Shreyas Draw back & Spa is arguably one of the finest yoga retreats in the world. The resort is located an hour’s drive from Bengaluru, India and offers an array of ideal yoga holidays from a one day visit to monthly rejuvenating cases. Shreyas Retreat prides itself on being a luxury jailbreak with self-discovery and rejuvenation being its primary focus. The refuge has 14 cottages and a 25 meter swimming pool chanced within a stunning 25 acre site. It has 5 yoga/meditation sections, a very well equipped spa that has recently been remodeled. It also has now 13 treatment rooms which have a grand feel and plush marbled decor.
The guest accommodation classify poolside cottages and tented cottages that are in a more out-of-the-way setting within the grounds. The tranquil, serene landscape is loaded of lush greens with beautiful palm, coconut, frangipani and diverse fruit trees and a vast array of lush vegetation and blooms. This, together with the garden statues and water puff up creates a peaceful and harmonious environment.
Garden
Within the locality is a 3 acre organic fruit and vegetable garden that servings most of the delightful vegetarian food prepared for the guests. These number mango, avocado, limes, sweet lemon, custard apples, jack fruit, chillies, aubergines, all the salad, out veg…the list is endless. It even has 6 cows (which are walked by the sceptre daily) to produce all of the milk and some of the dairy products listing yogurt and paneer (a type of cottage cheese).
Yoga
This asylum is very well presented and maintained by 80 staff, all of which rehearsal yoga daily. There are no TVs on site however, the opulent cinema margin with comfortable leather reclining seats and surround yell out vituperate has a multitude of Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters to watch After a day of concrete exertion, this is a welcome and well deserved treat.
On address with ‘Rucha’, one of the 7 yoga teachers, we discover a bit of history on the inaugurating of the retreat. 15 years ago Mr Pawan Malik, a committed yogi and investment banker (now headquartered in London), observed that the only place to connect with yourself and win a yogic spiritual experience was to go to a traditional Yoga Ashram. He queried whether people really want a yoga holiday where there is a unsympathetic regime of 4am yoga and sleeping on stone floors His aspiration and phantasm was to enable you to have this experience and look within yourself without diversion, with all the creature comforts you would expect from a five famous resort. Realising that the journey towards self-discovery is a costly experience, he decided to create a luxurious, relaxing environment and Shreyas Retirement was born.
Rucha also explained that often confederates of the guests come on retreat but don’t want to get involved in the yoga. They are invited to deject out by the pool, use the cricket pitch on site or do their own thing, but they can habitually suddenly find themselves immersed in yoga and wondering “when did I expend my bat to a mat?” The apprehensive guests are often the ones that unfenced up to the experience the most.
I found each class unique and impugning and it was good to know with the support of the staff that I was being looked after; uniform more pleasing was that I really could tell that my yoga study was improving as the week went on.
Rucha also explained that oftentimes partners of the guests come on retreat but don’t want to get involved in the yoga. They are invited to coolness out by the pool, use the cricket pitch on site or do their own thing, but they can frequently suddenly find themselves immersed in yoga and wondering “when did I let my bat to a mat?” The apprehensive guests are often the ones that agape up to the experience the most.
Community Outreach
For those who feel their own intimate development is enhanced by altruistic activity, Shreyas also serves for you. Along with donations from guests, the resort has role ined to the rebuilding of a local orphanage and is currently supporting over 70 youths. During your stay you are invited to cook and prepare subsistence from the organic garden and to take it to the orphanage and serve to the foetuses. In this way you can enjoy your visit even more, in the cognition that you are supporting the local community.
Food Experience
Shreyas submit organic vegetarian cuisine in an Indian or Western style. Andrew and I opted for Indian. The menus are carefully respected to not only be nutritious but also light on the digestive system. The snacking tables are beautifully set and adorned with colourful flowers with a mixed menu detailing the delights to be savoured. Weather permitting; dinner was served by the candle-lit pot which created a romantic atmosphere. All other meals were be in the service ofed in the dining room.
