Las Flores Resort, El Oriente Salvaje, El Salvador

Las Flores Resort Yoga Retreats

 

Las Flores Resort’s Yoga programs are designed with the following objectives:

  • Provide surfers a service to help increase their flexibility, balance, and strength so they can surf more, safer and longer.
  • Provide surfers with an alternative to manage post-surf related aches and injuries
  • Enable partners or spouses who don’t surf to share in the Las Flores experience through a yoga vacation program.
  • Provide non-surfing guests a more holistic approach to relaxation through a combination of yoga and the magical and spiritual atmosphere of Las Flores Resort

 

Yoga Programs Available at Las Flores Resort:

#1: Las Flores Tropical Yoga Vacation (4-day/5 night program: Offered Seasonally Nov 15-Mar 15) #2: Classical Yoga (3-day program)

#3: Yoga for Surfing (3-day program)

#1 Las Flores Tropical Yoga Vacation (Offered seasonally Nov 15-Mar 15)

Minimum #pp: 2

Program Duration: 4 days/5 nights

 

In need of a break from the hectic demands of daily life? Las Flores Tropical Yoga vacation, set on a world class surf spot, provides a beautiful opportunity to relax, recharge, and rejuvenate. Gather your scattered self through daily meditations, yoga classes, outdoor activities, reading and sharing with fellow kindred spirits.

 

Itinerary:

  • 5:30 Wake up
  • 6:00 - 6:30 Meditation or Silent Walk
  • 6:30 - 7:30 Light morning snack of tea, coffee, fruit or cookies
  • 7:30 - 9:30 Morning Yoga Asana Class
  • 9:30- 10:30 Breakfast (with Vegetarian option)
  • 10:30-1:00 Free time*
  • 1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH (with Vegetarian option)
  • 2:00 - 4:00 Free time*
  • 4:00 - 6:00 Afternoon Yoga Asana Class
  • 6:00 - 6:30 Sharing (optional)
  • 7:00 - 8:00 Dinner (with Vegetarian option)
  • 8:15 - 8:45 Meditation or Silent Walk * Free time activities include relaxation, meditation, surfing lessons, spa treatments, sun worshipping.

 

Includes:

  • 4 consecutive full days of yoga program
  • (2) 2-hour Yoga Asana Classes per day
  • Complimentary 1-hour surfing lesson w/surfboard provided
  • 5 night stay at Las Flores Resort w/all standard Resort Package Inclusions as follows:
  • Airport greeting and RT transfers (1 shuttle per room booked. Additional Airport Transfers $150.00 each way
  • Air-conditioned, ocean view guest suite (2br suites include 1 mountain view room).
  • Las Flores Restaurant inclusions
  • ** Note: All meals w/Yoga Vacation include 1 or more vegetarian options
  • Continental Breakfast: Buffet w/Coffee/Tea, Fruit, Bread/Toast and Cereal)
  • Breakfast:(1 entr�e + 1 side from menu)
  • Lunch: (1 entree + 1 soup or salad)
  • Dinner: 7pm-800pm (Fixed menu w/ selection from 3 entrees, vegetarian, seafood or meat)
  • Juice, milk, coffee/tea, drinking water
  • 3 liters of bottled water per guest per stay (unlimited refills from water coolers)
  • Communications package including free WIFI

 

#2 Classical Yoga

Minimum #pp: 2

Program Duration: 3 consecutive days

 

Sivananda Yoga is a form of traditional yoga from the teachings of Swami Sivananda in which the training focuses on preserving the health and wellness of the practitioner. It is also known as the Yoga of Synthesis which teaches 5 principles that are easy to understand and to include in ones daily life. These five points are: Proper Exercise (Asanas), Proper Breathing (Pranayamas), Proper Relaxation (Savasana), Proper Diet (Vegetarian); and Positive Thinking (Meditation).

 

Schedule for Classical Yoga program:

6:30-8:00 Morning Class

5:00-6:30 Afternoon Class

 

*Classical Yoga program is completed in 3 consecutive days and must be prebooked prior to arrival at Las Flores Resort.

 

#3 Yoga for Surfing

Minimum #pp: 2

Program Duration: 3 consecutive days

 

Yoga for Surfing is a yoga class to help surfers develop the mental and physical adroitness to surf more, safer and longer. The class is programmed to respond to specific surfer needs in areas of balance, flexibility, strength and relaxation.

 

Balance Yoga postures on balance help surfers develop core muscles and mental focus to stand steady on their board during pop-ups, riding and carving.

 

Flexibility Yoga postures develop general flexibility. Increased flexibility results in increased range of motion or movement in the: a. shoulders for improved paddling efficiency, and b. hip joints and the spine for swift pop-ups onto feet and tucking into barrels.

 

Strength Yoga postures held for a long time develop arm, shoulder, core and leg muscles strength and endurance to help surfers get more waves with less effort.

 

Relaxation A very important component of yoga that promotes recovery of the body and the breath. Relaxation steadies the breath and frees the body from unnatural tension resulting to effortless effort in surfing.

 

Schedule for Yoga for Surfing:

10:00-11:30 Morning Class

3:00-4:30 Afternoon Class

 

*Yoga for surfing is completed in 3 consecutive days and must be prebooked prior to arrival at Las Flores Resort.

 

Yoga Instructors - Profiles

Vicel Meregillano-Hicks is a yoga teacher from the Philippines who is passionate about teaching yoga to help people. Trained at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram in India she took the Sivananda Teacher Training Course (TTC) in 2006 and returned in 2008 to do the Advanced Teacher Training Course (ATTC). She is a certified Personal Trainer of the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and a trained pharmacist with a Masters degree in Pharmacy. With her background in yoga, fitness and science she understands the chemical and anatomical workings of the human body and is able to bring together these knowledge to design fitness programs responsive to a client’s wellness goal. Vicel is currently living in San Salvador with her husband.

 

Jamie Laviolette first began practicing yoga at the age of 14 in Dallas Texas and has continued deepening her personal practice of hatha and ashtanga yoga for almost 15 years. A fluent spanish speaker with a passion for psychology and education, Jamie became certified with Yoga Alliance in 2009. She currently teaches ashtanga primary series and multi-level hatha flow classes at Yogashala in San Salvador. Jamie has also taught yoga for kids and loves being able to share the richness of yoga with all her students while trying to make her yoga classes challenging for all student levels.