Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Retreat & Sacred Valley Experience*
YOGA MANDALA SACRED VALLEY PERU
April 4th – 13th, 2020
with John and Julia Scott
LIMITED TO 24 STUDENTS
John and Julia in association with the beautiful Yoga Mandala
Of the Sacred Valley in Peru
wish to provide for you the most amazing 9 Day Retreat
Assisted by Brenda Pasenau & Fernando Martorell
The Sacred Valley is a region in Peru’s Andean highlands. Along with the nearby town of Cusco and the ancient city of Machu Picchu, it formed the heart of the Inca Empire
From Wikipedia:- “Cuzco is an ancient city not just a town … it was the capital of the Inca Empire and its streets make the shape of the Puma – the animal that represents humans in the Andean Trinity… not to mention that Cuzco or Qosko means Navel of The Earth… or the center of everything. “
Further information can be found here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusco. Note that Cuzco is the Spanish spelling, Wikipedia opts for the English one
The Retreat
This Nine Day Retreat in Peru gives you an opportunity to Unplug and Disconnect from the System and facilitated through Yoga Practice and other Ceremonies to RECONNECT to NATURE and your NATURAL SELF and SPIRIT.
Yoga Mandala Retreat is nestled right underneath a beautiful waterfall in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. With this retreat beginning right on arrival day with a Traditional Shamanic Ceremony in an offering to Pachamama our earth mother, it is amazing to witness how quickly the material world can drop away, and a random group of individuals on arrival begin to merge and become one cohesive consciousness in the sacred space of Yoga Mandala
The Yoga
Within the Shala, (with four Teachers and 24 students, that’s a 1 to 6 ratio), John and Julia along with the assistance of Brenda Pasenau and Fernando Martorell will ‘Hold’ the Space for you to Focus Inward, to process ancient ceremony and to journey into the mystery and magic of your own internal garden of natural beauty.
One morning practice per day, our foundation stone, allows for the rest of the day to immerse your self in the wonders and mysteries of the amazing Sacred Valley, A program 5 days practice with 1 day off (for personal experience excursion to Machu Picchu or Ayahuasca Ceremony) and the 3 further days for additional processing.
Ancient Ceremony
The Ayahuasca medicine is a sacred plant brew that has been used by indigenous Amazonian cultures for thousands of years – primarily for healing, divination and spiritual awakening. Working with Ayahuasca is an intense, profound, and almost always a highly transformative experience that can facilitate deep healing on all levels of your being – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Ayahuasca is a doorway to inner worlds that allows us access to higher states of consciousness and the experience of spiritual awakening. To many people it reveals the multi-dimensional nature of reality and ourselves and it leads us back to who we truly are.
What is special to this Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga & Ancient Ceremonies Retreat is the group will be totally held securely and safely by Shaman and team with the combination of Asana and Soma – Patanjali the Jungle Physician provides asana as physical discipline to integrate and process ceremony with Soma.
The Shaman sings “Flow with the toecito, flow with sacred plants, flow from the sacred temple with the forest woman to open the heart where the essence of love flows, flow with the sacred toecito on the inner journey from the colors that nourish life and take the magic leap that transforms connecting the realm of the spirits and flow from the sacred dream to inner vision on the reunion path”
Note: Dietary preparations will be required leading up to the night of the ceremonies, details will be sent out once a confirmed booking has been made.
Arrival Day:
Saturday 4th April 2020
Evening – Traditional Shamanic Ceremony in offering to Pachamama our earth mother followed by Welcome Dinner.
Practice Days:
Sunday 5th to Thursday 9th – 5 Days Practice
Thursday 9th Evening Ayahuasca Ceremony
Friday 10th Day off and Machu Picchu Day Trip
Saturday 11th to Monday 13th – 3 Days Practice (Monday 13th Departure after last practice)
Saturday 11th Evening Ayahuasca Ceremony
Departure Day:
Monday 13th April 2020
The Shala
The stunning Yoga Mandala Shala is naturally bright and sunny, set in full view of the retreats’ outer garden full of flowers and bird song.
John, Julia and Teaching team will hold the space, and through Chanting and Ceremony, the shala will become our sacred space to feel secure, safe and special.
