Revamp and Renew Your Yoga Practice and Movement Rituals for a Luminous Beginning of 2027!
Step into 2027 with intention, grace, and renewed vitality at our transformative New Year’s Yoga & Movement Retreat. This immersive experience is designed for yogis ready to shed what no longer serves them and cultivate practices that will illuminate their path forward.
What Awaits You:
Liberate the old and invite the new with our signature movement-infused yoga practices that inspire momentum and authentic transformation. Through carefully curated sequences, we’ll explore the art of transition—both on the mat and in life—building confidence in your body’s wisdom and cultivating a fearless mindset for the year ahead.
Your Transformation Journey During this New Year’s Yoga retreat:
Together, we develop confidence in body and mindset by practicing bold transitions that mirror life’s natural rhythms of release and renewal. You’ll discover the courage to let go of limiting patterns while embracing new life-affirming habits that support your highest potential. Our integrated approach combines dynamic vinyasa flows with restorative practices, breathwork, and mindful movement to create lasting change from the inside out.
What Makes This Yoga Retreat Special:
Drawing from years of leading international yoga journeys, this retreat offers a unique blend of challenging practice and nurturing support. You’ll experience powerful release rituals to honor your growth, intention-setting ceremonies to anchor your vision, and movement practices that awaken dormant potential within your body and spirit.
This Yoga Retreat is Perfect For:
- Yogis seeking to deepen their practice with meaningful transitions
- Anyone ready to release old patterns and embrace fresh possibilities
- Students wanting to build confidence in challenging poses and life situations
- Those desiring to start 2027 with clarity, purpose, and renewed energy
Take Home:
Leave with a personalized toolkit of movement sequences, breathing techniques, and mindfulness practices designed to sustain your transformation long after the retreat ends. You’ll also receive guidance on creating your own renewal rituals to support continuous growth throughout the year.
Join us for this powerful beginning and discover how movement can be your greatest teacher in navigating life’s transitions with grace, strength, and unwavering confidence.
Quick Reference:
Jan 16 - Jan 23, 2027 | From $2900
Organizer: Ulrika
About Your Instructor
Ulrika Engman
Ulrika Engman, E-RYT 500, is a certified yoga teacher and Halprin Life Art practitioner, graduate of Tamalpa Institute and founder of Yoga Journeys, an international travel company, 1999 – present.
Born in Sweden, she came to Los Angles, CA in 1991 to study psychology and dance. That same year Ulrika discovered Yoga at Yoga Works in Santa Monica and has been a dedicated yoga practitioner ever since.
Along with leading six – eight annual Yoga Journeys worldwide at top notch, sacred destinations like Bali, Mexico, Peru, Iceland, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Egypt and Morocco, Ulrika leads popular Spa Yoga Days locally in the Napa Valley at Solage resort in Calistoga. Ulrika also teaches annual yoga workshops at Esalen Institute in Big Sur and Sacred Sundays yoga practice online.
Ulrika’s fluid style of teaching yoga is inspired by her background in psycho-somatic movement, anatomy, expressive arts and dance. A lover of movement, breath, body and spirit, Ulrika combines the transformative power of Yoga with metaphors of nature, inspirational anecdotes and uplifting insights from yoga philosophy and various wisdom traditions. Many say a class with Ulrika is never the same, every yoga practice is creative, strengthening and inspiring and postures are woven together in innovative sequences that follow breath and music along the energy lines of body and mind.
What's Included
Accommodations
Intentionally designed beachfront eco-friendly rooms with ocean views and the use of the 25-meter pool.
Meals
Three delicious farm-to-table meals per day using homegrown, organic ingredients, plus snacks and more to keep you energized and satisfied the whole week long.
Yoga
Daily yoga classes and yoga props including mats, blocks and straps.
Transportation
Airport transfer from Puerto Jimenez to Blue Osa and return taxes.
Testimonials
Total rediscovery of my body from head to toe practicing Yoga with Ulrika. I now hear her voice inside my head and smile when I get on the mat and practice. Ulrika has transformed the way I think of movement and breath into an art of living gracefully each moment.
~ Jake T, New York City, NY
I met Ulrika taking her Spring Renewal Yoga workshop at Esalen, Big Sur. I discovered so many new ways to move and breathe that made my yoga practice so much more creative, enjoyable and free. Ulrika has a beautiful gift transmitting the essence of yoga through metaphors, clear and empowering instructions fueled with philosophy and insight.
~ Anna J, Los Angeles, CA
I have travelled with Ulrika on Yoga Journeys around the world off and on the past 20 years and every time I am blown away by her choice of destinations, the inspiring Yoga practices and the sense of community and friendship experienced on all retreats. Once you experience a Yoga Journey with Ulrika you will be back again and again. Every journey and yoga practice is memorable.
~ Michele R, San Francisco, CA
