A beautiful post with some amazing photography from one of our lovely attendees at the first of 2012’s Yoga retreats in Morocco

Starting 2012 the yoga way

Location: Morocco retreat.

I feel today is the day to write to you in my private and quiet moments.

Thank you for all your support in 2011 which made it our best year ever.

Each year I write to you & I continue to feel more grateful and more privileged to be part of something I understand very little about. We rely on your word of mouth, as we believe if we do a good job when you are here, you will tell your friends, and we won’t need to spend money on advertising thus keeping prices affordable for you.

We have found that escaping to the beach has proven health benefits which keep you coming back to us year after year looking & feeling more amazing than the year before.

Sleeping in your beautiful room here on Formentera, a National Park next to the ocean, waking up to do yoga and walking barefoot everyday for 5 days is super grounding. Research shows that walking barefoot on the ground on a sunny day is very healing and can prevent disease & stress which so often rids us of our good energy.

It allows you to get vitamin D from the sun and negative ions from the earth.

Being next to a big amount of water, such as the sea, also recharges you with negative ions or electrons.

This is important because it reverses the effects of electromagnetic radiation we get from things like computers and mobile phones which drain our energy resources along with our beautiful good looks.

This is why you all comment how much younger you feel & look after being here with us for 5 days.

Trip Advisor

A friend of mine Christine suggested I use Trip Advisor to check out holidays and restaurants I was thinking of using. When I checked Formentera Yoga I had tears in my eyes at the beautiful things you have all written about our passion, which is delivering the BEST yoga in the most STUNNING locations at AFFORDABLE prices.

So with GRATITUDE I salute you all.

Click here to post or read reviews made by people like you about their experiences with us and feel free to pass the link to your friends to spread the vibration of the good work we are doing.

We didn’t get in the Taschen book ‘GREAT YOGA RETREATS’ for nothing and these reviews back us up and I am super delighted.

You asked about….

	For those of you that have visited us before please note that our prices have not changed very much since we had our beautiful new chlorine free pool installed last year. We are still focusing on affordability and when you arrive you will see the paradise you are in, with amazing service and you have no need to spend money and go anywhere else, unless you want to.
	For those short on time we have added more weekends into the schedule for 2012 designed to clean your system & release your residual tension leaving you energetic, radiant and lighter for work Tuesday morning. Book early as flights and retreats get booked swiftly for weekends. If time is not an issue, enjoy the benefits of cheaper flights on the weekday retreats. See schedule here
	I am teaching more again. After 2 years writing & personal study and practice I am back being apparently ‘one of the best yoga teachers in the UK’ as Yoga Magazine have called me. Apparently Im very good at teaching yoga according to the journalists. I wouldn’t believe what they say either, but I can assure you of an open transmission of simplistic yoga teaching designed to re-calibrate your body so you feel incredible after each retreat deepening the sensitivity to your own intimate bodies thus becoming very clear, light and free. My retreats do come with a warning and you can read some things about me if you are interested in mine or another teachers retreat on the schedule here
	We have minimized class sizes also to give you that intimacy on the yoga deck with the teacher and each other, and we have added more dates to spread you out more as last year demand was high, deck was full.
	Non yoga partners and families can attend also and we simply knock the yoga fee off, so there is no reason to have separate holidays anymore, unless you want too, in which case come alone and enjoy your SELF.
	Those of you waiting for Self Practice DVDs to keep all the good work up when you get home will be happy to hear we have new stock in. I am also filming new DVD,s this year for those who already have the whole set. It beats travelling to a yoga class when you are short on time, and you re-inforce good practice daily into your life. To order DVDs email us here
	We also have a permanent divider screen separating us from the other deck and large hot water VATS for your warm drinks in the morning so no more queuing at sunrise around the kettle. New non slip mats are awaiting your svelte and bendy bodies to adorn them.
	We have a new venue in Morocco for Yoga, Surfing and a fully operational Spathat will suit more active people, or friends and partners that want to holiday together but do different things. With direct and fast flights to Marrakesh & Agadir and with 300 days of sunshine a year, this makes Morocco the perfect all year round venue for detox and juicing retreats as well as long weekends with guaranteed SUNSHINE. See the new Morocco venue here
	We are happy to announce that our resident HEALER will be doing group work & private healing sessions, supporting your Yoga practice and emotional and energetic shifts brought about by your retreat experience in 2012. See details about her here

Our Formentera Beach House is your home from home…

Come anytime you can, hang your clothes and put your feet up & watch the world go by, just as you would if you were at home.

