Atlas Mountains Yoga Retreat Sep 2019

Day 1: Arrival + Introduction / No Yoga
Arrival in Marrakech throughout the day & Transfer from the airport to the Riad
(Transfer will be arranged individually according to your arrival time)
19.30: Introduction & welcome dinner in the Riad

Day 2: PIKALA City Tour on bicycles / 2 Yoga Sessions
07.30-09.99: Morning Yoga, incl. Pranayama + Meditation
09.30: Breakfast
11.00: PIKALA bike tour to all the must sees of Marrakech
15.00-17.30: Free time
17.30: Sunset Yoga
19.30: Dinner in the Riad

Day 3: Free time to explore Marrakech / 2 Yoga Sessions
07.30-09.99: Morning Yoga, incl. Pranayama + Meditation
09.30: Breakfast + free time to explore Marrakech on your own
17.30: Sunset Yoga
19.30: Dinner outside in a nice restaurant

Day 4: Off to the High Atlas Mountains + short explorative hiking tour (2-3 hours) / 2 Yoga Sessions
07.30-09.00: Morning Yoga, incl. Pranayama + Meditation
09.30: Breakfast
11.00: Transfer to Tahannout
13.00-18.00: 2-3 hours explorative hiking tour closely to the Riad
18.30: Sunset Yoga
19.30: Dinner in Riad Tigmi Nomade

Day 5: 2-Day-hiking-tour (around 6 hours) / 1 Yoga Session
07.30-09.00: Morning Yoga, incl. Pranayama + Meditation
09.30: Breakfast
10.00: Start for the overnight hiking tour up towards around 1600m altitude with lunch in an incredible surrounding
19.30: Basic, local dinner as well as a night in the (very basic) mountain hut

Day 6:  Yoga & Hiking (around 6 hours) / 1 Yoga Session
08.00: Breakfast
09.00: Continue the hike up to about 2200m altitude with strengthening lunch with a breathtaking view
17.30: Arrival back at Riad Tigmi Nomade
18.30: Restorative evening Yoga
19.30: Dinner in the Riad

Day 7: Yoga & Day hiking tour (3-4 hours) / 2 Yoga Sessions
07.30-09.00: Morning Yoga, incl. Pranayama + Meditation
09.30: Breakfast
10.30: Daytour hiking into the Atlas mountains around 3-4 hours closely to the Riad
17.00: Arrival back at the Riad
18.00: Evening Yoga
19.30: Dinner in Tigmi Nomade

Day 8: Departure / No Yoga
Breakfast & Departure
(Transfer will be arranged twice a day back to the airport in Marrakech according to the departure times)

*Yoga lessons are usually taught in English but translated into German where and if necessary.

Please note:
Entrance fees have to be paid separately. Time schedules may vary depending on weather & season.
You are welcome to book additional private yoga sessions with the teacher or additional tours – upon request,  availability & with subject to surcharges. Please talk to us.

Birgit Künzli

Birgit has 20 years of own yoga and meditation as well as 10 years of teaching experience. She is a Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga teacher (500h), Yin Yoga teacher, prenatal and kids yoga teacher, health coach and author. Birgit has a passion for supporting others: she loves working especially with women to engage them finding themselves again through yoga and a slowliving lifestyle. She loves bringing people back to a natural, slow life.

“My life’s mission is to support you to re-discover your authenticity and live in it completely, I will support you to find your ultimate wellness through yoga and a healthy lifestyle.

Suffering is part of life. When I personally realized that suffering actually came from the constant looking for happiness and the perfect life, something changed in my own life. Recognizing that being unhappy comes from a wrong perspective and wrong thoughts everything changed. Now I feel that I want to live life as a whole, with all the ups and downs, and not just the happy side of it. Life is beautiful and perfect as it is, and that is happiness.“

Marrakech:

In Marrakech you are accommodated right in the middle of the Medina, Marrakech’s old part of the city, in a carefully chosen, familiar Riad. Cool and comfortable, beautiful and absolutely quiet though right in the center, our partner accommodation provides you with the fitting environment to dust off, relax, enjoy yourself. And of course serves us comfortably for most of the daily yoga practices – if the weather allows, on the Riad’s rooftop.
Regular accommodation happens to be in shared, spacious triple rooms (same gender) with separated beds, ensuite bathrooms & free wifi access. Single or double/twin accommodation is bookable upon request / availability and with subject to surcharges.

Tahannout, Riad Tigmi Nomade:

Mohamed welcomes his guests in his traditional guest house and shares the hospitality of the Berbers in his quite basic but absolutely charming, traditional place – in the middle of the nature of the beautiful High Atlas Mountains.

