Life is relationship. No woman is an island unto herself. We are all dependant on nature, food, water, light, love, sound and other forms of nourishment that flow into us from sources outside of our own bodies. Each woman also in turn influences the world around her through her presence, creativity, movement, actions and communications. True health requires that these many and varied flows develop a dynamic balance, an ever changing equilibrium or ‘homeostasis’.
On a physical level a woman relates to her environment. On an emotional/mental level, to society, and, on the spiritual level to Nature and Reality. But the most important relationship of all is the one a woman has with herself.
The road to health is a road to self-knowledge, a path of awakening to your personal realities, a merging of all your different awarenesses into one well-integrated awareness, connected at her roots to the water of life that flows from Mother Nature’s spring.
Of all the many aspects of our complex being, what we need most to establish within ourselves is a sense of flow. The health of the family, society and culture that revolves around a woman depends largely on her health, and her health rests in turn on her ability to keep her creative energies flowing. Yoga helps woman keep her ‘shakti’ energies flowing, comfortably, freely and fearlessly, so that she may best display her innate creativity – to herself, her loved ones and the world.
Our eight day retreat has been carefully designed to purify and rejuvenate the bodymind through a wide variety of embodiment practices drawing on the lineages of hatha and kundalini yoga: buddhist teachings and meditation, tantra and advaita vedanta philosophy, shamanism, taoism, shadow work, ritual and ceremony and healing bodywork. Daily rejuvenation is facilitated by purifying the body of toxins so this retreat will be ALCOHOL FREE.
There will be three practices per day with one day off for excursions further afield.
Erika Tourell
Erika has over thirty years of healing, yoga and meditation experience. She draws on a wide range of yoga styles including Hatha: Iyengar, Ashtanga, Yin/Yang, Yoga Nidra, Restorative, Tantra, Kundalini Yoga, Vipassana meditation, Advaita Vedanta philosophy and Buddhism. She has been teaching yoga full time in London’s top yoga studios and leading retreats internationally for over twenty years. She also is a part of the Teacher Training Faculty at Triyoga and is an International Trainer for holistic facials and bodywork for a well known, organic lifestyle brand/spa company.
Erika is passionate about natural healing and loves nothing more than to hold the retreat space to offer a precious opportunity for people to experience a profound awakening through yoga using movement and stillness, sound and silence, challenge and relaxation in a soulful, nurturing environment. Erika is constantly inspired by the transformations that she has witnessed in the lives of people through the healing power of yoga.