Our Formentera Beach Club remains to be Ibiza’s No.1 National Park Yoga retreat sitting on7kms of powdery white sand, serviced by daily low cost air flights to Ibiza then 30minute boat to one of our favourite places on the PLANET.

There are flights everyday, cheap to change and quick, unlike long haul.

Wake up with your seaview, roll out of bed for a warm infusion & some fruit before a beautiful energizing yet gentle sunrise yoga practice on our ocean front bali yoga house followed by a nutritious brunch and then RELAX knowing you have all day to do as you please, before sunset yoga practice and a delicious vegetarian evening meal specially prepared for you by our family team here.

“each day floats by leaving us feeling more supple, happy and bronzed”  - Tatler

Our Formentera Yoga Beach Club is set on the 3rd most energetically charged zones on the planet National Park. We have repeat visitors come each year, commenting on how energetically different they feel in Formentera compared to other places in the world.

“5 days in Formentera is equivalent to a 2 week holiday anywhere else and will transcend your yoga practice on 1 year” Conde Naste 2011

Personal note to you all

The ability to inspire each other through LOVE,
Love for thyself, and then we can LOVE and be loved by another. Its sounds a cliché, but I feel compelled to share my main mission for 2012 is to invite you all to ‘be into your body’

A friend emailed me recently and said ‘but Jax you are very much into the body with yourself and your teaching’. I reflected upon this & realized they were totally right!

I am totally into this amazing, sophisticated & intelligent piece of kit called the human body.

How can we find our life’s purpose or be truly happy if we are not into our bodies in some way shape or form. Yoga helps us to completely relax about the significance, meaning and nature of our lives. You may start your journey with giving up smoking, alcohol and try pilates & the gym, but most of us eventually will come to yoga.

How can you really be in touch with your SELF until you have become intimate with the nature of your body that you can feel the following:

	How your body gets sick
	How your body reaches emotional disturb
	How your body responds to breathing
	How your body responds to emotional healing
	How your body responds to heat and cold
	How your body responds to love and pain
	How your body responds to night and dark
	How your body responds to certain foods

This is the only body you are EVER going to have folks, and contrary to belief you cant have another one.

So what else is there to be into I asked my friend, and we came back to the body.

Be into your bodies, nourish and feed it the right air, breath, exercise, light, heat, love and energy daily and then vibrationally we attract so much good energy around us into our LIVES that we transcend lower vibrations, we are no longer stuck in our addictions or habits, we are FREE to flowthrough life and the abundance of wonderful possibilities that each new day presents.

Its really quite simple.

Im off to do morning practice now in our brand new ocean front glass yoga house on the beach in Morocco followed by a orange blossom oil massage in the SPA.

I hope you can come and enjoy with me one day and I found this below and adapted it especially for you to welcome you to 2012

Welcome to Flight Formenterayoga.com 2012

We are prepared to take off into the New Year 2012

	Please make sure your seats & positive intentions are secured and locked in the upright position for the high altitude
	All self destructive devices should be turned off during the journey
	All negativity, fear, hurt & discouragement should be put away in the hold
	There will be no baggage in the cabin on this flight
	Should we lose altitude under pressure during the flight, reach up & pull down a positive intention Positive intentions will automatically be activated upon this journey Once your intentions have been activated you can assist other passengers
	The captain has cleared us for take off
Enjoy your flight with us

Destination – GREATNESS!

Oceans for Good vibrations to you all no matter what the time of the year.

To see our schedule see here
To see our press see here
To see our reviews see here

For all enquiries email here

Autumn Yoga News

Whether you are a beach bum or a spa queen, we cover everything for you.

Since our Formentera beach club,s inclusion into the beautiful coffee table book by TASCHEN ʻGreat Yoga Retreats 2010ʼ and our glowing press in the infamous Pacha & UK Tatler Magazines, has meant that our retreats our becoming more popular to the people in know. We do not advertise and you are included in this small and select list of persons that have either retreated with us before or you have referred your friends to us.

We have two last retreats for you in September on the beach and in October we are launching winter retreats when the sun is still shining at Ibiza,s No.1 Ayurvedic Spa ATZARO.

