This retreat comprises riding, yoga and/or meditation, meaning relaxed and restorative days. This is a chance to strengthen your relationship with horses and reconnect with nature. The retreat takes place in the heart of the Alentejo, in Herdade da Burquilheira, the ideal setting in which to find tranquility and to focus your body and mind. This is a three-night beginners programme for those who want to learn about horses. Your host, Laura, is an experienced and keen horse rider who loves to teach people the joys of riding and living daily with horses. A wonderful introduction to the world of horses as well as a chance to explore this beautiful Herdade da Burquilheira. Guests will learn correct riding principles through a mixture of classic tuition, from grooming and tacking to ridding, learning about horse behaviour, with all the respect that horses nature and emotions require. Guests will enjoy relaxing rides in the surroundings whose landscape classified as National Ecological Reserve is stunning, traversing a typical landscape of the Alentejo, with its Cork Oak and Azinheiras in a rural and natural environment. Beside horse riding, you will have yoga and/or meditation classes in the dam wall or in your cottage porch, to improve your riding, focusing on building your concentration, balance and self-carriage as well as feeling centred. Guests can choose to have yoga and/or meditation classes per day. Standard rate: 725,00€ Included: 3 nights accommodation, 4 days riding, 2 days Yoga Not included: Meals, drinks, flights, travel insurance, transfers, drinks, other activities, tips & other personal expenses.