Yoga in Nuweiba – the Studio between the sea and the mountains

Nuweiba is the perfect place to relax and re-balance, and Nuweiba Yoga Studio provides for your well-being in many ways.

The studio is in an elegant and peaceful home.The main yoga room can comfortably hold 10 people, has windows looking out to sea and good natural light. It is equipped with mats, blocks and belts, and wall ropes, is air-conditioned, and there is a sound system for music if needed.

The other yoga spaces include a large flat roof area which looks across the mountains and the sea, and this is also a beautiful place to spend the evenings watching the stars in the clear Sinai skies. The Studio has its own beach, with a gazebo where you can mediate or relax lulled by the sounds of the waves.

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Teacher Susan Metwali will lead small, intimate classes or work with you individually. Susan is a qualified Yoga teacher and has been teaching for over 20 years, mainly in West and South West London. She welcomes both beginners and those more experienced in Yoga asana practice to her classes. Her teacher training began with many years of Iyengar Yoga classes including classes with BKS Iyengar and Geeta Iyengar. Susan has also chosen to expand her knowledge with other teachers and has developed a style of teaching that embraces the knowledge of these great yogis. Drawing on her experience of working with many different age groups and abilities, Susan’s style of teaching focuses on the individual and allows a sense of joy and personal ease to be experienced through the practice of the eight limbs of Yoga.

Yoga classes take place at the studio almost every day, with a Morning Session: 10.30am – 12 midday and Evening Session: 4.00pm – 5.30pm.

Meditation and breathwork are also offered, and Susan can provide Reiki treatments, head massage, women’s body massage, Ayvrvedic facials.

The studio is also available for hire by yoga teachers and teachers of other disciplines such as pilates, dance, tai-chi. This can be by the hour or a teacher can arrange to bring a group of students and teach them at the studio for a week long retreat. The Studio will arrange accommodation, meals and airport transfers as an all in one attractive package for the teacher who can then charge his/her students on an individual basis.

If you are looking for a retreat for yourself or a small group, Nuweiba is a peaceful contrast to bustling Dahab or crowded Sharm el Sheikh. We suggest that anyone visiting Egypt schedules a class during their time in Nuweiba, and encourage locals to become regulars at the Studio. If you live and work in Dahab or Sharm, a day or two in Nuweiba will refresh your love of this area and a session at the Yoga Studio will refresh you.

You can find more information about Nuweiba Yoga Studio at www.yogastudionuweiba.com and https://www.facebook.com/YogaStudioNuweibaEgypt?fref=ts

In July, Susan will be holding a yoga retreat in the Tuscan hills, Italy. The accommodation is in a converted farm house with lovely garden and swimming pool. Yoga sessions will take place on a terrace with spectacular views as well as in the house. Date : June 29th – July 6th 2013 For more details and to book: www.tuscanyholidayvilla.com

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CARAVAN Festival of the Arts, Cairo, 9-16 May

As Egypt seeks to find its path into the future, the annual CARAVAN Festival of the Arts has the theme “In Peace and with Compassion …The Way Forward”. Hosted at St. John’s Church in Maadi, sponsored by the Embassy of Switzerland in Egypt, and supported by the British Council, the festival will be held from 9-16 May and will focus on visual public art, literature, film and music.

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The CARAVAN Festival of the Arts was founded five years ago with the objective of building bridges of understanding, respect and friendship between East and West, and between Muslims and Christians, through the Arts.

The week-long festival attracts thousands of visitors from around Egypt and the world. One of its unique aspects is that, to date, the festival has taken place at the historic St. John’s Church in Maadi/Cairo, a center for interfaith dialogue for over 80 years.

The heart of this 2013 CARAVAN festival is a visual public art exhibition. This year over 45 premier Egyptian and Western visual artists, Muslim and Christian, are participating in what will be a truly unique public art-oriented exhibition for Cairo. The 2013 CARAVAN visual art emphasis seeks to follow in the footsteps of an approach to public art that has featured painted animals. The subject in Cairo will be the donkey which symbolizes peace in both Islam and Christianity. Participating artists included celebrated Egyptian artists such Reda Abdel Rahman, George Bahgory, Ibrahim El Dessouky, and Mohamed Abla, to expatriate artists such as the well-known Norwegian artist, Britt Boutros-Ghali.

Additionally, there are special participating guests in the festival for film, literature and music include noted Egyptian actor Amr Waked, who will be giving a talk and a screening of his latest film, Winter of Discontent, Dr Alaa El Aswany, the best selling novelist of The Yacoubian Building, who will give a talk and sign his newly released book, The Automobile Club, and the renowned oud (lute) composer and player, Georges Kazazian.

All attendance is free of charge, and 20% of all art sales go to Egyptian charities assisting the poor regardless of creed.

Links:
Website:
http://www.oncaravan.org/exhitibion5/index.htm
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKvjXiUeOt8&feature=youtu.be
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caravan-Festival-of-the-Arts/156946157687350

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Dahab Bedouin Festival

The third Dahab Bedouin Festival was held 21-27 April, and gave the community and visitors to Dahab many insights to Bedouin life, from way of living and law, to herbal remedies from St Katherine.

Dahab visitors were treated to a magnificent full moon over the Red Sea this week, and many people found quiet places between the cafes to sit and enjoy the evening. Winds were also good, with kitesurfers and windsurfers enjoying the beginning of summer.

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Red Sea underwater paradise

Some more photos from the semi-submarine trip featured in the previous post http://naturetravelegypt.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/semi-submarine-ras-katy-reef-red-sea-sharm-el-sheikh/.

Glass bottom boats are another way to see the underwater world of the Red Sea.

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Semi-submarine, Ras Katy reef, Red Sea, Sharm el Sheikh

If you don’t swim, snorkel, freedive or scuba dive, how do you get to enjoy the miraculous underwater world of Egypt’s Red Sea? A trip on a semi-submarine.

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Submarines are not permitted in the Red Sea, so this is a semi-sub. The deck stays above water, the hull has large windows for you to watch from, and you can move from one side of the sub to the other as more interesting marine life presents on each side. This is a much more immersed experience than a glass-bottom boat.

Banks of corals, schools of fish, and the simple pleasure of sunlight filtering through the water, were accompanied by exclamations in Italian, Russian, German, English and a few other languages from the tourists around us. A guide drew our attention to different species of fish and coral as they passed us, or we passed them.

Enjoy this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgEZjaOZzsk and the slideshow above, and multiply the beauty by 5, then you will get some idea of the experience. This video and photos were taken on a basic camera and could not fully capture the colors or the perspective of what you actually see when you look directly through the windows. You can photograph and video your own experience, or you can just sit and take it all in.

Nature Travel can arrange your semi-sub experience http://naturetravelegypt.com/ and show you much more of Egypt.

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Luxor and Aswan

Luxor and Aswan have one of the highest concentrations of ancient Egyptian monuments and antiquities, and the journey along the Nile by boat or train will reward you with sights that will amaze and stay in your memory always.

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Entertainment and shopping in Sharm el Sheikh

In our series on the attractions of Sharm El Sheikh, today we introduce you to the entertainments you can enjoy in the restaurants and cafes of Naama Bay and the Old Market, and some of the crafts and souvenirs that the many bazaars offer.

Every night is full of color in Sharm, and that is even before you step into one of the city’s famous nightclubs, which we will explore in a future post.

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