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Yoga/Hiking New Year retreat 2025/26

29th Dec to 3rd Jan 2025/26

FLOAT INTO 2026 feeling as light as a feather.....
two qualities that we’ll be welcoming ever further into both our physical yoga practice and our yoga practice off the mats in interaction with the wider world. Step on board, release your luggage (in whatever form it may be) and take a deep, nourishing sigh of relief. Ahhh….
Price per person
Yoga & guided mountain hikes with daily meditation retreat investment from €599 per person, including all meals, yoga, workshops & equipment. Not including flights or transfers.
 
Reserve your place today with just €190 deposit.

5 places left. BYG club members contact us for offers 
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Themes for 
2026

Open from May to July then September to  November 

AWAKENING YOUR CHAKRAS 

Start Date: May 1, 2026
End Date: July 31, 2026
Schedule: Available every other week

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Get ready to dive into an adventure through the seven chakras – the energy centres that influence your vitality, emotions, and spirit. Over our time together, we’ll discover the power of each chakra, guiding you to release, recharge, and reconnect with your truest self. Your journey begins with a ritual tea ceremony – a moment to pause, arrive fully, and set your personal intentions. It’s your first step into a space of community, healing, and transformation.

 

Your Chakra Adventure

Each day is a deep dive into one chakra – its colour, element, energy, and wisdom. We’ll work with each Chakra in turn using practices that anchor you into your body, explore creativity, power, love, truth, vision, and pure connection. This is a full-bodied exploration of energy, emotion, and spirit.

 

Morning Practices

Start your day with dynamic, energising yoga inspired by the chakra of focus. Flow through Hatha, Vinyasa, and Mandala sequences that challenge, strengthen, and awaken. Each practice begins with meditation to tune in to the day’s energy and intention.

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Evening Practices

Close each day with soothing, restorative yoga and meditation to calm the body and mind. Our guided Meditation practices draw from global traditions, offering different ways of nourishing your heart and spirit. By the end of this journey you’ll feel lighter, brighter, and more in tune with yourself – balanced from root to crown, connected to your energy, and glowing with renewed vitality. You can also add in other elements to enhance your stay with us, ice baths, sound healing, and wonderful massages to name a few!

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Your Yoga Journey

Our Yoga classes are dynamic and energising in the mornings, soothing and restorative in the evenings – the perfect balance of action and ease. Along the way, you’ll explore pranayama (breathwork), mudras (gestures), mantras (affirmations), and the bliss of savasana. Meditation here is about finding what truly works for you. Whether you’re brand new or an experienced meditator, you’ll discover practices you can take home – your own toolkit for calm, clarity, and connection.

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And with the magic of Rustic Retreats as your backdrop – wild nature, stillness, and presence – you’ll remember what it feels like to be deeply grounded, fully alive, and part of something bigger.

 

 

THE YOGA OF LIFE: YAMAS AND NIYAMAS

​Start Date: May 8, 2026

End Date: July 23, 2026

Schedule: Available every other week

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The Yamas and Niyamas draw us into the roots of yoga philosophy – they are the guiding principles for living with honesty, compassion, and inner freedom. This retreat is about weaving yoga off the mat and into daily life, with practices that help you find alignment in body, mind and soul in order to create more freedom. On arrival, you will be welcomed with a ritual tea ceremony to connect and set intentions.

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Your Yamas and Niyamas Journey

In our practices we'll explore different Yama's or Niyama's, bringing them into focus through meditation, movement, and reflection. For example, we begin with Ahimsa – kindness and non-violence – and explore how it shapes the way we treat ourselves, others, and the world around us.

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Morning Practices
Morning sessions will be uplifting and dynamic, and a mixture of Hatha, Vinyasa, and Mandala flow. Evenings will have a slower pace and feel slow. In our Meditation practices you can explore the depth and power of a variety of meditations drawn from traditions such as Mantra and Mauna (silence). Our daily workshops are a mixture of creativity, joy and play, reflection and activity.

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Evening Practices

By the end of your Yoga holiday, you’ll not only feel refreshed in body and mind, but you’ll also carry home practical tools and deeper insights to live with greater harmony, integrity, and ease. You can make your stay personal to you by adding in extras like flying in Aerial Yoga, floating (yes, we mean that literally!) through a heavenly soundbath or booking yourself in for a breathwork session. 

