Nourish Your Heart

Your Rustic Retreats Journey

 

‘Yoga’ means Union, and our heart is our Sacred Centre: where we are balanced between our roots (desires and instincts) and our wings (our expansive vision/ ideals).

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In this retreat were going to explore how it is to balance the solitude you have so recently experienced . We will use the ancient potent tools of Yoga to cultivate a deeper awareness of our bodies. Creative exercises and experiential movement will add some colour, creativity and spice. This retreat is about getting to know ourselves and accepting every shade of who we are = self-love.

We will work with our roots and our wings bringing both energies to meet and seek a pathway through the heart enabling you to open it fully again in everyday life.

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Your workshop programme

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1 Chakra Awareness Journey with sound and movement​

 

Whether we are familiar with or new to working with our chakra’s this workshop will introduce and allow experiencing them in new ways. It will also be a wonderful introduction to the power of sound and vibration and the ways it can affect and release our bodies and clear our minds. 

We’ll work with Aum, Chakra seed sounds, intuitive sound and breath. Many of us are afraid of making sound, but this will be developed naturally, with fun, and will help us get deeper into our bodies and shift inhibitions.

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2 Power of Gratitude​

 

Gratitude can shift a difficult situation into a wonderful opportunity and train our minds to be more contented with our present moments. We will explore what gratitude means to all of us; how it can make us happier and healthier; take a journey of gratitude through the body; and make our own gratitude journals to work with during the retreat. It gives us the opportunity for self-reflection and observation and moves us directly into the space of the heart.

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3 Flow Painting and Nature Mandala’s​

 

Polarities make the wheel of life. As our theme for this day is on exploring and balancing these seemingly opposite energies to move into harmony and balance, there is no better place and teacher to guide us than nature herself. Let nature be unleashed and  freedom of the  child with in us see nature afresh, gather treasures and create our own wheel of life/ Mandala’s.

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4 Connect to your Dharma

 

​What does living a passionate life mean to you? And, are you living your wildest dreams? What does you heart secretly yearn for? Do you dare to believe you could live them?  This is a wonderful and fun, activating and even tearfully moving and revealing exercise. In the season of summer, which governs this days theme, let the full summer sun shine light on our hearts path.
The teachings of yoga say that we each have our own unique Dharma or purpose for being here, something that we wish to learn or fulfill, whether seemingly small or wide reaching. This workshop will bring you closer to yours and help you to make the decisions in your life to move in their direction. When we know what they are we can achieve them.

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5 Sacred Closing Circle

 

We will celebrate with a sacred closing circle at the end of the week. This will be our time to reflect and feel fully reconnected, healed, nourished and nurtured from our journey of deep self discovery. With an open heart, we find gratitude for all the blessings we have in our worlds, from this place of gratitude we find compassion to share both to oneself and to others. With a musical twist we will seal our experience with a chant that will remain a vibration in your heart forever.​