Hatha Flow Yoga Retreat with Federica
Embodied Yoga Journey: Alignment. Connection. Ease
Join us at YogaOnCrete and experience the lightness of body and spirit and joy of honouring and nurturing the needs of your body, mind and spirit through the practice of twice daily Hatha-Flow yoga, meditation, chanting and ritual, joyful encounters with the cool, turquoise Mediterranean waters at quiet beaches, idyllic unspoilt surroundings, and wholesome local food, excursions, a warm and welcoming group of people and much more!
This is Yoga to me: to Discover, Honour and Let our divine nature unfold and shine trough life with ALL its challenges and pains, all its beauty and infinite possibilities. This course is designed to guide the student in finding their spiritual path (sadhana), in order to live a more fulfilling, balanced and peaceful life. Yoga is not a physical exercise, yoga is a holistic system that sees the human being as body, breath, mind/intellect/ego and spirit (atman). During this course we will explore these aspect of our Beings as a journey of self-discovery and powerful awakening. Each class builds upon the next, in a slow and consistent progression that allows opening up and experiencing.
Asana (postures) are the outcome of feeling and moving energy in many different directions. Asana are the physical form of the inner subtle energy body. Federica's vision is to support you in finding your own personal practice and true unique exploration. This inner process will lead you to meet the parts of the body that move easily, and breathe life into the places that feel blocked, inactive and congested. It is often in those parts we store pain, trauma and an old story. Maybe they are connected with injuries, or we just avoid them. When they are consciously accessed through practice, they can be released, unfolding a new sense of freedom and balance in the body. Often it's also a release of immense new energy. Respect and awareness within the map of the body does not force or hold expectations, but simply allows a natural unfolding. As we grow more connected with this process, our mind reconnects to our body, and emotions may release as we begin to experience the deep joy of being who we are.
Release. Receive. Rejuvenate.
Yoga is the practice of Self-Enquiry. On a practical level, our daily sadhana of yoga and meditation give us the space and time for self-enquiry. As we practice, if we can sink into the body and into the present moment, we can start to drop the judgement of the mind and the notion of ‘I’. When we are ‘of’ the mind, we tend to be in the past thinking back to some glory days or dwelling on past troubles, or fast-forward into the future and we are projecting some rose-coloured future, a fantasy life. The more we can sink into the body, bringing awareness to the breath and subtle energy flow, the more we can surrender to the present moment. When we dwell in the past and future, we are often stuck in a place of judgement – we judge this moment compared to what we thought it would be like (especially if we are struggling with a particular asana today or finding it hard to settle in meditation – it ignites judgement and mind games). So we don’t value this gift of a moment for what it is. Simply that it is. The present moment is the place where we can plant the seed of awareness and watch it grow. In each asana, in each breath, in each mantra, there is a chance for that seed to grow.
See yourself as bigger than your definitions. Go beyond the body and the mind. Beyond limitations, beyond the universe. I am and I am not. We are all one.
No previous experience in yoga is required for participation in the course.
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