Yoga in Portugal offers sun, sea and great food
The Algarve offers all round year round weather and atmosphere

Of course having a great teacher and yoga workshops, weekends and retreats facilities goes without saying.

Below are some of those that fit this bill perfectly, making yoga in Portugal a must for your calendar.

The week-long holidays provide a fantastic opportunity for extended relaxation and lots of great yoga. Here, guests are provided with daily yoga classes, gorgeous brunch after each morning session, welcome drinks evening and optional massage treatments.

Morning & evening classes are conducted in the air-conditioned yoga studio - a converted barn with cool flagstone floor, with doors that open out directly onto the garden. The hall is fully equipped so there's no need to bring your yoga mat! Algarve yoga in Portugal caters for your every need!

Algarve yoga classes are taught by Hanna, an experienced & dedicated Iyengar Yoga teacher. Iyengar Yoga concentrates on postural alignment & body awareness to bring about health & well-being. The courses are designed to give participants a broad experience of yoga, to learn more, improve their practice & to have fun as well as to send you home feeling revived! Guests will often arrive tired & stressed, looking forward to a well-earned break & after their holiday, return home feeling refreshed & renewed.

Beginners are always welcome on the holidays but there is also plenty of challenge for those with more experience, teachers or trainees. We also are able to offer places for non-participating partners so that they can enjoy the lovely surroundings on offer while you enjoy your yoga classes. Local Portugal residents can join in with the classes but priority is given for space to residents & all site facilities are exclusive to residents only.
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The yoga intense / detox holiday can be either an introduction to yoga for you, or if already experienced you can use these five days to deepen your own practice. We will adjust the level of instruction to suit each individual. The yoga groups are kept small..

On a daily basis you will have two meditation sessions and two yoga classes including asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing exercises) and relaxation techniques. You will be served breakfast, a light lunch and dinner, all based on simple, but pure, healthy, vegetarian yoga food.

Daily schedule:

Just before sunrise: wake up and have lemon water
Sunrise Meditation
07:00 Tea, fruit
07:30 Yoga class - asanas, pranayama and relaxation (90mins)
09:30 Breakfast
15:00 Snack, light lunch
16:00 Yoga class (90mins)
18:00 Dinner
20:00 Meditation

You will be leaving this weak with an immense amount of life energy, received through the practice of yoga, breathing the ocean air and eating energy-giving foods. You will leave the holiday with a deeper understanding of yoga, a healthy body, a relaxed but clear mind and an open heart.

Prices (each):
Shared room with 2 others 900 Euros
Shared room with 1 other person: 960 Euros
Single room: 1320 Euros

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The surf in the Algarve along with long hot sunny days in summer and mild days in winter along with warm friendly nights, invite one and all to enjoy, relax and lay back and regenerate.

The Yoga and Surfing Retreat holiday is either for surfers wanting to get into yoga or for yogis wanting to learn to surf or for anybody (also beginners in both) that believe in this excellent combination of yoga and surfing. The South West coast of Portugal offers fantastic waves and empty beaches in the winter. It is quite unlikely that somebody will drop in on you…!

Each day will start with a sunrise meditation followed by a Yoga class, especially designed to gain flexibility, strength and a confident mind for surfing. After breakfast you will be picked up by the surf coach who will bring you down to the local, but most spectacular and famous surf beach. In the break between the surf lessons you’ll get some reenergizing lunch and at the end of the day, we’ll finish off with a gentle yoga class and a delicious dinner.

Daily schedule:

Sunrise: Meditation
08:00 Intense yoga class (90mins)
10.00 Breakfast
11:00 Surf lesson (2 hours)
13:00 Lunch at the beach (60mins)
14:00 Surf lesson (2 hours)
17:00 Gentle yoga lesson
19:00 Dinner

Prices (each):
Shared room with 2 others 1050 Euros
Shared room with 1 other person: 1150 Euros
Single room: 1450 Euros

All Retreats are held in Monto Velho, a beautiful guesthouse that sits in one of the most stunning areas of Portugal (Carrapateria). Monte Velho is situated on a hill overlooking the very south west of Europe, a beautiful landscape and an ocean that offers one of the most spectacular surf breaks.

Enquiries here for Jost Retreats

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Enjoy a fantastic beach holiday in the Algarve and learn to surf and improve your yoga skills!

If you visit Portugal and make your base for a week in the heart of Lagos´ old town, you have a laid back surfy town brimming with bars, nightclubs, restaurants and cafes to suit you.

Within many of the retreats and yoga holidays offered by teachers, there is no need to find any outside catering or entertainment as all is provided under on roof.

Yoga in Portugal really is a hidden gem waiting to be exploited.

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The Ayurveda Holiday is for everybody that would like to know more about ayurveda, learn it’s delicious cooking, improve their eating habits and everybody that knows yoga is great!

Each day we will start with a meditation at sunrise. After a tasty ayurvedic power drink you will have 90 minutes of Yoga, followed by a delicious breakfast. While digesting breakfast you will have the opportunity to sit under cork trees, listening to ayurvedic lectures (where you can learn about basic ayurvedic philosophy, one’s constitution and ayurvedic nutrition combined with a healthy western style of eating. In the afternoon you will have spare time to either relax or do some of the other attractive activities available around Tipi Valley. In the late afternoon we will start with a three-hour cooking workshop. You will learn how to: use ayurvedic spices, prepare delicious vegetarian healthy food and how to put your whole heart into cooking. That way each day will finish with a fiesta meal :)

Daily schedule:

Before sunrise: wake up with lemon water
06:30 Meditation
07:00 Tea, ayurvedic power drink and fruit
07:30 Yoga class - asanas, pranayama, relaxation (90mins)
09.30 Breakfast
11:00 Ayurveda lecture (60mins)
12:00 Free time
16:00 Ayurvedic snack
16:15 Ayurvedic cooking class (60mins) followed by fiesta dinner

You’ll leave this week with
• a great knowledge of ayurveda and yoga
• a bigger understanding of nutrition and health
• a delicious selection of ayurvedic recipes and the knowledge of how to cook them
• a healthy, energetic, detoxed body, rested mind and a happy heart

Prices (each):
Shared room with 2 others 900 Euros
Shared room with 1 other person: 960 Euros
Single room: 1320 Euros

Enquiries here for Jost Retreats

Yoga / Nature Retreat

The Yoga / Nature Retreat offers you time and space to connect to your inner self- a retreat to relax, reflect, let go, enjoy and feel good. ‘Living in the moment’ is one of the biggest challenges nowadays. So this retreat is designed for people how’d like to learn to leave the past behind and the future in front.

In this programme you’ll practice different kind of meditations, a daily 90 minutes Yoga class, spend time in nature and some time of the days in silence. You will be served breakfast, a light lunch and dinner, all based on simple, but pure, healthy, vegetarian yoga food.

Daily schedule:

At sunrise: Morning Mediation
08.00 Yoga class
10.00 Breakfast
10.30 Time in nature
13.30 Lunch (or pick-nick)
14.30 Leisure time
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Sharing circle
20.30 Evening Meditation

This is what you can expect to take home with you:
An inner peace and happiness, gained from a deeper awareness of yourself and connecting to nature.
clarity gained through reflection with nature (life coaching).
A relaxed mind.
A healthy body through daily practice of yoga and healthy food.

Enquiries here for Jost Retreats and yoga in Portugal