.30 - Break
• 17.30-18.30 Yin or restorative practice

About the teachers

Satu Tuomela is an international yoga teacher/facilitator and a Reiki master (ERYT500). She is specialized in Embodied Flow™ and yin yoga. Satu is one of the most influential and respected teachers in the Nordics and has a big and loving Kula around the world.She has been teaching for over 15 years and is known for her unique and authentic style. Satu charms with her intuitive instructions, humour, loving adjustments, Reiki and a clear understanding of the human body and how everybody is unique. She loves singing, the ocean, her dogs and living her life worry-free day by day.

Tiina Ravelin (ERYT200) is a physioterapist and a medicine woman. She works with the Power of Touch. She teaches mindful Yoga in an intuitive and embodied way connecting back to primitive movement patterns. Tiina’s teaching comes from discoveries in her own practice, all the high peaks and deep spaces, every day, every moment. Her passion is travelling, being the humble student & teacher, meet inspiring souls, catch the waves of life, meet her fears and love wholeheartedly.