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CUSTOMIZED RETREATS
If you are a yoga teacher or a company wanting to organize
a tailored retreat for your own students or followers, get in touch.
Our professional team will develop the ideal retreat for you,
passionately taking care of all of the details and logistics,
allowing you to focus solely on your own personal concept.
And why do we do this? Because it’s FUN and we LOVE our job, and because we are so grateful for
the beautiful gift of Yoga and the abundance it has brought into our lives, that we want to share it with all of you.
RETREAT INTO
YOUR SOUL
RETREATS 2024
Ashtanga Retreat with David & Jelena
APRIL 13 - 20th
David Robson
David Robson is a practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga Yoga, in the tradition of Sharath Yoga Centre (SYC). David is the director of the Ashtanga Yoga Centre of Toronto, where he leads one of the world’s largest Mysore programs outside of India.
David began a daily practice in 1998 while at university studying Comparative Religion. After graduating, David made his first trip to Mysore, India in 2002, where he initiated studies with his teacher Sharath Jois. Since then he has returned to Mysore annually to deepen and enrich his practice and teaching.
In 2007, David was Authorized to teach Ashtanga and now holds a level 2 authorization.
David has become well-known on social media for his educational and entertaining yes/no tutorials. Through these videos he's become one of the most recognized and respected Ashtanga Yoga teachers worldwide.
David teaches the morning mysore program at Ashtanga Toronto, and leads workshops and retreats around the world with his wife Jelena.
Jelena Vesic
After four years of doing her PhD (Political Science, York University, Toronto), Jelena decided to walk away and dedicate herself to teaching Ashtanga Yoga full time. She’s been teaching since 2014, and is now leading the evening Mysore program at AYCT. Alongside her husband, David Robson, Jelena teaches workshops and retreats in Toronto and around the world.
Jelena first came to yoga through dance. As a former ballet dancer of 16 years, the structure and rigour of the Ashtanga Yoga practice felt like home. Drawn to the discipline, mindfulness of the movement and emphasis on the breath, Jelena made the Ashtanga practice her sole focus in 2009.
Jelena has maintained a daily Ashtanga practice for over a decade. She’s made two trips to Mysore, India to study with her teacher, Sharath Jois. In addition, Jelena also considers herself to be a student of Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist teacher and clinical psychologist. She’s completed his and Tara Brach’s “The Power of Awareness” course, and is now enrolled in their two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.
Lastly, Jelena’s true passion lies in promoting rescue and adoption of (street) dogs. You can often find her sharing her love for #adoptdontshop on her IG, and sharing the joys of living with her two fur-babies, Boksoon and Khani, both celebrities in their own right.
Ashtanga & Movement retreat with Pilar & Jimmy
Ibiza
June 8-15th 2024
Pilar de Miguel
Level 2 Authorized teacher by Sharath Jois
Pilar has been practicing different styles of yoga for years, but when she discovered Ashtanga Yoga in 2014, she instantly fell in love with this practice, as she deeply connected with the profound and transformative experience of combining breath and meditation with movement.
She quit her job in the international media field and started traveling to Mysore, India, to practice with her teacher and Guru, Sharath Jois. That´s where following her heart decided to create “Balearic Retreats” and bring some of the Mysore Magic to her home island, Mallorca, to later expand it to other countries.
She started her Mysore program in 2020, Ashtanga Yoga Mallorca, and teaches both in the island and abroad.
Jimmy Jonsson
Swede for birth, Mallorquinan in the heart, Jimmy has been an active person as long as he remembers. He loves outdoors and training in nature. It all started climbing trees as a kid and running in the forests of Sweden with his friends; motocross, cycling and strength training came after.
Since 2017 yoga took a big part of his interests, mostly because it brings stillness within him, first through the path of Hatha Yoga and later on through the Ashtanga practice. He combines the yoga practice with cycling around the island and various strength trainings to prepare the body for the greater calling into the wild.
