11 Day Empowering Shakti Retreat, Bali

Feb17201912:00 amtoFeb27201912:00 am

Where: Bhanuswari Resort & Spa, Jl. Tengkulak, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali, 80552, Indonesia
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When: Sunday, 17 Feb 2019 toWednesday, 27 Feb 2019
12pm
Price: $1,500-$1,999 USD
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Call: 7782003727
Website: https://feelingsoulgood.com/empowering-shakti-yoga-retreat-feb-18-28-2019-bali/
Bookings: https://feelingsoulgood.com/application-form-esyr/

Description

Embrace and Embody your Strength, Wisdom and Change

Do you feel stuck in your life? Would you love to make some changes and not sure where to begin? This retreat could be the answer you’re looking for.

Imagine all your worries dissolve away as you land on the island of the Gods. Bali is rich with spiritual devotion, which is seen from the local people and felt through their kindness and devotion.

Bhanuswari, our venue, is located 20 min away from the hustle and bustle of Ubud, in a small village. The feeling takes you back in time. You can see the locals carrying their ceremonial offerings, kids bathing in the local streams, both men and women making daily offerings with water, incense and prayer.

Nestled beside the rich green rice fields is where you dip into one of two swimming pools located on site.

Or enjoy your complimentary massage as you hear the distant sounds of the bird songs or gentle stream flowing.

You can just let go as you allow the richness of Bali to nourish your soul and feed your spirit. It’s not just a retreat but a way to expand your heart and mind from a place that touches the souls of all who enter this beautiful island.

From the morning meditation, breathing, mantras or asana, or the daily ceremonies we share with each element – going to the Ocean, a local water temple and being ceremonially blessed by a Balinese priest – you will surely not feel or see yourself or the world you live in the same.

We invite you to stand tall and reclaim your inner power and strength.

Each of us has a story that shapes who we are, yet limits us from who we can become. The power of our life reflects our beliefs, emotions, and thoughts.

We are changing at every moment. Tap into your inner wisdom and guidance and set a clear intention about what you wish to change in Bali with us.

This Retreat Offers:

Ceremonies, Meditation, Asana, Pranayama, Mantras, Journaling, Singing, Chakra awareness,

Sharing circles, and Emotional Freedom Technique (healing modality).

From the Tantric Yoga perspective, life is created from the union of opposites. These opposites are known as Shakti, which connects with the Divine feminine energy, and Shiva, the masculine energy which holds consciousness. Together they are the building blocks that create life on both the macro- and micro-cosm.

Our world currently is calling for a balance of these two energies. The Shakti energy needs to rise up and awaken to its full empowerment. It all begins within, through each individual.

This retreat invites women from all parts of Mother Earth to gather and unite our collective Shakti energies. When we accept and embrace our beauty, strength and wisdom we feel empowered, inspired and limitless. Now is the time to transform our pains into an opportunity to learn from our past and now stand tall to reclaim your Shakti energy and embody your inner Goddess.

Allow yourself to feel supported, nourished and connected so you align with your inner balance. From a place of harmony we tap into infinite possibilities, creativity and feel a connection with the Earth and all beings on her; what happens inside reflects the outside.

We call our Sisters of the world to join us, rise up and feel empowered. Your invitation is to unite in this collective celebration through wisdom, acceptance, diversity, peace and love on the island of the Goddess in Bali, Indonesia.

Who is this retreat for?

This empowering retreat is for Women looking to create a toolbox for raising your awareness.

It is especially helpful for anyone feeling stuck, blocked, uninspired, stressed or sick from the pressures and demands of life. This is your opportunity to be inspired and to make changes as you deepen the relationship to your spirit if you are looking to gift back and really nourish yourself, reflect on your life and your inner guidance.

Are you feeling the desire to tap into your personal power, make serious changes in your life? Change cannot happen through the same personal reality as it continues to feed your personality. Now is the time to gift to you, through clear collective intention you will not feel the same about yourself or life after this retreat.

You don’t have to move to a distant mountain and dedicate your whole life to a full-time spiritual practice to feel your connection with Source.

What is included in this retreat?

Yogic practices – This empowering retreat moves through one chakra each day in reflection of various yogic practices, including daily meditation, asana, breath work, pranayama, mantras and sharing circles.
Healing – Change limited beliefs by sharing in a daily healing practice called Emotional Freedom Technique which moves blocked energy, awakens new neurological connections within the brain, and helps to open our heart.
Ceremony – Connect deeper into the elements in a conscious and sacred way.
Free your voice – Allow suppression to be transformed through the use of sound with toning, mantras, singing and communication.
Breathe – Transform your blocks with conscious connected breathing and daily breathing practices of pranayama.
Journal – Express your feelings, thoughts and reflections.
Rest – Just be with the beauty of nature, the singing of the birds, and the tranquillity of allowing yourself to be nourished

Facilitators:

Sequoia and Tara have known each other for 20 years and both have been teaching, studying and learning the deeper aspects of Yoga and the subtle bodies of the chakra system.

