14 Day Private 1 to 1 Awareness Retreat Nature Horseback Riding and Yoga in Malaga, Spain
Private Horse Riding Holiday in Spain
What can be more important than investing in yourself? Give yourself a private retreat with your own flexible coach and time to reflect and recharge. Fill yourself up with new energy. You will practice yoga, core, Pilates, sound massage, sound bath, chakra balancing, tarot, astrology, meditation, breathing, relaxation, presence, leadership, and communication.
Key information
- Rider weight limit: 176 pounds / 80 kilograms
- Horses' height range: Ponies to 15 - 16 hands
- Horse breed: Pure Spanish breed, Andalusians, and crossbreeds
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- 10 show jumping or basic riding lessons
- 2 40-minute Peter Hess® sound massage or a relaxing massage
- Coaching to define what you want to work with
- Yin yoga and slow flow sessions
- Four elements session
- Chakra balancing, breathwork, and mindfulness practices
- Tarot and astrology
- 13 nights accommodation with breakfast and lunch
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Types
14 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
Facilities
- Golf course
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Bar
- Barbeque facilities
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Luggage room / storage
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Convenience / grocery store
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Laundry
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
You will stay in a fresh and bright caravan with a 1.40 x 1.90 bed and a sofa that is convertible to a bed with a 1m x 2m mattress. It has a Trumatic gas heater and Freshjet aircondition. There are showers - one in the caravan, one in the pool area, and one in the main building.
The finca has a lovely garden with all kinds of vegetables, herbs, and several fruit trees, including lemon, orange, kaki, and pomegranate. Every season offers different things that will be served fresh from the garden, and Spainriding Finca's own chickens always provide them with "homemade" eggs.
You will also find a BBQ area, a yoga area, and a sweet little swimming pool with sunbeds and an adorable cat to cuddle with.
Program
All tuition is tailor-made to suit your wishes and preferences, starting with the basics. The riding center a 5-minute walk away, is very jump-oriented. Here you will find a great show jumping arena that is always full of obstacles. The foundation of jumping is learning to ride in balance. You will have time to get to know your horse by warming up your horse independently. The instructor will give you basic instructions and then leave you to feel your body and find balance at your own pace. This gives you the opportunity to create good communication with the horse and become in tune so that you can start jumping at the appropriate level. Adolfo or Adolfito will be your riding teacher. There are other stables 20 to 40 minutes drive away that offers trekking / hikes and dressage. In the dressage stable the lessons gets more into details and you will ride different riding figures such as diagonals, circles, serpentines and lines. This will improve your communication, balance and coordination. All stables have horses of all sizes and for riders of all levels.
A Journey to Self
How to best enjoy your precious life? Let Mia Isacsson guide you on a journey to self. Welcome to a private conscious awakening retreat in Malaga. All tuition will be tailor-made to suit each individual's level and preferences, starting with the basics. Mia Isacsson will also help you find your path based on your energy level. No experience is required; just meet them as you are. Ten hours of horseback riding are included.
It will be possible to fill your days with activities. They, however, would like to encourage you not to get too busy, but instead take some time to be on your own and reflect. This will be a journey to Spain, but even more so, a journey towards yourself, a journey within. This is what it could look like:
Arrival day
- 15.00 Check in
- 16.00 Introduction / set your intentions
- 17.00 Theory / yoga / coaching
Full day
- 08.00 Yoga
- 10.00 Horseback riding
- 15.00 - 18.00 Activities of your choice - coaching, yoga, core, qigong, meditation, breath work, tarot card session, crystal session, chakra balance or a sound bath.
Check out day
- 08.00 Yoga
- 10.00 Summary to synthesize the experience
- 12.00 Check out
Riding Gear
It is recommended that if you are going to ride, you provide your own riding helmet and that you wear riding pants and boots or chaps. There are some helmets at the stable that you can use, but they are not of very high quality. All guests should have a reasonable standard of fitness from the point of view of safety.
You will ride in dressage, all-around, or jumping saddles, depending on what you will practice. The bridles are double bridles or single bridles.
Weather
It rarely rains there in Costa del Sol, but during the winter, there can be heavy rains that make riding risky.
If this should happen, you will be offered other activities instead: an excursion, core and yoga classes, sound bath, sound massage, voice and sound journey, coaching, astrology, chakra balancing, crystal and moon ceremonies, and tarot card readings. The same applies if you find it too hot to ride in the summer.
The schedule will be adjusted according to your skills and wishes, the day you arrive, the season, and the weather.
Peter Hess® Sound Massage
To make you even more relaxed, a Peter Hess® sound massage is included. The session typically starts with the client lying down comfortably on a yoga mat, mattress, bed, or massage table, fully clothed. Each session will be tailor-made to suit the needs of the client.
Tibetan singing bowls are placed on or around the body, often on specific energy centers or chakras, and played with a mallet. The resonant sounds and vibrations emitted by the singing bowls are thought to gently balance and harmonize the body’s energy, facilitating relaxation and a sense of inner calm.
The vibrations and frequencies produced are said to penetrate deeply into the body, helping to release tension, reduce stress, and induce a meditative state.
