Our Philosophy

We love nature, we love Yoga and a healthy life! And these are what we want to share with our guests! Nature is a permanent source of beauty, inspiration and energy. And so, it has the power to enhance and boost our lives for good. Regular Yoga practices activate our energetic levels and self awareness. Combining nature with yoga, choosing special venues to set up a week of healthy nourishment and comfort for our guests is our first aim. Our commitment is to create for (and with) you an unforgettable experience of balanced holidays in a friendly atmosphere, where daily yoga practices, meditation, alternative practices, such as breathwork and ceremonies and healthy food will guide each of the participants to his best state. Self awareness, mindfulness of the body-mind-feelings, silence and harmony are some of the wonders you can aspire on this “Holy-days" with SolarYoga Retreats. LIFE IS HERE AND NOW… LET'S LIVE IT FULLY!

Ingrid Christiansen

Founder & Yoga Instructor

Ingrid has been practicing yoga for more than 15 years. She initially studied in Argentina with Victoria Fernandez, Ashtanga and Hatha Yoga.She studied also the Devarya Yoga Teacher training on Ibiza, Vinyasa Yoga , Yin Yoga with Travis Eliot and diferent energy healings.

Ingrid loves to share her passion and inspire people into a healthier and more peaceful lifestyle.Her teaching flows between the dynamic practices of Vinyasa and Hatha flow Yoga and to release and let go Ingrid like to share the Yin Yoga in the afternoon!Every practice will integrates body, mind, and spirit to create a meditation in movement synchronizing movement and breath to deepen the experience of the practice.

Yoga will always be her passion and path of life.
Personal Details:Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina 41 years ago, Ingrid lives and works between Ibiza and Brazil she also lived some years in Germany and Italy so she can comunicad with her clients in English, German, Spanish and Italian.

She likes an healthy lifestyle and loves to enjoy sun, nature and meditations and is organising Yoga and Meditation Retreats in Ibiza and Brazil since 8 years.

Ingrid is a certificated yoga teacher and has been also a holistic masseur for more then ten years on the Island of Ibiza. She has participated in many spiritual retreats and energetic healing courses such as Reiki, cellular memory, massage therapy, frequencies of brilliance, rebirthing and breathwork amongst others.

Ixtaly Nagual

Meditation facilitator

Ixtaly Nagual - Meditation Facilitator - Ixtaliy was born in Peru in 1968 and raised in Colombia and Brazil. She chose traveling as a back-packer craft woman for many years all over Latin America and later on in Europe, specially in Ibiza, Spain. This journey opened her creativity and sensitivity to social and human issues. Her passage through the Andes mountains and Amazonian rainforest very early in her life carved her deeply inside and was marked by the teachings of Master Plants: Huachuma - also known as San Pedro, the ancestral sacred cactus of the Andes, that inspired and transformed her life in one session, opening her body-mind-soul to a completely new perception of "reality" and Ayahuasca, also known as "La abuelita" within the next years. All these journeys have contributed profoundly to her personal and spiritual evolution as a Medicine Woman in permanent service to humanity.

At the retreats, in addition to serving breakfast and reserving space for participants when required, she guides meditations during the week and facilitates meditation workshops inspired by the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, for which she is a qualified instructor from Solterreno Mindful Academy. She also offers holistic massages to balance energy and reconnect with the self and Tarot readings to bring to light issues that need attention and a fresher way of seeing them.

She is also one of the co-founders of the association Verdejar d'Ajuda www.verdejardajuda.org, an ecological project in Bahia, Brazil, which mission is to plant a million trees and bring environmental education and awareness of our responsibility to mitigate the impact of climate change to her community, and part of the benefits of the retreats supports it.

Nak

Medicine from Mucura

I am Nak (Nacho Cano) and Mucura is a magical plant that gives name to my work.

I facilitate self-healing experiences and tools for raising awareness.
I am a student and ambassador of Traditional Andean Amazonian Medicine.

President of the Plantaforma, Director of the Confederation for the Defense of Life in Lima and member of the Coherent Movement Network and share the medicine ceremonies since 18 years.

Natalie Steward

Breathwork, Meditation and Yoga Facilitator

Natalie is passionate about helping others go beyond the mind to self exploration within. As a trained breathwork, meditation and Yin Yoga facilitator, Natalie invites us to connect to what is already there and asks “how can we be more of our true authentic selves?”
Natalie has a love for music, movement and uses a range of embodiment practices to help us move away from our thinking minds so that we can feel more.

As a trained mindfulness (MBSR) facilitator, Natalie helps us connect to our own inner wisdom; uncovering our truth, passions and desires. Natalie is committed to her own personal journey and as a soul leader, she deeply embodies her own unique gifts to naturally inspire, teach and guide others. Truly inspired by plant medicine, she believes “all the answers are within”

Antonella

Antonella Yllana is a brazilian writer and traveler, a translator and a Tarot therapist. While traveling, she got in touch with her spiritual calling, had a mystical experience, and blossomed further as a spiritual pilgrim. She lived in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, USA, published eight books, and worked as a translator and interpreter for therapists, healers, and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism. Ayahuasca has been her plant master for years. Her therapeutic work with tarot cards helps clarify issues and integrate the sacred teachings of the plant.
Tarot Therapy is an interactive and therapeutic work in which the client is led, with the help of Tarot cards, through free associations, exchanges of ideas with the therapist and moments of immersion , to recognize and release emotional blocks.
The method, developed by Antonella over ten years ago, has elements of tibetan buddhist practices, family constellations, NLP, shamanic energy alignment and hypnotherapy.
Antonella is part of our team at our Bahia retreats, she will offer her Tarot Technique as a tool for self-knowledge and integration of experience with medicine, she will eventually introduce participants to the practice of Meditation and be present in the sharing circles.

Flor

Flor Bernard, born in Brazil and with many travels in her past, is the bright and kind soul who will welcome and accommodate participants, serve them delicious frugal brunches and accompany them throughout the retreat.
She has been a mother since 2020, so our guests may have the privilege of meeting little Pupa during their stay. Flor is naturally dedicated to serving and caring for others. Sustainable fashion designer, Yoga practitioner since 2017, has maintained a respectful relationship with La Abuelita (Ayahuasca) since she was twenty and is a great cook and host.

Flor supports retreats with Antonella throughout the year when Ingrid and Ixtalÿ are in Europe. She will serve delicious and healthy breakfasts and will assist participants as much as possible with anything they may need.