New Year's Yoga & Movement Retreat With Yoga Journeys

Begin 2027 with a fresh perspective through a retreat designed to renew your yoga practice, movement rituals, and inner vitality. This immersive experience invites you to release what no longer supports you and make space for practices that bring clarity, strength, and inspiration.

What Awaits You

Through movement-infused yoga sessions, you will explore transitions that encourage momentum and meaningful change. Carefully crafted sequences support both body and mind, helping you build trust in your own wisdom while stepping into the year ahead with confidence and ease.

Your Transformation Journey

Throughout this New Year retreat, you will cultivate confidence through bold transitions that reflect the natural cycles of release and renewal. The program is designed to help you let go of limiting patterns and welcome habits that support your highest potential. Dynamic vinyasa flows are balanced with restorative practices, breathwork, and mindful movement to encourage lasting change from within.

What Makes This Retreat Special

With experience leading international yoga journeys, this retreat brings together challenge and support in a thoughtful way. You will take part in release rituals that honor your growth, intention-setting ceremonies that help clarify your vision, and movement practices that awaken new possibilities in both body and spirit.

This Retreat Is Perfect For

• Yogis looking to deepen their practice through meaningful transitions
• Anyone ready to release old patterns and welcome new possibilities
• Students who want greater confidence in challenging poses and life situations
• Those wishing to begin 2027 with clarity, purpose, and renewed energy

Take Home

Leave with a personalized toolkit of movement sequences, breathing techniques, and mindfulness practices to support your transformation long after the retreat ends. You will also receive guidance for creating your own renewal rituals to encourage continued growth throughout the year.

Join this powerful beginning and discover how movement can become a guiding force for navigating life’s transitions with grace, strength, and confidence.

About Your Instructor

Ulrika Engman, E-RYT 500, is a certified yoga teacher and Halprin Life Art practitioner, a graduate of the Tamalpa Institute, and the founder of Yoga Journeys, an international travel company operating from 1999 to the present.

Born in Sweden, she moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 to study psychology and dance. That same year, she discovered yoga at Yoga Works in Santa Monica and has been a devoted practitioner ever since.

In addition to leading six to eight annual Yoga Journeys worldwide in sacred destinations such as Bali, Mexico, Peru, Iceland, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Egypt, and Morocco, Ulrika also leads Spa Yoga Days locally in Napa Valley at Solage resort in Calistoga. She teaches annual yoga workshops at Esalen Institute in Big Sur and Sacred Sundays yoga practice online.

Her fluid teaching style is shaped by psycho-somatic movement, anatomy, expressive arts, and dance. Inspired by movement, breath, body, and spirit, Ulrika blends the transformative power of yoga with nature metaphors, uplifting stories, and insights from yoga philosophy and wisdom traditions. Her classes are known for creative sequencing, strength-building practice, and a fresh experience each time, with postures woven through breath and music along the energy lines of body and mind.

What’s Included

Accommodations

Beachfront eco-friendly rooms with ocean views, thoughtfully designed for comfort, plus access to the 25-meter pool.

Meals

Three farm-to-table meals each day made with homegrown, organic ingredients, along with snacks and additional nourishment throughout the week.

Yoga

Daily yoga classes, plus yoga props including mats, blocks, and straps.

Transportation

Airport transfer from Puerto Jimenez to Blue Osa and return taxes.