Voice and sound journey
This will be useful if you would like to explore and express yourself through the use of your voice. The voice is the first instrument, coming from the depths of human existence. The goals of this practice are to more consciously hear and know yourself, feel free to express yourself, make yourself heard, free yourself from limiting conditioning, develop a greater understanding of your creative expression, and create a greater trust in yourself. You can also be introduced to "light code / language."
Moon ceremony
A celebration to the moon, this can be done in many ways. In summer, just lying down and looking at the sky is an amazing experience. In colder seasons, a yoga moon salutation might be a better choice. Crystals will be used, and there will be different themes according to the lunar phases and what astrological sign the moon is in.
Yoga
Yoga and other exercises can wake up your physical body, create a nice feeling in your emotional body, balance your mind, set clear intentions, and tune in to your spiritual body. Yin, slow flow, core, Qigong, and Pilates will be practiced.
Included excursions
Two excursions are included. More can be added. There are a lot of options, depending on the season and day of arrival: guided hike in the mountains, trail ride in the mountains, four-element meditation on the beach, Buddhist temple, Horse and Carriage, donkey dreamland, zipline, flamenco show, a marketplace, a typical Spanish small white village, Malaga center, a beach ride, Spanish Feria, shopping center, the botanical garden in Torremolinos, Agua Park, or just a trip to the beach to relax, etc. Additional costs that the excursion may entail are not included.
Instructors
Mia Isacsson
In the early -90s, Mia became an Astrology & Psychodrama Coach. Counsellor´s training program 1995-1996 based on modern relationship-oriented psychoanalysis, linguistics, voice dialogue, NLP. She progressed from student to teacher. She has been training executives, management, staff and personnel, group as well as one-to one. Mia has CBT & M.I. diploma, intensiv yoga teacher training 2015, certified to give Peter Hess® Sound Massage, teaching horses and clients up to Grand Prix level. Now she offers retreats for personal growth in Spain.
Adolfo Espinosa
If you want to do showjumping on a higher level, Adolfo will be your instructor. He is very well experienced and loves to teach. He speaks Spanish and enough English to make you understand what he wants you to do (with a little bit of help from hands and an open mind).
Adolfito Espinosa
Adolfito has grown up helping his father with competitions and training horses and clients at the Riding Center. He is now participating in show jumping competitions and has won a lot of medals. His English is quite good and he really get the best out of his students. He puts a lot of work into perfection so that the rider can jump even slightly higher obstacles safely. First class is to check your level, then a class for a rider with at least basic skills contains warm up your horse in all gates and then jumps according to your level.
Tatjana Di Marzio
Tatjana,born in Italy, has a master in Art therapy and Alchemic symbols, studied fashion and costume, Kundalini yoga and Tantric numerology and practice it for more than 10 years. She a painter, fashion designer,art teacher and Yoga teacher. Tatjana is passionate about psychology of the mind and understanding and healings of traumas. Love life and live aligned with nature cycles. She went through a lot and is now teaching healing by sharing her own experiences. She is spreading love, light and energy where ever she goes. She also cook the best old style high quality Italian food
Cris
Cris offers guided horse riding tours near the small village of Maqueda. You get to ride one of her very nice and well-trained private horses, Pure Spanish Breds and one Lusitano. Different rutes of one, two or threee hours from her house, in the nature,through the village, up the hills overlooking the bay of Malaga etc. Cris has a lovely personality and many years of experince taking people out for trekking. She train horses up to high level and has also been working in a horse show for many years.
Location
Only 20 minutes from Malaga airport, you will find Mia Isacsson, who has been working as a coach / guide since 1995. Just a five-minute walk from the Spainriding Finca, you will find a well-maintained riding center with a large show jumping arena and a 60 x 20 dressage arena.
There, you will also find the Stable Bar. At the riding center, you will find a great show jumping stable with a big arena that is always full of obstacles. The owners themselves compete in show jumping.
Food
The refrigerator will be filled with whatever you fancy for breakfast so that you can have the breakfast of your own choice. Dinner is not included but there will also always be some fruit, snacks, a yogurt, a sandwich, tea, coffee, etc. available for you. There are also three very nice restaurants within walking distance: Lauro Golf, La Porrita, and Torre de Vega "El Mora."
If you have special requirements, please send an inquiry.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Other dietary requirements on request
What's included
- 10 show jumping or basic riding lessons (can be swapped for other activities)
- 2 excursions
- Communication theory lesson
- Yin and slow flow yoga session
- Sound massage
- Chakra balancing
- Crystals
- Sound bath
- Astrology
- Tarot
- Breathwork and mindfulness practice
- Opportunity to explore the hiking trails in the nearby mountains
- No stress and a lot of time for you
- Yoga mats, blankets, blocks, and yoga straps for the yoga sessions
- Small swimming pool (not heated)
- Sunbeds and pool area towels
- A complementary wash of yoga or riding clothes
- Bed linen and towels
- 13 nights accommodation
- Breakfast and lunch (only breakfast for the budget option)
- Unlimited water, tea, and coffee
What's not included
- Flights and airport transfers
- Dinner (can be added)
- Insurance (all of Spainridings' horses and things carry insurance; however, you are responsible for your own holiday and riding insurance)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer available for additional US$ 70 per person
Málaga Airport
11 km away from your destination
Arrival by taxi
You can easily take a taxi from Málaga Airport (AGP), or Mia can organize someone to pick you up at an additional cost.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 40% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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