ʻThink lap pools (chic and very skinny) lined with orange trees, basking in the sun with Balearic beats unobtrusively in the background and our luxury spa with scented healing temples and our staff gliding around in billowing whites awaiting to massage all your tensions away. This is pure luxury ladies and gentlemen and not your regular yoga retreat and not a regular price eitherʼ
Mr and mrs Smith Independant Review of Atzaro our new autumn and winter retreat venue
http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/luxury-hotels/spain/ibiza-balearic-islands/atzaro/review

The Spine and Hip Opener & Intro to Acro Yoga with Jax May (UK) & Lucie Beyer

Yes we are officially the only yoga retreat in the Baleares directly on the beach.

Choose from our popular 5 beach day Formentera yoga club retreats where our 7km of powdery white sand location means no need for taxis as everything you need is right here.

With morning energizing yoga and afternoon yin deep joint opening your body will be feeling more supple and toned and ready to inspire you and your direction in life. See this amazing location in the book 2010 below.

715 euros includes sea view shared accommodation
All morning and afternoon yoga Brunch
daily water, fruit and herbal teas
X3 3 course evening meals for all appetites.

Daily beach towels Room service and Wifi Single rooms available upon request
See the accommodation click here http://www.formenterayoga.com/accommodation- beachspaformentera.html
For booking or enquiries email Jill@formenterayoga.com
Or visit www.formenterayoga.com for a full look around!

Join us for a beautiful dose of sunshine and yoga to boost your decision making powers and bodily immunity for the Winter. Suitable for all levels October 12 – 15th 2010 With Jax May and Niki Taylor at Atzaro Ibiza San Lorenzo.

Ibizas premier No.1 Ayurvedic Spa comes with beauty spa, healing temples, skinny lap pools lined with orange trees, gym, sauna, steam room and inside and outside yoga Balinese pavillions.

695euros includes sharing a luxury 4 star en suite room
Private room 855euros
Welcome 55minute massage
Inside and outside yoga facilities here with heating.

All morning and afternoon yoga in Balinese Healing Pavillion Brunch, daily water, fruit and herbal teas
All ecolological lunches

Complimentary use of beauty Spa and discounts of treatments booked in advance
Complimentary & unlimited use of the hamman, sauna and steam
Complimentary and unlimited use of the gym, pools and grounds.

Click here to see accommodation
http://www.formenterayoga.com/accommodation-spaagrotourismo- ibiza.html
Jax@atzaro.com for bookings and reservations.
www.atzaro.com to see more!
To see an independent and truthful review of Atzaro go to http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/luxury-hotels/spain/ibiza-balearic- islands/atzaro/review

How often to practice yoga!

How often to practice is a question I often get asked so I say ʻfor good results, 3 times per week, for life changing results 5-6 times per week will doʼ.

But if you are really looking to transform your body, your spirit and your life, be yoga everyday & you,ll be amazed at what happens.

You cant really awaken if you only plug in three times per week since yoga creates a new wiring in you & its much harder to start and stop because you lose the momentum and the cumulative effects of practicing consistently. Yoga is all about moving energy, and when you donʼt do it the energy becomes stagnated. You then have to expand more energy to get it moving again.

The human body is like a car, you use less fuel if you keep it running, than if you turn the ignition on and off. The more you practice the easier the postures get, the more energy you have, the better your internal organs function, the more beautiful you feel and this radiates outwardly to the world – and LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE!

If you are not so convinced come and join me and my select beautiful teachers to kick start you and prove it.

Take care of yourselves as no one
else can do it for you!
Jax Lysycia

Energising Yoga @ the Beach Spa with Sundara (NY)

Formentera Yoga with Jax May (UK) & Lucie Beyer (Germany)

Luxury 3 nights Yoga Conditioning and Meditation Retreat Takeaway @ Atzaro Auyvedic Spa San Lorenzo with Jax May (UK) & Niki Taylor (UK)

Al Fresco Yoga Atzaro Ibiza - Beach Body Yoga.

“Two days here felt like two weeks – it was a giant power nap” – Mr & Mrs Smith 2009

Think of a place you would want an amazing holiday that covers all your needs.

Then imagine that we fly you the best teachers to keep you on a healthy focus.

Then imagine you could come with a non yoga or health person and we just knock the classes fee off their bill! Imagine no more and read on.

***NEWLY ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND****

Atzaro Ibiza Summer Spa Break June 14 – 17th 2010 with Jax Lysycia

Get Your Motor Running Retreat for sluggish bodies & tired minds.

695 euros (Includes accommodation, all guided sessions of yoga, pilates & energy work, discount massages and beauty spa treatments, use of 3 pools, gym, hamman, sauna, steam and healing temples).

