Who is this retreat for?
If you have a body that breathes you are welcome with open arms on this retreat. It is suitable if you wish to investigate your interior world, engaging in what is called self-inquiry, and if you crave to replenish your well of curiosity and self-care.
We regularly work with students who wish to reconnect with their inner wholeness, and who are looking to carve pathways to their own inner contentment. Linking self-inquiry with community and inner contentment is our intention.
When you cultivate sensitivity to your heart song you also build resiliency to life’s challenges and cultivate self-compassion. This is big work- even heroic- and we are here for it.
Some of the activities that we are going to explore on this retreat include:
- Discovering and expanding the gap in between, underneath, and around thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. This practice sitting in this pause, includes meditation and deepens from there. Becoming the agent of the acts of consciousness means taking the stance of the meditator and watching the dance of the body and mind, which can be pleasant or unpleasant.
- We will breathe - a lot! We will breathe for the joy of breathing, both in the asana practice and beyond the movement space. This allows us to practice yoga for the joy of practicing yoga, which feels very different from practicing yoga in order to “get somewhere.”
- Build take-home and easy to use tools and techniques (micropractices) to remember your already present wholeness, and establish the ability to access at any time the wholeness of your heart.
- Build community through group work. This will include partner/ discussion work, which is interactive and community building
- 10 comprehensive yoga flow and/or connect sessions
A day in retreat life:
Each day will start with a light breakfast (optional), followed by a long yoga session, which will include asana movement and alignment practice, meditation, Yoga Nidra, and breath work, with thoughtfully curated and sequenced intentions by your retreat leaders, day to day.
There will be plenty of time between practices to hang out, eat nourishing food, go to the beach, rest by the pool, have some down time to journal, read, or rest in the sanctuary of retreat.
The afternoon session will include grounding and restorative yoga practices, discussions and self-inquiry topics, community gathering, and deep relaxation meditation.
Each evening will culminate with dinner in the company of friends and fellow yogis.
The Bodhi Tree mealtimes are as follow:
- Breakfast is served from 7-10am.
- Lunch is served between 12-2:30pm.
- Dinner is served from 6:30-9pm.
Yoga Sessions with your retreat leaders:
- Morning session: 8:30-11:30am
- Afternoon session: 4-6pm
Cynthia, Jazmin, and Dora follow the principles of non-dual Tantra, which means that the lived experience is always included in our practice, that we can turn toward our experiences, comfortable and uncomfortable, in order to digest and transmute patterns. And that we always begin with the understanding that we are already whole, divine, and full with the expression of life, the expansive and contractive energy that creates the aware universe.
We don’t need to seek wholeness, but merely remember and reunite with the heart, which is already complete. The body is included and it is the pathway in to our inner being, our humanness, the heart.
These three teachers, with decades of teaching and inquiry each in the fields of yoga therapy, sacred yogic literature, human anatomy and physiology and the trauma response, teach with the essential understanding of genuine non-dual Tantra: to liberate breath, movement, sincerity, and curiosity to return to the heart.
This retreat is open to any and all people at any and all level of practice, physical fitness, or self-inquiry experience.
Please note that the ticket prices for "single occupancy" rooms are for ONE person per room. Options for TWO people per room are listed under "double occupancy".
Also, ticket prices DO NOT include transportation to and from the retreat.
Upon registration, you will receive a detailed email on how you can prepare for your trip.
Cancellations must be received in writing by e-mail to theembodiedpathyoga@gmail.com. For cancellations received before June 1, 2024, you will receive a refund of any monies paid less a $500 non-refundable deposit per person. For cancellations received after June 1 and before July 1, 2024, you will receive 50% of any monies paid less a $500 non-refundable deposit per person. No refunds or credits at all will be given for cancellations for any reasons ON or AFTER July 1, 2024.
Trip Insurance: The Embodied Path Yoga reserves the right to cancel this retreat at any time due to natural disasters, global pandemics, global travel restrictions, world or political events, or for any reason whatsoever at our sole discretion. Comprehensive travel insurance is strongly advised to cover any eventualities that lead to trip cancellations by us, or by yourself for personal reasons relating to illness, deaths, global emergencies, family emergencies or business matters, or for any other reasons. A site that offers competitive insurance is World Nomads.
Please reach out to us at theembodiedpathyoga@gmail.com if you have any questions about the retreat or accomodation.