Sequoia Henning

Sequoia’s life journey has been a continual evolvement of her spiritual development through the study and ongoing practice of yoga and healing. In her teenage years, Sequoia began to secretly study esoteric knowledge, joining a regular study group on the topics of chakras, meditation and crystal healing. Her growing interest in yoga and sound therapy branched out at the fresh, young age of 21, as she adventured on her first of many journeys to India.

Her life has been, and continues to be, a consistent cultivation of her spiritual development from her personal experiences, practice and passionate, consistent study. Sequoia’s teachings are influenced by eastern mysticism, the yogic teachings, and our collective conscious connection to the elements.

Sequoia’s yogic journey began with the very disciplined practice of the Iyenger tradition. After years of practicing the Iyengar lineage, she cultivated her own personal practice and discipline, which organically transformed her asana practice into a mixture of the Ashtanga and Hatha schools. Now, she teaches the traditional practice of Hatha yoga incorporating space for inner awareness and witnessing, which allows one to deepen inner connection beyond the physical body. She often includes the practices of humming, kriyas, bandhas and pranayama into her asana classes.

Sequoia’s passion for life was heightened through a personal self-healing journey from an illness. Now Sequoia shares through inspiration, encouragement, and self-empowerment healing to encourage others to re-remember that the power to change stems from the inside out: it all starts by cultivating love for one self, taking responsibility and having gratitude for life.

In her spare time, Sequoia loves to climb mountains, sing, dance, and commit random acts of kindness.

The love of sound healing was also a calling Sequoia had to follow, and studied mantras with Mata Gi, one of the main singers, at Pramath nikatan in Rishikesh, India. Her love for healing sounds, Mantra and Nada yoga continues. Over the years she studied with Tom Kenyon, Mitch Nuir, Gina Sala, Lisa Murphy, and other teachers in India. She has been leading Sound healing journeys and workshops for over ten years.

In 2006, she completed a three-month intensive and received her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training certificate from Pyramid Yoga in Thailand

In 2008, she also wanted to learn more about the yogic breathing known as pranayama, so she completed a one-month pranayama teachers training course with Shri.O. P. Tiwari at Kavaladhama yogic institute in India. The love for pranayama began.

Sequoia studied many different healing modalities, which allowed her to run a successful healing centre for eight years in Canada. She then got sick and healed herself naturally of chrons disease through the modalities she had been studying in previous years and applied them for her healing.

Regardless of what Sequoia is teaching her intention is always the same, to inspire and encourage others to listen to their inner wisdom within.

Sequoia taught with Tribe-yoga for 7 years offering international teacher trainings in India and Thailand.

In her spare time her passions include singing, ceremonies, climbing mountains, dancing, being in nature and commit random acts of kindness.

Sequoia now lives and teaches international yoga trainings, sound healing trainings and retreats. She shares her time between Bali, India and Canada.

Certificates and Qualifications

Pranayama Teacher Training
200 hour yoga teacher training
Pranayama teachers training
Aromatherapy
Massage
Reflexology
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage
Level 1 & 2 Chair Massage
Level 1 & 2 Reiki
Level 1 Acutonic Tuning Forks
Shiatsu
Hatha Yoga Teacher Training
Intuitive Healing Course
Co-counselling
Emotional Freedom Technique
Conscious connected breath work (almost completed)

Tara Esther Kleij

Tara is a yogini in heart and soul! Her spiritual journey started when she was a little girl back in 1970 when her mother moved with her to India to live in a spiritual community called ‘Auroville’, where meditation and yoga were part of daily life!

When her mother died at a very young age Tara moved back to Holland to live with her artistic father (Theo Kleij).

When she was 18 years old her father invited a yoga teacher (Clive Sheridan) to give yoga workshops at their house and that is when Tara’s yoga journey really began…

He inspired her to dive even deeper into the yoga, meditation and pranayama practice and she did many long retreats with him in the following years.

Later her journey led her to travel and study with many other great yogis and enlightened masters, mostly in India.

After wandering around the world and teaching yoga for many years, she finally settled with her partner (Inti) in Southern Spain in a community where they lived off grid and very close to nature in their self-made yurt, tipi and tree hut together with their 2 sons (Sky and Surya).

In 2006 Tara gave birth to her own retreats under the name SunfoodYoga. These Retreats are held in a beautiful natural place in the Alpujarra mountain area in Southern Spain, where the focus is on a natural raw vegan lifestyle and the yoga and meditation are in alignment with the chakras. Together with her highly skilled team she holds these retreats every spring and autumn.

