Yogasafari & Urban Jungle, Kenya

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Move your joints with a well-being After Flight Yoga

Yoga talk – Yoga for life

Urban Jungle Highlights

Enjoy a walk and guided visit to the Karen Blixen Museum – it is generally believed that the suburb Karen was named after Karen Blixen, the Danish author of Out of Africa. Her farm was located just 2 minutes drive from Hemingway’s Hotel – our base for the start of our urban jungle safari in Nairobi, Kenya.

Do as many Kenyans, take a night out at The Talisman Restaurant, Karen. The best place in town and the most happening place to see the local scene. With its low couches and beautiful gardens, and with a local Tusker beer or Dawa in your hand, you become one with the casual charm of this place.

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Sunrise yoga – open your mind and heart to your African adventure.

Rooftop yoga with Africa Yoga project in down town Nairobi.

Urban Jungle Highlights

Kiss a giraffe and adopt an elephant baby – we will visit the Giraffe Center and David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust – famous for rehabilitating orphaned elephants.

Sunday brunch at Klub House1 Flea Market, Parklands, Nairobi

A rooftop yoga session together with Africa Yoga project at The Kenyatta International Convention Centre  – a 28-story building located in the City Square of Nairobi.

Sundowner cocktails and tapas dinner with sweeping views over the Nairobi skyline, the rooftop at Sarabi Pool and Bar will welcome us to a chic and relaxing ambience.

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Into the wild – afternoon safari yoga in the savannah. Get close to wildlife and learn more about how you can embrace that flexibility into your own body.

Yoga Talk – Body Awareness

Your personal yoga kit – individual body assessment

Safari highlights

Get to know the Maasai and learn from their wilderness knowledge – spectacular evening game drive together with our Samburu Maasai safari guides in the Loisaba Wilderness – a 56,000-hectare nature conservation area with more than 260 species of birds and 50 species of mammals.

Sundowners, watch the sun set over the Lakipia plateau.

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Sunrise meditation and yoga – Wake your body as the sun rises. Live in the moment and be aware of your body and potential.

Your personal yoga kit – individual body assessment

Afternoon yoga

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Morning game drives with wildlife researchers, a bush breakfast and evening game drive. Learn about endagered species like Grevy Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe, African Wild Dogs and Elephants from the Samburu guides.

Protecting wildlife – Loisaba has its own dedicated anti-poaching team, comprising of two sniffer dogs – Warrior and Machine – and their human handler team. We visit the team and learn about their day to day training and activities.

Around the campfire – Maasai talks

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Sunrise Yoga – Float and balance

Your personal yoga kit – individual body assessment

Afternoon yoga

Safari highlights

Morning bush walk with our Samburu Maasai guides – experience a strong presence when you walk through the grass of the savannah with your Masai guides – this is definitely another dimension of being on safari. We will do a picnic breakfast in the shade of an Acacia tree.

Meet & greet the Koija Womens group – producers of beaded handcraft. With the income they can provide essential finances for their families. Part of Loisaba Community Conservation Foundation.

Evening game drive with wildlife researchers and a scenic sundowner, continue on a night game drive.

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Morning Yoga – Root down, Sweat and Move

Your personal yoga kit – individual body assessment

Afternoon yoga

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Morning game drive and bush breakfast.

Experience the unique exhilaration of horseback riding on the plains with a herd of zebra, walking gently through a graceful tower of giraffe or past a herd of elephants.

Around the campfire – bush dinner under the stars of Africa.

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Sunrise yoga

Sunset rooftop yoga

Urban Jungle Moments

Visit at the Village Market – shopping moment at the Maasai market, whose mission is to empower women, men and youth specializing in handicrafts around East Africa – here you can buy souvenirs such as colorful Kikoys, curios, kitenge, baskets, abstract art, wood work, belts, candle holders, canes chessboards, clay art, clothing, cooking utensils, cushions, drums, footwear and much more. 

Afternoon walk in the Karura Forest, one of the beautiful green spaces that Kenya’s Nobel Peace Prize winner – Wangari Maathai – fought to protect.

Farewell dinner at Zen Garden, Kitisuru, Nairobi.

Let us introduce – Ingela, your private Yoga teacher

Your private yoga instructor throughout your time in Kenya is Ingela Nilsson. She´s a physiotherapist and yoga teacher and has completed the Yoga Alliance teacher training with Chrissy Carter in New York. As a person Ingela is curious to learn more and continuously explore and refine her teaching skills. Her next teacher training program will start in August with the famous teacher Matt Giordano in the U.S.

Ingela has a special interest for body anatomy and how to maintain a natural body position and full range movement during a lifetime. Her yoga classes combines vinyasa flow with an emphasis of alignment and skilful sequencing. Her mission is to provide each student with a foundation and skilfully teach with compassion, safety and integrity.

In addition to her many skills as a healthcare practitioner and yoga teacher she has spent a great part of her life in gymnastics, both as a gymnast and coach and have been coaching gymnasts all the way up to the National Team in Sweden.

Throughout her years of extensive travel and a busy working life, yoga has become a valuable grounding force in her daily life. This has made Ingela a compassionated  teacher and very well suited to guide others into the world of yoga.