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Your Yoga Journey

In the mornings we’ll flow through dynamic sequences that awaken and strengthen. Evenings invite gentle restoration, guiding you into deep relaxation and calm. Along the way, you’ll explore breathwork, mudras, mantras, and the pure bliss of savasana. Meditation becomes a practice that fits you, not the other way around. Whether you’re new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, you’ll leave with practical tools and techniques to carry calm, focus, and connection into your everyday life.

 

Set against the stunning backdrop of Rustic Retreats, surrounded by untamed nature and quiet presence, you’ll rediscover what it feels like to be grounded, fully alive, and part of something larger than yourself.

Back To Your Body Yoga/Detox

​Start Date: September 4, 2026

End Date: November 5, 2026

Schedule: Available every other week

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Style of Yoga to be taught


Yoga Foundations is a perfect format for beginners. It will focus on improving your basic understanding
of yoga and building a safe and sustainable practice. The classes decompose many of the common poses
in yoga as well as help you to find your alignment, balance, strength and energetic flows. The teacher will
assist you in modifying your postures to enable you to achieve a better technique.
Teachings will include some introductory pranayama practices using the breath. We include poses from
numerous traditions and occasionally utilize yoga props (blocks, blankets, straps, etc) for a better comfort
and stability. On the evenings, yoga nidra and gentle slow hatha will prepare you for the best ever night of
sleep.
Expect a slow rhythm, with more concentration and focus. Yoga Foundations is suitable for all levels :
perfect for beginners, it’s also a wonderful opportunity for advanced practitioners to come back to the
basics and to water your roots.

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Your Rustic Retreats journey

Yoga means UNION. It includes much more than physical postures, meditation and breathing techniques.
Yoga is about re-unifying body and mind, movement and awareness, inner presence and breath, frame and
freedom... And beyond the practice, as complete as it may be, yoga is a whole conscious living attitude.
This retreat is an invitation to reconnect to the wholeness of your « being alive experience ». We will take
good care of our physical body, offering it a nice opportunity to detox and to include new healthy habits
in our daily life, but also we’ll give our whole self the marvellous present of being present.
Dive into the magic of Bagend, happily surrender to a soft, natural rhythm for a week, and draw the
possibility of a brand new self, cheering up each one of your colours.​

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Set against the stunning backdrop of Rustic Retreats, surrounded by untamed nature and quiet presence, you’ll rediscover what it feels like to be grounded, fully alive, and part of something larger than yourself.

The Power of Now

​Start Date: September 11, 2026

End Date: October 29, 2026

Schedule: Available every other week

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Style of Yoga to be taught

Hatha yoga & Restorative
On the mornings, classical Hatha Yoga will take us deeper within, preparing us for meditation and more
subtle levels of awareness. We will work a lot with individual Asana’s (poses) to ensure good alignment,
Pranayama (Breath/ life force activation), Mudra’s (Sacred gestures), some Mantra (healing sound
currents) and Bhanda’s (Energy locks). Some gentle flow sequences will be occasionally included, along
with sound, imagery, guided meditations and deep relaxations.
The afternoon classes will be more restorative. Yin Yoga inspired; holding poses for a longer period to
stretch and relax the deeper tissues.

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Your Rustic Retreats journey

“Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work
with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally; not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your
whole life”. Eckhart Tolle.
Your Rustic Retreat journey is taking you for a ride into the here and now, the only real reality. Out of the
frame of the usual daily life, you will enjoy a full immersion into the magic of living off grid, guided by
the rhythm of Nature. The yoga classes and workshops will invite you to listen to your body, the one that
takes you back to the present moment, your only perfect teacher.​​

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Set against the stunning backdrop of Rustic Retreats, surrounded by untamed nature and quiet presence, you’ll rediscover what it feels like to be grounded, fully alive, and part of something larger than yourself.

Meet the Team

Elliot founder and chef of RR, Emma designed the yoga program and Rosie will be assisting her to present it.

Along with a dedicated team of 4 amazing helpers be assured you will have an amazing time 

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