Visit Yoga Evolution Retreats in Portugal Europe
Situated just below the hilltop village of Amieira in the Castelo Branco district of Portugal, you will find an authentic yoga retreat centre that was founded in 208 by two yoga teachers from the UK called Sue and Peter.
Yoga has grown in popularity over the last 20 years with classes and retreat centres popping up all over the world to practice this ancient method of mind/body and spiritual practice. But, unfortunately like most good things that come into the West, it seems to be losing its soul, so much so that finding a retreat where you can truly experience the transformational effects has become incredible difficult.
Meet two people who have avoided making yoga retreats into a hotel experience.
Back in 2006, Sue and Peter were both teaching yoga classes in the evening and holding down full-time jobs and decided that they would like to open a centre where they could teach yoga and meditation. After looking all over the UK, it became obvious that they would not be able to afford a property in their country of origin, so they started to look abroad. They searched for a couple of years and, eventually, found a place in Portugal called Bacelo.
Bacelo was a derelict property set in six hectares of forest land and consisted of four separate buildings. They flew out and drove over to the place and instantly fell in love with what was, at the time, a mammoth task to renovate into a relaxing space.
Sue and Peter had spent everything they had on purchasing the land and buildings and did not have much money to renovate. So, over the next five years, they worked incredibly hard on their own and with no outside help to create, what is now, an authentic yoga experience where you can spend your hard-earned holiday time practicing and learning yoga. “One room at a time” was the ethos and, after ten years of really grafting, they have expanded the capacity from six to fifteen people and continue to add to the space every year.
It is incredibly refreshing and wonderful to see the dedication that Sue and Peter have for helping people and for being of service, which is something that we see very little of these days in the yoga world. What was even more refreshing was what Peter had to say about the yoga of today.
He said that, “the yoga that is taught by most, these days, is a very Yang practice and has too much emphasis on postures. If you look on the internet at a lot of yoga places, they are selling stress relief and healing: and, what’s more, this all happens in one week, which does make a mockery of yoga as a spiritual evolutionary practice. A person cannot be healed in one week but what a responsible teacher can do is start the healing journey with a person – if a person needs to heal, of course. We all come from different places and have accumulated both good and bad experiences in our lives, and our minds have really evolved to be on the lookout for threats. A yoga practice works on the deeper dimensions of ourselves, which means that, if we have been avoiding our past, then the past has been creating the future because that is where our thoughts and thinking has been. Yoga and meditation allow us to see where we are directing our intention, and intention is how we direct our spirit or energy”.
This was just a little of what was said but you get the impression that the training that Sue and Peter have gone through over the years has been intensive and deep.
If you would like more information or would like to attend one of the courses, then stop by the website below.
https://www.yogaevolutionretreats.com/
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