yoga - massage - game of transformation
Awaken and Evolve through Peaceful Surrender
Relax, renew, and recharge at the serene sanctuary called The Healing Tree. They welcome you to their healing space and home, a three bedroom 400-year old Gozitan farmhouse offering comfort, charm, and tranquility. Join Andrea and the house of women, as they guide and lead you for 4 days of yoga, meditation, self-care, and inner exploration. Daily outdoor private yoga classes, experience sunrise and sunset, a visit to a sacred feminine site, daily card readings, and play the insightful Game of Transformation in which you will rest, restore, and feel rejuvenated. You will also receive 1 healing treatment of massage.
Allow yourself the opportunity to let go of the pain, suffering, and discomfort that has accumulated in the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Be supported to embrace and meet your inner world. Receive tools on how to cultivate your relationship with yourself and how to relax in the discomfort of what arises within you. Honor yourself through time and space in a safe, nurturing, guided healing sanctuary. Andrea will also be on hand for one-on-one individual and personal support and guidance if needed.
This retreat focuses on relaxation, allowing what has been unseen within to be seen, embraced, and transformed through support and guidance. Techniques, foods, guidance, exercises, and sessions all to support your process. (this retreat is not a replacement for medical assistance or a home for substance withdrawal).
Allow yourself the opportunity to let go of the pain, suffering, and discomfort that has accumulated in the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Be supported to embrace and meet your inner world. Receive tools on how to cultivate your relationship with yourself and how to relax in the discomfort of what arises within you. Honor yourself through time and space in a safe, nurturing, guided healing sanctuary. Andrea will also be on hand for one-on-one individual and personal support and guidance if needed.
This retreat focuses on relaxation, allowing what has been unseen within to be seen, embraced, and transformed through support and guidance. Techniques, foods, guidance, exercises, and sessions all to support your process. (this retreat is not a replacement for medical assistance or a home for substance withdrawal).
location
This retreat will take place in the middle of the Mediterranean sea on the island of Gozo in the village of Qala. Gozo, which means 'joy', is a little spit of land sitting in the Mediterranean Sea with unique rocky coastal landscape, waters so crystal-clear and the sky so bright blue that you’ll have to rub your eyes to believe what you are seeing. Gozo is the second largest island of the Maltese Archipelago and is an ideal destination for those who treasure a slow, relaxed rhythm of life and cherish unspoilt countryside and being close to the sea. Baroque churches and old stone farmhouses dot the countryside. The beauty of surrounding nature all around create an ambience of complete peace.
schedule
This is a personal retreat that is conducted in flow, which means, adjusts to the natural rhythms of life and how we feel in the moment.
Each retreat is tailored to what you need at a specific time through diet, yoga practices, guided meditations, healing therapies, guidance, and free time. The schedule is flexible to be most suitable for your needs and reflected by the season.
Summer Schedule
-Day 1: Arrival
*15:00 Check in
*18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
-Day 2
*08:30 - 09:30 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*9:30 - 10:30 Card Readings
*11:00 - 12:00 Massage
*14:00 - 15:00 Lunch
*18:30 - 20:30 Outdoor Yoga, Walk & Sunset
*21:00 Light Dinner
-Day 3
*06:30 - 08:30 Seaside Yoga, Meditation, and Walk
*09:30 - 10:30 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*10:30 - 11:30 Card Readings
*14:00 - 15:00 Lunch
*15:30 - 18:00 Game of Transformation
*20:00 Light Dinner
-Day 4: Departure
*06:00 - 08:00 Silent sunrise meditation, walk, and swim (optional and weather permitting)
*09:00 - 10:00 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*10:30 - 11:30 Card Readings
*12:00 Check out
Winter Schedule
-Day 1: Arrival
*15:00 Check in
*18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
-Day 2
*08:30 - 09:30 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*9:30 - 10:30 Card Readings
*13:00 - 14:00 Massage
*15:30 - 17:30 Outdoor Yoga, Walk & Sunset
*18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
-Day 3
*07:00 - 09:00 Seaside yoga, meditation, and walk
*09:30 - 10:30 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*11:00 - 12:00 Card Readings
*13:00 - 15:30 Game of Transformation
*18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
-Day 4: Departure
*06:00 - 08:00 Silent sunrise meditation, walk, and swim (optional and weather permitting)
*09:00 - 10:00 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*10:00 - 11:00 Card Readings
*12:00 Check out
*Karma yoga performed daily, which is, together we clean up after meals washing, drying, and putting away the dishes. You are always welcome to help water the plants in the garden or garden if you wish too.
