Marrakech Yoga Escape
February 27, 2025 - March 2, 2025
“Thank you so much for a wonderful time. We both loved the yoga retreat. And it was a wonderful way to explore Marrakech.”
Welcome to our Marrakech Yoga Retreat
Hosted by a beautiful hand-picked Riad our winter gloom-busting Marrakech Yoga Escape can be taken on its own or as the first leg of a two-centre trip continuing to the Atlas Mountains. Enriching Mindful Yoga, wonderful brunches, daily afternoon tea, candlelit dinners in the courtyard or salon.
“I had an incredible experience. The yoga sessions were top-notch, providing a perfect blend of challenge and relaxation. Our Riad was fabulous, offering a serene and comfortable environment. The food was delicious and the wonderful company and positive energy of the retreat made for an unforgettable trip. Highly recommended for anyone seeking a rejuvenating, enriching escape.”
Your retreat experience
Our intention is to offer an enriching, mind-expanding few days in the heart of this evocative city, where twice-daily Mindful Yoga and lovingly crated meals offer a structure around which guests are free to do as much or little as they choose.
Our boutique Marrakech Yoga Retreats are hosted by a gorgeous central Riad that offers a remarkably peaceful sanctuary from the buzz of the surrounding city. We host between eight and ten guests, making this an unusually small retreat with a highly personal, friendly feel.
Guests are as likely to be brand new to retreats or / and Yoga as to be very experienced! Accessible Yoga and Meditation sessions are enjoyed in the beautiful private courtyard with its plunge pool, birdsong and olive trees. Sessions will offer plenty of options, allowing your practice to meet your body.
Classes are followed by a lovingly prepared Moroccan brunch or evening meal whilst afternoon tea comes in the form of home-made cake (such as traditional orange or almond cake), almonds, Moroccan mint tea or English breakfast tea!
In between these treats your day is your own: how will you spend it? Rest into long days enjoying a massage and reading a book on the sunny roof terrace. Or choose to adventure into the city: our retreat Riad is in the central Mouassine district, ten minutes’ walk from the famous Jemaa el Fna square.
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En-suite double or twin room shared by two people: £699 per person.
Solo occupancy of en-suite room: £1299 per person
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February 27 - March 2, 2025
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All yoga classes, en-suite accommodation and all food (yoga brunch, afternoon tea and dinner).
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Flights
Travel insurance
Return taxi transfers from the airport and any extra nights / massages / city tours booked, all settled direct with the Riad.
Booking
Please select the button below. If the retreat is more than 12 weeks away, we will request a £350 non-refundable deposit to guarantees your space. Balance is due 12 weeks the retreat starts.
En-suite double or twin room, shared by two people: £699 per person.
Solo occupancy of en-suite room: £1299 per person
Our Yoga & Meditation
Our aim on retreat is to offer highly accessible, expert Yoga and Meditation teaching led with sensitivity and depth. Plenty of options will be given and it is our pleasure to welcome many guests who are brand new, or relatively new, to these practices. Although they are ancient practices, we believe their benefits have never been more important or relevant, offering life-enhancing tools to lead us towards more physical and mental ease.
Morning sessions will be active and flowing though still mindfully taught and suitable for most people (please do get in touch if you are unsure)). Evening sessions will be extremely gentle, underscored by Mindfulness, Guided Relaxation and breathing practices that invite us more deeply into our bodies and senses.
The first practice of the retreat will usually be on the morning after arrivals, ending with early Yoga and brunch on the final morning.
We are delighted to welcome back experienced Yoga teacher and Yoga Therapist Vikki Stevenson to teach our February 2025 retreat.
“Though I approached the retreat with some trepidation I couldn’t have been more pleasantly surprised. I still feel relaxed and energised at the same time. The calm sanctuary of the Riad balanced beautifully with the colours and chaos of the medina. Who knew the group would make me feel so welcome ? Thank you. ”
Our food offering
Mealtimes form one of the many special experiences of a Morocco Yoga Rtreat. Moroccan cooking is naturally wholesome and flavour-filled, characterised by seasonal fare and typical seasonal deserts. The cuisines naturally lends itself to the retreat’s all-vegetarian dishes.
Our intention is to offer a tasty, wholesome, balanced and thoroughly Moroccan culinary experience, rustled up by the Riad’s fabulous cooks.
For each full day of the retreat we’ll have a wonderful apres-yoga brunch (with eggs, pancakes, local honey, yoghurt), afternoon tea (for example orange cake and mint / breakfast tea) and two-course evening meal (think slow-cooked vegetable tagines followed by oranges with cinnamon). There will be an evening meal on the first night and brunch on the last morning.
Our mealtimes are sociable occasions enjoyed in the courtyard around the pool or, if the evenings are chilly, in the atmospheric lounge with its open fire.
All food will be vegetarian. We can usually cater for vegans or those with particular requirements: please contact us to discuss.
Derived from the Arabic word ‘Ryad’ meaning garden, these fascinating traditional buildings, of which our host venue is one, are formed around a beautiful central courtyard to allow complete privacy: a peaceful, sensual sanctuary filled with birdsong and the scent of slow-cooked tagines.
Extras! Additional nights, city tours, massage
Many guests chose to extend their stay either before or after the retreat, adding extra time for relaxation or exploration - or a balance blend of both! If available, additional nights may be booked before or after the retreat, with these bookings made directly with the Riad.
Similarly, you may wish to book an onsite massage (our February 2024 guests raved about their massages!) taken at the dedicated treatment room at the Riad. Depending on the availability of local Moroccan guides it is usually possible to arrange a city tour.
Additional nights, city tours and massages are settled directly with the Riad. Whilst extra nights can be settled by card, massages and city tours are usually paid for in Moroccan Dirham (to be confirmed during the trip), directly to the organiser.
Our teacher
Experienced Yoga and Meditation teacher and yoga therapist Vikki Stevenson will teach this retreat.
Vikki says she loves teaching on retreat as it offers a container to go deeper into the practices and a safe space for students to explore without returning staring bacMk to normal life after an hour’s class: ‘It is wonderful to see the change in people over a few days of being on retreat, how their whole being can soften; such an honour to witness.’
Alongside Mindfulness and the importance of how we breathe, Vikki incorporates her therapeutic knowledge into her teaching, enabling guests to come into the present moment and find a greater sense of ease and calm, physically, emotionally, energetically and mentally.
