Sonder

Welcome to Sonder

Affordable yoga retreats, teacher trainings, immersions and seasonal yoga events. 

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Yoga is not about self-improvement, it’s about self-acceptance.

Gurmukh kaur khalsa

Sonder. Type: Noun. Meaning: the realisation that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Sonder Yoga Retreats & Trainings was created with one idea in mind: to offer affordable yoga retreats, teacher trainings, immersions and seasonal yoga events. Anais Alvarado founded this company drawing from her experience running yoga studios and her own retreats, as well as those supported by other experienced teachers. It offers an alternative to anyone looking to deepen their yoga training or just take a break from their hectic day to day, without breaking the bank.

Our retreat venues are carefully selected, and we ensure there’s something for everyone. We often go back to the same venues because we just love them so much! We aim to offer a comfortable space, with lots of optional activities, spacious yoga rooms, and delicious local food. We welcome everyone to our retreats, no matter your age, level of experience, gender or size. We just want to do everything we can to help you unwind and recharge.

Our yoga trainings are devised by some of the best teachers in the UK and Europe. With a broad syllabus, interesting content and an up-to-date approach, we aim to help teachers find their own voice and stand out doing what they love. In 2020 we began to offer Further Trainings for teachers, ranging from Yin Yoga trainings, to full 300hr programs divided in 3 independent modules. And we aim to offer these every year. 

For those who don’t have time to go on a retreat and aren’t quite interested in becoming yoga teachers, but love the practice, we have a wide variety of one-day trainings and day retreats where you will be able to disconnect from your fast-paced week and take some time for yourself, to learn something new.

Namaste!

Yoga believes in transforming the individuals before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to  happen outside should happen within.

Swami Satchidananda

Foundation Teacher Trainings

If you are looking to become a yoga teacher, a foundation 200hr teacher training is the first stage in your teaching journey. To make the most of this training you should have a dedicated yoga practice of, ideally, at least a couple of years. Based on your experience on the mat, and with some advice from your favourite teachers, you should be able to decide what style of yoga you should complete your foundational training in.

We recommend you train in a style you feel familiar with, and that you try to attend the teacher’s public classes at least a couple of times so you can see whether you like their teaching style and energy. You will be spending quite some time with your teacher during the training so it is ideal that you feel comfortable around them and inspired by the way they share the practice.

We have a 200hr teacher training scheduled for Spring 2022, click below for more information:

The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.

Jason Crandell

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at Nalanda Retreat

Weds, Dec 28 2022 – Tue, Jan 03, 2023

Welcome 2023 in stunning Goa whilst enjoying an unforgettable yoga and sound retreat with Anais Alvarado and Amy Bellwood.

New year New you. A Yoga and Sound Retreat with Anais and Amy. As we welcome in the New Year, treat your mind, body and spirit to a sensory escape. Connecting with daily yoga and sound journeying we will begin to take steps to unlock and release trapped energy, dust away the cobwebs, readying ourselves not only for the year ahead but laying foundations for the rest of our lives.

There will be options to partake in Breathwork, Meditation, Crystal Healing and Essential Oils sessions, delving a little deeper into unlocking unhelpful patterning that we may have accumulated throughout our lives, reconnecting with our naturally awakened states. The week will open with a Puja Ceremony and End with a celebratory bonfire. You will be taken care of physically and spiritually. All food and accommodation included.

HOW TO BOOK?

Deposit of £250 paid via Eventbrite at the bottom of this page.

Early Bird balance per person is £650 for a shared twin room with private bathroom.

(Due in full by 1st July 2022 via bank transfer.)

Full Price balance per person is £725 for a shared twin room with private bathroom.

(Due in full by 15th Nov 2022 via bank transfer.)

T&C’s

Deposits are non refundable except in case of force majeure cancellations, where the deposit can be reused for a future retreat date.

Balance payments are non refundable if a cancellation is made by the client. Bookings can be transferred to a friend or waitlist client in case of cancellation.

Flights, UK transfers and extra activities not included in the price.

Please click here for further T&C’s.

Itinerary

Day 1	Arrival, airport transfers, welcome Puja, evening yoga flow, dinner
Day 2	Early AM meditation, morning yoga, breakfast, activities, early PM yin yoga & sound, dinner.
Day 3	Early AM meditation, morning yoga, breakfast, essential oils workshop, activities, early evening Yin&Yang yoga, dinner.
Day 4	Early AM meditation, morning yoga, breakfast, activities, dinner, evening yin & sound.
Day 5	Early AM meditation, morning yoga, breakfast, activities, early evening balancing workshop, dinner, evening yin yoga & sound.
Day 6	Early AM meditation, morning yoga, breakfast, activities, relaxing yoga session, dinner, bonfire party
Day 7	Early AM meditation, morning yoga, breakfast, airport transfers, departure.

Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.

Jason Crandell