3-6 APRIL 2025
3 nights all-inclusive Yoga & Wellness retreat at Mana Retreat Centre, Coromandel
Nurture your mind, body and soul at the 2025 Yoga Sanctuary Mana Retreat. Enjoy a special long weekend especially for you to reinvigorate your soul, optimise your health and nourish your body.
Mana Retreat
WHEN
Thursday 3 April (arrive from 4pm) until Sunday 6 April (depart 2pm)
WHAT
3 nights’ accommodation, 3 vegetarian meals per day, Retreat content as per itinerary
WHERE
Mana Retreat Centre, Coromandel
We are pleased to announce that Yoga Sanctuary has partnered with Christina McGrath of Swell Fit Living for the 2025 Yoga Sanctuary Mana Retreat. Many of you may know Christina from her summer Yoga sessions in Tairua and Whangamata. This fitness and wellness extraordinaire has extensive experience as a Yoga teacher and athlete with a background in psychology.
With Christina as your guide during this long weekend, you can embark on a transformative journey to optimise your health, unleash your inner potential, and create a life filled with vitality, joy, and success. Christina will be accompanied by Mary Buckley, the owner of Yoga Sanctuary, and Abbey-Lee McMahon, a dedicated yoga teacher. Both women share a profound passion for the practice and are committed to supporting the health and wellness of their community through yoga.
Workshop Sessions
EAT
Learn optimal nutrition for your body to reach your goals – Anti-inflammatory guidance for your system, deconstructing myths around what is good for you and what you should be aiming for, creating strength, attaining the perfect weight and enhancing sleep quality.
ART
Creating flow in your life – Using sound and colour and to enhance energy centres and influence more artistic endeavours in your life. Creating balance and finding your passion. Could do this with slow flow highlighting colours and poses or creating art based on colours you resonate with.
MOVE
Yoga Pose Workshop – Taking 3-5 poses apart to learn that will benefit your mind and body daily. Could be inversions, art balances, backbends or sun salutations.
MINDSET
Personal coaching and also group energy healing if we like. I can talk about the letting go technique and why it is essential to healing and growth.
Workshop Sessions
Christina is a passionate adventurer with a deep love for surfing, snowboarding, biking, climbing, and running. Her journey into optimising health and achieving peak performance in all aspects of life has been a driving force in her life.
As an elite specialist in the wellness arena, Christina has honed her expertise in energy medicine, Yoga, nutrition, and sports massage. Her unique skillset allows her to empower individuals to unlock their full potential and thrive in mind, body, and spirit.
Christina’s style of Vinyasa Flow Yoga incorporates power, balance and flexibility to reduce injury and increase focus and strength. She has worked with all ages, and caters to all throughout her practise. Her expertise has taken her through many countries expanding her knowledge of yoga and studying many different forms. The yoga sessions over this special weekend will help you connect, rejuvenate and relax.
Christina has helped hundreds of people on the brink of burnout, with skin issues and digestive problems, take control of their diet and lifestyle to create the fittest, strongest and healthiest version of themselves. Christina is a qualified and experienced therapeutic, sports, relaxation and aromatherapy massage therapist.
Accomodation
SHARED ROOMS
- Twin-share, individual or couples
$945 pp – twin share with common bathroom
$995 pp – twin share with ensuite bathroom
PRIVATE ROOMS
- Individuals
$1,275 pp – common bathroom
$1,375 pp – ensuite bathroom
MULTI-SHARE ROOMS
- Triple or quad share
$850 pp – common bathroom
Inclusions
DAILY MEDITATION & YOGA
Expert nutrition advice
Sound/colour healing techniques
Daily nature walks
3 nights’ accommodation (mainly shared as below)
Delicious buffet style vegetarian food
OPTIONAL EXTRAS
Take advantage of a one-on-one Christina’s mindset coaching session during free time
Book a healing massage session run by Mana Retreat
We have limited spaces available on this exclusive Yoga wellness retreat, so hurry to secure your place with a non-refundable $250 deposit*.