Kaliyoga

( the story )

A small Alpujarras retreat between the Sierra Nevada and the sea, with seven garden casitas, a mountain-view studio and an entirely vegetarian kitchen.

where it begins

Kaliyoga sits in La Alpujarra, the high country between the Sierra Nevada and the Mediterranean that UNESCO has designated a Biosphere Reserve. It stays deliberately small — five garden casitas plus the Olive Barn, the Nest, Rosemary, Mimosa, the Mulberry Suite with its four-posters, and two large canvas teepees for anyone who'd rather sleep in one. Practice is dynamic hatha in the morning and somatic work in the evening, in a studio open to the mountains. The kitchen is entirely vegetarian and feeds you five times a day, Mediterranean and locally grown. Ten different treatment modalities are on offer — cranio-sacral, deep tissue, sound bowls, reflexology, myofascial release, systemic kinesiology — and the walking, through oak forest and high meadow, is best in spring and autumn.