24 Students with four Teachers means 1 teacher to 6 students ratio providing plenty attention to work on individual practices and processes. The week will consist of combinations of Traditional Sanskrit Counted and Assisted Self-Practice Classes
The Accommodation
The accommodation at Yoga Mandala Retreat has been beautifully designed with bio-construction techniques and the theme of seven chakras inspired bedrooms with private bathrooms will provide you with days of harmonization and inner discovery.
There are 3 accommodation options (each with private bathroom) to choose from when booking. (All prices are in American Dollars)*
NOTE: These prices are from 2019 and are as an indicator only at this stage. Exact cost to follow
| Single Room | SWB | $88.00 | Per Night | Only 1 available |
| Double Rooms | DWB | $110.00 | Per Night ($55 each) | 5 available With single beds Or made double |
| Triple Rooms | TWB | $165.00 | Per Night ($55 each) | 5 available With single beds |
Price includes a welcome drink, simple vegetarian breakfast, use of Yoga Temple and an offering to the Mother Earth ceremony (requires minimum 10 people)
The Food
The Yoga Mandala kitchen is a sacred place where food is prepared with ingredients from their own garden and organic farms within the area. A variety of menu options like vegetarian, vegan and raw vegan are lovingly available.
Yoga Mandala meals are to be billed at the end of the retreat, this way each individual can choose a personal menu. (All prices are in American Dollars)
NOTE: Prices correct as of 16th December 2019. Exact costs available at the time of booking
| DETOX JUICES | 6 Juices per Day | $60.00 | ($10 per Juice) |
| VEGETARIAN MENU | Lunch and Dinner | $30.00 | |
| VEGAN – RAW MENU | Lunch and Dinner | $50.00 | |
| SUSHI NIGHT OR PIZZA NIGHT | $20.00 |
Additional Activities
At Yoga Mandala Retreat there are many additional activities available for you to get a full experience of the magic and mystery of the Sacred Valley, Some of these activities must be arranged prior to arriving while others can be arranged once settled in. (Please see details below)
The activities range from (details on each activity can be found by clicking here):
| MOTHER EARTH OFFERING | |
| SOUND HEALING CIRCLE | |
| WACHUMA CEREMONY | |
| MAKE YOUR OWN CEREMONIAL DRUM | |
| STANDUP PADDLEBORD IN HUAYPO LAGOON | Minimum 5 people |
| SALT MINE + MORAY TOUR | Minimum 5 people |
| PISAQ RUINS AND MARKET | Minimum 5 people |
| CACAO CEREMONY WITH FIRE CIRCLE | |
| COCA LEAF READING (ORACLE) | |
| FLOWER AND PLANT BATH | |
| TEMAZCAL CEREMONY | Minimum 5 people |
| DAY TRIP TO MACHU PICCHU | Minimum 5 people |
| AYAHUASCA CEREMONY | Minimum 5 people |
Click there to see Additional Activities List (below). Certain Ceremonies, for example an Ayahuasca Ceremony, needs to be booked in advance
The program allows for Two Optional Ayahuasca Ceremonies (Friday night followed by day off and possible trip to Machu Picchu and Sunday Night followed by two more Yoga Practices to Process)
How To Book
The booking procedure will be to First Book Accommodation directly with Yoga Mandala – All reservations must be requested by e- mail to the reservations department and will be answered as soon as possible by the same route.
E-mail (click to open): Yoga Mandala Sacred Valley.
Please make sure that you have read the cancellation policy before booking accommodation
Yoga Fees
Yoga Fee: £500
Once a bed is secured then a separate £250.00 Deposit for Yoga must paid by Online Bank Transfer / TransferWise
Balance of £250.00 to be paid CASH on arrival
Activity Details
Please book all activities directly with Yoga Mandala Sacred Valley
Please see activities list below, Certain Ceremonies for example an Ayahuasca Ceremony needs to be booked in advance.
The program allows for Two Optional Ayahuasca Ceremonies (Friday night followed by day off and possible trip to Machu Picchu and Sunday Night followed by two more Yoga Practices to Process)
(Note: Some activities require to be booked before arrival. Please check with Yoga Mandala Sacred Valley to avoid disappointment.
Prices correct as of 16th December, 2019)
AYAHUASCA CEREMONY
Duration: all NIGHT Price: $220.00 per person (Including Vomitivo Pre-cleansing)
The Ayahuasca medicine is a sacred plant brew that has been used by indigenous Amazonian cultures for thousands of years – primarily for healing, divination and spiritual awakening.
