La Sirena Yoga
La Sirena started with organizing and hosting yoga and spiritual retreats in her adopted home of Ecuador, and has now grown to include a Holistic Centre offering Reiki, aromatherapy, natural health products and spa services, a yoga sangha with regular classes, and spiritual, health and wellness courses and seminars.
La Sirena empezó con organización y presentación de retiros de yoga en su país adoptada de Ecuador, y ahora ha crecido para incluir un Centro Holístico que ofrece Reiki, aromaterapia, productos y servicios de salud natural y spa, una sangha de yoga con clases fijos, y cursos y talleres de espiritualidad, salud y bienestar.
La Sirena Retreats y Centro Holístico | Cdla. Los Almendros, Manta, Ecuador | 593 52 381 344 | 593 987 267 157
Sunday, 22 June 2014
Solstice 2014 en La Sirena Centro Holístico ~ Celebrando nuestro Patrimonio Ancestral Universal ~ Celebrating our Universal Ancestral Heritage
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Your Therapist: Legit or Charlatan? ~ Tu Terapeuta: Legítima o Charlatán?
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Personal thoughts on Ahimsa: What comes around, goes around, or does it? Stopping the cycle of anger.
Pema Chodron's Heart Advice November 13, 2013
ANY ENCOUNTER OFFERS US A CHOICE
This is an idea that seems difficult for Westerners to accept: when someone harms us, they create the cause of their own suffering. They do this by strengthening habits that imprison them in a cycle of pain and confusion. It’s not that we are responsible for what someone else does, and certainly not that we should feel guilty. But when they harm us, we unintentionally become the means of their undoing. Had they looked on us with loving-kindness, however, we’d be the cause of their gathering virtue.
What I find helpful in this teaching is that what’s true for them is also true for me. The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.
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This is part of Ahimsa: non harming, through action, word or thought. When we harm others, we harm ourselves, even if it's just a nasty thought. The challenge is to maintain understanding and empathy for those who harm us repeatedly, who are relentless in their attacks. I know from my personal experience that when I get pushed to the limit and switch back to anger and resentment, even though someone is unjustly and purposely causing harm, thinking harmful thoughts about that person does more damage to me than to them because I get caught in a negative spiral of hate and anger that ends up engulfing everything, and leads to me acting out in anger, even towards total strangers. The result is always bad for me, but not for the person I am thinking angry thoughts about. However, when I think of that person harming me with compassion instead of anger, understanding why they are hurt and lashing out, I become enveloped in a bubble of love and joy, and my energy is focused on helping them to heal, even if just in my mind. Those positive thoughts and feelings flow out into my life and have a positive effect on me and all those I come in contact with, and it is my glowing smile that becomes contagious instead of anger and harm.
~ La Sirena
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Friday, 20 September 2013
MINI-RETIROS PRIVADOS
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
PRIVATE MINI-RETREATS WITH LA SIRENA ~ LIMITED TIME OFFER!!
Have you been thinking about doing a retreat but are worried about the cost? Are you not really into the group thing and prefer something more private? Do you want to do an individual or couple retreat that you can customize? Maybe you’d just like a little pampering and spiritual time after an adventure tour of the Galapagos or the Andes? Or maybe you just ended a relationship and need some healing time to yourself- a mini-retreat with La Sirena would be perfect for that.
La Sirena can customize an itinerary for you, or you and your partner, with as little or as much activity as you’d like, starting around $100 per day single. You choose the length, between 3-7 days, and the yoga, therapies and travel activities you want. You can choose to take some of your meals at the Centro Holístico, trying La Sirena’s anti-inflammatory and cleansing vegetarian diet, or eat out, or cook for yourself. You can pack your days with treatments, therapies, yoga and guided travel experiences, or just hang out at the beach and have a few therapies throughout your stay. You choose! La Sirena can even organise an itinerary for different locations before and after your stay at the Centro Holístico if you want, complete with private drivers known personally to La Sirena.
If you would like more information, please contact lasirena@lasirenayoga.org or check out our listing on Airbnb. You can book directly through Airbnb or work out a private plan with La Sirena. This will not be available again until March or even later in 2014. Think about it: your own private retreat in La Sirena’s home, surrounded by art and gardens and love, with your choice of therapies and activities and food; it’s all about YOU. Organic cacao and honey face mask? YES! Organic honey and essential oil eye treatment? YES! Reiki? YES! Sea salt and essential oil foot spa? YES! Yoga on the beach? YES! Guided chakra meditations? YES! One on one yoga classes for beginners too shy to join a regular class? YES! What are you waiting for?
Seriously, what are you waiting for? Say yes to yourself; say yes to health and wellness; say yes to starting fresh with a new routine. Book your time with La Sirena now!
Here is the link for the Airbnb listing.
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