Senior Teachers
Deepen your practice
Meditation & Yoga Nidra
Daily Sessions
Enjoy Nature
Staying in the valley
Yoga Therapy
Daily Sessions
Eco Retreat
In Nature
Vegetarian Meals
Organic & Home cooked
Sustainability
Personal & Environmental
'Grounded Presence' Yoga & Yoga Therapy Retreat Spain
Institute (30-hr credit). This retreat is open to all: yoga students, yoga teachers, and yoga therapists (in training).
On this retreat with yoga therapist Montserrat G. Mukherjee and yoga teacher and psychologist Suze Retera, you get to explore a range of practices that allow you to release tension and trauma in a safe and grounded way.
Tension and traumatic experience settle in the body and are often experienced as physical sensations. In an effort to escape these sensations, dissociation can become a to go to state, which is often an obstacle in cognitive therapy, but also in the functioning of people in daily life.
Physical practices are a very effective tool to release access tension, facilitate are more grounded state and create awareness around dissociation which plays an important part in any healing process.
On this retreat, Suze will explain the way tension settles in the body, looking at the nervous system, but also at the fascia and certain muscles. You will learn how different physical practices can facilitate the release of this tension and create embodiment an the physical and mental effects of different movement modalities.
These include moving beyond the common restorative and meditative yoga practices and applying the physical practice to create mobility, functional strength, tension release, balance, and a grounded state.
Montserrat G. Mukherjee will bring the Yoga Therapy applications of these practices, over-seeing the manifestation of our own self-work on to our teachings with clients and students in a safe, therapeutic setting.
Montserrat and Suze share a wealth of experience, passion for the teachings they have to offer, and a good dose of humor. They will guide you every step of the way during this retreat with practices including yoga therapy, yoga asana, breath work, yoga nidra, and a variety of lectures.
In your free time, you can enjoy the beautiful retreat center, go for walks in nature, explore the area, or enjoy some time alone with a book. Throughout the week you will not only be nourished by the practices, but also by the 3 delicious, home-cooked vegetarian meals you get to enjoy each day.
01/ Dates
29 Feb - 7 March 2020
02/ Teachers
Montserrat G. Mukherjee
Suze Retera
03/ Location
Retreat: Eco Retreat Center
Spain
04/ Retreat Package
7 Nights accommodation
24 Hours of yoga & yoga therapy classes
3 Vegetarian meals a day
Day-trip
05/ Price
Regular Price:
Triple Room €1219
Double Room €1239
Single Room €1679
Early Bird Price:
Triple Room €969
Double Room €989
Single Room €1429
Early bird discount of €250,- is available for the first 8 registrations with full payment before 1 October 2019 only.
Enjoy a week-long retreat while receiving all the teachings of the 'Yoga Therapy for safe Tension Release & Embodiment through a Physical Approach' module that is part of the Yoga Therapy Training of The Yoga Therapy
Retreat Highlights
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Yoga Style: Yoga Therapy, Yoga Nidra, Vinyasa Yoga, functional strength and flexibility
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Explore meditation practices and breathwork
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Study with two senior teachers
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Relate and apply your practice to your daily life
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Receive 30-hrs credit towards the Yoga Therapy Training
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Enjoy a week of deepening practices to take care of yourself and serve others
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Stay at a beautiful eco-resort
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Enjoy healthy home-cooked vegetarian meals
The Practices
On this retreat, we will explore a broad range of practices. Besides yoga asana, meditation and breath work, we include lectures and the practices described below:
Yoga Nidra
Yoga nidra is also known as yogic sleep. This profound practice offers you the clarifying benefits of deep meditation, the restorative power of restful sleep and allow you nourish and heal yourself on a physical, mental and emotional level.
Yoga Therapy & The Pancha Maya Koshas:
Yoga Therapy Practical Applications and Inspiration for the 5 human layers/ dimensions:
Physical Body
Energetic Body
Mind Body
Wisdom Body
Spiritual Body
Yoga Therapy focuses not only on the physical body, but also on the breath, sleep, digestion, our thoughts, our emotions, and our beliefs. Only when we can introduce new patterns and “undo” old destructive habits in these areas, we can start the process of healing and repair, from the deepest layers within ourselves.
Pawanmukhtasana Series
Inspired by the “Joint-freeing” series of Mukunda Stiles, father of Structural Yoga Therapy and the Pawanmukhthsana series of the Bihar School of Yoga, this is a beautiful, slow practice with the breath, which allows full motion of the joints in combination with deep breathing, suitable for everyone but specially healing for students suffering from physical and emotional exhaustion.
Functional Range Conditioning
Healthy joints are the starting point of any constructive physical practice. Instead of passive range of motion or uncontrolled flexibility which often creates injuries, we focus on body awareness and expanding the controlled range of motion of the joints which benefits any other physical activity you choose.
The Teachers
Montserrat G. Mukherjee RYT-C-IAYT One of the first yoga therapists in Europe, Montserrat qualified at the top of her class at The Yoga Biomedical Trust in London over 12 years ago.
Since then, she has been working as a yoga therapist with hundreds of clients from all over the world, suffering from a wide range of health conditions from lower back pain, heart disease, cancer, auto-immune and degenerative disease.
Montserrat is the founder of The Yoga Therapy Institute in Amsterdam, which has developed the first Yoga Therapy Program in Europe to be accepted in its application of accreditation with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).
Suze is a Psychologist and certified yoga teacher, teaching since 2006. Throughout the years she deepened her knowledge in both fields by adding Family Constellations, TRE® (Trauma Release Exercises) and Yoga Nidra to her qualifications.
Her passion for travel, a conscious lifestyle, and (self) healing inspired her to start Global Flow Retreats in 2006.
Suze's yoga teaching style is a combination of challenging asana sequences, focus on alignment, deep embodiment, and self-healing. Suze's yoga nidra and meditation classes offer you a relaxation that goes beyond just physical experience.
ACCOMMODATION
During the retreat, you get to stay at Suryalila, a beautifully renovated old olive farm consisting of eight houses that form the Cortijo. In typical Spanish style, there are two inner courtyards, one of which blooms with orange and lemon trees.
The property sits on 45 acres of land and is still a working olive farm with 350 olive trees. Organic vegetables and fruits are grown in the gardens.
Suryalila is situated serenely in a large open valley in the foothills of the Sierra de Grazalema. This majestic mountain range can be seen looming large on the horizon behind Suryalila. A striking part of the natural beauty of the property is the breathtaking view extending in all directions: rolling hills, fields of sunflowers, and lakes.
The houses on the property are all artfully and tastefully furnished and decorated with careful attention to detail. Every room is uniquely beautiful with impeccable Feng Shui
The room options differ from a triple room to double rooms with a shared bathroom or a single room with private or shared bathroom. For the complete room descriptions, please visit the booking page.