Connection is a core part of the process. Your Yoga journey will be guided by Ella throughout the entire week. She will hold the space for you to explore, arrive and fully experience your body, mind and soul. All you have to do is, be yourself and let yourself open up to new versions of yourself. Whether you are a total beginner or deeply into your practice, everyone is welcome and isn’t it beautiful to learn from each other and show others parts of yourself without any judgment or fear. Everything is allowed here ;)

Led by experienced guides who know how to move through the ocean, take care of you whenever there might be a situation you feel uncomfortable in and a guided hand throughout the whole time in the water. Arindu, Chuta and Loku are experienced surfers from Sri Lanka and very reliable when it comes to tricky situations. They will be with you all the time, from the start of the warm up until you make it back on land and can celebrate core memories with the others together.

Arindu will also help you understand the proper surf etiquette through one Surf Theory Session, where all your questions will be answered. Whether it comes to the right size of your board, how to read waves or what to do in moments you feel anxious in.

And then Chuta and Loku will improve your technique and mistakes from the water on land through one Video Analysis. Some of your lessons will be documented so that after the lesson we can improve from the mistakes we made during the session.

Not only will we be surfing in the water, no we want to explore Sri Lanka‘s country side and share one more passion of ours with you - Surfskating. One afternoon we’ll head down the road inland towards the rice fields and there we will show you a little bit of how to skate on a surfskate.

You will be provided by our local chef with a variety of delicious meals. These meals will combine Ayurvedic parts, Sri Lanka‘s traditional kitchen as well as parts of our Western foods. Food is meant to fuel our body, mind and soul and not drain our energy. That‘s exactly what we‘re gonna focus on during this week together. Filling up our cup instead of emptying it.

2 nights will be a little surprise dinner from your hosts. One night is focused on gathering in a small village close to the place you‘re staying at. Exploring all the different flavours Sri Lanka has to offer you.

Another night we will head a little west, to a hidden spot where we will be sharing the evening with a local family by the beach, enjoying the simple pleasures of living in the moment.

We want to start and finish the week with a warm and beautiful welcome and goodbye ceremony. Way too often in our daily life’s we are rushing through transitions that we don’t fully feel comfortable with, so we want to give you space to arrive and make room for the feelings and experiences we will share during this week.

Buddhism plays a big role in Sri Lanka‘s culture and we want to dive right into it with you! So many paths of yoga overlap with the views of Buddhism and we want to show you what it means to fully immerse into an unknown culture.

Breathwork is one of the most important parts of our life’s without us actually noticing it. Our breath is our life force and energy that holds it all together as we wouldn’t be able to exist without our breathing. Days in Sri Lanka can be filled with a lot of heat and sweating, so why not combine cooling down our body and mind through an Ice Bath and Breathwork session.

We want to show you different parts of the beautiful landscape of Sri Lanka, so we are inviting you to join us on a day where we are going to be heading to Hiriketiya. We are gonna give you a whole local experience as we‘re going to take the bus there, explore the small village right by the ocean and have as much slow down time as possible.

A variety of workshops will await you during the time of the retreat. Whether it is focused on stepping out of your comfort zone, tuning inwards with yourself through journaling or finding back to your roots, through your inner child. There‘s space for every version of yourself that you want to bring back into your life.

A coffee a day keeps the doctor away!

But how do you actually make your own coffee and how can you make it look like Art?! We had an idea, because we absolutely love Latte Art, we want to spend an afternoon together as a group and try out a new skill - together we‘ll be creative and try different techniques a professional Barista does at a café. Let‘s see how it goes…

One evening Kahi & Ella will hold the space for you after a relaxing Yin Yoga class to embrace yourself into a beautifully prepared cacao ceremony. It is an intentional and mindful gathering where we will be drinking, pure, ceremonial cacao from our collaborator Caobali. We are focusing on emotional healing, inner reflection and the community we‘re building up during the week.

Karma is a spiritual path of action and selfless service that focuses on performing an activity rather than focusing on the outcome/result of it. We want to include this path of yoga into our journey this week together. We will buy rice and curd and prepare a filling meal for the dogs living on Sri Lanka‘s streets. Together we will go out and bring the food to places of need for dog food.