About us
Our vision
We are here for those looking for relaxation, yoga and good food, as well as for those who want to address emotional processes.
We work as a couple with small groups of maximum 5 people.
Our location: Molí d'en Salom
Our center has a medieval mill, a natural lake/swimming pool and extensive grounds with orchards, gardens, fruit trees and a sculpture garden. Learn about some of the features of our new location:
- Nearby attractions such as the lively center of Figueres, the Dali museum, historic Girona, the volcanic Garrotxa region and the coastal town of Cadaques.
- Proximity to beautiful beaches to enjoy the coast in summer.
- Natural environment surrounded by historic villages with a rich culinary and wine offer.
- Surrounded by an impressive landscape with vineyards, cypresses and olive trees.
- Direct access to walking and cycling routes.
- Located near Figueres, Girona, Costa Brava North, Pyrenees and south coast of France.
Nutrition
At Sharanam’s retreats, you’ll enjoy delicious meals that include gluten-free, dairy-free and sugar-free options.
We favor healthy variation, local and organic ingredients, promoting creativity and health in the kitchen.
We also recognize the importance of maintaining balance and finding joy in food.
Zumo detox o detox light
On the other hand, our juice detox method is ideal for increasing food awareness and can serve as a first step towards healthy changes.
We provide additional support with massage, yoga and therapy to address lifestyle patterns. Its benefits are:
Who we are: Aleid and Doby
In April 2008, Aleid and Doby made the decision to move to Mallorca in search of more connection with nature, study and meditation. After years of enjoying the island, in 2021 they moved to a medieval mill in northern Spain, between the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees.
Aleid
I am a licensed psychologist and Imago couples therapist, combining my experience in clinical psychology with more than 23 years of practice.
In addition, I am a senior yoga teacher with a long experience of 25 years of experience and more than 4000 hours of teaching. During the sessions, my husband cooks and massages and I do the individual sessions, yoga, meditation, walking.
I am passionate about cultural diversity, I discovered my love for cooking at a young age, collaborating with my mother. My fascination for spices and world music leads him to collect jewelry from both worlds.
Besides being a cabinetmaker, building beautiful kitchens is his specialty.
In Holland, I shared my culinary talents at events. After overcoming cancer, I turned my enthusiasm for cooking into a new profession dedicated to health, taste and yoga.
Doby
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Who we are
Aleida and Doby
We met on New years eve ’98/’99 and after a fun slow-dating year became inseparable. We just love living, traveling and working together. The first decade we lived in a 35m2 apartment in Amsterdam surrounded by friends and with a fully engaged city life. We initiated the yearly Open Up festival with 3 companions. The second decade we learned to live with nature in rural areas…. all is good.
In April 2008 we moved to Majorca to create more opportunity for being in nature, study and contemplation, creative inspiration and meditation. In 2021 we moved to our current house, a medieval mill on a small river in the North of Spain between the mediterranean sea and Pyrenees.
We enjoy greatly to complement each other and share our expertise in taking care of people. And the beautiful nature around is supporting all.
Aleid Warmelink
Aleid is a qualified yoga instructor who utilizes her knowledge of evidence-based psychology and eastern knowledge and practice to gain a wider perspective and approach to healing. *Licensed psychologist (Masters Clinical Psychology, Amsterdam), Imago Couples Therapist. *23 years of experience as psychologist and life coach. *Senior yoga teacher with 24 years of yoga experience with over 4000 teaching hours and received over 1000 hours of teacher training.
Aleid uses her strongly developed intuition and ‘holistic eye’ in her psychotherapy sessions. She was born and bred in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Her travels have made her more knowledgeable of different traditions and cultures. As a psychologist she wanted to learn more about important teachers in different times and cultures. Aleid is fascinated by the human mind, but also the spiritual heart. She thinks she will never want to stop finding new inspiration, every person is a world. She is always reading a lot of books from mainstream psychology to holistic techniques. Transformational Yoga has been her main spiritual practice since she started her studies at University.
Personal Radiance
Aleid has worked in psychiatry for several years, first with adolescents, and then with people with psychotic disorders. Since 2004 she has concentrated on her own blend of yoga, coaching, therapy, and meditation when she started her own successful psychological practice called “Personal Radiance” in the center of Amsterdam.
Doby van den Berg
Doby comes from a family with a curiosity towards many different cultures, especially culinary culture and music. He sarted helping his mother in the kitchen from a young age and has never stopped enjoying the process of preparing World food, and the pleasure of eating together.
He is always interested in finding new spices and herbs from every possible region of the world, similarly collecting authentic music from all over the world. He possesses quite impressive collections on both topics.
Doby found like-minded friends, with whom he gets together every year for night long buffets to experiment, share new ideas and enjoy each others culinary creations.
Doby trained as a cabinet maker first to allow him to live and work anywhere in the world and building beautiful kitchens was a favorite.
In Holland Doby offered his cooking talents every once in a while for formational groups and retreats organized by friends. After emigrating and going through cancer, Doby took up healthy, tasty cooking as a new profession and loves it!
Massage and Reiki
Another talent he picked up in the second part of his life was expanding his skills in massage and Reiki. Doby followed courses in a combination of Ayurvedic and Pressure point massage by Ganga Hoogendoorn (Aleid’s yoga teacher) and Reiki second level with Denise Ernsting. His strong calm presence goes very well with this work