Advanced Yoga Practices (AYP) retreat, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Topic: To be confirmed
Tuesday 23rd to Monday 29th June 2025 (7-days, 6-nights)
Note: This retreat is planned but not yet open for bookings
This retreat will take place in a beautiful venue in Pembrokeshire in South West Wales.
The centre is a charming old country house with a beautiful garden. There is a stream running through the grounds with a pond.
There is wifi in the main house.
The Yoga
The focus of the retreat will be on the cultivation of inner silence, peace-fullness, bliss and Self-Realization.
We will be holding three meditation sessions each day and two asana sessions. In the evenings there will be teachings on the philosophy of yoga. Daily practices will include asana, Spinal Breathing Pranayama, Deep Meditation and Samyama.
There will be silent periods during the retreat from 9pm each evening until 9.30am each morning.
Topic
To be confirmed.
Practices
Teachings on the retreat will also include:
- Deep Meditation – especially looking at the process of brining the mind to stillness and silence and the cultivation of the witness.
- Spinal Breathing Pranayama – looking at the purification of the subtle nervous system.
- Samyama – looking at the practices of samyama and cosmic samyama, and at how these relate to transcendence.
- Asana practice – building a daily posture practice routine.
Full instructions in practice will be given. The retreat will be led in English and will be suitable for people of all levels of experience.
We will be having silent periods each day beginning around 9pm each evening and lasting for around 13 hours.
All yoga classes and meditation sessions are optional, so you can take the retreat at your own pace.
There will be half an hour of karma yoga (service to others) each day. This will mostly be kitchen clean-up.
Bhajans will be held in the yoga tent on some afternoons during the retreat.
Teachers
Tristan Dorling
Tristan began the practice of yoga in 1985 at school when he was 16 years old. At the age of 19 he travelled to the Himalayas to live in a Mahayana Buddhist monastery. This was really his first introduction to the higher teachings and to the spiritual life. He had his first awakening experience a year later after a meditation retreat in a Buddhist cave monastery in Thailand…
Alex Wales
Alex first came to yoga through meditation, and this practice continues to provide the foundation of his yoga journey and the inspiration for his teaching. He sees the practice of yoga postures as a means to integrate the subtle transformative effects of meditation with the physical body creating space in life for peace, energy and creativity to arise.
Darshan
Tristan will be giving darshan during this retreat. This is a gentle energetic transmission designed to increase the purification of the ajna chakra and central channel in the body.
Food
Food will be vegetarian. The food served will support a yoga and meditation practice. We can also cater for vegan diets and sugar and gluten free diets, if you let us know at least several weeks in advance.
There will be two meals served each day (brunch and dinner). Each meal will be either a starter and a main course, or a main course followed by desert. Hot drinks will be available all day.
Accommodation
The accommodation is in the main house with a mixture of single and shared rooms. There are also a number of glamping spaces in the garden, with a yurt, tipis and bell tents. All the glamping spaces have beds in, already set up.
Cost and booking
Per person:
- One bed in a shared four-person room (male): £945 per person (Available)
- One bed in a shared twin room (female): £995 per person (Available)
- One bed in a shared twin room (male): £995 per person (Available)
- Double room (one big bed) (en suite) (2 sharing): £995 per person (Available)
- Single room: £1,045 (Available)
- Single room (en suite): £1,095 (Fully Booked)
- One bed in a twin tipi (male) £945 per person (Available)
- One bed in a twin tipi (female) £945 per person (Available)
- Double tipi (two sharing) £945 per person (Available)
- Single tipi £995 per person (Available)
- One bed in a twin bell tent (male) £945 per person (Available)
- One bed in a shared twin bell tent (female) £945 per person (Available)
- Double bell tent (two sharing) £945 per person (Available)
- Single bell tent £995 per person (Available)
- One bed in a twin yurt (male) £945 per person (Available)
- One bed in a twin yurt (female) £945 per person (Available)
- Double yurt (two sharing) £945 per person (Available)
- Single yurt £995 per person (Available)
The price includes accommodation for 6-nights, food and all the yoga and meditation sessions.
A non-refundable and non-transferable deposit of £150 is required to secure a place on the retreat, with the balance paid 3-months before the retreat starts.
Once your place on the retreat has been confirmed, you can make payment by credit/debit card, or by bank transfer. Payment terms and conditions are on the payment page.
Getting there and away
The nearest train station is Carmarthen and there are busses from Carmarthen to the village with the retreat centre in. Busses leave Carmarthen every hour and take about 50 minutes to reach the village with the retreat centre in.
The nearest international airport is Cardiff. Trains take around two-hours from Cardiff to Carmarthen.
Full travel directions are sent out to people attending the event.
The wood-fired sauna
Retreat schedule
Tuesday 23rd June 2026
15:00-16:00 arrival
16:30-18:00 asana, pranayama, meditation, samyama
18:00 dinner
20:00 evening meeting followed by silent period until 09:30 the following morning.
Wednesday 24th June 2026
07:00-08:30 asana, pranayama, meditation, samyama
08:40-09:40 pranayama, meditation, samyama
10:00 brunch
11:00 – 16:00 free time/ walking/ personal practice
16:00 – 18:00 asana pranayama, meditation, samyama
18:00 dinner
20:00 evening talk/ questions and answers followed by silent period until 9:30 the following morning.
25th June to 27th June 2026
07:00-08:30 asana, pranayama, meditation, samyama
08:40-09:40 pranayama, meditation, samyama
10:00 brunch
11:00 – 15:00 free time/ walking/ personal practice
15:00 – 16:45 asana pranayama, meditation, samyama
17:00 – 18:00 pranayama, meditation, samyama
18:00 dinner
20:00 evening talk/ questions and answers followed by silent period until 9:30 the following morning.
Sunday 28th June 2026
07:00-08:30 asana, pranayama, meditation, samyama
08:40-09:40 pranayama, meditation, samyama
10:00 brunch
11:00 – 16:00 free time/ walking/ personal practice
16:00 – 18:00 asana pranayama, meditation, samyama
18:00 dinner
20:00 evening talk/ questions and answers followed by silent period until 9:30 the following morning.
Monday 29th June 2026
07:00-08:30 asana, pranayama, meditation, samyama
10:00 breakfast
11:00-12:00 house clean-up
12:00 farewells and departure