Aligned Expression Power Yoga Retreat
Remove the rocks. . .
With Catherine Njeri and Julie
Retreat Details
1 - 4 October 2020
Taught in English
KSH 53,000 (shared accommodation)
Taking place at Watamu Treehouse
Retreat Description
Catherine and Julie will be sharing Alignment and Expression clinics to empower your practice to the next level.
You will leave this retreat with:
Tools to self-align in any yoga class.
Learn how to ignite your practice; whether one-on-one or in a group setup.
The discovery of what is holding you back and the new possibility of authentic self-expression.
Meet your teachers for this retreat
Catherine Njeri is from Nairobi, Kenya. She is the Director of Teachers, Lead teacher and workshop leader at Africa Yoga Project. She is a certified Africa Yoga Project and Baptiste yoga teacher, having completed level 1, 2 and 3 Baptiste yoga teachers training and FIT to lead Training with Baptiste Institute. Catherine has been teaching and practicing yoga since 2009 and is passionate about creating world class wellbeing leaders through the Africa Yoga Project due to her personal experience of how yoga changed her life. She witnesses daily how yoga impacts the overall wellbeing of her students and encourages a healthy lifestyle. Catherine has led yoga retreats in Nairobi and Watamu, Kenya. She is the first Kenyan woman to lead a 200 hour yoga teacher training in Africa and is a co-facilitator of this training annually in Nairobi, Kenya. She has led this training also in Uganda and Egypt. When she isn't teaching yoga or leading training, Catherine is a proud mum to a baby girl. She also enjoys braiding her daughter’s and friends' hair.
Julie Auma is a certified (200hr and Level 2) Baptiste Power Yoga and YOD Yoga (Level 1 & 2) teacher living, working, and practicing in Nairobi. She sought out yoga after her best friend suggested that she try it to heal from Ab separation (Diastasis Recti) during her pregnancy. After a few youtube videos, she stepped into her 1st yoga class at Africa Yoga Project. It was an amazing and humbling experience to be surrounded by an accepting and supportive community. Soon after, she began working with Africa Yoga Project as the Academy and Learning Coordinator.
It is her goal to share yoga as she has experienced it; as a healing, unifying, and strengthening practice that creates transformation in and beyond the physical practice. She blogs on my lessons on and off the mat at Chronicles of an Alleged yogi. When she isn’t practicing, teaching, writing about Yoga, or working with yoga teachers, you’ll find her enjoying the tart seasonal freshness of raw mango.
What is included?
Daily meditation and 2 yoga sessions
alignment focussed
Empowering conversation
The sharing circle - get present to the rocks you are holding on to
Game night
Mangrove Float
Bonfire
Nature Walking
Unique and award-winning Treehouse accommodation
1 complementary massage
All meals—delicious, fresh and nutritious vegetarian food that energises – natural and healthy cooking with fresh ingredients each day. We are happy to cater for special diets e.g.: gluten or dairy free.
Some yoga sessions in nature including an awesome class on Stand Up Paddle-boards (SUP), beaches, sandbars, walks, swims and time to relax in this serene setting
What is not included?
Flights to Malindi or Mombasa
Airport transfers
Additional massages
An example day on this retreat…
Daily sunrise activities
Morning yoga and meditation sessions
Abundant breakfast with lots of tropical fruit, home-made muesli, a daily special, eggs on request, tea/coffee and fresh juice.
Time to relax and rejuvenate, or explore Watamu and the surrounding nature, an outing to get the best gelato in Watamu or get a massage
Fresh, healthy Lunch
Evening yoga and the sharing circle
Delicious dinner
Getting to this yoga retreat
The closest airport is Malindi on the East Coast of Kenya, which is approximately 25 minutes taxi ride from Treehouse. We can arrange transfers. The following airlines fly to Malinda: Jambojet; Fly540; Air Kenya; Fly SAX; Silverstone; Kenya Airways (links). You can also fly to Mombasa International Airport on the airlines listed above plus Kenya Airways. Mombasa is approximately 2 hours drive from Treehouse.Or take the SGR Train to Mombasa and we can send a taxi to collect you.