*If weather does not permit us to be outdoors, yoga sessions will be in the cave.
*Thursday evenings from 19:00-20:30 are self-care sessions.
*During Full Moon, there is the option to participate in an Ecstatic Dance and / Kirtan 5 EUR each offering.
Each retreat is tailored to what you need at a specific time through diet, yoga practices, guided meditations, healing therapies, guidance, and free time. The schedule is flexible to be most suitable for your needs and reflected by the season.
Summer Schedule
-Day 1: Arrival
*15:00 Check in
*18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
-Day 2
*08:30 - 09:30 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*9:30 - 10:30 Card Readings
*11:00 - 12:00 Massage
*14:00 - 15:00 Lunch
*18:30 - 20:30 Outdoor Yoga, Walk & Sunset
*21:00 Light Dinner
-Day 3
*06:30 - 08:30 Seaside Yoga, Meditation, and Walk
*09:30 - 10:30 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*10:30 - 11:30 Card Readings
*14:00 - 15:00 Lunch
*15:30 - 18:00 Game of Transformation
*20:00 Light Dinner
-Day 4: Departure
*06:00 - 08:00 Silent sunrise meditation, walk, and swim (optional and weather permitting)
*09:00 - 10:00 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*10:30 - 11:30 Card Readings
*12:00 Check out
Winter Schedule
-Day 1: Arrival
*15:00 Check in
*18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
-Day 2
*08:30 - 09:30 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*9:30 - 10:30 Card Readings
*13:00 - 14:00 Massage
*15:30 - 17:30 Outdoor Yoga, Walk & Sunset
*18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
-Day 3
*07:00 - 09:00 Seaside yoga, meditation, and walk
*09:30 - 10:30 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*11:00 - 12:00 Card Readings
*13:00 - 15:30 Game of Transformation
*18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
-Day 4: Departure
*06:00 - 08:00 Silent sunrise meditation, walk, and swim (optional and weather permitting)
*09:00 - 10:00 Fresh Juice & Breakfast
*10:00 - 11:00 Card Readings
*12:00 Check out
*Karma yoga performed daily, which is, together we clean up after meals washing, drying, and putting away the dishes. You are always welcome to help water the plants in the garden or garden if you wish too.
*If weather does not permit us to be outdoors, yoga sessions will be in the cave.
*Thursday evenings from 19:00-20:30 are self-care sessions.
*During Full Moon, there is the option to participate in an Ecstatic Dance and / Kirtan 5 EUR each offering.
What is included
2 Yoga & Meditation Sessions
3 Walks / Treks (2 with yoga)
1 Sunrise in Silence
1 Healing Massage Treatment
1 Game of Transformation
Daily Card Readings
Optional activities / exercises to cultivate your relationship with yourself
2 Yoga Sessions with meditation and walk
One-on-one individual and personal support and guidance
Daily Fresh Vegetable Juice or Superfood Smoothie
Free pickup and drop-off from the Gozo ferry
3 nights accommodation
Meals made with organic vegetables from our garden (when available)
Gift yourself the time and opportunity to connect with yourself
Heal and transform in a relaxed, gentle, loving sanctuary
A healing environment surrounded by sun and sea
accomodation
The Healing Tree welcomes you to their healing space, a 400-year-old farmhouse built of the local Maltese limestone, which has been renovated and kept in old-modern style, offering comfort, charm, and relaxation.
The house is set on three floors with three en-suite bedrooms, a healing therapy cave, a fully equipped kitchen, a living room, fireplace, and a private pool overlooking Comino and Malta. The farmhouse offers a warm, sensual, and idyllic sanctuary to re-generate and re-invent yourself.
You will find fresh lemon turmeric water available as well as fresh herbal teas. Both the indoor and outdoor living spaces are comfortable and inviting - a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere to be in and enjoy. The Healing Tree also shares their home with their warm loving cats Molly, Tigre, Blackie, and Azue.
You will stay in a private bedroom with en-suite bathroom. Fresh towels and linens, and a hairdryer are provided. There is Wi-Fi and each room is equipped with a gas heater for winter and a fan for summer.
