Live, Laugh & Love - Yoga and Meditation Retreat with Tracy Aleksic

• Daily yoga and meditation guided by Sarvani
• Exclusivity in our beautiful retreat house in historic Hegymagas, near Lake Balaton and full access to the facilities
• Breakfast everyday
• Some lunches and dinners
• A guided bicycle tour around Lake Balaton
• Transportation to/from airport in Budapest,     wine tasting tours in the Balaton and Somló   regions, and a tour to and around Budapest   guided by: Andrea Fórizs

Not included

• Travel arrangements

Price

• 1.900 € for accommodation in shared double room

Tracy Aleksic, C-I.A.Y.T., RYT500/E-R.Y.T.500 is an internationally renowned experienced yoga teacher, Yoga Alliance educational provider (YACEP), therapeutic and prenatal Thai massage therapist, foot reflexologist, and trauma release facilitator who travels the world and inspires people to embody their fullest potential. She is the author and co-director of the 200-hour Bright Yoga Teacher Training program. Tracy began her yogic studies in 1998 and received her 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teaching certifications through Inner Vision Yoga in Phoenix, Arizona in 2004. This is also where she studied extensively under David Berceli who developed a revolutionary method for stress and trauma recovery. With her experience, she weaves anatomical focus, emotional balance, and energy awareness, intermingled with a playfulness using movement as medicine.
While living in Phoenix, some of Tracy’s early yoga experiences were co-founding Yoga for Parkinson’s disease at the Barrow Neurological Institute, rehabilitating bodybuilders through Hatha and Yin yoga practices, and teaching yoga and holistic practices to psychiatric patients. Their benefits were documented and many of these patients were weaned off their psychotropic medications and taught helpful coping skills. Tracy traveled extensively around the world for several years studying various meditation and spiritual traditions which she incorporates into her teachings. She studied prenatal Thai massage in Montreal, Quebec in 2007 and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand to further study Thai massage therapy and reflexology at the Thai Massage Shivagakomarpaj School. Through her solo travels, Tracy volunteered with human trafficking victims in southeast Asia, rode her motorcycle through Laos, down the coast of Vietnam and into Cambodia. In Indonesia, she found a passion for scuba diving. She is well known for creating soul revitalizing and life transformative yoga-adventure retreats around the globe. Her love and wisdom for both travel and yoga are bridged together when she forms a retreat. Tracy knows that yoga is medicine. This is why she is currently enrolled in the International Accreditation School of Yoga Therapy with the Soul of Yoga. She teaches Yin, alignment-based Vinyasa with ashtanga undertones, and a style that she created called Moon/YIN Yoga (Moon salutations blended with yin yoga). Since the birth of her daughter she also offers Prenatal, Postnatal, and Mommy & Me Yoga with Infant Massage. Now a southern California based yoga teacher, Tracy is proud to call Ramona home.

Balatonfüred is not only the oldest resort on Lake Balaton’s northern shore, it’s also the most fashionable. In former days the wealthy and famous built large villas on its tree-lined streets, and their architectural legacy can still be seen today. Yes, it’s highly touristy, but it’s an excellent place to base yourself on the lake, with endless lodging and dining options, and a superb tree-lined promenade along the shore where everyone goes for their pre- or postdinner stroll. The town also has the most stylish marina on the lake and is known for the thermal waters of its world-famous heart hospital.

You fly to Budapest International Airport (BUD) which is the capital of beautiful Hungary.

“It’s beautiful here. They said that of course, that Budapest is beautiful. But it is in fact almost ludicrously beautiful.”you can bear living in the paradise, then come to Mallorca.” – Anthony Bourdain

Stunning architecture, vital folk art, thermal spas and Europe’s most exciting capital after dark are Hungary’s major drawing cards.

Hungary’s scenery is more gentle than striking. But you can’t say the same thing about the built environment across the land. Architecturally Hungary is a treasure trove, with everything from Roman ruins and medieval townhouses to baroque churches, neoclassical public buildings and art nouveau bathhouses and schools. And we’re not just talking about its capital, Budapest. Walk through Szeged or Kecskemét, Debrecen or Sopron and you’ll discover an architectural gem at virtually every turn. Indeed, some people go out of their way for another glimpse of their favourites, such as the Reök Palace in Szeged or the Mosque Church in Pécs.

Hungarians have been ‘taking the waters’ supplied by an estimated 300 thermal springs since togas were all the rage and Aquincum was the Big Smoke. They still do – for therapeutic, medicinal and recreational purposes – but the venues have changed somewhat. Today they range from authentic bathhouses dating from the Turkish occupation and art nouveau palaces to clinical sanatoriums straight out of a Thomas Mann novel. More and more though, you’ll see clear chlorinated waters in organically shaped pools that bubble, squirt and spurt at different rhythms and temperatures alongside requisite wellness centres offering a myriad of treatments.