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Our fitness holidays combine enjoyable holiday time with intense classes that will leave you leaner, more toned and more flexible.  Singles, friends, family and couples all enjoy this combination of fitness and vacation! Not only will you return home relaxed and fit but you’ll also be more motivated and inspired to keep on track with your fitness goals!


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Portugal June 22nd to 28 June 2013

Located in the beautiful town of Lagos, Portugal, the 5-star Cascade Wellness & Lifestyle Resort is considered by many as the Algarve's leading luxury hotel.

Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice 2013 Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice 2013

05.02.2013 -The Cascade Wellness & Lifestyle Resort proved once again to be a popular choice amongst holidaymakers by winning the 2013 Travellers' Choice award, an accolade handed out by the famous travel website TripAdvisor.

Picture yourself waking up surrounded by the beauty and tranquillity of the Algarve’s West Coast. Uninterrupted ocean views, beautiful Portuguese landscapes, peace and serenity: welcome to the Cascade Wellness and Lifestyle Resort.

Situated in a unique location close to the historical town of Lagos, Portugal, perched on the cliff tops above the impressive Ponta da Piedade (a beautiful landscape with naturalcaves, grottos and sea arches), Cascade Resort is a place of stunning luxury and beauty.

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Cascade Resort has been created with local history in mind, paying homage to the Portuguese heritage. The 5-star Resort boasts not only a 86-bedroom hotel, but also luxury villas and apartments, elegant spa facilities and pool, a fully equipped gym and the Cascade Performance Sports Academies. Here, the emphasis is on luxury and wellbeing.

We can offer you a tailor made program. Extend your stay, bring your family, upgrade your room, anything is possible.

Date & price
June 22nd to June 28th 2013
€899,-* per person, double occupancy
Flight and transfer not included

*based on double occupancy. Surcharge for an upgrade to a different roomtype.
€150,- surcharge for a single room.

For more information on our fitness holidays
or to reserve your spot contact us at info@essentrics.com


Retreat Silver sand
Fitness Retreat in beautiful Jamaica

Save the Date – Book a Spot!
Dec 1 to 8th 2013


We are excited to host a fitness holiday at the Silver Sands Villa Resorts in Jamaica.

 Silver Sands is where we filmed our first ever DVD series, and where we take our personal holidays. We are looking forward to sharing this family oriented fitness holiday with you.

Silver Sands is a resort of individually owned Villa’s that are rented out all year round. You’ll have the luxury of your own personal staff of cook and cleaner to take care of you. Villa’s range from 2 bedrooms to 6 bedrooms.  Silver Sands is a gated community with its own private beach, activities, mini grocery store, and casual grill restaurant.

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STAY OPTIONS
Reserve a private Villa:
Come with a group of friends and reserve a private villa all to yourselves

Reserve a room:
Singles, doubles or coming with a friend or family member, We have chosen the best villa’s to share!  Much like a Bed & Breakfast, each bedroom has its own bathroom and the common areas of the Villa’s are spacious and comfortable.  

Villa’s have their own private pool.

More information to come soon!

For more information on our fitness holidays
or to reserve your spot contact us at info@essentrics.com

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Check out what Fashion
magazine health editor
had to say!


ESSENTRICS
Montego Bay, Jamaica, essentrics.com

Fashion Magazine - April 2010

I’m sitting on an ottoman in the soaring lobby of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall, waiting to meet my Essentrics retreat compadres. Gradually, the women (and one husband) arrive-Canadians and Americans of varying age, visibly relieved to be escaping their daily grind. We’re greeted by Sahra Esmonde-White and her mother, Miranda, the program inventor and something of a celebrity down south-she’s hosted a daily fitness show on PBS for the past 10 years, which is how Americans have come to be here. Rather exciting to see your TV trainer come to life.

A dancer with the National Ballet of Canada for four years, her career curtailed by a broken foot, Miranda went on to teach stretch and fitness classes, studying with physiotherapists and chiropractors before opening her own studio in Montreal.

The premise of eccentric movement-which Sahra identified as the key part of her mom’s invention while writing her master’s thesis on it-is that stretching the muscles and strengthening them in an elongated position allows a deeper stretch and produces a long, lean physique. Athletes Jessica Dubé and Kim St-Pierre testify that Essentrics makes them faster and resilient to injury, while starlets Noot Seear and Vanessa Hudgens are presumably more interested in its aesthetic benefits.

It becomes clear that a workout with Miranda is also a 100-level anatomy class-I learn about the function (and existence) of my IT bands and iliopsoas-and a strongly worded lesson in preventing old-age shrinkage. I start to feel that if I religiously strengthen my chest and back by reaching my arms up and by levering them backwards, I might stay proudly upright into my 90s. I walk away feeling taller, tauter, and looser in my joints.

My days consist of two classes, a nap on my balcony’s swinging loveseat and an inordinate length of time in my huge marble bathroom-given my schedule and the heat, I’m taking four showers a day. Far from lonely on my solo venture, I chat with my new pals in the open-air restaurant: One, from Maine, is an inspiringly sprightly 70-year-old landscaper; another is a fabulous well-read diplomat’s wife from Washington.

One day, a pretty limber yoga teacher from Miami wanders off the pool deck and asks to join in. she’s visibly surprised at the way the movements work muscles you didn’t even know you had. Afterwards, she writes down the wed address and expresses her disappointment that she’s merely at the resort on vacation. Twenty bucks says she shows up next time.

- Rani Sheen>>