



Emotional Vitality Yoga Retreat Andalusia 2025
02. - 07. October 2025
6 Days in Paradise,
Ananda Forest, Orgiva, Spanien
international: Language is English
with Professional Psychologist
Your vitality depends on the freedom of your emotions. Free stuck emotions and blockages, get in touch with who you really are, feel it all, feel yourself: That is vitality.
This is an excellent retreat to do as a couple or as individual. By awakening your own emotional vitality, you explore real connection to yourself and the ones around you.
This is an emotions & yoga therapy retreat with an experienced group psychologist that will guide you in daily Hatha/Kundalini Yoga as much outdoors as possible.
There will be daily inspirations from Yoga/Tantra psychology-philosophy, group sharing in therapeutic groups, and silent, walking, or movement meditations. We will move together with the embodiment of emotions/free movement/ecstatic dance with partially live music and mantra chanting. Of course, in this gorgeous hiking area, we will be going on hikes in the Sierra Nevada with stunning views.
You can expect delicious, home-cooked food. You will be sleeping in fine glamping tents or rustic cabins using beautifully designed outdoor facilities. There will be lots of outdoor time under olive trees , at the river by the cliff, in the mountains. If you feel the need, there is the possibility to have individual counseling sessions with a certified psychologist.
Programm
Flow of the Retreat:
Day 1
15:00 - Arriving
16:00 - Meeting everybody
17:30 - Evening Yoga (Kundalini)
18:30 - Dinner
19:45 - Sundown meditation
Day 2
07:30 - Sunrise Yoga (Sun salutations) outdoor
09:00 - Breakfast in silence
10:15 - Emotion Yoga Psychology 1: Group sharing and Inspiration for the day including Kundalini Yoga/Movement
10:30 - Valley Hike with Breath Exercise
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Silence/Siesta/ (Possibility for psychotherapy/counseling for individuals or couples)
17:30 - Evening Yoga
18:30 - Dinner
19:30 - Mantra Meditation
19:45 - Music Jam/Kirtan by the river
Day 3
07:30 - Sunrise Yoga (Sun salutations) outdoor
09:00 - Breakfast in silence
10:15 - Emotion Yoga Psychology 2: Group sharing and Inspiration for the day including Kundalini Yoga/Movement Embodiment session
13:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Siesta (Possibility for psychotherapy/counseling for individuals or couples)
17:30 - Evening Yoga
18:30 - Dinner
19:30 - Mantra Meditation
19:45 - Free Evening/Campfire
Day 4
Big Hike into the Sierra Nevada with Yoga/Meditations on the way
Day 5
07:30 - Sunrise Yoga (Sun salutations) outdoor
09:00 - Breakfast in silence
10:15- Emotion Yoga Psychology 3: Group sharing and Inspiration for the day
including Kundalini Yoga/Movement Embodiment Einheit
10:30 - Silence: creative time with either writing or drawing
14:00 - 17:00 Siesta (Possibility for psychotherapy/counseling for individuals or couples)
17:30 - Evening Yoga
18:30 - Dinner
19:30 - Mantra Meditation
19:45 - Ecstatic Dance/Cacao Ceremony
Day 6
07:00 - Sunrise Yoga on the cliff
09:00 - Breakfast in Silence
10:30 - Emotion Yoga Psychology 4: Group sharing and Inspiration for the day
12:00 - Lunch
13:00 - Group sharing, Fare-well

Yoga in stunning Panorama Views of the Sierra Nevada
Paradise Location- Ananda Forest
https://www.amaratvayoga.com/about-our-retreat-center
Close Contact to nature: You will be in a cabin or shared glamping tent, using beautiful outdoor facilities, an outdoor kitchen, and living under olive trees. You will be outside basically all day long. You will be looking at a big rock formation, next to a mountain stream. You will be gazing at stars, listening to the silence of Andalusia, in the magical area of Ananda forest, a hidden treasure.
Created, launched and lead by
Renate Heiss, Psychologist, Yogateacher, Yoga&Psychotherapist
Renate is a psychologist who has specialized on the therapy of emotions. She works in a psychosomatic clinic, having gained much experience in the therapy of depression, anxiety, compulsions and borderline disorder. She founded and is leading the Yoga- und Psychotherapy Center, Germany, Psychologin | Yoga- und Psychotherapie Zentrum | Pfarrkirchen (yoga-psychotherapie-zentrum.de). Since she spent 16 years in the US, she is fluent in English.
Having had intensive training since the 90ties with Buddhist meditation, Iyengar Yoga, 14 years training with a Sufi/Tantra master and 15 years of Kundalini Yoga, she is very passionate about combining psychotherapy with yogic/tantric technologies.
She is very experienced in individual as well as group therapy. For her, yoga is instrumental in creating mental health, creativity and freedom of expression.
Her passion is movement and music, as well as silence - everything in its right time. Her teachers are, to name just a few: Satya Singh, Gurmukh, Soto Hoffman; she is inspired by Shakti and Ecstatic Dance.

