GENTLE CLEANSE AYURVEDA STYLE
Ideal for balancing digestion & de-toxifying the body-MIND
This deep and highly transformative retreat is for one or two people who wish to cleanse their body-mind whilst re-setting their digestion gently and enjoyably in a sublime rainforest setting.
You are totally supported with all food, spices and drinks and treatments supplied.
Day 1 is an Ayurvedic cooking workshop at your accommodation. This will set you up to cook throughout the rest of your retreat, learn valuable take home easy skills and deepen your Ayurvedic understanding, all ingredients supplied. You will learn to make Kitchari, an Ayurvedic Cleansing mainstay and your main lunchtime meal.
Retreats are usually available from the beginning of May until the end of October.
Longer and deeper cleansing retreats are available
Ayurvedic wisdom provides the most effective and individualised approach to cleansing our bodies and resetting our digestive energy, without depletion or starving!
According to Ayurveda, unbalanced or weak digestion is the source of all disease as it creates harmful by-products and toxins called “ama”. Ama is gently coaxed from your system during your cleanse with individualised understanding from your Certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Issani.
According to Ayurveda, cleansing is best addressed by having a light, easily digestible diet in a relaxed setting.
Periods of gentle fasting can be woven through your retreat if you are suited to it.
A variety of carefully selected vegetables and digestive spices creating easily assimilated, nourishing meals are tailored to you individually. Personal likes and dislikes will be discussed in advance. Issani will supply digestive chutneys to enhance your tastebuds and digestion along with delicious drinks to enjoy and to take home after your daily visit to the Day Spa for your treatment.
Mid-meal drinks include fresh coconut water, lassis and cleansing herbal teas.
An Ayurvedic soup or a light cooked meal is served for dinner.
Lunch is your main meal. You will learn how to prepare Kitchari, a gently spiced light rice and mung dhal “porridge” cooked with mild spices and vegetables. Alternatives are available if you can’t tolerate legumes.
Cultured ghee is provided as your cooking oil as it is an important tonic.
Organic coconut oil is a vegan alternative.
The small amounts of ghee or coconut oil eaten daily will gently soften, tone and draw impurities into digestive tract where they are eliminated in the usual way, with some assistance from cleansing Ayurvedic herbs.
Yoga and Pranayama techniques to enliven your digestive “fire” are practiced daily.
The mind and emotions are cleansed through especially chosen, Relaxation, and Meditation practices.
Your program will be individually tailored according to your current state of health.
Your daily retreat schedule leaves time to explore the magical Daintree Rainforest and beaches. Mild, not robust exercise is encouraged during your cleanse.
It is strongly advised that you leave at least a few weeks between your initial consultation and your stay in the Daintree. Your cleanse will be enhanced when you prepare yourself according to the diet and lifestyle practices that flow from your Initial Ayurvedic Consultation with Issani.
RECOMMENDED FOR
- calming and balancing digestive issues | gentle weight loss | mind and body reset
- mental and emotional clarity | increased energy levels | de-stressing
Balance your digestive “fire” by eating just enough to be satisfied, so the energy of digestion is not overtaxed. This allows extra energy to get busy cleansing and rebuilding your tissues, de-toxifying whilst creating cellular renewal.
You won’t be hungry! However, you will only eat when you are hungry.
Whether you are over or underweight, toning and enlivening your digestion can only benefit your ability to extract nutrition from your food and harmonise your metabolism.
This retreat will infuse you with Ayurvedic understanding to take forward into your future.
You can choose to extend your retreat to deepen your cleanse. Deeper internal herbs can be given on longer retreats.
Shirodhara can replace the Herbal Steam Bath on the last day, or for more days during longer retreats.
Please see below for additional costs for extra days and for optional Shirodhara.
Once your dates are booked, we arrange a time for a 75 minute phone/face-time consultation. Please email Issani photos of your face, full standing body shot, tongue and one hand, with fingernails showing clearly. After your Ayurvedic phone consultation, you will receive individualised Ayurvedic guidance on simplifying your diet before and after your cleanse. Please allow at least one month following your Ayurvedic Diet and Lifestyle advice before your 7 Day Cleanse. This way your body will be balanced and ready to cleanse more deeply and effectively. You will also have individualised Diet & Lifestyle advice to return to after your cleanse and thereafter.
Retreat Details
ACCOMMODATION
*** Please note, you MUST book your accommodation for at least 6 nights. The Retreat begins at your accommodation at 2:30pm on the first Retreat day.
There are plenty of gorgeous nearby rentals online for a range of budgets.
Be sure to book in stunning Cow Bay or beautiful Diwan to be close to the Day Spa.
Be sure to book your retreat accommodation early, especially during peak season between June and October when bookings increase dramatically!
Please contact Issani and book a mutually agreeable time, with plenty of notice.
INVESTMENT per person.
*Accommodation is not included
6 nights, 7 days
1 PERSON RETREAT
$2700
2 PERSON RETREAT
$2200 p/p
Extra days, add
$380 per person for Ayurvedic Massage & Herbal Steam Bath
$480 for Ayurvedic Massage & Shirodhara
INCLUDED
- Phone/face-time Initial Ayurvedic Consultation.
- Four Hour Ayurvedic Cooking Workshop
- Daily Abhyanga - Ayurvedic Massage & Swedhana, Ayurvedic De-toxifying Herbal Steam Bath
- Ayurvedic cleanse & tone herbs suited to your constitution.
- ISSANI skin care during your retreat, selected for your unique Ayurvedic type, including botanical pastes and herb infused oils.
- “Mini consults” daily with your treatments.
- Free-time to enjoy your magical surroundings .
- Guidance in Yoga & Pranayama
- Deep Relaxation & Meditation Sessions daily
RETREAT TIMETABLE
DAY 1
Afternoon Ayurvedic Cooking Workshop at your accommodation, preparing Ayurvedic meals and learning Ayurvedic cooking methods that you can take forward during your cleanse and beyond. You will receive written recipes, all food stuffs, digestive yoga instructions, to do before your meals at your accommodation (mats supplied).
DAYS 2 – 6
MORNING
Breakfast at your accommodation, plus free time to enjoy the magical Daintree Rainforest and beaches
Midday
Lunch at your accommodation. This will be your main meal.
2PM
Treatment 1
4PM
Deep Relaxation Session
5PM
Treatment 2 – if a 2 person retreat
Light dinner at your accommodation.
DAY 7
Breakfast together at Issani Day Spa, and outgoing consultation with diet and lifestyle advice to take forward with you. Good byes 🙂
Please note, this is a basic schedule with room to adjust times slightly to suit your activities and mealtimes.
Please note: If you are female and menstruating, please try to schedule your retreat when you are not bleeding heavily. Otherwise, Swedhana treatment and vigorous massage will be avoided on heavy days.
INSURANCE
Issani is fully insured as a qualified Ayurvedic Practitioner and Remedial Massage Therapist. You are advised to arrange your own travel insurance.
Contact Issani and to arrange your Daintree Rejuvenation Retreat!
TERMS OF BOOKING: 50% deposit is required at time of booking with the remainder payable 14 days before the retreat start date. 100% refund is offered if retreat is cancelled 14 days before scheduled retreat start date with an option to transfer funds towards a future retreat.