About Harmonic Healing...
Blessed by stunning natural beauty, Harmonic sits amidst the rocks and trees and gives you a birds-eye view of the bay below. With yoga shalas, massage and treatment spaces and a vegetarian cafŽ dotted on the cliffside, you can sink into nature.
Relax and revive - Offering you a totally unique place for massage and healing, individual cabanas are set up so that you get an amazing view of blue sea and sky while you are enjoying your treatment. At one with the elements, Harmonic is "a sensual delight " ... " a place to let go - a place to be inspired".
Find Something Unusual - Harmonic offers a unique range of healing and treatments in India. There is Reiki, Massage, Chiropractic & Bowen techniqes, even Classical Indian Singing!
Note from Natalie, founder of Harmonic
"Here at Harmonic, we work with highly dedicated and gifted practitioners with similar ideals. Whether you come for a one-off treatment or sign up for a retreat, we have created a space with a relaxed and supportive environment where people of all ages, nationalities and levels of experience can come, be nurtured and feel fully confident in the professionalism of our practitioners."
Included in the cost:-
Tuition (3 classes/workshops/day), full use of mats, blocks and facilities at Harmonic Healing, and Accommodation Booking Service with Harmonic to suit your needs and flight dates.
Harmonic works with various beautiful local guest houses to offer you a unique range of accommodation options that cater to different needs, styles and budgets. They provide a booking service for a variety of beach huts, rooms and hotels from budget to beach chic, as well as the Intercontinental Hotel. The booking service allows you to pay local accommodation prices and have the peace of mind that you will have somewhere to stay on arrival.
Patnem boasts a full range of beach front accommodation from basic to luxury huts (approx. 300rps - 3,000rps per night). There are also a variety of rooms set slightly back from the beach for a similar range in price. The Intercontinental Hotel sits on Rajbag beach directly south of Patnem Bay
You can visit the Harmonic website here
(Please note: currency conversion rate is approximately 650rps= £10)
Not included:-
Travel and accomodation - you will need to book your own flights to Goa, but Harmonic will also be able to organise taxi pick up and drop off between the airport (Dabolim) and your accommodation - this can be arranged for a cost of 1,200rps one way fare per taxi (maximum four persons).
Meals - you can choose to include meals at Harmonic's stunning on-site cafe with its spectacular view, or they can arrange meals at a few of their other favorite places around the area, including raw food at the renowned Bhakti Kutir, or Indian cuisine at a table on the beach front.
Breakfast 350rps
Lunch 350rps
Evening meal: 500rps
Prices are based on a vegetarian menu, fish can be served for an extra 100rps per person per meal.
Treatments - Treatments can be arranged as and when people want them once you are here.
Treatment price: 1,100rps per 60 minute treatment
Taxis and excursions - trips with local taxis can be arranged for you ... an alternative is to hire a scooter or motorbike from a registered dealer, but this is best done if you are an experienced rider (indian roads and road etiquette are not the best)
About the Yoga ...
This is a very special yoga event ...
There will be a simple daily early morning yoga class for those that would like to wake up with a bit of movement from 8:00am-9:00am. There is a break, then from 9:30am til midday there will be the daily morning yoga workshop.
The first class of the day will be based on a section of 'the Sequence©' ... a proprietry series of movements and postures that I have devised to redress the postural and breathing habits of the western body (it works for all ages, shapes and sizes!). Then throughout the week, the later morning sessions will be mostly spent dedicating time to refining the movements and clarifying the body's structural relationships. Exploring the role of breath in relationship to posture is also a pivotal pricniple - inviting us to be more 'whole' in our movement.
During the morning workshop I would like you to feel free to truly explore for yourself what is being taught. Postural issues that come to light during the practice can be a very good source of learning - because when the principles are applied, the results become obvious. Questions that come up for you can be extremely useful to others, and the interactivity can furnish you with a new found joy of simply being completely present to your yoga practice and the inherent ability to transform difficulty into joy (a practice that can be applied to life)
There wil also be late afternoon 'ask the yoga-doctor' session for looking at specific issues that come up for people, or it may simply be used as a pranayama and meditation session timed to finish before the evening meal. .
Learning to move from the central axis of the spine in harmony with the movements of the breath will provide the foundation of an ever evolving yoga practise dedicated to clarifying perception and improving quality of life.
Dedicating time to deep yoga practice without the usual distractions of everyday life is a profound thing to do. In such beautiful surroundings the practice can effect deep changes.
I will also be providing a good deal of information designed to give those interested a lifetime foundation for understanding as well as experiencing how the yoga works. So these retreats are very appropriate for enthusiastic beginners, dedicated practitioners and teachers, or anyone else that is looking for the inspiration to become dedicated, as well of course as those that have worked with me before.
I would like to point out that all classes are entirely optional as I am more concerned with people getting precisely what they need at the pace that suits them. There is plenty on offer for the enthusiasts, but those wanting to spend more of their time enjoying what the place has to offer would be welcome to dip in and out as they please. I feel that forcing ourselves to practise yoga is deeply counterproductive. Whereas practising for the love of learning, for the pleasure of occupying our bodies as well as the present moment, and just for the way it makes us feel, places yoga in its rightful place - a privilege and a joy, not a discipline . If I want to impart anything, it is that.
Getting there ..
...with charter flights direct to Goa from Gatwick or Heathrow. There are many companies dealing in charter flights - Tavelpack has proved good value in the past, and Monarch airlines sometimes have very good deals (tel 0871 622 4299), but do shop around. Charter flights to Goa can only be booked with accommodation (by Goan law) but you get round this by booking one with what is called dormhouse accommodation (which you don't need to use of course - and it doesn't do anything to the price of the flight). The charter flights without hotels are generally released later on in the year (any time from late August onwards usually) - basically after the tour companies have sold a proportion of their package deals, and charter flights tend to be cheaper than the scheduled flights.
With the new eco tax, direct flights to Goa currently range from £500 to £1200 .. if you find anything for the old price of £450 then snap it up!
Virgin Atlantic (on www.lastminute.com) have had a good deal (£475 last time i looked) travelling to Goa via Bombay
The other option is to fly a scheduled flight to Bombay (or anywhere else in India you might fancy) and then take an internal flight, train or bus to Goa ... handy if you are wanting to include a bit of exploring India or wish to stay longer than the 4 week maximum that the charters offer.
IMPORTANT:
Don't forget that you need a valid VISA, only available from your nearest Indian High Commission, or from the internet.
A Tourist Visa costs around £30 - £60 and lasts for 6 months - a year, and must be obtained before departure it can take up to 2 or 3 weeks by post - or it can be done in a few days if you pay more, or even in an afternoon if you go there in person. For purpose of visit just put "tourism", or "holiday".
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