December 27, 2024 - January 1st, 2025
New Year's Celebration Retreat: Yoga, Arte & Nature
Let's celebrate a New Year in nature!
After the Winter Solstice and Christmas, we invite you to take some time to cultivate connection with nature and time to reflect in all what is left behind. The darkness of winter is an invitation to slow down our pace, listen deeply, and learn from our experiences. Depending on our perspective, we can celebrate and be grateful for life.
Come Celebrate the end of the year and the beginning of the New Year!
Through connection with nature, mindful body movement, and music, we will create a space where we can cultivate and share from a place of vulnerability, where the heart feels tender and open. From this place, we can welcome a new year full of opportunities, experiences, and lessons to explore.
A retreat to celebrate life to the fullest:
- Mindful movement through yoga asanas, free movement, and mindful breathing
- Guided meditations to calm your mind and cultivate inner balance
- Silent walks, moving mindfully, opening yourself to the sensations and gifts offered by the wild nature of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park
- Time to rest and reflect, gaining greater perspective and understanding of the direction you want to take
Who is this retreat for?
For everyone, regardless of physical condition, level of practice or age. Because yoga practice is for everyone.
During these days we will practice daily:
- yoga asanas (movement and postures)
- pranayama (breathing exercises)
- meditation (concentration techniques)
- meditative hiking (mindful walking)
- mindfulness techniques
Rates include
Not included
Casa Cuadrau is a Social Interest Cooperative Society. And want our programs to be accessible to everyone, regardless of their economic situation.
We propose scale rates, where contributions are variable, according to the economic possibilities of each person.
They operate based on trust, solidarity and reciprocity.
Rates vary depending on the type of accommodation:
Assisted: For those in need of financial assistance. This rate is available through the generosity of other retreatants. Limited availability.
Basic: Covers the essential costs of your retreat.
Sustainable: This rate fully covers your retreat costs and contributes towards facility maintenance and the karma yoga program.
Generous: in addition to covering your retreat costs, your contribution helps sustain assisted rates, fund the landscaping project, and future projects, and the social programs we run. This is just a reference, the sky is the limit.
Minimum rates are available for the dormitory or “no accommodation” option, if you stay in your van.
Please consider paying the highest rate you can afford based on your circumstances. Thank you so much for supporting what we do!
To reserve, you will only have to make a payment of 200 euros as a deposit.
You can make the remaining payment at the end of the retreat with credit card or cash.
Remember that you can also make a donation here.
*If you cannot afford any of these fees, consider applying for a Karma Yoga/Volunteer program (minimum stays are of 8 weeks).
Rates per person on a scale by room type
We propose scale rates, where contributions are variable, according to the economic possibilities of each person. They operate based on trust, solidarity and reciprocity. More information in the PRICE RANGE tab.
| Rates per person | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of accommodation | Assisted | Standard | Sustainable | Generous |
| Without accommodation | 780 € | 880 € | 980 € | 1100 € |
| Shared bedroom | 800 € | 900 € | 1000 € | 1200 € |
| Double room with shared bathroom | - | 1010 € | 1110 € | 1250 € |
| Single room with shared bathroom | - | 1090 € | 1190 € | 1300 € |
| Double room with bathroom | - | 1170 € | 1270 € | 1400 € |
| Single room with bathroom | - | 1330 € | 1430 € | 1550 € |
| Double room "confort +" with bathroom | - | - | 1295 € | 1400 € |
| Single room "confort +" with bathroom | - | - | 1460 € | 1550 € |
| Suite with terrace double occupancy | - | - | 1360 € | 1550 € |
| Suite with terrace single occupancy | - | - | 1580 € | 1800 € |
To reserve, you will only have to make a payment of 200 euros as a deposit.
At the end of the retreat we will open a space for donations. With your generosity you are supporting Casa Cuadrau (Cooperative of Social Interest) and its team. You are also enabling other fellow practitioners, who are in a more difficult financial situation, to attend our programmes.
Activities
Yoga classes are for all levels of practice. The sessions combine Hatha Yoga and Vinyasa Yoga principles, as well as movement and mobility exercises.