Working with Ayahuasca is an intense, profound, and almost always a highly transformative experience that can facilitate deep healing on all levels of your being – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Ayahuasca is a doorway to inner worlds that allows us access to higher states of consciousness and the experience of spiritual awakening. To many people it reveals the multi-dimensional nature of reality and ourselves and it leads us back to who we truly are.
Note: Dietary preparations will be required leading up to the night of the ceremonies. Details will be sent out once a confirmed booking has been made
Click the headings below to reveal information about each activity
MOTHER EARTH OFFERING
Duration: 1hr – 1:30hr
The offering ceremonies what are commonly known by the andean population like pagos to the Pachamama or despachos to the Apus, are rituals with ancestral origin, they are part of a system of reciprocity between the material world and the spiritual world. The offerings to the mother earth have as a fundamental origin the relationship between the andean man, specifically the farmer with the mother earth or Pachamama. The ofrenda is a symbolic way in which the man gives back to the Pachamama what he has taken out from her. The main objective is the re-establishment of the reciprocity between the human being and nature. With the offering or pago the farmer asks permission to the Pachamama to be able to open it and give back in a symbolic way something of his fruits.
SOUND HEALING CIRCLE
A magical experience that you will deeply enjoy with crystal bowls, ancient Peruvian instruments as well as other native instruments from around the world. With the powerful energy of this site will help you balance all your chakras and go to a deeper level of healings within your subtle bodies!!!
WACHUMA CEREMONY
Duration: 1 day Price: $200.00 per person
Healing journey with master plant cactus. Medicine couple Doris and Jose will guide and hold space into a healing meditation to connect with the sacred spirits of the mountains called Apus.
MAKE YOUR OWN CEREMONIAL DRUM
Duration: 3 – 5hrs Price: $150.00 per person
Ceremonial drums are used in a ritual context by indigenous people around the world, often accompanied by singing and chanting. Learn how to make it the traditional way.
This activity has to be booked with one month in advance.
STANDUP PADDLEBOARD IN HUAYPO LAGOON
Duration: 3 hrs Price: $95.00 per person
Practicing Stand Up Paddle in the lagoon of Huaypo is to begin with the pleasure of sliding on the water in a playful atmosphere, discovering at the same time a beautiful aquatic site little frequented in the heart of the mountain range. This sport adapts to all the people who would like to try it and provides a feeling of freedom and indescribable joy. The SUP relaxes, puts in shape, helps in mastering its balance, give new sensations but always and more than everything gives good mood…!!!
SALT MINE + MORAY TOUR
Duration: 4hrs Price: $120.00 per person
This tour introduces to some of Cusco’s most interesting Inca sites. The tour starts with a visit to the Colonial town of Maras and its church. From Maras we continue to the nearby Inca site of Moray, a magnificent series of terrace circles set into the ground that were once used by the Incas for experimentation with crops. Our final destination are the salt mines which have been in use since Pre-Inca times. Water from a subterranean stream is channelled through pools where it evaporates and leaves behind pure salt crystals. With thousands of stark white pools stretching down the valley, the views are stunning.
Includes the transportation, guide, entrance tickets and lunch in Huacatay restaurant.
PISAQ RUINS AND MARKET
Pisaq Ruins .The site sits on a hilltop with a gorge on either side, spread out into clusters on the mountain spur. The central, dominant figure of the Pisaq temple group is an outcrop of rock jutting above two levels of platform, surrounded by a D-shaped wall of the finest masonry. There are four rock projections in the Pisaq temple group known as inti-huatanas, which in Quechua means hitching place of the sun (inti). They were intended for solar observation and worship. Beside the Pisaq inti-huatana is a magnificent two-domed rectangular building, which may have been the temple of the moon. Immediately above the inti-huatanas is a group of houses surrounding a courtyard, where there is a rock sculpted into a seat for resting. From the courtyard is a path that leads to a climb up the western flank of the mountain. Pisaq Market. For most of the week, the colonial town of Pisaq is a quiet Andean village where locals relax in the plaza or enjoy fresh bread baked in an old-fashioned clay oven. Here there is a popular market for tourists where you can pick up an array of souvenirs. But the village comes alive on Sunday when the famous weekly market takes place. Pisac’s Sunday market attracts locals and international tourists alike. The main square gets crowded, especially after the mass, which is celebrated in Quechua. The congregation leaves the church in a colorful procession, led by the Mayor holding his silver staff of office.