995 euros (Private room subject to availability)

Atzaro Ibiza Spa yoga retreat

If you are a Spa person and you love chilling by a blissful pool with masseurs and beauty experts on hand and lets say your parter prefers the 43m lap pool with a fully equipped gymnasium with 2 daily classes of yoga or pilates in an outside Balinese Yoga Pavillion. Then you will LOVE our new value for money SPA ATZARO, Ibiza breaks. Perfect for a nourishing retreat without feeling isolated for couples, singles or friends & family. Voted Ibiza,s No.1

Mr & Mrs Smith review of Atzaro Ibiza

For those that like the beach you,ll love our Beach Club in Formentera currently featured in the 2010 Taschen book ‘The Worlds best Yoga Retreats’. Situated on 7kms of powdery white sand lapped by the turquoise waters of the meditteranean this National Park for the Balearics is just 30 mins by boat from Ibiza. Our Beach club provides everything you would want for the perfect beach retreat and holiday for yogis, and non yoga enthusiasts.

Beach Body Yoga May 18 – 22nd 2010 with Jax Lysycia 5 places left. Yoga for improving muscular tone & mental drive for manifestation work.590 euros (Includes sunrise & sunset yoga, accommodation, brunch,water & fruit)

780 euros (Includes Lunch and dinner)840 euros (For a private room subject to availability)

Formentera Beach Club Spa

Beach Body Yoga June 7 – 11 2010 with Jax & Niki Taylor 4 places left.Yoga for improving muscular tone & mental drive for manifestation work.630 euros (Includes sunrise & sunset yoga, accomodation, brunch,water & fruit)800 euros (Includes lunch and dinner)

see http://www.formenterayoga.com/accommodation-beachspaformentera.html

Womens Only Retreat September 20 – 24th 2010 with Jax Lysycia 8 places left Celebrating the Full Moon and Female Moon Power and how to find it and keep it! 630 euros (Includes sunrise & sunset yoga, accomodation, brunch,water & fruit)

800 euros (Includes lunch and dinner) see here

For all reservations for any of the above you can contact me on

Jax@formenterayoga.com

Jax@atzaro.com

If you have 4 friends we can organise something for you at any time subject to availability.

Peace in

Peace out

Happy Days.

Jax

Jacqueline says:

I would love you to join me or spread the word about a new course Im running at ATZARO, Ibiza,s No.1 Ayurvedic Spa in June when the days are longest – so real value for sunshine money. Its for tired sluggish bodies and tired minds! x”.

Event: Atzaro 4 day ‘Get your Motor Running’ Spa Break
Start Time: Monday, June 14 at 2:30pm
End Time: Thursday, June 17 at 12:00pm
Where: Ibiza Atzaro Spa The Baleares.

Get Your Motor Running course is led by Jax Lysycia author of Wake Up Yoga and Pilates for Life.

For SLUGGISH bodies and tired minds this is the perfect nourishing Spa break for those that need a kickstart post or pre party or for families also.

Those not taking the lessons we simply knock off the teachers class fee and you can stay and enjoy everything else.

Atzaro is Ibiza,s No.1 Ibiza Escape as voted by Mr And Mrs Smith on
http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/luxury-hotels/spain/ibiza-balearic-islands/atzaro/review

695 euros per person sharing all facilities, 3 pools, hamman steam, sauna and beauty spa with two guided classes per day on metabolism and exercise
995 euros per person for a private suite.
includes all water, fruit and healthy brunch.
Includes discounts on massages and beauty treatments and lunch and dinner packs.

For reservations Jax@formenterayoga.com

Hi all..  ..We have a special last few places available for this wonderful healthy weekend yoga retreat at Atzaro, Ibiza held with myself (Jax) and James Giuseppe at Ibiza No.1 SPA – direct Ryan flights 27- 30th March.

Full details are on our Facebook group page here

Here’s an independent review from Mr & Mrs Smith and pictures and see how great a deal this is to experience. March only. Mr & Mrs Smith review Atzaro

There’s nothing bootcamp about this set-up: champagne and mojitos are as much a part of the schedule as yoga and massages. Yet respect for nature and the body is at the root of everything. So is balance – something most of us city-dwellers are sorely missing.

We have one 465 euro place left for 4 days and only 2 590 euro places for 5 days.

Please feel free to check our schedule as we still have places available for May 18 -22nd at our beach club and see our new WOMENS ONLY YOGA RETREAT in september 20 – 24th 2010.

Peace in
Peace out