Tara also gives regular Empowering Shakti Yoga Retreats in India, where she brings women in touch with their inner strength and True Essence.

In her retreats she inspires and empowers women (and men) to live in alignment with their true essence, inner wisdom, expand their consciousness and live a natural lifestyle in harmony with nature.

Tara is also a graduate of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Kerala and has studied yoga with BKS Iyengar and Dynamic Yoga with Godfrey Devereux. Her dynamic classes have a down to earth simplicity and invigorating power

Tara teaches now her own unique teaching style and makes the practice accessible to beginners as well as to advanced students, with variations and adjustments given according to needs. Tara’s warm and welcoming teaching style creates a safe place for you to explore yourself in all aspects of your being: body, mind and soul. You will not only progress in your yoga practice, taking skills and knowledge with you that you can bring to your mat time and again, but you will take a higher awareness of yourself that will resonate within all areas of your life.

http://www.sunfoodyoga.com/retreats.html

Other Info:

Passport And Visas

You will need a valid passport to travel to Indonesia.

One-month visa upon arrival is given to most countries. If you are not sure please consult with your closest Indonesian consulate office. If you wish to extend your stay, plan ahead by purchasing an extra month visa at the airport before you collect your bags. If you do not purchase it at that time you have to leave the country to renew your visa. You can purchase a one-month visa upon arrival for an extra $30 USD (depends on what country you are from).

Money and Finances

The currency in Bali is the Indonesian Rupiah. $10 USD = 120850 IDR. The Indonesia Rupiah can be confusing because there are a lot of 00’s!

Our venue is surrounded by nature and hence there is no ATM. It’s recommended that you take out /change money before leaving the airport.

Foreign currency can be changed at major banks and authorized money changers, which are all over Ubud. It is good to carry small notes with you for taxis and tipping. Credit cards are widely accepted in major tourist areas.

Suggested What-to-Bring List

Clothing:

Meditation shawl and a light sweater or wrap
Light rain jacket and cover up or fleece
Sturdy shoes for walking/exploring, and flip flops
Lighter moveable yoga pants, crops (loose fitting cotton is better than spandex in this weather)
Skirts and shorts
Several tank tops t-shirts and long-sleeved shirts
Bathing suit and sarong
Pajamas and under garments and a few pairs of socks
One set of clothes for touring, such as capri pants or a long skirt.

Equipment:

Smaller day pack (can be carry-on luggage in the plane)
Yoga mat (they fold well or fit rolled in a large backpack – the retreat center does have some mats)
Small flashlight, combination padlock, and alarm clock
Travel money belt in cotton (available at luggage stores)
Travel bath towel (not too thick, i.e. quick-drying)
Journal and several pens
Camera and charger
Convertor
Audio Recorder

Included for $1,500-$1,999 USD

Superior Room, Single: $1,750 USDSuperior Room, Shared Double: $1,500 USDDeluxe Room, Single: $1,999 USDDeluxe Room, Shared Double: $1,650 USD$200 off when register and pay deposit before November 30, 2018.Deluxe rooms are larger and include a full-sized bath tub, in addition to a shower. All rooms are non-smoking and feature:- En Suite bathroom with hot and cold water- Mini fridge stocked with variety of drinks- Complimentary mineral water, replenished daily- TV Cable with international channel & DVD players with selection of movies- Individual controlled air conditioning- Tea & Coffee Maker- Choice of Breakfast- Complimentary Wi-Fi Internet Access- Air Conditioner with independent control- 220 Volt electricity outlets- Hair-dryers and irons available (upon request)All four packages include:• 2 vegetarian meals daily (dinner on day of arrival; breakfast on day of departure)• Two excursions: to the ocean and local water temple• A choice of use of two swimming pools (one is salt water)• Complimentary massage• Water temple ceremony• One excursion to the ocean• Airport transfer• One complimentary transportation to Ubud• Free Wi-Fi• Unlimited drinking water 2 bottles in room and refilling use• Use of yoga mats, bolsters and strapsWhat is not included:• Flight• Visa• Tips for the staff• Laundry• Additional snacks and beverages• Additional excursions and spa treatments

Schedule / Itinerary

07:30 – 10:00 Ceremony, Pranayama, Meditation, Asana, Chanting or Singing

010:00 – 11:00 Breakfast

11:00 – 13:00 Talks and practices in connecting with the chakras

13:00 – 13:30 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Rest and Recreation

16:00 – 18:00 Practical exercises for each related chakra and element

We will have special excursions to a water temple, the ocean and time to shop in Ubud, which will be put into the schedule at the time of our retreat.

A few nightly meditations, singing, Yoga Nidra and discussions will be offered throughout the retreat.

The above schedule is simply a rough guide and may change. We will reflect our participants’ needs on any given day. We will also go on a few excursions for a water temple, shopping and one excursion to the Ocean.