Samyama Fitness

Our yoga and pilates retreats focus on healthy living and from the moment our guests arrive they enjoy a full wellbeing experience, from head to toe, inside and out!

We have designed a flexible program to improve your health and fitness whilst allowing you time to relax and improve your wellbeing. This ethos can be found at all of our yoga retreats in Europe, be it at our flagship Carmen Samyama yoga retreat in Spain, Samyama By-The-Sea retreat on the Almeria coastline.

Our friendly team has a wealth of local knowledge and will ensure that you get the most out of your stay. We welcome all levels of fitness and ability, with guests  enjoying up to two classes of yoga or pilates each day taught by our experienced and multilingual teachers.

The morning and early evening classes are followed by a communal breakfast and evening meal, leaving you plenty of free time to relax and recharge your batteries, in your own way, in your own time, after all it is your yoga holiday.

Our Yoga Holidays in Spain mix yoga and meditation classes which will extend your practice and provide the building blocks for you to apply these new skills in everyday life.

We offer a range of yoga styles (iyengar/hatha/ashtanga/kundalini) and our multilingual teachers are experienced practitioners. Our unique ‘wild’ yoga classes bring your practice closure to nature and are delivered off-site in unusual hidden locations.

Look out for our Yoga Holidays and Retreats 2017 packages which will be out soon

Pilate’s classes are integral to our fitness program as conditioning core muscles not only improves fitness but is essential to injury avoidance, strengthening and rehabilitation.

On some Yoga and Pilates retreats we also offer specialist fitness sessions as well as specialist sessions at the Olympic High Altitude Training Centre for those training for marathons, triathlons and other endurance events. You can also cycle and trek in some of the most beautiful parts of the world.

Our breakfast and evening meals are as tasty as they are healthy, as we believe that the two are not mutually exclusive. The communal meals are the perfect time to meet and get to know other guests.

You will be surprised at the difference a well-balanced, delicious and shared meal can have on your mind, body and soul.

Our Yoga & Pilates Retreats are located in some of Spain’s most beautiful places. If you want a Yoga and Pilates retreat in Europe then Samyama Fitness is definitely for you.

Spend the time between yoga classes relaxing by the pool in the Spanish sun or enjoy walking, hiking, language courses or even a massage. Yoga holidays should relaxing and we do our best to make sure you leave us rebalanced, refreshed and relaxed.

“Our Yoga Retreat is not meant to be a prison camp: it’s also a Yoga holiday, and we ensure that it feels like one.”

Samyama Fitness offers something for everyone, from the beginner to the experienced yogi, and we aim to help you to explore the benefits that practice and wellbeing can bring to everyday life. Whether you want to explore new ways of increasing fitness, toning your body or improving your wellbeing our yoga retreat is perfect for you.

We believe that developing new skills and shared interests are as important to personal wellbeing as physical exercise and the food you eat, so guests can also take part in creative activities including:

• Artisan bread making
• Traditional Andalusian cookery
• Flamenco dancing
• Spanish guitar

We start each day with a morning yoga/fitness session in the Spanish sun followed by a vegetarian buffet breakfast. Guests are then free to spend the day as they choose, exploring or relaxing in the grounds of the villa. You will then return for an early evening yoga session followed by dinner at the villa. One evening is left unscheduled so guests can explore the area at their leisure.

We will work with you every day to ensure that you get the best out of the retreat and return home with more energy, enthusiasm and a renewed zest for life.

Our Spanish Yoga Retreats offer a range of activities from yoga and fitness classes, to massage and alternative therapies alongside a selection of creative classes from artisan bread baking to hiking through the Andalucían mountains or learning to play the flamenco guitar. Our locations are some of the best in Europe for practicing Yoga and Pilates

At Samyama Fitness we help you to reduce stress, improve your work-life balance and to relax; after all, this is meant to be a holiday.

We will help you stretch deeper, further and longer both spiritually and physically. All we ask is that you greet us with open arms and an open mind; the rest we will discover together.

For some years now we have looked for something different in a Yoga holiday, and have travelled the world on adventure and activity breaks. We realised that we really enjoyed the holidays that mixed activity with rest and relaxation, and where in beautiful settings.

Samyama Fitness is as much about bringing balance to our lives, as it is yours. We hope that you will enjoy the Samyama journey as much as we have, and even if we can’t be there with you we know that Team Samyama will look after you.

We love Spain and Granada is one of the most exciting cities in Europe making it the perfect place for a yoga & pilates retreat and holiday.

Kunle Barker & Katie Mills

At our retreats we take fun seriously. Samyama Yoga Retreats are the perfect place to have a wellbeing break and holiday. Many yoga retreats in Spain and Europe fail to focus on the yoga holiday element of your stay, but we believe that happiness is as important to your health as exercise and what you eat.

Its only through true rest and relaxation that you will discover how you can bring more balance to your everyday life, so we try to do everything with a smile. 😉

We explored how to make lasting changes to our lifestyle, changes that would ultimately bring balance back to our lives. And it worked!

At Samyama Fitness we share our simple philosophies with our guests, and together we will make lasting changes that will improve all aspects of your lives; this is the Samyama way.

It’s been amazing to watch as the guests developed new friendships during their stay with us. Many of these friendships have out lasted their stay at the retreat, and its wonderful to hear from them from time to time. This has been a magical bonus for us and all of the guests at our retreats.

Whatever you want, however you want to do it, we will help you discover how to improve your life and increase your wellbeing, not just for the week you are with us but for the rest of your life.

By bringing balance back to you life you will naturally improve you health and fitness. Yoga is a great tool for improving general conditioning and fitness. Yoga is for everyone, if you’re injured, old or young everyone can practise yoga.

Our emphasis on balanced eating will help you to improve you health. We don’t believe in eating the wrong type of food; instead we believe in eating a fresh, natural and diverse diet. This is reflected in the food we serve at the retreat, which is so delicious and nutritious it will change the way you eat in your everyday life.