“The Serai is so magical. It looks and feels part of the landscape, like it’s been here, connecting souls for ever and ever.”
Revitalise & Inspire
June 22nd – 28th 2025
September 13th – 19th 2025
Elemental Essaouira Retreat
Full Moon & New Moon
Magic
@theserai.essaouira
Join Larah of Avatara Life, retreat facilitator, clinically trained yoga therapist, somatic coach, quantum medicine practitoner and founder of Ibiza Retreats, together with Ayelen & Mark, retreat hosts and co-Creators of the Serai, a dramatic kasbah on the Atlantic coast.
Together with their beautiful team of talented Sound Healer Mireille Vogelsang, Guest Musicians, Private Chef Nadine of Wild Garden Delights and Serai angel-hosts we welcome you to…
REVITALISE & INSPIRE your Creativity
Enjoy deep Soul Nourishment &
Total Revitalisation of Body, Heart & Mind
On a 4 night, 5 day guided journey
With plenty of time & space to reflect, rest, explore… and “be”
With morning meditation and yoga sessions & evening sound journeys and ceremonies in the stunning SERAI TEMPLE
Creative adventures in the forest and silent mindfulness walks on the beach…
Nourish with fresh, clean, vegetarian cuisine… inspired by the 5 Elements and Ayurvedic Principles
Gaze on the never-ending horizon that stretches as far as the eye can see
Rest your head and sleep sweet & deep in your choice of shared or single occupancy
“This magic place is a gift, reconnecting me with my creativity.”
Meet your retreat leaders
Larah Davis, Holistic Life Coach, Yoga Teacher, Therapist, Integrative Quantum Medicine™
(IQM) Specialist, and founder of Ibiza Retreats
Viridiana, Yoga, Dance and Meditation Teacher
Nadine, Chef
Vanessa, Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy (BSc), Physiotherapist and Massage Therapist, and Yoga Teacher
Ayelen & Mark , Owners The Serai
Larah Davis
Larah is an international renowned Retreat Facilitator, Clinically Trained Yoga Therapist, Somatic Yoga Teacher, Holistic Life Coach and Leadership Mentor, Integrative Quantum Medicine and NLP Master Practitioner.
Yoga and holistic medicine became her self-healing pathway, after experiencing the chronic back-pain of a head-on car crash, she studied with teachers and Gurus from India to New York, UK and Australia.
Larah founded Ibiza Retreats in 2007, created 2 retreat centres in Ibiza and has led 100’s of retreats and 1000’s of personalised transformational wellness journeys in Ibiza and internationally.
Larah offers retreats as community journeys: as “medicine” for healing, transformation, alignment and evolutionary leadership. She weaves 20 years of
wisdom and experience from Yogic, Philosophical and Shamanic Lineages, to inspire you to be the change you wish to live… from within.
She is passionate about empowerment: welcoming all who come to reconnect with their purpose, pleasures and curiosity for the magic of life as she invites you to Feel – Heal and Transform.
Viridiana
Viridiana is a Yoga, Dance and Meditation Teacher
Viridiana began practicing yoga as part of her training as a professional dancer in cartagena, Colombia when she was 8 years old in 1995. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Studies of Dance and left her professional dance career to start a family and focus on her yogic practice. Hatha Vinyasa and Tantra Yoga.
She sees herself as a student of yoga for life and regards her teaching as a deepening of her own practice.
Viridiana’s dance background provides a dynamic and fluid focus for her classes. She uses precise transitions and observes the spaces that carry us from one place to another. Her emphasis on posture alignment allows a safer practice and invites us to arrive at stillness and meditation offering a path inwards to self discovery and cultivation – or her in her guided Elemental Ecstatic Dance – full self-expression and liberation.
Nadine
Our holistic chef Nadine takes loving care care of our culinary well-being during the retreat. Her style of cooking plays with the magic of an infinite combination of flavours and textures, weaving delicious Vegan plant-based cuisine, with vegetarian options and always integrating her knowledge of Ayurveda & The Five Elements so that our nourishment compliments the retreat journey.
Nadine knows combines the perfect balance of nutrients and vibrant aliments into each dish: to satisfy the body and nourish the soul. Composed with local ingredients and with spices and delights taking inspiration from her international travels she will be happy to explain her creations and share her knowledge during our meals.
Vanessa
A Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy (BSc), Physiotherapist and Massage Therapist, Yoga Teacher and is passionate about holistic fitness.
With over 25 years of experience, Vanessa is a highly experienced and practised therapist of the body, with a profound knowledge of the nervous system and subtle energies.
She has developed an exquisite sense of touch which allows her to provide a Holistic Healing Massage Therapy journey – integrating Reiki and Somatic feedback into a complete revelationary experience.