Andrea lives on the property.
Sky Room
The top room, which has a private entrance, has two beds (one queen and one single) and an en-suite bathroom. It also has A/C and its own bottled water dispenser and electric kettle. The room has its own large private terrace with a sunbed and table and chairs. It is perfect for privacy in nature as well as personal yoga practice or dance. It has the best view for sunrise as well as the island of Comino. The room is ideal for inspiration, connection with the elements, and outward energy.
Pool Room
The middle room, which connects to the common areas, has one queen bed and an en-suite bathroom. It has a door that connects directly to the pool. The bathroom also has a bathtub. It is the oldest room in the house and displays traditional Maltese tiles as well as high ceilings. The room is ideal for dream, relaxation, and connection to water.
Earth Room
The lower room, which is partially underground, has one queen bed and an en-suite bathroom. It connects to the healing cave. It is the quietest room in the home. The room is ideal as for deep introspection and meditation. The energy of the room and its cave have been known as an initiation room, where you are able to meet, embrace, and unlock awareness and power that has previously held you back.
Massages, sessions with Andrea, and yoga - weather not permitting in winter - will be held in the cave (only for those on retreat). We kindly ask you to allow us to pass through the room to the cave. All other uses of the cave are by discretion of the guest in this room.
The house is set on three floors with three en-suite bedrooms, a healing therapy cave, a fully equipped kitchen, a living room, fireplace, and a private pool overlooking Comino and Malta. The farmhouse offers a warm, sensual, and idyllic sanctuary to re-generate and re-invent yourself.
You will find fresh lemon turmeric water available as well as fresh herbal teas. Both the indoor and outdoor living spaces are comfortable and inviting - a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere to be in and enjoy. The Healing Tree also shares their home with their warm loving cats Molly, Tigre, Blackie, and Azue.
You will stay in a private bedroom with en-suite bathroom. Fresh towels and linens, and a hairdryer are provided. There is Wi-Fi and each room is equipped with a gas heater for winter and a fan for summer.
Andrea lives on the property.
Sky Room
The top room, which has a private entrance, has two beds (one queen and one single) and an en-suite bathroom. It also has A/C and its own bottled water dispenser and electric kettle. The room has its own large private terrace with a sunbed and table and chairs. It is perfect for privacy in nature as well as personal yoga practice or dance. It has the best view for sunrise as well as the island of Comino. The room is ideal for inspiration, connection with the elements, and outward energy.
Pool Room
The middle room, which connects to the common areas, has one queen bed and an en-suite bathroom. It has a door that connects directly to the pool. The bathroom also has a bathtub. It is the oldest room in the house and displays traditional Maltese tiles as well as high ceilings. The room is ideal for dream, relaxation, and connection to water.
Earth Room
The lower room, which is partially underground, has one queen bed and an en-suite bathroom. It connects to the healing cave. It is the quietest room in the home. The room is ideal as for deep introspection and meditation. The energy of the room and its cave have been known as an initiation room, where you are able to meet, embrace, and unlock awareness and power that has previously held you back.
Massages, sessions with Andrea, and yoga - weather not permitting in winter - will be held in the cave (only for those on retreat). We kindly ask you to allow us to pass through the room to the cave. All other uses of the cave are by discretion of the guest in this room.
food
All meals are vegetarian/vegan and usually gluten-free and it can be bio and organic when available. The meals are a combination of hot, warm, cool food depending on the weather. Meals can be eaten together or solo, outside on the terrace (weather permitting), picnic-style, or indoors.
Meals are prepared by Andrea or vegan chef Petra, who has extensive experience as a vegan raw chef here on the islands and cooking for retreats.
One fresh juice or superfood smoothie will be offered daily with the exception of days off.
Example menus
-Brunch / Breakfast
*Fresh local fruit or vegetable juice
*Fresh local fruit or vegetable superfood smoothie
*Warm spicy porridge with fruits, nuts, or seeds
*Soaked chia seeds in coconut milk with local fruit
*Spinach pie
*Chia pudding with granola
*Overnight porridge
*Forrest fruit or apple vanilla crumble
*Gluten-free onion and herbal bread with hummus and veggies
-Lunch / Dinner
*Indian daal with cumin rice and/or papad
*Mushroom rosemary risotto
*Cashew cream gluten free vegan lasagne
*Tomato and mushroom thyme polenta
*Shepherd's pie with vegan meat
*Cannelloni with fresh goat/sheep cheese and spinach
*Coconut curry with cardamon seeds
*Asian stir fry with peanut butter sauce
*Tagliatelle with creamy mushroom sauce
Light dinner (summer) is a hearty soup served with gluten free crackers or gluten free bread
Snacks available include fresh fruit, an assortment of nuts and dried fruits, dark chocolate, dips (hummus, pesto, and bean), granola bars, energy balls, rice crackers, and fresh vegetables.
