'Restore, Rest & Renew' Healing for Chronic Fatigue, Burn-out & Long Covid with FIONA AGOMBAR & SIMON LOW
This retreat offers 6-nights at the beautiful Santillan retreat. During the week, we will explore how yoga, somatics and focused breathing can regulate and restore the nervous system. The optional sessions will include yoga, somatic movement, mantra, meditation, sound and yoga nidra to encourage rest, healing, and renewal.
It is a gentle yoga retreat suitable for those with Burnout, Stress and Chronic Fatigue &/or Long Covid, or anyone who would just like a pause from their busy and stressful life.
Taught by two very experienced teachers, Fiona Agombar & Simon Low, this retreat will give you strategies and skills to take home toward continuing the practices shared.
If you fancy some luxury and pampering, this is not too far from the airport and is a beautiful venue overlooking mountains and the sea. Santillan is ideal if you have energy or mobility challenges as there is a lift. Santillan is set in extensive gardens with the valley rolling to the sea in the distance. In recent years, Santillan was visited by the Dalai Lama who commended it as a spiritual healing space. All the bedrooms are decorated to a high standard with brand new 5-star hotel standard mattresses and beds and features quiet terraces overlooking either the sea, mountains or the tropical gardens. Please contact Free Spirit Yoga for bookings: or press the BOOK NOW tab below.
At this retreat we are also offering a small number of teachers the opportunity to train and practice in this specific methodology, featuring daily dedicated classes for these teachers only, with Fiona & Simon offering theory, understanding, data and training between the morning and afternoon retreat practice sessions which themselves offer a felt practical experience of this approach.
Please contact us if you are interested in joining the retreat with this training offering also. There will be a small additional fee for this training.
Santillan Yoga and Wellness Retreat is an expansive Andalucian cortijo with gardens overlooking our own valley and on to the Mediterranean sea.
Located in the peace of the Spanish countryside, Santillan is only 35 minutes from Malaga airport.
Immerse yourself in nature within Santillan’s peaceful tropical gardens and surrounding hills. It is the perfect setting for some time away from the hustle, bustle and noise of modern life. Many guests tell us that Santillan offers the experience of being ‘home from home’.
The cooks at Santillan Retreat enjoy sharing their popular Spanish-influenced healthy Mediterranean cuisine, catering for vegetarian and vegan diets, and for genuine food allergies and intolerances, such as gluten-free and dairy-free.
Santillan’s produce is grown in our own organic vegetable gardens or sourced from local farmers. Our avocado, orange, lemon, mango, apple, mandarin and tropical fruit trees offer their gifts for much of the year, and we keep free-range chickens for fresh eggs daily. You can pick your own oranges for your morning juice when in season, or explore our farm and horticulture anytime. All food waste is processed in our wormery, providing us with natural fertilizer for the gardens. Lower food miles, organic produce and minimal waste help to keep our carbon footprint and waste low.
Marta, Tana, Simon and the staff love to work in the gardens and farmland, maintaining the beauty and care of this bountiful land. You can often find Marta watering the gardens after midnight in summertime. Water is precious here and Santillan shower and kitchen water is re-cycled for garden irrigation. We prefer you to bring bio-degradable bathroom products please. Around our gardens and surrounding land you can find many peaceful places to simply sit and enjoy the peace and splendour of the molino and the surrounding countryside and sea.
For relaxation time Santillan's extensive gardens and salt-water pool area offer many spaces to enjoy a nap, nature, the sun, company, or a good book, and wonderful star-gazing at night due to the reduced light in our countryside location.
“I am looking forward to sharing my extensive personal experience and study in these fields with you over this retreat alongside Simon Low. Simon is a fantastic Somatics teacher – he's so good, I spent New Year on his retreat!” - Fiona Agombar
"Santillán is my yoga ‘home’ and where I lead the majority of my retreats and teacher trainings. Santillán offers one of Europe's finest fully equipped yoga studios, spacious en-suite accommodation, a wide range of indoor and outdoor facilities including a salt-water swimming pool, at a peaceful sea-facing private valley location only 35-40 minutes east of Malaga airport. Some of the best beaches in the area are only a short car ride away, or a 45 minute walk down the valley to the sea.
I love to teach in the state-of-the-art 160m2 studio which features 24 stations of the Great Yoga Wall. The yoga studio, fitted with a full range of yoga props, a cushioned wooden floor, ceiling fans and other details for retreats and trainings, was designed by myself and Adriana with special assistance from Eija Tervonen in providing the finest props available for this bright and beautiful space. Our intention is to create the ultimate yoga studio experience for teachers and students of all styles of yoga. Please feel free to bring your own yoga mat and preferred props, although we have here everything you might need. Please bring covering shawls or yoga towels to use with our yoga bolsters.
Four years ago we added a very large covered outdoor yoga sala, now with its own allocation of dedicated yoga props. The structure is in the same style as the the Patio Andaluz, our expansive covered outdoor dining area. A third indoor studio is now also in regular use which is particularly cozy in the winter months with two wood burning fires.
We have cultivated over a hectare of land planting many fruit trees, including avocado, mango, papaya, orange, lemon, peach, fig and mandarin. You will be able to juice your oranges straight from the tree in season. We have relocated and enlarged the chicken and duck garden to increase the quantity of fresh organic eggs each day. The old chicken house next to the main studio has now been converted to toilets and massage rooms. We are opening up further walking paths and currently designing a new indoor fitness studio and spa. Santillán continues to grow ever more special. Our beautiful gardens are constantly being blessed with new plants and flowers". - Simon Low
Once you have booked online you will receive a receipt confirmation of your payment, after which you will be e-mailed travel details and retreat information.
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is in spacious and comfortable single or twin/double or triple rooms, all with ensuite bathrooms, balconies or patios and fabulous sea views and / or views to the tropical gardens.
At this time Triple Share is only available to families or 3 friends booking together at the same time.
INSURANCE
It is a condition of this holiday that each person has personal travel insurance appropriate to activity and fitness centred holidays.
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