Category: fitness, meditation, Pilates, Sri Lanka, Trainings, travel, Uncategorised, Wellness, Yoga
Donation based Talalla Yoga & Wellness Zoom Classes
Here at Talalla Yoga and Talalla Wellness, we still want to share our retreat goodness with you all by offering our classes online via Zoom! These classes are all donation based, as just like our recent Instagram Live Retreats, for us it’s more about sharing our services and offerings to provide you support through the current isolation and travel ban period. So what’s on offer? Join our Talalla Yoga Manager Tye Fielding for her online Vinyasa Flow classes – where…
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Free Live Retreats with Talalla Yoga & Wellness
Our beautiful team here at Talalla Yoga & Wellness are bringing some of the magic of our Sri Lankan retreats to you at home! Staring April 5th – Enjoy a different theme each week filled with a daily class, workshop or meditation + daily affirmations and writing exercises. Plus you’ll receive access to our private Facebook group to stay connected with others and make special requests. Because your Wellbeing is our priority ? Join us live or access across 24 hours just by…
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Mindful Practices during Self-Isolation
During these current transitional times that the majority of us have never even experienced before, we suddenly have found ourselves in a place of “self-isolation, lock-down, curfew, quarantine.” However we want to call it, for the health and safety of the entire world, we are now being asked to take some time out, so we can take the time to stay inside. This can be a challenging time for so many.. as our most recent day to day lives have…
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A Restorative Yoga Practice
With James ‘Fish’ Gill A restorative yoga practice aims to switch on our parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest response) and thereby override our sympathetic nervous system (flight, fight, freeze response), by using postures that fully support the body with props. In a restorative pose, we feel utterly held and balanced and comfortable, and we can hold these postures with total comfort for 5-10 minutes each. There should be no effort as we can find in a vinyasa practice and…
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Health & Safety advice – COVD-19
Talalla Retreat & Jasper House are taking precautionary measures to ensure the safety of our guests and staff. We have increased sanitation and implemented increased and continued disinfection of both hotels for your safety. You can protect yourself by washing your hands frequently and avoiding touching your face. For your safety, please see the following announcements: Use hand sanitizer when entering the restaurant, in Yoga Shalas and in Public AreasWhen possible, avoid visiting outside places where people are congregating in…
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Sri Lankan Tourism Update – (COVID-19)
Here at Talalla Retreat we want to keep the communication strong for all of our guests, and future retreat guests with the current (COVID-19) situation expanding around the globe. As of the 12th March – there have been 2 cases of the CoronaVirus discovered in Sri Lanka: On 27 January, the first confirmed case of the virus was reported in Sri Lanka, a 44-year-old Chinese woman from Hubei Province in China; she was admitted to the National Institute of Infection…
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Meet our Wellness team
Here at Talalla Wellness, we believe our retreats are the epitome of a balanced & healthy holiday; taking a light-hearted and holistic approach to wellbeing, with a focus on mind, body, and soul. Our highly qualified international facilitators offer an array of wellness services with compassion, professionalism and care. We recently sat down with our Wellness Facilitator Mandy Francisty to chat a little about her background, her services on offer, and what well-being means to her… Tell us a little about …
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We Care – One vet, 3 million street dogs
UK vet Dr Janey Lowes was backpacking around Sri Lanka in May 2014 when she noticed the plight of the local street dogs. There are approximately three million street dogs on the island, and while the dogs themselves aren’t an issue – they often have a human guardian who feeds them – the fact that they don’t have access to veterinary care is. Every year, there are an estimated 26,000 road traffic accidents involving street dogs. Thousands also fall ill…
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We want to help you keep your New Year Resolutions! Was Health, Wellbeing, Holidays or Travel on your list this year? To celebrate the start of a healthy and happy new year we are offering you and a friend a chance to win a four-night all-inclusive stay with us at Talalla retreat. Join our Instagram Competition & enjoy the following services. Includes: 4 x night stay in one of our Deluxe rooms Buffet breakfast and dinner daily Daily yoga class…
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Explore Ayurvedic Medicine with Talalla Yoga
Meet Dr. Prabha Weeranayake – our Ayurvedic Doctor here at Talalla Yoga, offering Ayurvedic consultations and workshops during our “Alchemy of the Elements” Yoga Retreat. Ayurveda is a system of healing that has been perfected for more than five thousand years. It is a strong tradition in Sri Lankan health care, based on a holistic approach to the body, using herbs and diet to support dis-ease. The word Ayurveda is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘Science of Life.’ Ayu means…
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