Meals are prepared by Andrea or vegan chef Petra, who has extensive experience as a vegan raw chef here on the islands and cooking for retreats.
One fresh juice or superfood smoothie will be offered daily with the exception of days off.
Example menus
-Brunch / Breakfast
*Fresh local fruit or vegetable juice
*Fresh local fruit or vegetable superfood smoothie
*Warm spicy porridge with fruits, nuts, or seeds
*Soaked chia seeds in coconut milk with local fruit
*Spinach pie
*Chia pudding with granola
*Overnight porridge
*Forrest fruit or apple vanilla crumble
*Gluten-free onion and herbal bread with hummus and veggies
-Lunch / Dinner
*Indian daal with cumin rice and/or papad
*Mushroom rosemary risotto
*Cashew cream gluten free vegan lasagne
*Tomato and mushroom thyme polenta
*Shepherd's pie with vegan meat
*Cannelloni with fresh goat/sheep cheese and spinach
*Coconut curry with cardamon seeds
*Asian stir fry with peanut butter sauce
*Tagliatelle with creamy mushroom sauce
Light dinner (summer) is a hearty soup served with gluten free crackers or gluten free bread
Snacks available include fresh fruit, an assortment of nuts and dried fruits, dark chocolate, dips (hummus, pesto, and bean), granola bars, energy balls, rice crackers, and fresh vegetables.
price
Due to the wave of change, its more important than ever to return within
and remember what you are and why you are here
and remember what you are and why you are here
December - March (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €600
April - May, November (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €625
June, October (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €650
July - August (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €700
September (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €675
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €600
April - May, November (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €625
June, October (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €650
July - August (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €700
September (excludes holidays)
Pool & Earth Room:
1 Person Private: €675
how to get here
Bus:
There is a direct bus X1 (€2) that will take you from the airport directly to the Gozo Ferry Terminal. The journey by bus takes over an hour and you will enjoy some nice views of Malta on the way.
Taxi:
I can also organise a taxi from the airport to the ferry terminal in Malta (Cirkewwa) and the cost is around €25. Please send your flight details and exact arrival time.
Car:
Specific directions and location available upon request.
Malta - Gozo Ferry
You will be picked up and dropped off from the ferry terminal in Gozo.
It takes 25 minutes to cross to Gozo. You only pay for the ferry when you leave the island (€4.65).
There is a direct bus X1 (€2) that will take you from the airport directly to the Gozo Ferry Terminal. The journey by bus takes over an hour and you will enjoy some nice views of Malta on the way.
Taxi:
I can also organise a taxi from the airport to the ferry terminal in Malta (Cirkewwa) and the cost is around €25. Please send your flight details and exact arrival time.
Car:
Specific directions and location available upon request.
Malta - Gozo Ferry
You will be picked up and dropped off from the ferry terminal in Gozo.
It takes 25 minutes to cross to Gozo. You only pay for the ferry when you leave the island (€4.65).
Booking
Deposits are non-refundable
In order to confirm your place, we request a 50% deposit.
In the unlikely event that you are unable to travel due to Covid restrictions, your deposit is then fully transferrable. This is valid up to 10 days before the start of the retreat
The rest of the payment should be paid upon arrival.
Participants are expected to arrange their own flights and travel/health insurance.
Contact
Whatsapp +356 79055240
TheHealingTreeAndreaLRidgway@gmail.com
Deposits are non-refundable
In order to confirm your place, we request a 50% deposit.
In the unlikely event that you are unable to travel due to Covid restrictions, your deposit is then fully transferrable. This is valid up to 10 days before the start of the retreat
The rest of the payment should be paid upon arrival.
Participants are expected to arrange their own flights and travel/health insurance.
Contact
Whatsapp +356 79055240
TheHealingTreeAndreaLRidgway@gmail.com