There is one yoga class per day. The classes are usually dynamic, except after the long meditative hikes there are gentle yoga classes (yin yoga).
Yoga classes are progressive, variations for different levels of practice and particular limitations are always offered.
Somatic movement
Somatic movement helps us relax muscle tension and soothe our nervous system in a safe, effective, subtle and profound way.
The practice involves bringing attention to the body from within, connecting with the earth that lives in us
Everyday there will be guided meditation sessions, in the morning. The best way to start the day.
We practice simple techniques that are easy to carry on at home. We use universal elements to all of us as concentration objects, such as the breath, the body sensations, sounds, etc.
Meditative walks and hikes are esencial practices in our retreats. They are very simple and accesible for everyone.
They help us to understand, through experience, our deep connection with nature. It makes us notice in each step and in each breath, that the energy that exist inside us it is just the same as the energy that exists out there.
Nature is our greatest teacher. Silence and deep listening helps us enrich the experience She offers.
There will be a daily 90 minute meditative walk in nature, opening the senses and developing mindfulness.
A day will be dedicated to meditative hiking, starting just after breakfast and coming back for a gentle yoga session. It is a perfect opportunity to enjoy the wonders of the the Ordesa National Park or surrounding areas.
*If we have the right weather conditions, one snowshoe excursion will be offered with bus service included to Miradores de Ordesa.
It is already a tradition at Casa Cuadrau to celebrate the New Year with a meditation at sunset, a very special dinner, followed by a New Year’s Eve ritual and a celebration with music and dance.
The next day we also celebrate the New Year by meditating at sunrise with a Tea Ceremony. It is a with a very balanced program to enjoy the silence of the winter mountains and the meeting with like-minded people.
This retreat was designed after listening to the request of many of you who have come to our retreats on several occasions and are in that search to celebrate in a more special, meaningful and profound way the beginning of the year.
We look forward to sharing this great celebration with you!
In Sanskrit, Sat means truth and Sang means group or community. Satsang is a gathering to share our concerns, questions, and our deepest insights. It is also a time to meditate together, contemplate nature and sing meditative songs or mantras.
A moment of silence to connect with nature, with yourself and with the group. Sharing a bowl of “living tea” we deepen all the richness that dwells in “the way of tea” (Cha Dao).
We give ourselves the opportunity to make from something ordinary something extraordinary and full of meaning.
A moment of silence to connect with nature, with yourself and with the group. Sharing a bowl of “living tea” we deepen all the richness that dwells in “the way of tea” (Cha Dao).
We give ourselves the opportunity to make from something ordinary something extraordinary and full of meaning.
6:30 Wake-up
7:00 Meditation
8:00 Yoga and movement
9:30 Breakfast
10:30 Meditative walk
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free time
17:00 Special activity
19:00 Dinner
20:30 Satsang / Lazy Time
22:00 Rest
We believe that true health is everything we do to bring harmony to the physical body, mind, heart and all the beings around us: WELL-BEING.
Your stay at Casa Cuadrau is a perfect opportunity to practice a conscious, sustainable and respectful living with yourself and the environment.
Coming to our home for a few days is also giving you the opportunity to live in an Ecological and Sustainable House. You will be able to learn or deepen practices that help you cultivate a greater connection with Nature, our great teacher, and enjoy the wonders of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park and the UNESCO Sobrarbe-Pirineos Geopark.
We are part of the Spanish Ecotourism Association “Soy Ecoturista“ and our activities inside and outside the house are aligned with sustainable, conscious and respectful tourism, offering experiences to contribute to local development and the conservation of the geodiversity and biodiversity of the territory.
Duration
The retreat starts on Friday, December 27. Check-in is from 15 to 16:30h. Then, there will be a yoga class and an introduction, followed by a dinner and an opening of the retreat. The retreat finishes on Wednesday, January 1st at 13h, after brunch.
Facilitators
Katya Ríos
Daniel Benito
Silvia Sampere & Marta Reixach
