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Retreat: All-inclusive Fasting Retreat
Date: April 14 – 21, 2011
Duration: Seven days
Location: Buddha House, San Juan, Ibiza
Host: Ilona Pantel-Ayal
Cost: €1100 per person (April promotion)

About the retreat: Ilona leads Dr O Buchinger’s fasts which are renowned for being the ultimate fasting week for healthy people. Detoxifying and fasting free restricted energies and open unexpected creativity. The sensibility brought about through fasting opens ways to reflection. Personal awareness is directed inwards towards insight and contemplation. Daily yoga sessions, meditation, mountain walks, Thai-yoga massages, reflexology, talks, relaxation (around the pool and in your private room) as well as guided visualisations means these fasts become so much more than just the elimination of food – they become thoroughly rejuvenating, for body, mind and soul.

The program is expertly designed to ensure that your body releases as many toxins as possible in the safest and most beneficial ways. Guided walks and daily yoga sessions speed up the elimination of waste materials from the digestive system and other internal organs and to flush your cells with oxygen to boost your body’s self-healing abilities. Yoga breathing techniques are based on purification principles proven over thousands of years – and are great stress-detoxers to take back to reality too! Daily Thai-yoga-massage and reflexology improves blood circulation and stimulates the meridians – or energy pathways – encouraging the body to clear physical and emotional blockages, which offer deeper toxin release.

About the venue: Retreat amongst the treetops, at Buddha House, high in the mountains near San Juan. Held in cosy, comfortable and relaxing surroundings with breathtaking views and plenty of oxygen, even the air you breath helps purify your body and mind.

About the hosts: Ilona Pantel-Ayal is your fasting facilitator, with skills and qualifications spanning psychology, hypnotherapy, doctoral approved fasting and nutrition among others to offer a fully integrated approach to your retreat. Her expansive knowledge and life experience, plus training and working around the world, provides optimum support for you to completely immerse yourself in the program and achieve benefits that matter to you.

Who it’s for: Anyone who wishes to fully cleanse their mind, body and spirit.

Retreat includes:
• Accommodation
• Tea/juice/broth programme
• Daily yoga programme
• Treatment and therapy programme

Wellness benefits: Benefits include weight-loss, increased positivity, greater mental clarity, focus and calm for the mind. Your circulation and metabolism are given a natural rejuvenation, with the extra oxygen flow encouraging your cells to renew, your complexion to improve, your tissues to be nourished and your whole sense of being feeling lighter and more alive.

Contact cheryl@ibizaretreats.com to book your place on this retreat or to find out about future scheduled fasting retreats at Buddha House.