Soul Awakening Yoga Retreat
with Jules Jenkinson
RetreatsSoul Awakening Yoga Retreat with Jules Jenkinson
Experience guided asana, pranayama, meditation and yoga nidra practices during this grounding and transformative retreat. Nourish your body, mind and soul through self-care, stillness and connection.
Her sessions incorporate Prana Flow Yoga, Hatha, Yin and Jivamukti. Perfect for all levels.
You finish the session feeling awake and settled, with a sense of physical ease and mental clarity. Over the course of the stay, the practice supports intentional practice with a focus on grounding and holding space.
Afternoon sessions are slower and more restorative. Gentle movement leads into longer held asanas, allowing the body time to soften and release. Attention stays with breath and sensation, supporting deeper layers of connective tissue and encouraging rest and nervous system settling.
Jules Jenkinson
What's included:
Accommodation at Ulpotha is on a twin-sharing basis in comfortable, beautifully designed adobe huts open to the surrounding nature.
Yoga classes twice daily (there is no yoga on Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings)
A yoga-friendly breakfast and two sumptuous organic vegetarian meals, plus snacks, juices, and teas.
Indulge in one free massage/week from one of our visiting therapists.
Transport for 1 excursion (half or full day) per week to nearby cultural heritage sites (entrance fees not included).
What's not included:
Transport to and from Ulpotha
Travel insurance is not included.
Ayurveda treatments are not included in the price; please see prices on our booking page.
A Typical day at Ulpotha:
All times are indicative, as is this description of a day in Ulpotha. There's no regimented or obligatory schedule as such. You're free to do precisely as you wish.
07:00 - 07:30: Tea and Fruit
07:30 - 09:00: Yoga
After yoga: Breakfast (available from 7 onwards for those not practising yoga)
From 10 onwards: Massages/Ayurveda/Swimming/Relaxing/Reading
12:30: Lunch
After Lunch: Massages/Ayurveda or a siesta; alternatively, go for bicycle rides, swim, read or explorative walks
16:00 - 17:00: Tea and Snacks
17:00 - 18:30 Yoga/Meditation/Sunset Walks/Relaxing
19:00 onwards Dinner by Firelight
Your Teachers & Therapists
Jules Jenkinson
Yoga TeacherJules grew up in the Australian outback, then the cultural sprawl of Melbourne, and spent her childhood with a quality that has never quite left her: a genuine curiosity about the world and everything living in it.
She has been practising yoga for more than twenty years. Her first teacher training came in 2012, a 350-hour immersion in Amrit Yoga, and she began teaching the following year. From there her studies widened, moving through Jivamukti, Hatha and Yin before she found her way to Prana Flow Yoga and a close working relationship with global teacher Shiva Rea, whose teacher trainings and retreats she assisted in Nosara, Costa Rica and Sydney.
She is certified by Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 500 lead trainer and continuing education provider, and also holds qualifications as a Yoga Nidra teacher, massage therapist, Level 2 Reiki practitioner and tantric meditation practitioner.
At Ulpotha
Sri Lanka became her home in 2020, and the island’s energy has shaped much of what she does now. She went on to own and run a boutique yoga and surf retreat hotel on the south coast, before co-founding One Bhakthi, a school of yoga and wellness in the village of Kathaluwa, where she leads 200-hour and 300-hour teacher trainings.
Afternoons
Afternoon sessions are slower and more restorative. Gentle movement leads into longer held, passive shapes, allowing the body time to soften and release. Attention stays with breath and sensation, supporting deeper layers of connective tissue and encouraging rest and nervous system settling.
What you'll experience with Jules
Students tend to say that Jules is less about technique and more about presence: a quality of being met where you are, without performance, without hierarchy.
Yuji Kuwamizu
Visiting TherapistYuji, a therapist based in the tranquil hot-spring haven of Kagoshima, Japan, has mastered a unique treatment style.