Booking
Total Price - all inclusive - 1.995 €
Early Bird 1.795 (before June 30th 2025)
Price includes:
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6 Days/5 Nights accomodation and 3 vegetarian meals plus snacks and non-alkoholic drinks
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18 Yoga/Somatics/Meditations units (duration varying from 30 to 75 min.)
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4-5 Group Therapy Sessions with professional group therapist plus daily inspirations from the tantra/yoga philosophy
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Kundalini shaking meditations and embodiment excercises
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Several hikes/walking meditations (of course, at your own risk)
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Airport shuttle (Please communicate your flight number and exact ETA at Malaga airport)
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30 minute massage (schedule upon arrival)
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Cacao Ceremony
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Musical surprise
Not included:
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Flight or travel insurance
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Psychotherapeutical sessions one-on-one
You may add to your booking:
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Individual one-on-one Psychotherapy sessions with Renate (60 min - 120 €). Please indicate on the registration form and choose a time slot. Renate will confirm your booking. Payment will be on site.
Please note: In order to provide a safe group experience, there will be a video-call with each participant after the registration process. There will be a group video conference one month before the start to get to know each other.
Please fill in the below form. Do not hesitate to contact Renate if you have any questions. Looking forward to spending this deep, fun and transformative time with you!

This is what participants say
"The retreat with Renate was very special! I particularly like the variety of yoga and embodiment-excercises, the days were well planned and filled with. Also, the hikes in the absolutely glorious mountain nature wer grand. Still, there was definitely enough time to relax. Renate managed to address all the needs of the participants sensitively and at the same time to create a beautiful community feeling in the group. In the therapeutic sharing everyone got to decide without pressure, how much to share. I will definitely come back!" S., 28
"The five retreat days with you in this unbelievably beautiful place have touched me deeply in side. For me, everything was perfect. This retreat has brought me back into connection with myself, i was able to let go of my worries and of the usual tensions of my every-day life. You have designed a wonderful flow of Yoga and group therapy time taking care to adjust to the individual's needs and and guided us mindfully and empathically through our processes. Your program was for me a perfect mix of movement, inner work, joy and lightness! The lush nature with the surrounding hills, little rives and lovely mountain villages, the yummy food and the beautiful location made me feel very nourished and deeply relaxed. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this wonderful retreat. I will come back for sure!" M.F., 47
"The sun rise yoga on the rock formation was a true highlight for me. To catch the fresh mountain air and the first sun rays of the day on the cliff was balm for my soul and a very special moment. I also really enjoyed the movement, dancing and singing in the group. The food was amazing and freshly prepared, I always liked it. I Highly recommend this reatreat with Renate, I really appreciate the programme."
"Totally successful retreat. Beautiful landscape, great location. I was atotal yoga beginner and had my reservations at first, but Renate was able to meet me where I was and accompanied me through the days. The food was sensational and freshly prepared right there. My personal highlighs were the sun salutations and the hikes up high through the idyllic region of the Sierra Nevada with its powerful views and places. This way I found myself greatly balanced in wonderful company. Many thanks to Renate....
"I keep thinking of these five days in Bayacas and how they helped my with letting go of my dad. Right the beginning with the meditation of "Coming and Going" at the wild river Rio Chico, the group sessions and the amazing choice of music to the movement excercises.
The warmest welcome, how quickly we all became a supportive community, in which everyone opened up, the yoga units and the hikes, where no one was left behind (i was very stiff and not f very fit😉), the landscape and location is unforgettable for me, thy have left a deep impression for me. This was supported by the wonderful vegetarian cuisine - i was very surprised that I never missed meat. For me, the biggest highlight was the berathing exercises that Renate gave me. In the years past, iIhad always "quickly run out of air". Through the concentration practice and the slow, deep belly breathing I astonished myself and climbed up the altitude of 400 meters to the GR7 "above us", the longest Hike route through Europe, and I was fine! I still benefit from this when I play volleyball now. I will be back!!"
"I enjoy remembering the retreat in Andalusia with Renate. It was a transformative experience, the meditations helped me calm down, the hikes and the wonderful time togeher as group was inspiring. As a long term effect, I feel more equanitmity and clarity in my life. The surroundings, Bayacas, Orgiva and nature will stick in my memory. The yoga was very nice interesting for me as beginner. It was definitely a very rewarding experience."