Events & Retreats
Create//Seek//Restore// Om Baby India Retreat
Om Baby Block Printing and Yoga retreat in Jaipur, India
with Alice & Yolande
10 DAY RETREAT / JAIPUR, BAGRU, TAJ MAHAL, OLD DELHI, INDIA
NOVEMBER 1st – 10th 2024
LIMITED NUMBER OF SPACES AVAILABLE// GROUP SIZE 10
Block printing in Bagru, India
We are going to India and would like to bring you with us.
Alice and Yolande share a love of all things India and are frequent visitors of this beautiful, vibrant and colourful country.
This is a time to give yourself 10 days to immerse yourself in creativity, nourishing yoga practices, sacred sightseeing and shopping. There will be plenty of time to relax in the private garden with a private pool, in Rajasthan. We will be spending 7 days at the beautiful Artists Farm Jaipur, an organic farm house, with light filled rooms, garden views, and a private pool. It is perfectly located between the pink city of Japiur and Bagru, famous for its fabric printing and where we will be spending a couple of days learning the art of block printing and natural dying with master block printers.
The retreat also includes a sunrise visit to the Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Fort and a tour around Old Delhi before returning home or staying on to explore at your leisure.
A little from Alice,
“It has been a dream of mine to share this beautiful place with more people, it's such a huge privilege to go and block print with the Chippa family and Bagru. Its famous drying square is somewhere that is wonderful to experience that I’m excited to share with you all. It's rural and is a chance to see some real India. For me it's important that we learn about how our fabrics are made and also support traditional crafts, so bringing you here to be part of that with me is incredibly exciting”
This is the first retreat we have organised and we wanted to make sure that we make it as affordable and relaxing as possible. Our accommodation is truly gorgeous and I know lots of great places for shopping in both Jaipur and Pushkar if you choose to come for a day trip there.
Our home in Jaipur
Who's in?!
All rooms are big doubles and sharing with ensuite with air conditioning
Double room sharing £1000
(If you require your own bedroom the cost for the 10 days increases to £1700)
Beautiful Jaipur
This trip includes:
7 nights stay Artists Farm Jaipur
2 days Block printing at Bagru
1 day visit to Jaipur
1 day visit to Pushkar
Daily morning Yoga practice and evening wind down practice
1 night stay in Agra (Taj Mahal)
Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Fort and sunrise visit to Taj Mahal
1 night stay in Delhi (tour around old delhi)
Evening visit to Chandni Chowk, rickshaw ride, bIggest spice market in india
Monument entrance fees and English speaking tour guide, hotels, breakfast are all included.
Most meals
(Breakfast, lunch and dinner except lunchtime excursions to Jaipur and Pushkar, and lunch and dinner in Agra and Delhi)
Transfer from Delhi to Jaipur
Transfer Jaipur to Agra to Delhi
Group meeting pre departure to answer questions travel questions
What's not included:
Flights
Visa
Some lunch/cafe visits
Shopping
Shared bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms
Duration:
10 days/ 9 nights
Dates:
1st - 10th November 2024
£1000
If you require your own bedroom the cost for the 10 days increases to £1700
Non refundable deposit// bank transfer
£300
Full Payment to be made by 15th September 2024
Schedule:
Arrive in Delhi 1st November morning ( we will the drive to Jaipur)
Leave 10th November (retreat ends Morning of 10th)
For booking and more information visit Om Baby’s site here
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Postnatal afternoon retreat with yoga, sharing and sound
Beltane// Fire festival of fertility and union
Beltane (known as May day) is a festival marking the halfway point between the seasons of spring and summer, and is a true celebration of the power of the earth and the forces of nature. Beltane is the beginning of the most active part of the year, signified by life literally bursting everywhere, the sap is rising, the sky is filled with birdsong, growth and new life is everywhere as we head towards the ever increasing light and warmth towards the summer solstice.
Our time together will begin in a ceremony with cacao, and as we sit with cacao it is a time to feel into what you want or wish to give your energy too? Where will you put your focus? What can you change for the better? Have the seeds you have sown in spring, are they beginning to show signs of life? The plant medicine cacao can help to cultivate a deeper connection within ourselves and in turn to the collective as a whole. This is a time to initiate plans and visions and to make the most of this highly fertile time.
We will celebrate this growing light with an invigorating yoga asana practice feeling into the rising energies, including sound and mudra. There will be space to share and give voice to what your plan to initiate at this time and we will conclude with a little Beltane magic and ritual.