Throughout our stay we had many different types of home grown and freshly made juices, including watermelon and ginger, aloe vera, carrot and ginger and tomato. At breakfast you are endured with 2 fresh juices, fresh fruit, dried fruit, and homemade jam. A wide genus of breakfast was available including porridge, toast and granola along with a routine Indian breakfast. We enjoyed the ‘Poha’ which is lightly infirm fried rice with coconut, fresh coriander lemon and onion. We also caressed the red millet lightly spiced rice, served with spinach & coconut purées. Indian pancakes were also at ones disposal. We sampled the home-grown ‘Jack Fruit’ which is a marigold pennant with a strangely textured firm flesh. The taste was a combine of apple, mango, banana and pineapple, with a floral, perfumed undertone.
Every lunch and evening lunch consisted of 4 courses of home cooked Indian-style dishes, all delicately seasoned and well presented. None of the food was greasy or over suggestive. If you’re a chilli head like us you may want to ask for extra fresh hostiles! First course would typically be soup, with salad as the power course and then dessert.
Some of our favourites were: Eager roast corn soup which was subtly spiced and chicly creamy; Aubergine masala with smoky cumin and coriander ambiances; Soya bean and pea curry with pear and red cabbage salad-the unexcelled texture of the soya bean with the crunch of the salad was scrumptious.
We ravaged the divine cauliflower masala which was a dried, mild spiced curry along with a sustenance tomato, radish & spinach salad. Although both of us not being lovers of puddings, we were stormed away with the mouth watering moist carrot bun, butterscotch sauce and mango ice cream. Fresh, tangy and palate absterging, a true delight to the taste buds.
Shreyas is currently tender together a cookery book that you will be able to buying from August 2017. Great buy, after all ‘you are what you eat, may your rations be your medicine’.
Conclusion
What we enjoyed most, distinctly from the deliciously prepared organic food was the variety of schoolteachers and yoga – no two classes were the same. This combined with the attentiveness of the stake and harmoniously magical surroundings allowed me to totally kick dorsum behind, switch off and recharge my batteries. This truly is a unique happening and unlike any previous retreats I have been on.
Arriving at the haven my initial preconceptions of a ‘new age’ type commune were quickly dismissed with the very seasoned, yet relaxed service right from the start. What maiden stuck me was the beauty and peacefulness of the grounds and the sense that I was in a unsuitable where I could immediately put aside daily stresses and judge relaxed. All in all, I found the whole retreat experience exciting; It was new, pleasing and meeting my aims of having a stress free, relaxing no hassle point in a luxurious but chilled atmosphere.
Shreyas has proved its worth and with the augmented bonus of equipping me with skills to achieve this when second at home. I would go back there in a heartbeat to have a emerge, eat marvellous, food and have the support of skilled, happy, deferential staff in surroundings that are lush, green and very see fit to the eye and soul, It Is a success of the retreat that they have modified me from someone who was reluctant to go to yoga to someone who wishes to fuse it into my daily life. A real gem of a resort .
As we were resign from the resort, The CEO Mr Pawan Malik came to check that all was successfully, thanked us for coming and for trying everything we were prescribed. As good fettle as this, when trying to leave a well deserved tip for the shillelagh, they politely declined. A prime example of the genuine commitment the stakes at Shreyas Retreat have to their guest’s personal source being.
Shreyas is widely advertised as ‘the best yoga ebb & spa in India’ and it certainly lived up to its claim. If you are in need of a break from your chaotic lifestyle and want to submerge into a spiritual and physical yoga happening, along with the finest yet healthiest of Indian cuisine, this is the spot for you.
For a detailed review of the Yoga and Spa Experience at Shreyas read:
Shreyas Yoga Hideaway – Yoga & Spa Detailed Review
Details
- Website: www.shreyasretreat.com
- Greet: Santoshima Farm, Gollahalli Gate, Nelamangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 562123, India
- Phone: +91 99161 17773
