Intimacy with life - Yoga Retreat
Dune Lakes Lodge - Yoga Retreat
6-8th December 2024
Get in touch: mariana@aliveaslife.com
“If you can breathe you can do Yoga”
-TKV Desikachar
The practice
HaTha Yoga
The heart and breath-centred practice brought forth from the ancient traditions by Sri Krishnamacharya.
The breath is the central focus of the practice.
Yoga is not a method to get anywhere, it is your participation in life as it actually is. It is the practice of intimacy with your breath, body and life.
Asana (Body postures) are the whole body’s reverence to life.
*No previous Yoga or Meditation experience required
This retreat is for you if you want to:
Relax into your own life
Discover ease with meditation and yoga
Establish your own home practice
Manage difficult emotions
Learn to self soothe or regulate
Listen to your body and intuition
Have clarity of mind and direction
Participate in your unity with everything and everyone
Tune into safety and trust in relationships with Rosemary´s horse workshop
About the retreat
A time to rest in nature, as nature itself.
The practice of Yoga is Intimacy with your body. Intimacy with your life. Breathing deeply allows the mind to sink into the body and relax.
This is a retreat designed especially for you to rest in your life and in your body.
Enjoy the peace that is naturally in and around you.
Programme
Includes:
2 x Daily yoga classes - including pranayama & meditation
1-1 Yoga Instruction
Workshop - Horse friendship
Workshop - being with difficult emotions
Cacao Ceremony
Time to rest and restore
Opening and closing ceremonies
About Horse Friendship Workshop
Horses mirror our energy. They present an opportunity to become aware of our habitual patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour, which impact our interactions with others. We will experience and establish mutual respect, trust, intimacy, and physical connection with them.
Through establishing a relationship of intimacy and trust with horses we can develop this capacity for connection with ourselves and others.
About Being with Difficult Emotions
Emotions are all good information arising from the body.
Some of them are challenging to feel so we tend to ignore them, dismiss them, or bottle them up. When left unattended, they start expressing themselves in whatever way they can. This could look like symptoms of anxiety and depression, consumption of drugs and alcohol, or lashing out at others when it all becomes unbearable.
In this workshop, we learn to be with our challenging emotions, feel them, allow them in, care for them, listen to them, and discover what they are trying to let us know.
About Cacao Ceremony
This about:
Celebrating the sacredness of life which is only possible through the union of opposites.
Gratitude to Mother Earth for her nourishment. Ka Ka Wa is considered the blood of the earth.
Setting intentions with our body-heart.
ABOUT MARIANA
“I love to share the practices that have been the most helpful for me to feel and understand my body; to tune into my life and feel certain about what I am, where I am going and why.
These practices were invaluable when I felt lost and are grounding and soothing any time I feel overtaken by strong sensations and emotions.
I teach people the ancient principles of breathing deeply so they can experience the peace that is inherent to their life and their body. I love to see how the breath guides the busy and distracted mind into the body, then the mind can listen to and translate what the heart is communicating.
I am thankful to my teacher Mark Whitwell and his teachers Desikachar and Sri Krishnamacahrya for sharing the ancient wisdom practice of Yoga as it was during the Tantric Period.”
Qualifications: BAcc. Life Coach, Mindfulness and Yoga Teacher.
Masters in Human-Centered & Gestalt Therapy- Certification in process
Location
Dune Lakes Retreat and Equine Centre - South Kaipara Head Peninsula.
The Victorian villa sits by Lake Kereta, near Woodhill Forest
Rooms and Prices
Prices Include:
2 nights accommodation
2 nourishing plant based meals a day
2-hour horse workshop
2x daily Yoga sessions
Cacao ceremony
workshops and more!
Private Room
Early bird price valid until November 16th - NZD 630
Full price - NZD 680
Dormitory
Early bird price valid until November 16th - NZD 580
Full price - NZD 630
What to bring
2x Breakfast meals
Yoga mat
Comfy clothes for asana
Comfy clothes for horse workshop
Bedding / sleeping bag, pillows
Notebook & pen
Gum boots
Togs/swimsuit
Umbrella / raincoat
Natural mosquito repellent
More information
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The practice could be described as breath-centred tantra hatha yoga.
The practice of Yoga weaves together asana (body postures), pranayama (breathwork), mantras (chants), mudras (hand postures), and visualisations. During or after these, meditation may arise as a gift. Meditation does not imply a struggle with the mind or the body.
Fitness and flexibility are only a consequence of this spiritual practice, not the purpose of it.
HaTha yoga.
Ha means sun and Tha means moon. HaTha is therefore the union of opposites that arise and return to the heart. Above-below, left-right, front-back, within-without, strength-receptivity, inhale-exhale, sun-moon, masculine-feminine. HaTha yoga is the participation and union of these opposites.
Tantric philosophy is based on the principles of non-duality, meaning that in life there is no separation. Tantra recognises that we are an inseparable part of the universe. Therefore, tantra-based yoga focuses on using the body as a temple to worship the all-encompassing oneness of life as sacred.
Pranayama (breathwork)
The breath is the bridge that links body and mind. Deep, natural, and attentive breathing increases clarity of mind and this is why pranayama is the preparation for meditation
Meditation
Discover meditation as the gift that arises seamlessly through asana (body postures) & pranayama (breathwork)
*No previous Yoga or Meditation experience required
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Lunch and dinner are included (vegetarian)
If you have any dietary requirements, we will cater for you.
Please specify in the registration form
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Check - in is anytime from 2:00pm on Friday 5th April 2024
Opening ceremony is at 5:00 pm
Check-out is anytime after the closing ceremony finishing at 2:30 on Sunday 7th April 2024
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Dune Lakes Lodge
470 Wilson Road, RD1, South Kaipara Head, Nr. Helensville, Auckland 0874, New Zealand
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there is no cell phone coverage at the farm and internet is limited and intermittent.
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A deposit of $200 NZD is needed to secure your spot
Full payment should be transferred by 20th November 2024
Upon registration you will receive information for online transfer.
If you woud like to pay in installments please contact us directly
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The organizer reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the event if the group is not full. In this case you will receive a full refund
If your plans change, please advise by 20th November , otherwise the deposit will be non-refundable but you may give your spot to someone else.
No show ups: Due to the nature of this event, the deposit is non-refundable if you were unable to attend or changed your mind.
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Personal Boundaries: Be sensitive to the personal space and boundaries of other participants. Ask for consent before physical or emotional contact.
Free of Alcohol and Mind-Altering Drugs: In the interest of promoting general well-being, the use of alcohol and mind-altering drugs is not allowed.
Safety: We ask you to follow the safety rules shared during each workshop or class.
Benefits of Yoga and Meditation
Regulate the nervous system through stimulation of the vagus nerve
Reduce stress and release stored tension in the body
Attune to the body´s intelligence: receive information from the body as intuition or insight
Learn to relax into your natural state
Participate in life as it IS.
Benefits of deep breathing
Regulates the nervous system
Reduces the risk of heart disease
Lowers blood pressure
Reduces inflammation and boosts your immune system
Improves our entire circulatory system by rejuvenating and oxygenating the blood
3 days for yourself, yoga, connection and reflection
Get in touch: mariana@aliveaslife.com