Brazil luxury yoga and fitness holiday
| country: | Brazil |
| location: | Ilha Grande |
| departures: | This trip departs throughout the year. Free airport transfers are offered on certain days of the week (see below) but guests can extend their stay or arrive on alternative days |
| price: | From US $1900 (7 days) excluding flights. Single room rate is $2100. Price includes all services, food and return airport transfers to the island. |
| offers: | We are offering all responsibletravel.com visitors a massive 15% off all 2009 bookings! Enjoy challenging outdoor activities, a purifying detox menu, relaxing yoga & amazing massages at our beautiful island retreat. Our standard rate is USD $2100 single occupancy, with discount just USD $1785, USD $1900 per person double occupancy; with discount $1650. We are also offering a special 14 days package promotional price, USD $3000. |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
read 4 travellers reviews
"Deeply pamper your mind, body and soul on this breathtakingly beautiful island. Practising yoga with the sounds of the sea and the sunshine on your face would be a totally inspiring experience. Feeling completely revitalised I would be clear headed to try something completely different such as learning the art of capoeira."
- Lisa, responsibletravel.com
- Lisa, responsibletravel.com
the amazing things you'll be doing
This experience is a unique yoga and fitness program that takes place on the spellbinding island paradise Ilha Grande, just off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our week long program is designed to detox your body and de-stress your mind. The combination of outdoor exercise, yoga and meditation, together with a natural diet has proved to have extraordinary health and healing effects. We invite you down to this beautiful part of the world to help you elevate your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Share it with others, have lots of fun and adventure. Come join us for a week.
Itinerary
Imagine yourself starting your day with a morning yoga class on a deck overlooking the tranquil ocean, hiking in unspoiled rain forest trails, kayaking in quiet bays with warm emerald waters, snorkelling, or just relaxing on a secluded tropical beach with fine white sand and palm trees. At all times you are physically and mentally supported by our team, which guides you through the various activities and helps you to achieve your goals.
Back in the lodge, one of our massage therapists gives you a full-body massage for a whole hour, and you are then ready to enjoy your deserved downtime, either laying on a hammock in your private veranda with the view of the ocean, reading a book, or going for one of our optional evening activities: stretching or meditating in your second yoga class of the day, painting, learning the basics of Brazilian rhythms, how to dance samba or practice capoeira. Dinner is served under the light of candles and stars, the perfect ambience to enjoy our delicious Brazilian dishes made with fresh natural ingredients, carefully selected to detoxify your body (and eventually loose weight, since a low calorie diet is available as an option). The day ends with Brazilian cultural entertainments combining music and dance.
The location is just breath taking. We have carefully selected the most beautiful trails and beaches on the island to ensure that you experience the most spectacular scenery while you hike and kayak. Our lodge is located on a jungle hillside and sits directly on top of the clear tranquil waters of the Atlantic. This quiet setting is ideal for yoga, massage, and relaxation.
Accommodation
Our secluded lodge rests harmoniously within the Atlantic Rainforest, sitting at the foot of the Ocean. Aside from its exotic location, the lodge itself entertains a multitude of charming surprises. The surroundings are truly beautiful as the lodge offers a private beach, a yoga deck and our own private pier. There are only 9 exclusive rooms, each of them with a fantastic ocean view from its own private veranda. Also, each room features air conditioning and a double size bed. Except for couples, all our rooms are single occupancy.
Food
We offer a detox diet - carefully designed by our nutritionist Adriana - which will help your body detoxify and will provide the nutrients that are necessary for a healthy and active week. The diet focuses on your special needs and objectives, by providing you with enough power and energy to complete all of the activities of the program. For those who are interested in losing weight, we also offer a low-calorie plan. This exotic and delicious vegetarian based diet combines the harmony and the benefits of natural foods with the fantastic flavor of Brazilian cuisine.
Price details
Price includes 6 nights of lodging, full board, 45 hours of supervised activities, 7-12 yoga classes, 5 one hour massages offered daily, various recreational activities (snorkelling, Brazilian music, art and dance), 3 nights of Brazilian cultural entertainment, free transportation from Rio International Airport - Galeao to Ilha Grande (Sundays only) and free transportation back to Rio International Airport (Saturdays only).
Accomodation is based on single occupancy - double occupancy for couples only. We only provide scheduled transportation to Ilha Grande on Sunday afternoon and back to the airport on Saturday afternoon. Non-scheduled or special transportation (e.g., helicopter, car, boat) will require an extra fee.
Itinerary
Imagine yourself starting your day with a morning yoga class on a deck overlooking the tranquil ocean, hiking in unspoiled rain forest trails, kayaking in quiet bays with warm emerald waters, snorkelling, or just relaxing on a secluded tropical beach with fine white sand and palm trees. At all times you are physically and mentally supported by our team, which guides you through the various activities and helps you to achieve your goals.
