Somatic Sanctuary Mini-Retreat

507 Castle Street,Wilmington NC 28401

17 July, 2022

Description

Somatic Sanctuary Mini-Retreat :1.15 hr Asana Alignment, Meditation + Craniosacral Treatment + 1.15 hr Expressive Arts Exploration Join three healing arts practitioners for an afternoon exploration of your body, mind, and spirit. This Somatic Sanctuary Mini-Retreat will begin with a traditional yoga practice, Yoga Nidra meditation and the quantum healing of Craniosacral touch. Following movement settling, enjoy a somatic expressive arts activity to discover the richness of your inner experience. Yoga: Led through the lens of Raja Yoga, focusing on understanding the mind based on the 8 Limbs of Yoga from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. Through a non-harmful and adapted practice to the different body/mind set in each of us, we will move through postures, breathing techniques and relaxation. The aim of the practice is to grow in touch with our true nature and understand beyond our mindset, while balancing our internal system (hormones/prana/chi) through a methodical combination of asanas (postures), pranayama (breathwork) and Vedic philosophy. Meditation: Following gentle movement, relax into a Yoga Nidra meditation. Yoga Nidra is Sanskrit for yogic sleep and practiced by ancient sages to consciously watch their samskaras, or "impressions of the mind.” It is a systematic practice of moving awareness from our external to our internal world. Practicing Yoga Nidra allows us to bring consciousness to the unconscious mind, to gradually free ourselves from old patterns and habits that limit our being. In this state of Alpha waves, we are in between vigilant and sleep states, where our body tissues and unhealthy mind habits undergo deep repair. Craniosacral Touch: During resting postures and meditation, you will have the opportunity to receive gentle hands-on methods of Craniosacral therapy; feeling the bones, tissues and fluids of the body being held as they shift to wholeness and a state of primary respiration. Craniosacral therapy is a non-invasive therapy designed to listen to and support nerve pathways in the body to integrate and heal. It is in this kind of accepting, receptive, and nonjudgmental holding field that healing unfolds at a cellular level. Various Craniosacral holds will be implemented, including your feet and head. Somatic Expressive Arts: To round out the experience, devote yourself to expressing your inner landscape and connect with your inherent creativity. You will be invited to enliven the potent dialogue between body and imagination, life experience and artmaking. Tap into art’s symbolic language and discover he(art)ful ways to revitalize your spirit and awaken insight. Art supplies provided. Together we will journey to cultivate creativity, flexibility, strength, body awareness, patience, compassion, and vital energy flow. This experience will relax your nervous system and unleash your spirit. As we relax our system, the subconscious takes precedence allowing for our return to the zero state, or simply put our essential selves. This is a space for total freedom and expression of self, as we develop a culture of mastery and flow rather than stress and struggle. Join Dani, Taylor, and Charlotte for this unique 2.5hr Somatic Experience. About Your Guides: Taylor is a lifelong student and practitioner of various healing arts. She is a 500hr certified yoga teacher trained in Traditional Tantra Yoga at Shri Kali Ashram accredited by Yoga Alliance. Also, a full spectrum, birth+postpartum, doula, Taylor supports families in their birth process and beyond. She has a passion for helping individuals heal through holistic mind/body practices and most recently discovered the power of dislodging trauma stored in the body through polyvagal and Craniosacral bodywork. Taylor has spent the last 10 years studying the human psyche, body and spirit using different modalities and is eager to share her practices with you. Offerings include Yoga Meditation, Breath-work (Pranayama), Polyvagal Trauma Processing, Craniosacral Treatment, Ayurvedic Alignment (yoga walking massage), Zapchen Somatics, and all phases of Doula Support. To learn more about her, visit her website and social media pages. tuluahealingarts.com IG: @tuluahealingarts Charlotte’s trauma informed approach is process and nervous system oriented and has been shaped by both her personal and professional studies in various somatic embodiment trainings over the past 20 years. She supports her clients to orient toward agency, curiosity, and resourcefulness, attune to the felt sense of their inner guidance and inherent wellbeing and live a more embodied, joyous and creative life. The modalities she incorporates in her practice include Somatic Expressive Arts, Integrative Bodywork, Co-Active Life Coaching, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Polyvagal touch therapy. Dani has been in the path of exploring her true self and in the aim of sharing with others for more than 15 years. With a body-oriented perspective and a background as a schoolteacher (with foundations in Waldorf education), she has always learned to provide a safe container to whom she guides through a self-exploratory communion. She is a lifelong learner in the Yoga and healing arts path, with studies in Yoga for kids, certified in Yoga and Biomechanics, and graduated from a 3-year studies on Raja Yoga from the School of Traditional Yoga in France, and other various somatic training over the years. Dani is from Ecuador and excited to share her personal exploration after recovering from a life changing accident, as well as all she has learned from a variety of wise teachers in somatic and trauma informed realms. Most of all Dani is dedicated to learning and sharing healthy ways to cope with human ups and downs. Dani’s approach includes Yoga postural practice, breathing and meditation techniques, Yoga Nidra (relaxation and body awareness), Polyvagal Trauma experience with Craniosacral touch skills, Shiatsu massage, Zapchen Somatics, and exploratory body awareness through free movement.