Summer Bliss: Day Retreat

A bespoke one day retreat near the sea to soothe your soul and access your loving centre.

Connect with light-hearted community as you slow down, reflect, and immerse in healing, resting, and purifying with the gifts of gentle flow yoga, Yin Yoga, yogic breath practices, Yoga Nirda, guided relaxation, mindfulness, meditation, Ayurveda wisdom, sound healing, wholefoods, ceremonial cacao, nature, journalling and reflection.

Day Retreat offer:

Summer Bliss offers a nourishing blend of yoga medicine and nourishing wellness practices to unwind our hearts, bodies and minds from the stresses of everyday life.

This is a day to reset your nervous system, re-ignite your radiance and bring balance – with your inner rythms in harmony, close this year and all it has offered you with grace and acceptance, before you welcome in new, heart-felt desires for the year ahead.

It includes an Ayurveda-inspired wholefoods lunch, Crystal Valley spring water on tap, organic tea, and ceremonial cacao (the best hot chocolate you have ever tasted for your body, mind, spirit…and even tastebuds!).

Schedule*:

10:00am-11:00am – Gentle flow yoga
11.00am-11.30am – Yogic breath and guided meditation
11.30am-12:00pm – Ayurveda 101 + journal inspiration
12:00pm-12:30pm – Wholefood lunch + ceremonial cacao nestled in the dunes
12:30pm-1:00pm –  Earthing/mindful beach walk and meditation/quiet reflection/nature connection/journalling
1:00pm-2:00pm – Yin Yoga + mindfulness teachings
2:00pm-3:00pm – Yoga Nidra + Sound Healing

*Subject to change

 Who is this for?:

• Anyone wanting to reconnect to the simplicity of being.
• Anyone looking to explore his or her inner experiences and relationship to self.
• Anyone looking to release stress, worry, or doubt and reconnect to their inner ding.
• Anyone who would like to recharge, renew and rejuvenate after a colourful year.
• Anyone wanting to call in fresh, clear, heart-led direction for their new year.
• Anyone curious to take your yoga and/or meditation practice to a deeper level.
• Anyone wanting to join a container of like-hearted community.

About Gentle Flow Yoga:

This is an ideal practice ideal for cultivating more mobility and balance in both body, breathe, and mind. We will do a range of postures to help balance the five elements within, earth, water, fire, air, and ether (space). It is a gentle version of Vinyasa with plenty of modfications and support to meet you were you are at. This practice will lead into an accessible Kriya with breath and visualisation from the Hatha Tantra traditon to still the mind and access deep connection.

About Ayurveda:

Ayurveda is the sister-science of Yoga and the oldest natural system for health and wellbeing in the world – 5,000 year old time-tested practices from the yogic sciences that modern science is finally cathing on to. In this retreat, take your journal out to record some of Ayurveda’s high level and best tips and tricks that are sure to inspire you to replace unhealthy habits with new positive habits that will help to regulate your rhythms and leave you feeling better in your own skin.

About Yin Yoga:

Yin Yoga is a gentle, passive practice to slow down, tune in and let go. Yin addresses the connective tissue, which reduces pain and stiffness, improves body posture, strength and endurance and creates elegance, harmony, greater mobility, and health. It is also reported to reduce stress, calm the nervous system, and detoxify. It follows Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) wisdom, working with the meridian pathways of the body for healthy Qi (prana or lifeforce).

This will be a practice to ‘retreat’ inward and to come home to the sacred wisdom of the body which carries the widsom of the mind – find the answers within.

The sequence of the practice will be inspired by Traditional Chiniese Medicine (TCM) to work on the meridians of the season related to fire – the energy of summer. This all-levels Yin Yoga practice will focus on the heart and small intestine meridians, the two pathways related to ensure your fire energy is balanced – so you can feel all the good vibes of summer; joy, fun, and inspiratoin according to TCM and not manic and anxious when this energy is out of balance

You will be held in a supportive, welcoming space for your Yin practice and its natural, therapeutic, andnourishing affects.

About Yoga Nidra:

Yoga Nidra is a systematic practice of moving awareness from your external world to the inner world, where you enter deep states of conscious relaxation. It offers a state of deep sleep where senses, intellect, and mind relax – it will help you recognise your more subtle energies, and promotes deep rest and wellbeing – 15 minutes of Yoga Nidra, is said to equate to several hours of sleep.

You will be lying down for this practice that is a guided practice between waking and sleeping – it will rejuenvate the body and mind as we call on the healing cleansing waters of the moon, called soma.

“If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth; listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.” – Kabir

 About Sound Healing:

Following your Yoga Nidra practice, be treated to a mini sound healing, held in the loving ethereal sounds from live and recorded traditional instruments.

About Simone:

Simone from ‘Yoga Spirit’ is a certified and experienced 500-hour yoga and meditation teacher offering private one-to-one and group sessions, open yoga classes, wellness workshops, experiences and retreats.

Simone is Level Two advanced trained in Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Hatha Tantra, Yin Yoga and Meridians, Mindfulness, Vinyasa Krama, Anatomy and Biomechanics, Vedic Philosophy, Yoga Sutras, Pranayama, Mantra, Meditation, Ayurveda, Restorative Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. She is also a certified Cermonial Cacao Facilitator, inducted into Reiki level 1, and trained in Kids Yoga Therapy.

Simone’s teachings are informed by modern movement and biomechanics practices, as well as the wisdom originating from the great ancient sages of the East. Particularly Vedic philosophy and Ayurveda, natural scientific systems for living a more enriched, joyful, loving existence.

Believing the greatest work we can do is the work on ourselves, it’s her teaching intention to offer a safe and welcoming space that awakens you to the true light and wholeness within. So you can expand and grow, so you ride the waves of life more smoothly, and so you can be a force of good in the world.

More about Simone here