Hridaya Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Are you ready to be deeply transformed through the fire of dedicated yoga and meditation practice!?
May 5 - 11, 2025
October 16 - 22, 2025
Ananda Forest, Spain
The Course
Long, meditative Hatha Yoga classes, silent seated meditation, inspiring lectures, a supportive and welcoming environment, time to relax in the beautiful nature of Southern Spain… This retreat offers you all of that and more.
Over the span of one week you’ll experience a blend of Hridaya yoga, meditation, philosophy and deep connection to nature that gives you a holistic experience of authentic yoga. It’s an invitation to meet yourself on a new level, explore your inner depths, and contemplate life’s most fundamental questions. You’ll emerge rejuvenated and transformed—feeling open-hearted, centered, and joyful and allowing grace to flow more easily into your life.
What Is Hridaya Meditation?
There is an essential part of you. A place beyond the personality, beyond limitations, beyond suffering, beyond time. A home where you rest in the Infinity of Being. That essence is the Self, the Spiritual Heart. Although you are not and can never be separate from the Heart, that truth hides behind an identification with the ego and its stories. The good news is that it’s possible to transcend this condition. So, what is Hridaya Meditation? It’s a process of deconditioning that leads you back home to the Heart.
What Is Hridaya Yoga?
We’ll practice Hatha Yoga in a contemplative way. We perform physical postures (asanas) slowly and gently, holding them for a while to get the most benefit. The physical practice is integrated with Advaita, the non-dual vision. That means that you are not just stretching the body, you are engaging with it—at every level. While in an asana, your focus is on gaining intimate knowledge of the body and its bio-energies. You observe the thoughts, emotions, sensations, and actions that arise in and around you while remaining non-reactive. In this way, you connect to the essence of your being, the Spiritual Heart
What is this retreat about?
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Deepen in yoga and meditation according to the tradition of Hridaya yoga
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Learn about Yogic vision, lifestyle and philosophy in body, mind and Spirit
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Learn authentic yoga in a non-dual way from very experienced yoga teachers
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Experience how transformation and tranquility go hand in hand
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Reconnect with the beauty of nature and rejoice in silence intertwined with the sounds of birds and crickets
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Discover the magic of the Alpujarra Mountains
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Connect to like-minded people that foster similar values and aspirations
A glimpse into a day of this retreat
HRIDAYA
(The Yoga of the Spiritual Heart)
7 - 8
Hridaya silent seated meditation
8:15 - 10:15
Hridaya hatha Yoga
10:30
Breakfast smoothie
12 - 12:30
Hridaya Meditation or Yoga Nidra
13:00
Lunch and free time
15:30 - 16:30
Lecture
16:30 - 18:30
Hridaya hatha Yoga
18:30
Dinner
20:00 - 21:00
Hridaya Meditation
Accommodation
Ananda Forest offers different options for accommodation. We are providing a space that is physically and energetically clean and uplifting.
Apart from your selected accommodation, you have access to the beautiful shared living area and gardens.
The cabin and glamping tent(s) have all the necessary items provided: a comfortable bed, sheets, blankets, pillows, closets, towel, etc.
Your Teacher
Yogni / Meditator / Co-founder and director of Ananda Forest + Amaratva Yoga
/ Certified by Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500HR
Paulina Gostomski
My curiosity towards yoga started as a physical exercise around 2003. However, everything shifted when I did my first 10-Day silent retreat in 2011. Since then yoga, in all its facets, is at the very core of my life and all else revolves around it. I have participated in and taught many silent meditation retreats, yoga modules, yoga teacher training courses and workshops throughout Mexico and Europe.
I lived, taught and learnt in Hridaya Yoga in Mexico for one year, and in France for two years.
I love to share the depth and light that meditation and yoga have brought into my life. What keeps me enthusiastic is to see the transformation and peace that this way of life brings to people from all walks of life.
I have studied with many different teachers, took two 200-hour yoga teacher trainings, and in 2017, I completed the 500-hour Hridaya Teacher Training Course. My teaching journey started in 2012, but I am forever a student of life. After moving around the globe since 2011, I now live in the beautiful Ananda Forest in Orgiva Spain.
The Cuisine
Let food be your medicine!
All meals are included and prepared with great care. We serve healthy, delicious, nutritious, and well-balanced vegan meals (an option for eggs may be available). The ingredients are locally-sourced, where possible organic and home-grown when available. Resulting in nutritious raw, vegan, and vegetarian dishes.
Our chef will show you how to give yourself what you are craving, without giving in to unhealthy habits. For example, sharing delicious raw cake recipes and healthy raw chocolate and probiotic foods.
We are happy to accommodate the needs of guests with allergies to particular foods and often prepare gluten and dairy-free meals – all served with love!
We can see this retreat as a wonderfully gentle way to cleanse the mind, body, and spirit, your body will be renewed in several ways. Please write to us if you have any special needs so that our chefs can take care of.
Practical Information
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When:
May 5-11, 2025
October 16 - 22, 2025 -
Arrival: Between 2 and 4PM (or contact us if you like to arrive earlier or later)
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Departure: Between 11 and 1PM
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Price:
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€850
Private glamping tent or private room depending on availability
€750
Shared glamping tent (2 people max) or
Shared cabin (3 people max)
€650
Camping with own tent & bedding or sleeping bag
* The belltents are set-up with a comfortable bed, carpets, solar lamp, and a small table or closet
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Includes:
3 vegan meals a day & tea and fruit at any time, 3 days of classes, workshops, accommodation, pick-up and drop-off from Órgiva busstop
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Language:
English
Necessary pre-requisites
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Dedication, openness, and willingness to transform and learn
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To be relatively healthy in body and stable in mind. If you have any major injury or disease, significant depression or psychological imbalance, or are on medication, please inform us about it. We keep it strictly confidential and will talk together to see if this program is suitable for you or not and on how we can support you
There is a Soul inside of your Soul,
Search that Soul.
There is a jewel in the mountain of body.
Look for the mine of that jewel.
Oh, dear one, passing,
Search inside if you can, not outside.
-Rumi
Application Form
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