Methods and practices:
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Embodied Hatha Flow: Move your body slowly and deliberately. Breathe fully and learn the art of listening inwards to what your body, while increasing flexibility, strength and fitness.
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Bioenergetic Exercise: This is a form of Somatic processing, an embodiment technique that can help to melt and soften historical muscular armouring. This can be worked with in various ways, including and not exclusively through, speech, sound, movement and touch.
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Body Reading: A compassionate enquiry looking into muscular armour or chronic muscular tension and misalignments in the body and how these tensions relate to our Psyche and historical patterns of thinking and feeling - based on the groundbreaking work of Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich.
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Pranayama: The science of connecting with the natural forces in the body related to the breath, respiratory organs and entire nervous system.
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Yin Yoga: Hold postures for up to 5 minutes, a practice that encourages a strong and flexible body and a health connective tissue system.
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Guided Meditation: An ancient technique to bring your nervous system into parasympathetic mode, to calm your mind and to highlight what is alive in the present.
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Full Moon meditation at Pori Bay 18th September
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Yoga Nidra: Translating as "Yoga sleep" is a guided meditation and is where the body and mind enter a deeper form of conscious relaxation.
What is included in the price?
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7 Nights stay on our beachfront yoga resort
- Daily Embodied Hatha flow Practice - 90 minutes
- Daily Afternoon Workshop/Healing Practice - 90 minutes
- All meals, including: light breakfast, Brunch, Fish available upon request.
- Vegan & gluten free options available
- Fresh produce of local fruits to snack
- Filtered water and infused Tea
- Daily House keeping
- Group pickup from Koufonisia port upon arrival & drop off on departure
- Yoga equipment (Manduka mats, straps, blocks, blankets etc)
Not Included:
Travel tickets/fees to reach Koufunisi Island.
Massges and treatments
Trips and excursions
Dinning outside of the retreat
CHECK IN | OUT
14th September: Villa Check in: 14:00
21st September: Room Check out: 10:00
— The retreat officially starts on Sunday morning at 9am with the first practice.
— If you arrive early on Saturday you can drop off your stuff at the villa and spend some time at the nearby
beach.
TRAVEL INFORMATION
Traveling to Koufonisia: Koufonisia (code KOU) can be reached via boat from Santorini (code JTR), Mykonos
(code JMK) or Athens. We suggest that you fly directly either to Mykonos or to Santorini airport. From there you
take the boat to Koufonisia which is a much shorter boat ride than taking the boat from Athens.
You may choose to arrive one day prior to the retreat and after the retreat for their traveling. However there is a
possibility to travel in one day, which includes taking a flight to Athens, then a connecting flight to Naxos - from
there a 20 minute boat ride to Koufinisia. Please let me know if you are interested in this option. You may
use viva.gr to check the ferries schedule and book your boat tickets online.
A typical day
8.00 - 9am Light breakfast
9.00 - 11am Embodied Hatha Flow
11.00 - 12.00 Brunch
12.00 - 17.00 Free time, massage treatments, excursions, day trips etc
17.00 - 18.30 Afternoon workshop/Practice
19.00 - 21.00 Dinner
Your teacher
Natasha is an experienced Yoga practitioner and has been seeing clients regularly for the past 14 years. She
has a background in modern and contemporary dance, graduating and specialising in movement exploration and
expression of body language in live performance. Natasha understands the complexities of living in the modern
Western world, where you can 'have it all' and at the same time, feel there is something missing - where we have
become disconnected from the most fundamental resources and impulses within ourselves. She has been
integrating healing practices into her life for the last 20 years and has undergone an Intensive- relational body
Psychotherapy training. A transformative and life changing process - which means that she can understand the
impact trauma can have on our lives and how to heal from it.
This retreat is for you if you want to:
Nourish your body, mind and soul with nutritious food, exquisite nature and therapeutic practices - in a
supportive and healing environment.
Have a commitment in the diary to support your emotional, physical and spiritual health
Work on your unconscious patterns of suffering and contribute to healing in a wider context.
Meet new people, get a new perspective and soak up the beauty that surrounds you.
Learn Eastern and Western healing practices that are specifically tailored to process stress in the body and to
learn how to feel more fully alive.
To learn how to self-regulate and co-regulate successfully.
Slow down and reflect on what's important in life.
The retreat is limited to 12 spaces
For bookings please contact Natasha@natashahorne.co.uk and for more information visit
www.natashahorne.co.uk
