Align & Restore at Suryalila

Align, Restore & Writing Retreat is a week-long yoga retreat at Suryalila Retreat Centre in Villamartín, in the province of Cádiz, Spain. It suits anyone drawn to therapeutic yoga and meditation who also wants time for creative writing: people who want to reconnect, reflect and renew over a quiet week in a peaceful setting. Michelle Berrange and Lara O'Brien lead it together.

What to Expect

The week brings two practices into one shape. Michelle Berrange teaches therapeutic yoga and meditation, aimed at supporting alignment on several levels at once: structural, energetic, emotional and physical. Alongside this runs guided creative writing with Lara O'Brien, used for self enquiry and release.

The two halves work as a pair. Yoga and meditation give the body and mind room to settle and open, and the writing offers a place to put what surfaces. The intention of the week is a simple one: reconnect, reflect and renew. Time is also given to nourishing food and to the company of the other people on the retreat, which the centre describes as a beautiful community.

About Michelle Berrange

Michelle Berrange is a musician, and she leads the therapeutic yoga and meditation that anchors the week. Her teaching here centres on alignment, working with the body's structure together with its energetic and emotional layers. If you are looking for a yoga retreat that treats the body gently and with attention, rather than pushing toward harder postures, this is the thread running through her sessions.

The Setting

Suryalila Retreat Centre is in Villamartín, in Cádiz, within Andalusia in southern Spain. The retreat takes place in the centre's peaceful surroundings, which suit a week built around slowing down, practising and writing. Meals are nourishing and are part of the rhythm of the days.

Anyone searching for a yoga and writing retreat in Andalusia, or a therapeutic yoga and meditation week in Cádiz, will find that this one pairs bodywork and reflection in a single stay. It is a retreat for people who want to leave with a clearer sense of where they are, held in the body as well as set down on the page.