Please be aware that you will have one overnight stay in a very basic and traditional hut in the high atlas mountain during your 2-day-hiking-tour. This authentic experience enables you an insight into a very simple lifestyle of the Moroccans. Please don’t forget your sleeping bag for this night. 

Besides the suggested packing list, which you can find here, please do not forget your (sable+robust) hiking shoes, a sleeping bag as well as sport cloth and a jacket for your Atlas Mountain Retreat. A raincoat might be helpful as well.

Marrakech holds an international Airport Marrakech Menara. Transportation from and to the airport is arranged by NOSADE once you submitted your flight details – individually according to your personal flight times.

Please note: Flights are not included in the quoted price.

Marrakech:

While drifting through the Medina, you admit yourself discovering treasures everywhere in any shape: Spices, perfumes, handicrafts, carpets, jewelry. Between all the small shops you will find tiny fruit and vegetable stalls where farmers offer their freshly harvested products; old carriages serving as counters for fresh delicious bread. Everything is surrounded by a bewitching smell. The whole city seems to be enchanted by the drumming and singing, by snake charmers and storytellers. Calm and coolness can only be found once entering the very narrow streets.
In Marrakech, it is easy though to feel comfortable and at home despite its strangeness and fascination – in this sea of seething life, bustling action, loud shouts and the feverish, everlasting and never ending circle of boiling life.
Indeed no other city in the world deserves the name “Pearl of the South” more than Marrakech.

The High Atlas Mountains Morocco:

High Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas Mountains (Arabic: الاطلس الكبير‎; French: Haut Atlas; Berber: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⴷⵔⵏ) is a mountain range in central Morocco in Northern Africa.

The High Atlas rises in the west at the Atlantic Ocean and stretches in an eastern direction to the Moroccan-Algerian border. At the Atlantic and to the southwest the range drops abruptly and makes an impressive transition to the coast and the Anti-Atlas range. To the north, in the direction of Marrakech, the range descends less abruptly.

The range includes Jbel Toubkal, which at 4,167 m is the highest in the range and lies in Toubkal National Park. The range serves as a weather system barrier in Morocco running east-west and separating the Sahara from the Mediterranean and continental zones to the north and west. In the higher elevations of the massif, snow falls regularly, allowing winter sports. Snow lasts well into late spring in the High Atlas, mostly on the northern faces of the range. On the Western High Atlas, there is Oukaïmeden, one of three main ski stations in Morocco.

The High Atlas forms the basins for a multiplicity of river systems. The majority of the year-round rivers flow to the north, providing the basis for the settlements there. A number of wadis and seasonal rivers terminate in the deserts to the south and plateaux to the east of the mountains.

The High-Atlas Mountains are inhabited by Berbers, who live from agriculture and pastoralism in the valleys. In the steppe zone of the High-Atlas, where precipitations are low, the locals created a smart technique in managing the low precipitations and the weak soil. They turn the rather semi-arid lands into fertile valleys called locally by Agdal (garden in Berber). This technique has intrigued many Western agriculturalists, in which they were impressed by the high efficiency of this agricultural system. Many scientists, particularly French scientists, make yearly expeditions to observe the community and their living system. (Source: Wikipedia)

Accept what is. Escape daily routines, find inner peace, inner balance, and inner tranquility. Morocco will challenge you to do so – with all its sounds, smells & (for us Westerners) sometimes unusual manners. We encourage you to open up for all those impressions.

Two daily Yoga and meditation sessions in Morocco’s mystical surroundings will be accompanying and supporting this experience.

The most common questions we tried to answer for you in our FAQ. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us personally if your specific question is not listed yet.

Prices for this retreat start from EUR 1149,- per traveler and include:

• Shared triple accommodation (same gender, separated beds, ensuite bathroom, free wifi access)*
• Half board (breakfast & dinner, incl. water during dishes)
• 10 yoga sessions à 90 min / meditation
• 1 guided PIKALA bike tour to all the cultural must sees in Marrakech
• guided hikes
• Transfer from and to the airport & transfers during the trip

*Single, twin or double bedrooms and additional activities are subject to surcharges.
Your journey to and home from Marrakesh is not included.

To make a booking request, select the dates you require, and fill in the form as prompted.

Once received your booking request, NOSADE will contact you within 72 hours and together we create your very individual trip.
Should you have questions upfront, don’t hesitate to call +49 30 68075494, send us an Email via info@nosade.com or just use our contact form.

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Once we have created your individual trip package together, we will send you an official booking confirmation that is the official invoice at the same time. By then a binding contract comes into force. In addition to the booking confirmation you’ll get a travel insurance certificate submitted.
With the arrival of these two documents a deposit payment of 20% of the tour price will be due immediately.
28 days before the beginning of the trip, the remaining 80% of the tour price will be due.

Payment by installments is possible as well. Please talk to us, if necessary.