Vanessa’s treatments combine Deep Tissue, Sports, Fascia Release, Lymphatic Drainage, Pregnancy, Facial massage, Neck & Jaw release, Shiatsu & Reiki.
Ayelen & Mark
Mark began the journey in 2005… when the ground below the Serai was just rubble and rock – and when he met Ayelen – and brought Camels and donkeys to dig a well the size of a blue whale, working only with members of the local community Mark & Ayelen’s love for this slow and conscious co-creative experience, the SERAI rose like a Castle from the Sand.
Envisioned into being, co-created by heart and hand: two children arriving into Ayelen’s & Mark’s lives, as a family they co-created the SERAI to feel like a home for all who come – as Mark says “realising that the true value in this project lay in the journey, not in the end result, we turned the construction of the Serai into a lifestyle choice.”
“It made it all so much fun. Friends and strangers alike flocked to help us, to toll alongside fishermen from the village.”
Ayelen may well guide us through the Dunes, or Caves…her inspiring life stories inviting all of us to be our most authentic, joyful beings.
House Angels
We are gifted with the presence and loving hosting of The Serai neighbours – their family has been the local community for many generations and it is a gift to feel their authentic kindness and gentle presence within the retreat itself.
Camels
These Camels are our neighbours – and offer the gentle therapeutic joy of meeting a soft and powerful being, sometimes with their heads over the wall, sometimes with the forest just outside.
What’s Included in the Retreat:
4 nights & 5 days @TheSerai Castle-in-the-sand
- Full board purifying & clean vegetarian cuisine, with optional fresh fish supper
- Holistic Wellness Coaching / Check-in
- Daily morning:
- Meditations
- Breathwork & Guided Visualisations
- Somatic Flow Yoga & Self-Enquiry
Afternoon & Evening programs
- Welcome Ceremony
- Sound Healing Frequency Bath
- Creative Art & Movement Journey
- Full Moon Alchemy fire celebration with Ecstatic Dance
- Hammam with full body scrub ritual & Hammam massage plus trip into the MEDINA of Essaouira
- Trip to the DUNES
- Inbound Transfer from Marrakech airport **
- 1 extra night Can be booked @ B and B ( night of 8th – 9th April ) to enjoy shopping and supper in the Medina of Essouaira!
Prices
- Single 2295 euros pp
- Twin 1195 euros pp
- Master Twin 1495 euros pp
- Triple 895 euros pp
All rooms subject to availability.
Extras
- Integration post-retreat Holistic Mentoring
- Full-body Massages & further on-site treatments
- Private transfer at preferred time (group transfer leaves from Marrakech airport at approx 12:30 / 1pm)
- Return transfer (we organise for as many of the group as possible to return together)
- Horse rides
- Camel rides
- Surfing & Wind-surfing
Guests are welcome to stay extra nights B&B to relax, integrate and to explore Essaouira. Subject to availability.
About The Serai
Over 17 years Mark & Ayelen co-created this inspiring retreat sanctuary with the local community, on a piece of land that had, powerfully, chosen them both. Bringing the first materials to the site by camel, they taught themselves and their fishermen neighbours to build with ancient techniques, learnt Arabic and formed a bond with all that surrounded them. The dream was the journey, to build and grow and laugh at adversity.
The whole feeling here is of rugged Peace and Harmony. Just 5 minutes walk down to vast Atlantic beaches with secret caves, flanked by forest and hills that give you the feeling of coming home.
“Explore secret moonlit valleys, hidden caves by moonlight at low tide. Blankets of stars re-activate your natural highs”
Essaouira
Arrive early or stay for a 5th, 6th or 7th night to explore beautiful Essaouira.
Friendly, hospitable, with an open-minded international community, Essaouira has a calm, welcoming energy and is a hub of artisanal creativity.
Explore the ancient, walled Medina. A labyrinth of colourful, narrow streets; Cannons jutting out over the Atlantic waves, a busy fishing harbour and sunset-facing beach. Tiny artisanal workshops, restaurants and cafés to suit every taste.
“If you find yourself here it has been divined by a higher energy.”
Revitalise & Inspire
Elemental Essaouira Retreat 12 -16 March 2025 & 12 – 16 November 2025
RESERVE your place today
Prices & Booking
Choose from 4 room types:
Prices
- Triple 895 euros pp
- Twin 1195 euros pp
- Master Twin 1395 euros pp
- Single 1995 euros pp
All rooms subject to availability.
BOOK NOW by entering your details on the form on the right of this page.
50% deposit confirms your place.
Balance due 6 weeks prior to arrival.
