Ground and Grow Yoga Retreat

Balance Effort and Ease on and off the mat

with Catherine Njeri and Julie Auma

About the retreat

In this retreat, you will get tools to balance effort and ease on and off your mat. Ground and grow both physically and emotionally, time to reconnect with yourself and nature take in fresh air and RELAX. This is your open invitation to experiment with and deepen your practice.

This retreat will take place at Watamu Treehouse in Kenya.

  • Start 15th September, 15:00

  • End 18th September, 10:00

  • Instruction language: English

  • Shared full board accommodation 85,000 KSH

  • Single supplement 120,000 ksh

  • At Watamu Treehouse


 

Meet your teachers

Catherine Njeri is from Nairobi, Kenya. She is a 500hr RYT and certified Africa Yoga Project and Baptiste yoga teacher. Catherine has been teaching, practicing, leading yoga Teacher trainings, Retreats and workshops since 2009 and is passionate about creating world class wellbeing leaders in Africa due to her personal experience of how yoga changed her life. She witnesses daily how yoga impacts the overall wellbeing of her students and encourages a healthy lifestyle. Catherine has led yoga retreats in Uganda, Egypt, Rwanda, Nairobi and Watamu, Kenya. She is the first Kenyan woman to lead a 200 hour yoga teacher training in Africa and is a co-facilitator of this training annually in Nairobi, Kenya. When she isn't teaching yoga or leading training, Catherine is a proud mum to a baby girl. She also enjoys braiding her daughter’s and friends' hair.

Julie Auma is a certified (200hr and Level 2) Baptiste Power Yoga and YOD Yoga (Level 1 & 2) teacher living, working, and practicing in Nairobi. She sought out yoga after her best friend suggested that she try it to heal from Ab separation (Diastasis Recti) during her pregnancy. After a few youtube videos, she stepped into her 1st yoga class at Africa Yoga Project. It was an amazing and humbling experience to be surrounded by an accepting and supportive community. Soon after, she began working with Africa Yoga Project as the Academy and Learning Coordinator. It is her goal to share yoga as she has experienced it; as a healing, unifying, and strengthening practice that creates transformation in and beyond the physical practice. She blogs on my lessons on and off the mat at Chronicles of an Alleged yogi. When she isn’t practicing, teaching, writing about Yoga, or working with yoga teachers, you’ll find her enjoying the tart seasonal freshness of raw mango.

 

What’s included in this retreat price

  • Daily meditation and yoga sessions

  • Some yoga sessions in nature including an awesome class on Stand Up Paddle-boards (SUP)

  • Mida Creek Mangrove Float

  • The sharing circle - Empowering heart to heart conversation

  • Nature Walks

  • Unique and award-winning Treehouse accommodation

  • 1 complementary massage

  • All meals—delicious, fresh and nutritious vegetarian food that energises – natural and healthy cooking with fresh ingredients each day. We are happy to cater for special diets e.g.: gluten or dairy free.

  • Unlimited Fresh cold pressed juices Enough time to relax in a serene setting

What’s not included in this retreat price

  • Flights to Malindi or Mombasa

  • Airport transfers

  • Additional massages or treatments

  • Health or travel insurance

Example of Daily Schedule

  • Daily sunrise activities

  • Morning yoga and meditation sessions

  • Abundant breakfast with lots of tropical fruit, home-made muesli, a daily special, eggs on request, tea/coffee and fresh juice.

  • Time to relax and rejuvenate, or explore Watamu and the surrounding nature, an outing to get the best gelato in Watamu or get a massage

  • Fresh, healthy Lunch

  • Evening yoga and the sharing circle

  • Delicious dinner

Retreat food

Abundant in flavour, colour, nutrients and freshness

We source our ingredients with care, supporting local producers, and we prepare it with love.

Our lunches and dinners are abundant “set-meals” and always include a soup or starter, a vegetarian main course, a variety of sides and salads, and a dessert. We serve fresh juice or coconut water and a variety of hot drinks after the meal.  Great for vegans, and gluten and dairy-free.

Retreat accommodation

Watamu Treehouse on the beach in Kenya:

  • the perfect spacious open air house to be in touch with the elements

  • unique architecture-rooms have views of sunrises or sunsets (or both!)

  • set in a coastal forest on one of the best white-sand beaches in Kenya

  • swimming in the warm healing waters

Getting to this yoga retreat

The closest airport is Malindi on the East Coast of Kenya, which is approximately 25 minutes taxi ride from Treehouse. We can arrange transfers. The following airlines fly to Malindi: Jambojet; Fly540; Fly SAX; Kenya Airways. You can also fly to Mombasa International Airport on the airlines listed above plus Kenya Airways. Mombasa is approximately 2 hours drive from Treehouse. Or take the SGR Train to Mombasa and we can send a taxi to collect you.

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