He loves the Wim Hof method of intense breathing and cold swims and is passionate about healthy diet, habits and body movement. His goal is to be able to move without pain and enjoy life in a healthy temple.
He creates content for Balearic Retreats and other brands, thanks to his talented eye and passion for video and photography.
Rtu Vidya: Seasonal Wisdom
An Ashtanga Yoga Retreat for Women
JUNE 15 - 22ND 2024
NEA FERRIER
Nea teaches Ashtanga yoga practice and philosophy in Dubai and as a visit teacher in the Middle East/Asian region.
She is a KPJAYI/SYC level 2 teacher, authorised in 2010, and the founder of Ashtanga Yoga Dubai and Nilaya House.
An avid student of yoga for close to 20 years, Nea continues her studies in the darshans of Vedanta, Tantra, Ayurveda and Veda Chanting, alongside remaining a committed practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga yoga.
She is passionate about helping women connect to their menstrual cycles and is a graduate of the Menstruality Leadership Programme with The Red School.
Nea's teaching style is warm, compassionate and intuitive, drawing on 15 years of daily teaching and focused on guiding students to find their own balance between effort and letting go, to practice in a way that is sustainable and supportive for various life stages.
Nea has led retreats in India, Italy, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Zambia.
two Week Intensive with Kino & Tim
June 22nd –July 6th 2024
Kino MacGregor
Kino MacGregor is a Miami native who is happiest on the beach with a fresh coconut and a poet at heart who always stops to smell the flowers. She is the founder of Omstars—the world’s first yoga TV network. With over 1 million followers on Instagram and close to 800,000 subscribers on YouTube and Facebook, Kino’s message of spiritual strength reaches people all over the world.
Tim Feldmann
Tim is the co-founder and captain of the world-wide recognized Miami Life Center and of the newly opened Miami Yoga Garage - a new ambitious Shala and cultural house in Miami's fun Wynwood district. He has practiced yoga since 1994 and Ashtanga Since 1999. Authorized to teach by Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Jois he explores core concepts and modern boundaries of Patanjali’s yoga teachings alike
Two Week Ashtanga Yoga Immersion
03-17th AUGUST 2024
LARUGA GLASER
Laruga has been practicing Ashtanga yoga continuously for over 24 years. Starting in the beginning of her 20s, she was immediately drawn to the practice after working with other forms of yoga years prior. After establishing a committed practice she then deepened her studies traveling to Mysore, India annually to practice at KPJAYI where the late Sri K. Pattabhi Jois taught and now his grandson, R. Sharath Jois teaches. Laruga has made more than 14 trips to Mysore and is on a mission to continue to learn and grow as a student as well as a teacher. She is one of the few in the world who have been given the distinction of being certified to teach up to Advanced B, which is not easily given and takes many years to earn. Through it all, Laruga teaches as an act of deep sharing and love for what yoga develops in each individual, facilitating space to open, challenge, and inspire those to realize their inherent potential, and has been personally invited all over the world to do so.
VINYASA RETREAT WITH GOODSPACE
SEPTEMBER 07 - 14
GOOSPACE
Goodspace Yoga Retreats is women-owned and operated by two friends and yogis, Bridget and Mary. These retreats offer an intimate boutique style experience with the intention of bringing like minded people together.
YIN Yoga Retreat with CARLIANN
SEPTEMBER 15 - 21
CARLIANN
Carliann Langley is a highly experienced teacher, specialising in yin yoga and meditation, she holds over a 1,200 hours of training with the world's leading experts and many years of teaching experience.
Through the integration of yoga philosophy , conscious breathwork, yin yoga & mindfulness, she supports her clients with therapeutic transformative practice for body and mind, working with clients in her local community, internationally through her online classes & 1:1, retreats, volunteering for charitable organisations.
Her teaching is grounded in ancient philosophy and merged with modern day science – a truly informed, warm, down to earth teaching approach. Her passion is to inspire peace, easing clients away from states of anxiety and stress towards space & wholeness in the body, mind and heart.
