Elemental Yoga
And Dance Retreat
March 16 - 23, 2025 / March 23 - 30, 2025 • Ulpotha, Sri Lanka
Truly an unforgettable experience in an ancient landscape!
An adventure of a lifetime! Journeying to the jungles of remote Sri Lanka, experience the magic of Ulpotha. The perfect place to reconnect with nature at it's best. Monkeys playing happily in the trees on the way to the earthen yoga shala, countless birds in flight and song, endless music from frogs and cicadas to lull you to sleep after daily yoga, dance, meditation, and massage or trips to some of the fascinating sites of Sri Lanka.
Freedom, Renewal, Daily Yoga & Dance
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Malaika’s Elemental ISHTA (Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda) Yoga classes provide a blend of ancient and contemporary teachings to cater to your individual needs. Focusing on flow, alignment, body awareness and expansion to cultivate grace. She will encourage you to respect and listen to your own body using a holistic approach to yoga as a way of being.
What to expect
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Pranayama - ancient breathing practices to calm our overstimulated minds,
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Asana -the practice of specific yoga postures to stretch, strengthen and balance the body
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Meditation - to expand your awareness and cultivate loving compassion for yourself and others
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Dance - to bring celebration, joy, and community connection
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Yin and Restorative Yoga - to nurture, rejuvenate, and release your nervous system from unnecessary tension.
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We will also sing kirtan songs, another huge limb of Bhakti Yoga or the Yoga of devotion.
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Together with Ulpotha's amazingly friendly staff and optional daily Ayurvedic Treatments, massages, and hikes into the surrounding mountains, this promises to be the reset you need to return happily and rested to your everyday life. It will help you face any challenges with greater lightness of being armed with practical tools to maintain a more fluid body... after all, we are 85% water!
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Her teachings are suitable for beginners and intermediate levels and dance is a crucial part of this workshop.
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Yoga ulpotha by Malaika Darville
Elephants in sea beach
Laughter Yoga in Bali.
Yoga ulpotha by Malaika Darville
~ Asana to stretch, strengthen and balance the body
~ Dance to reconnect the mind, body and spirit
~ Meditation to
Celebrate the gift of life!
Facilitator
Malaika MaVeena Darville incorporates her work as a dancer, Spiritual Healer, and more than 12 years as a bodyworker to help her students find flow, grace and healing to injuries. She fully embodies the deeper philosophy of yoga as a marriage between mind, body and spirit and teaches both in the yoga shala and in natural environments.
Her teachings are suitable for beginners and intermediate levels and dance is a crucial part of this workshop.
She brings a wealth of earth wisdom for personal and planetary awakening having walked the shamanic path for a lifetime. She is dedicated to creating sacred space in ritual and ceremony to help restore balance to our distorted civilized culture. A qualified ISHTA yoga teacher, Water Dance practitioner, African dance performer and teacher, creatrix of 5Elements Dance Activation™ a shamanic dynamic meditation dance journey embodying the five cardinal elements, earth water fire air and spirit. She is also the founder of Journey to the Heart, and Elemental Embodiment™, 5-day transformational retreats for men and women. She has been facilitating groups for more than 25 years in India, Australia, Africa, China, USA, Costa Rica, Europe and Egypt. She offers spirituality that is rooted in the body to access higher realms of consciousness.
Venue and Accomodation
Ulpotha is designed on a traditional Sri Lankan village of 2500 years ago, complete with an Ayurvedic clinic in the center of the village and all the food is being grown organically around the surrounding area.Including the endangered local red rice.
It is a place where time stands still allowing you to drop the stress of every day life and go deep within while connecting to nature, the culture and each other. Elemental Yoga retreats held at Ulpotha are truly an unforgettable experience.