Experience Samoa with a group of your yoga students!

This sample itinerary is a group tour that we give often. We are able to adjust the schedule to meet the needs of your group. Let us know what you want, and we will do our best to customize the trip for you.

All events will be focused on rejuvenating the mind, body and soul amidst the island life! Each meditation will be guided

Detailed Sample Group Itinerary

Day 1: Travel to Samoa

Day 2: Arrive early in the morning before sunrise and enjoy the smells, sights, sounds of Samoa. After you pick up your luggage, we will whisk you away to your first accommodations on the private uninhabited island of Namu’a where you can enjoy the splendor of the South Pacific. Our first meals, the opportunity to swim and beachcomb as well as your first session of yoga will be enjoyed here. Then sleep in rustic, open beach fales (houses) next to the clear lagoon. There is no electricity on the island so each of us has a kerosene lamp.

Day 3: Wake up for the sunrise and gentle yoga. After breakfast, a short steep hike will take us to the top of this small island. Along the way, you may see coconut crabs, and the ocean views are beautiful. After lunch you will have time to swim and snorkel. In the afternoon you will learn about Samoan culture, including learning a few Samoan words and protocol for the traditional Samoan ‘ava (kava) ceremony. Then, dinner and island style relaxation for the evening.

Day 4: Start the day with sunrise yoga by the sea. After breakfast we travel by boat and van to Apolima Island, a 100-person village set in the dramatic caldera of a volcanic crater island. Along the way you will visit a waterfall and see a small garden of local plants and herbs. Apolima is a magnificent and unique experience and a chance to see Samoan culture first hand. We will be welcomed with a traditional ‘ava ceremony. And then a dinner with the village.

Day 5: Practice yoga in a village fale and then have breakfast with traditional foods. Following breakfast a guided tour of a cocoa plantation is offered followed by a sample of traditional Samoan Koko (organic hot chocolate)! After lunch, take a short steep hike to a lighthouse and a panoramic view of other Samoan islands. Then have a Samoan dinner and rest for the evening. There will be plenty of opportunities to interact with the Samoan families of this village.

Day 6: Sunrise meditation and yoga. Attend a Samoan church service in the village. Afterwards, have a traditional Samoan Sunday meal (toana’i). Then travel by boat to the island of Savai’i (the largest island in Polynesia except Hawai’i and New Zealand. We arrive at the Manase beach-fale destination for dinner and then malolo (rest). Your accommodation is a stone’s throw from the ocean’s edge.

Day 7: Morning meditation and yoga. A guided snorkeling tour will leave from directly in front of your fale. In the afternoon there will be time to relax on the white sandy beach, swim in the turquoise waters and enjoy the ocean breeze. In the evening we will have yoga tratak, which is the yoga practice of guided-star gazing.

Day 8: Morning yoga and meditation. You can explore a cave made by lava tubes. Next, a swim in a fresh cold-water spring in some of the purest water of the world. Your skin will feel fresh, soft, and renewed. In the afternoon there will be a guided tour of lava fields. After dinner you can relax and rest for the evening.

Day 9: Meditation and yoga in an open fale. After leaving the Manase beach fales we will visit Cape Mulinu’u, where the sun sets last on earth, explore a rainforest canopy walkway and visit a place in Samoan legend where you will be guided in placing intentions for your life. Then continue on and have dinner and sleep at a Samoan beach fale in the village of Satuiatua.

Day 10: Morning yoga and meditation. You will have the opportunity to see how traditional Samoan tapa cloth is made and the option to hike to the traditional star mound where it is believed the first people of Samoa settled. Then on to a beautiful waterfall where you can swim in the pristine fresh water. This waterfall reminds us of the Garden of Eden. Afterward, a visit to some of the most spectacular blowholes in the South Pacific and then be back at the beach fales for dinner.

Day 11: After breakfast we will visit the Samoan village where Taialofa was born, visiting the site of her fale and the family that helped to look after her when she was a baby. Then travel by ferry to Upolu Island and check in at our final accommodations, the luxurious Coconuts Beach Resort for sunset, dinner and sleep.

Day 12: Morning yoga and meditation. Enjoy the beautiful beach and gecko-shaped swimming pool at Coconuts Beach Resort. You have the option to visit a gorgeous waterfall only about 10 minutes from your resort where there is great swimming in the clear pool beneath the waterfall. In the afternoon, you can walk on the beach and swim in the ocean. Dinner and a Samoan fiafia (celebration) with fire dancers (the local village) in the evening!

Day 13: Morning yoga then breakfast. Visit the Bahai’i temple (one of 7 in the world). Visit the Tiapapata Art Center where Taialofa and Kevin live. View the tallest waterfall in Samoa. In the afternoon there will be a guided tour of a beach where two rivers come together and flow into the sea. In the late afternoon, you will be guided in a yoga session.

Day 14: Start your day with yoga and meditation. Visit Robert Louis Stevenson’s home. Enjoy the colorful markets of Samoa and shop for local crafts and gifts made by the people of Samoa. Then a visit to the National Museum of Samoa, after which we will head back to the beach for our farewell dinner and closing ceremony. Final packing and showers, and then the inevitable time comes to leave for the airport.

Day 15: Fly home from Samoa.

All yoga is conducted in open-air fales.