Ashtanga Yoga Retreat with ASTRID HOLTE
SEPTMBER 28TH - OCTOBER 5TH
ASTRID
Astrid was born and raised in the north of Norway and took her first Ashtanga class in 2003 when she was studying in Sydney, Australia. She was immediately inspired by this practice, which through years of practice has had a great influence on her life and and way of living. She is inspired with the freedom, growth and self discovery that we have an opportunity to explore through this method of yoga.
Astrid went to Mysore, India, to study with Sharath Jois for the first time in 2010 and has since made annual trips there to study and deepen her practice with her teacher. Astrid is a dedicated student and teacher of the Ashtanga Yoga method, she became authorized level 2 in 2013 and she has also assisted Sharathji twice in the Shala in Mysore.
Astrid was the owner and main teacher at Mysore Yoga Oslo, where for 7 years she built up and taught the Mysore program daily. After she closed the Shala in June 2020, she returned to Puro Yoga, where she teaches the morning Mysore program.
Ashtanga Yoga Retreat with Philippa asher
October 07 - 14
Philippa Asher
From London, Philippa Asher is one of a few Ashtanga yoga practitioners in the world (and the only British woman), to be Certified by Sri K Pattabhi Jois, to teach the Ashtanga yoga method in his tradition. She has learned the Primary, Intermediate, Advanced A and Advanced B Series directly from Pattabhi Jois and Sharath (at the Krishna Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India) and shares the Ashtanga yoga system Internationally (in studios and on retreats) and also Online (Sanskrit Counted Led classes and One-to-Ones).
After a vocational ballet school training from age twelve and twenty five years of studying and teaching dance at universities and ballet companies all over the UK, Philippa randomly walked into an Ashtanga yoga class in London. It was a life-changing incident, that made complete sense.
From the late 1990s, she began learning/practising the Ashtanga yoga system, daily before work (in the media, film and music industries). For twenty years she has studied for several months each year at KPJAYI in Mysore (and on tour), practising under the guidance of guru Pattabhi Jois and his grandson Sharath Jois.
In 2006, Philippa established and ran Triyoga Soho’s Ashtanga self-practice programme in London. She taught there for five years before relocating to South India, to build her own shala (on a coffee estate in the Western Ghats). ASHTANGA NIRVRTA is a stunning homestay yoga retreat, which aims to bring Ashtanga yoga to all levels of practitioners, in nature, without distraction.
RETREATS 2025
A FRESH LOOK AT TRADITIONAL ASHTANGA
RETREAT WITH adam keen
june 7-14th
ADAM
Adam made his first trip to Mysore in 2007, received level 2 authorisation in 2012 and completed the Advanced A sequence of Ashtanga yoga in 2013 with Sharathji. He has been a yoga practitioner since 1999, starting with hatha yoga while studying philosophy at university.
Having taught internationally and spent over ten years running a Mysore program in his native London, Adam’s style is open, non-dogmatic and eclectic while remaining rooted in an appreciation of the tradition as taught in Mysore. He has a unique way of making everyone welcome and meeting students where they are with humour and kindness.
He is a co-founder of Keen on Yoga, an online yoga platform hosting workshops and events, and the host of the Keen on Yoga Podcast and YouTube channels. Adam has interviewed and learned from most of the top Ashtanga teachers and philosophy academics in this capacity, leading to a unique overview of the modern yoga world and teaching approaches.
Workshops
We have the pleasure to invite you this workshops organized in Palma, at MOV Mallorca, home to our Mysore program, Ashtanga Yoga Mallorca.
our locations
Mallorca
Mallorca, the biggest of the Balearic Islands, is known for its beautiful beaches, dramatic landscapes, picturesque mountains and charming little towns. It´s always been an inspiration to international artist that made the island their home. It has the rare combination of being a very cosmopolitan island, with residents from all around the world, while maintaining its roots and traditions, and its now famous peculiarity of “slow living lifestyle”.
