Your rejuvenating yoga journey begins here…
Imagine yourself surrounded by ancient olive groves, with elegant terraces sweeping down the hillside to a spiritual valley where you will discover are vitalizing stream flowing slowly over natural slate rock pools…
…Welcome to our yoga retreat centre, nestled in the remote and tranquil setting of the Bacelo hillside and woodlands. Yoga Evolution Retreats invite you to immerse yourself in this grounding and restful place to visit and travel deeper on your yoga journey.
Our yoga immersion classes are led by ourselves, Sue and Peter. We are the creators of the retreat and love to share our abundance of teachings to help our students better understand their minds, body, and soul. Since 2009, we have greeted residents to our retreat’s lovingly renovated traditional stone buildings and eco-friendly caravans, which provide comfortable accommodation to truly submerse yourself in nature.
Begin your day with a morning herbal infusion, whilst enjoying the soothing sound of running water and bird song against the impressive backdrop of the Bacelo hillside. We encompass morning silences during several days of the week to ready yourself for a deeper yoga experience and to allow you the time and space to clear your mind and focus on your inner being before the day’s classes begin.
We have developed each yoga break with medium-sized groups in mind. We’ve carefully designed our course sizes to ensure you get to spend quality time with us to assist you on your yoga voyage, whilst retaining a sense of community in which you are able to forge connections with like-minded souls. Our classes are carefully balanced with yoga & qigong practices, meditation and time set aside for relaxation and socializing too.
Outside of the yoga classes, we offer quiet spaces for contemplation with pergolas and hammocks across the grounds in which to relax and read a book from our extensive library. We also recommend an energizing dip in our natural salt-water pool, or a walk amongst nature in the cork, oak, and madrone forest.
Our retreat provides a safe and restful haven in which to nurture yourself and rediscover the strength within your mind, body, and soul. We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful Portuguese retreat to experience rejuvenating yoga, relaxing downtime, and the space to connect with your inner self.
Learn the evolutionary yoga style which is designed to create strength, flexibility, and unbound endurance leaving you full of vitality and an overall feeling of relaxation. Our classes start at 8 in the morning and 6 in the evening. The morning classes are very much a yang style of practice in that they are active and heat generating, whereas the evening yin yoga classes take a much more relaxed approach as you spend more time in each posture.
Both of the yoga classes complement each other. Also in the evening, there is an opportunity to experience planetary gongs as the sound gently bathe you. Gongs are known to help the nervous system reset and also boost the immune system allowing for a restful experience.