Yoga with Jules from Suffolk yoga
Sunday 22nd September - Sunday 29th September 2024
About Jules
After years of juggling 4 children whilst living abroad, a teaching career, and squeezing in yoga classes when she could, Julia took the plunge and enrolled in a 300-hour yoga teacher training course in 2014 followed by a 500-hour yoga therapy course with Union Yoga Ayurveda, Singapore. 2 years of intense study and working as an ayurvedic assistant therapist cemented her love of all things yoga and wellbeing and a career change was made.
On returning to Ipswich in 2016, Julia started teaching from her front room. Loving the new direction of life, took over Suffolk Yoga in 2017. Going from strength to strength, the new studio was bought in 2018 and after a few hard months of renovations was opened on Feb 1st, 2019. Then covid hit. Shaken but not stirred Suffolk Yoga went online and kept their merry band of yogis together virtually. Now the studio is blossoming back to life with the dream of Sorrel Horse House filled with yoga and therapists of all sorts coming true.
Julia’s style of teaching continues to evolve. She is influenced by classical Patanjali hatha yoga but loves combining flowing movements with breathwork, strength building, mobility and longer yin holds. She is constantly learning and developing her own practice with interests in fascial work, meridians, trauma release and most recently reiki first and second degree.
She has studied with Dr Satyam Tripathi, Victor Chung (Yin Yoga in Asia), Sarah Powers, Leslie Kaminoff, Norman Blair and undertaken numerous short trainings in person and online. She firmly believes you can’t have too many yoga books, yoga certificates or notebooks filled with lesson plans, poems and inspiring quotes.
Fundamental to her teaching is the belief that yoga is for everyone and everybody is welcome at her classes.
Daily programme
Saturday Arrival day
Group transfer from the airport..... please contact us for recommended flights
17.00h Welcome to Mairena. Short orientation walk round the village up to ancient threshing circles and lookout point.
19.30h Welcome drinks and dinner at the Las Chimeneas restaurant
Meals will all be vegetarian using delicious local products, where possible from the Las Chimeneas organic farm. We are happy to cater for any special dietary needs.
Sunday
08.30h Morning yoga (1.5 hours) at the Las Chimeneas shala, set in olive groves below the village.
11.00h Breakfast
14.00h Light lunch
(optional) Short walk to visit to ancient church of Jubar and original site of mosque and bronze age shrine. Short talk on Alpujarran history and the legacy of the Moors
17.30h Late afternoon yoga (1.5 hours) – at Las Chimeneas with wonderful views across the valley and mountains the sunset
19.30h Dinner at the Las Chimeneas restaurant
Monday
08.30h Morning yoga at the Las Chimeneas shala
11.00h Breakfast
14.00h Light lunch
(optional) Visit to the Mairena olive oil mill. Learn how to make olive oil
17.30h Late afternoon yoga – at Las Chimeneas
19.30h Dinner at the Las Chimeneas restaurant
Tuesday
08.30h Breakfast
(Optional) Day trip to Granada and the palaces of the Alhambra and gardens
For those who would prefer a free day to relax by the pool there will also be the option to book a massage.
19.30h Dinner at the Las Chimeneas restaurant
Wednesday
08.30h Morning yoga at the Las Chimeneas shala
11.00h Breakfast
14.00h Light lunch
(Optional) Short transfer to the high mountain pass of La Ragua. Walk through the pine trees to a ridge with wonderful views across the Sierra Nevada peaks and Mulhacen – the highest peak in mainland Spain
17.30h Late afternoon yoga – at Las Chimeneas
19.30h Dinner at the Las Chimeneas restaurant
Thursday
08.30h Morning yoga at the Las Chimeneas shala 11.00h Breakfast
14.00h Light lunch
(Optional) Cookery with the Las Chimeneas cook Conchi. Learn how to make the best of Conchi's vegetarian food – eg gazpacho, ajo blanco – a cold almond soup, aubergines with honey.
17.30h Late afternoon yoga – at Las Chimeneas
19.30h Dinner at the Las Chimeneas restaurant
Friday
08.30h Morning yoga at the Las Chimeneas shala 11.00h Breakfast
14.00h Light lunch
(Optional) Short transfer to the nearby village of Bayarcal. Walk through a shady wood down to a valley with a snow melt stream and natural swimming pools.
17.30h Late afternoon yoga – at Las Chimeneas with wonderful views across the valley and mountains the sunset
19.30h Dinner at the Las Chimeneas restaurant
Saturday
Transfer back to airport.
Please contact David & Emma at Las Chimeneas for all bookings and information on recommended flights and transfer times on info@laschimeneas.com
Price includes:
- Airport transfer (single timed for group minibus)
- Buffet breakfast, light lunch, three course evening meal
- Three activities - eg. olive oil mill visit with chat about local olive oil production, visit to ancient mosque/ church with talk on local history and overlapping cultures, short cookery class with our Chimeneas chefs Sole and Conchi or visit to Lola’s weaving and spinning workshop (to be decided with group leaders)
- All tuition / use of studio, equipment etc
- Extra excursions can be booked and paid for locally eg massage, longer cookery classes, guided electric mountain bike tour, group guided visit to Almeria or Granada
€860 per twin/double room at main site Las Chimeneas per person sharing.
€930 per single room at village cottage
€1050 per single room use of double room at main site Las Chimeneas.
Excluded: Flights, travel insurance. Please confirm you have your own adequate personal travel insurance. Massages. Alcohol and soft drinks.
Transfers: Please contact us to discuss our recommendations for your flight requirements.
Making your own way
By car: We are at Las Chimeneas, Calle Amargura 4, Mairena, 18494, Granada. Spain. 2.5 hrs from Malaga and Granada airports. 1.5 hrs from Almeria.
