Yoga Retreat and Detox Center in Spain
Vegetarian cuisine
We aim to delight your palate with world class Mediterranean-inspired vegetarian cuisine. All meals are lovingly prepared using locally grown produce, mainly organic, and we eat outside whenever possible. We cook with cold-pressed virgin olive oil, locally sourced of course. Complimentary fresh fruit, filtered water and herbal teas are available throughout the day.
Supper Workshop
In the middle of a 6-day retreat there is normally a free half day when guests can opt to join a hands-on cookery workshop with our chef who will assist you in the preparation of cooked and raw dishes.
Raw Food Experiment
An informal experiment done at the University of Oregon by a professor was set up to test the IQs of his students. Students first took an IQ test, then they ate only raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds for 2 whole days following the test, and then took the IQ test again.
Students on the raw diet scored an average of 40% higher on their IQ tests compared with their individual scores just 2 days earlier.
How much water should I drink?
Scientific studies show that a very high percentage of people are chronically dehydrated, due in part to excessive tea and coffee consumption. Hot weather can also cause dehydration, so we recommend drinking about 2 litres of pure filtered water every day during your stay with us, especially in summer.
Kaliyoga: delicious cuisine
Over the years Kaliyoga has become renowned for its world class vegetarian cuisine. We also give you cutting-edge advice about becoming lean and healthy with raw food and superfoods, and we have some great recipes for you to try here and at home.
Food
Kaliyoga provides a balanced vegetarian diet using local ingredients, mostly organic. We make limited use of wheat and dairy and we do use aubergine, onion, garlic, tomato, potato, mushrooms and nuts.
If you are allergic to certain ingredients we will do our best to meet your requirements, provided that you advise us in advance on your reservation form. If you have dietary needs that require special ingredients that are not available locally, please bring those ingredients with you. There are two excellent health food shops in the nearby town of Orgiva. There is also a good homeopathic pharmacy.
Drinks
H2O and herbal teas
Filtered drinking water is available free at Kaliyoga and we also provide a range of organic herbal infusions that are favoured for their cleansing properties: liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, insomnia etc.
Mocktails
Alcohol-free 'juice mocktails' are served before supper.
Juice Fasting Detox retreats
All juice meals are supplemented with Omega 3 Oil for essential fatty acids and psyllium husks to assist in cleansing the large intestine whilst also providing bulk to stave off hunger pangs. Powdered Bentonite clay is taken in water in order to draw out toxins from the body. An optional coffee enema is given on day 2, and an optional wheatgrass or pro-biotic enema is given on the penultimate day in order to reintroduce beneficial bacteria into the colon. Every evening we serve a warm vegetable broth made fresh every day from locally grown organic produce.On the last day we break the fast with a bowl of pureed vegetable soup for breakfast and steamed vegetables and sprouted bean salad for lunch. If you have to leave early we will provide you with a tupperware take-out option.
Typical juices during fasting retreats
Carrot & Apple / Beetroot Celery Cucumber / Celery Ginger Carrot / Carrot Celery Cucumber / Carrot Apple Beetroot / Parsley Sweet Potato Cucumber / Tomoato Garlic Celery / Carrot Apple Celery / Beetroot Lemon Parsley / Beetroot Carrot Apple / Celery Ginger Lemon / Carrot Garlic Sweet Potato / Apple Celery Cucumber / Apple Chard Ginger Lemon / Apple Cucumber Red Pepper / Carrot Sweet Potato Ginger / Beetroot Lemon Carrot