Back in the lodge, one of our massage therapists gives you a full-body massage for a whole hour, and you are then ready to enjoy your deserved downtime, either laying on a hammock in your private veranda with the view of the ocean, reading a book, or going for one of our optional evening activities: stretching or meditating in your second yoga class of the day, painting, learning the basics of Brazilian rhythms, how to dance samba or practice capoeira. Dinner is served under the light of candles and stars, the perfect ambience to enjoy our delicious Brazilian dishes made with fresh natural ingredients, carefully selected to detoxify your body (and eventually loose weight, since a low calorie diet is available as an option). The day ends with Brazilian cultural entertainments combining music and dance.
The location is just breath taking. We have carefully selected the most beautiful trails and beaches on the island to ensure that you experience the most spectacular scenery while you hike and kayak. Our lodge is located on a jungle hillside and sits directly on top of the clear tranquil waters of the Atlantic. This quiet setting is ideal for yoga, massage, and relaxation.
Accommodation Our secluded lodge rests harmoniously within the Atlantic Rainforest, sitting at the foot of the Ocean. Aside from its exotic location, the lodge itself entertains a multitude of charming surprises. The surroundings are truly beautiful as the lodge offers a private beach, a yoga deck and our own private pier. There are only 9 exclusive rooms, each of them with a fantastic ocean view from its own private veranda. Also, each room features air conditioning and a double size bed. Except for couples, all our rooms are single occupancy.
Food
We offer a detox diet - carefully designed by our nutritionist Adriana - which will help your body detoxify and will provide the nutrients that are necessary for a healthy and active week. The diet focuses on your special needs and objectives, by providing you with enough power and energy to complete all of the activities of the program. For those who are interested in losing weight, we also offer a low-calorie plan. This exotic and delicious vegetarian based diet combines the harmony and the benefits of natural foods with the fantastic flavor of Brazilian cuisine.
Price details
Price includes 6 nights of lodging, full board, 45 hours of supervised activities, 7-12 yoga classes, 5 one hour massages offered daily, various recreational activities (snorkelling, Brazilian music, art and dance), 3 nights of Brazilian cultural entertainment, free transportation from Rio International Airport - Galeao to Ilha Grande (Sundays only) and free transportation back to Rio International Airport (Saturdays only).
Accomodation is based on single occupancy - double occupancy for couples only. We only provide scheduled transportation to Ilha Grande on Sunday afternoon and back to the airport on Saturday afternoon. Non-scheduled or special transportation (e.g., helicopter, car, boat) will require an extra fee.
travellers' tales
The ambience was wonderful and the capoeira and samba evenings offered a true taste of Brazilian culture. The food was wonderful, amazing what great creations come from all natural ingredients! I just had a marvellous time. (more)
how this holiday makes a difference
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We believe in the true power of nature, natural healthy food, exercise, yoga and meditation as keys to change people’s mind and lifestyle, leading to a stronger environmental and social commitment.
 Our tourism business has a positive impact in local communities’ development with minimum impact on the environment. The island itself is a natural preserved area and any touristic business has to minimize the impact on the nature. All our trekking trails are officially opened and maintained by the local environmental authorities. Ilha Grande does not allow private cars. We work under strict conditions of low environment impact, and at the same time employing all local community members as trekking guides, lodge staff, yoga instructors, massage therapists and boats crew. All of them live nearby and are part of our team. Everyone from our staff is from the local community, including the boat transportation that we use to cross from the mainland to the island as well as the one used to transport food and guests in local trips around the island. We are encouraging our local providers as well as our staff, developing their skills to achieve the level of our service, and providing them a chance to work almost next door to their homes eliminating the need to migrate to bigger cities looking for a chance to work. Our furnishings are all bought from local suppliers. As well the food we are buying, e.g. our fish, fresh from local fishermen that bring to us the catch of the day, and other supplies are coming from the mainland right in front of us. Our lodge has only 9 rooms, small and very well integrated into the surroundings causing a minimal impact on the environment. As we promote ourselves through the internet, we do not use printed brochures. All our internal communication is made with recycled paper in case we need to print something (we also use recycled ink cartridges). All the garbage that we create is duly separated. Organic waste is used to feed the hens from our neighbour. Non organic waste is separated and removed from the island by boat to the mainland and given to garbage recycle companies. All rooms have notifications to the guests asking them not to waste water. We change sheets and towels every three days. The water we use comes from streams from the mountains. All rooms have a private bathroom connected to an anaerobic sewage system. Sewage is constantly removed away from the island by special authorized boats, which avoid dropping it in the sea or rivers. We started a project to support the local school, located in the nearby town of Saco do Ceu, where 58 children study (ages ranging from 6 to 12). The school counts on three teachers paid by the City Hall, and an annual budget of only BR $1200 (approximately US $600). The school building is old and needs repairing and reforms, to separate the kids of different forms. The school has only one old computer and a small library for its 58 students. Our project aims to help the school through donations made by visitors from all over the world. Donations can be made in cash, books, school material, computers, printers, and everything related with the school improvement. In our seven day program we offer our clients to take a break at the local village of Abrao and get in touch with the history of the town and culture, introducing the guests to some of the vast Brazilian culture. We also introduce our clients to Samba and Capoeira, two different types of brazilian dances. This gives the local community artists the possibility of making a living by performing their own culture, by providing the guests a great insight of the local culture diversity. |
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