Mallorca has 300 days of sun per year and offers activities and diversity all year round making it ideal to live in.
Let us show you our island!
THE VILLA
THE FINCA
IBIZA
Ibiza is known for it’s long white sand beaches, pristine turquoise water coves, hectic nightlife and hippy history, but what many people don’t know is the magical energy that this island has, only if you’ve been there you’ll know what we are talking about.
It has a very spiritual and energetic side that makes it unique.
With its small sister island, Formentera, Ibiza is the perfect destination for a week of relaxation and fun.
Come and explore the island with us, and enjoy the incredible sunsets over the sea.
ENTER YOUR
INNER WORLD
OUR TEAM
PILAR DE MIGUEL
FOUNDER & CEO
Level 2 authorized teacher by
Sharath Jois.
Pilar has been practicing different styles of yoga for years, but when she discovered Ashtanga Yoga in 2014, she instantly fell in love with this practice, as she deeply connected with the profound and transformative experience of combining breath and meditation with movement.
She quit her job in the international media field and started traveling to Mysore, India, to practice with her teacher and Guru, Sharath Jois. That´s where following her heart decided to create “Balearic Retreats” and bring some of the Mysore Magic to her home island, Mallorca, to later expand it to other countries.
She started her Mysore program in 2020, Ashtanga Yoga Mallorca, and teaches both in the island and abroad.
IG: @pilar_islandyoga
JIMMY JONSSON
CREATIVE DIRECTOR / PARTNER
Swede by birth,
Mallorquinan in the heart.
Since 2017 yoga took a big part of Jimmy’s interests, mostly because it brings stillness within him, first through the path of Hatha Yoga and later on through the Ashtanga practice.
He combines the yoga practice with cycling around the island and various strength trainings to prepare the body for the greater calling into the wild.
He loves the Wim Hof method of intense breathing and cold swims and is passionate about healthy diet, habits and body movement.
His goal is to be able to move without pain and enjoy life in a healthy temple.
He creates content for Balearic Retreats and other brands, thanks to his talented eye and passion for video and photography.
IG: @anahatajimmy
MONTSE BARRIUSO
Executive Assistant
Montse practiced ballet and rhythmic
gymnastics in her early years, disciplines that sparked her interest in the synchronisation and beauty of the body in motion. It was already in 2012, when living and working in Dubai, when she started practicing Hatha and Vinyasa yoga.
After being diagnosed with a cervical spine injury she was introduced to Ashtanga yoga.
She had the great opportunity to meet and learn from great teachers such as Kino Mc Gregor, Mark Robberds, Laruga, Harmony Slater... In 2016, she made her first trip to Mysore to practice at KPJAYI with Sarath Jois, an experience that changed her life forever.
After two decades working in the aviation world, having passed through all departments and different managerial positions, Montse decided to follow her heart and change the course of her life, joining the team of Balearic Retreats.
IG: @montsebabel
Sam Poggi
OUR
FOOD ALCHEMIST
With a blend of Italian and French heritage and a two decade residency in Thailand, Sam brings the most delicious culinary influences to the table. A passionate chef and curious adventurer, Sam has spent most of his life traveling the world and immersing himself in foreign cultures and cuisines.
Attending culinary school and working at Michelin star restaurants from a young age helped Sam to cultivate the skills necessary to pave his own path. Now he focuses on sustainability, using only locally sourced and seasonally available ingredients - often grown in his own garden! He always collects spices along his travels so you can expect to experience the tastes and stories of many different cultures and he is constantly experimenting with creative and healthy adaptations of culinary classics.
Above all, Sam wishes to expand your mind through what he puts on your plate. He wishes to teach others how to live - and eat- in harmony with the planet and her ever-changing seasons. Sam believes that the best meals are simple- it’s the quality of the ingredients that matter. His dishes are fresh, unique, and nourishing and his charming personality adds even more flavor to the dining experience.
IG: @chefsamuelgreg
FIND THE
BALANCE WITHIN