Includes: Transportation, guide, entrance ticket and lunch in Mullu restaurant.
CACAO CEREMONY WITH FIRE CIRCLE
A chaman and musicians, will held space to celebrate cacao love energy. You can join in by dancing around the fire circle.
COCA LEAF READING (ORACLE)
Duration: 30mins. Price: $90.00 per person
Communicate with the gods through the Andean oracle, the coca leaf and the region’s traditional spiritual Masters. Within a reading the participant asks a question, an oracle is engaged, and a Shaman who is gifted and has been trained in these techniques interprets the answers. The answers you receive enable a better understanding of your destiny and inspire positive and constructive action.
FLOWER AND PLANT BATH
This sensational baths not only serve to detoxify our body but also if made in a ritual way, stimulates spiritually to persons who cross a cycle of low-energy and are also used for cleaning of the aura that surrounds each one of us.
TEMAZCAL CEREMONY
It’s a natural therapeutic experience of heat and steam, which is inspired by pre-Hispanic ancient practices of traditional medicine. Its use through history has been therapeutic and as a ritual/ceremony, practice has survived through the years as a tradition of the various indigenous communities in South America. Relaxation that generates experience urges us to a profound state of peace, introspection, reflection and full attention. Temazcal therapy is a well beautiful and powerful moment in our life, an opportunity to reconcile us with ourselves, a unique experience of purification and re-connection with our internal source of wisdom and unconditional love. Closing a cycle and opening a new one in our lives, we release attachments, negative thoughts, fears and mental conditioning, delivering them to the heat of the stones Mama Willka Rumicuna grandmothers of the Earth.
DAY TRIP TO MACHU PICCHU
Duration: all day Price: $430.00 per person
A magical one day trip to the Sanctuary of Machu Picchu It includes transportation to and from the train station. Train tickets to and from Aguas Calientes, round bus tickets to the archeological place, guide and lunch at El Indio Feliz.
Cancellation Policy
FJanuary 2020: This policy has changed.
Please make sure that you are ok with the updates before booking with Sacred Valley for this event
Please Read Carefully:
Cancellation Policy – Accommodation – Yoga Mandala Sacred Valley :
“For reservation purposes, this will be confirmed with the payment of 70% of the total for the rooms and 100% of the total for the tours, and the rest of the bill will be paid the day of arrival; otherwise it will proceed to the cancellation of it. If you need to cancel your reservation 3 months before the time of arrival we will refund the money less the administrative expenses. If you cancel 2 months before the time of arrival we will refund 50% of the deposit less the administrative expenses, after that period of time the deposit is not refundable“.
— Please talk to Sacred Valley at the time of your booking if you have any questions regarding this cancellation policy. All communication regarding cancellations should go through Sacred Valley first.
Cancellation Policy – Teaching Fees – John Scott Yoga:
Guests may cancel accommodation in accordance with Sacred Valley’s cancellation policy above. The teaching fee deposit payable to John requires to be completed 60 (SIXTY) days before the date of arrival (4th February, 2020).
Fees paid to John will only be refunded if a replacement for you is found though we will endeavour to help you to find someone where we can.
Cancellation Policy – General:
Payments made will be returned through the same method used for the original payment less any charges incurred by ourselves in the receipt or return of the payment.
Note that where local laws require that a FIRC* or equivalent is required that you may be required to produce this. For this reason we highly recommend using TransferWise / Paypal where possible
Cancellations made after 60 (SIXTY) days prior to the start of the event will be charged 100%. Refunds will only be given where a replacement can be found. This 60 day period starts on 4th February, 2020.
No-shows with no notice are not refundable.
Please do note: cancellations or modifications must be made by email and must be combined with an email verification from Yoga Mandala Sacred Valley prior to any refund being issued.. Verbal cancellations or SMS/texts are not accepted.
This policy may change up to one month (THIRTY days) prior to the event
*Applies to events in Goa, other requirements regarding refunds in other countries may exist. Please check with the host when booking accommodation. See here for more details
Please make sure you re-confirm your arrival/departure dates with the host prior to the event to ensure that these are correct and in-line with your own travel arrangements.
