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Finding Equanimity

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Finding Equanimity

Intermediate ✺ 18 - 24 May 2024 ✺ The Relais, Sorrento, Italy

Immerse yourself in the art of finding equanimity, liberating yourself to maintain a sense of balance and calm, even in the midst of life’s unravelings.

Join CJ & Shelby for a yoga experience centered around compassion and love, forging a deeper connection with both yourself and the world around you.

Cultivating mindful attention is a powerful tool that allows us to stay present in the moment and observe our mind, body, and emotions with a sense of detachment. The practice helps us express and embrace the full spectrum of our being while aiming to release the tension of daily life, creating spaciousness to root yourself in the wisdom of our soul.

Give yourself the gift of presence to ground into the moment and feel your way back to peace and freedom within.

Carleton James Yeagley

CJ gravitates towards connection. Connection with movement, to people, to his emotions of mind, body & spirit. He found yoga after playing sports growing up and throughout college. Wanting to learn more about the asana side of the practice, CJ found Patrick Beach, Carling Harps, & Awakening Yoga Academy. He’s been learning and training with them for the past seven years and has been a full-time yoga teacher for the past nine years. CJ has a Masters in Exercise Science and has taught 1000+ hours of public classes, not including workshops, retreats, and private sessions. He has filmed 100+ classes on Patrick & Carling’s yoga platform, Commune Online, consisting of strong vinyasa and ease-filled practices. CJ’s classes are a wonderful balance of structure & freedom. Meeting you in your moment of effort & ease. He hopes to leave you with good vibes and positive energy.

CJs Instagram

Shelby Heintzelman

Shelby strives to help people gain awareness in their bodies, encouraging attention to the breath to move them into a mind-body connection. Her flows are a combination of strength and balance with intentional movement woven into a mindfully creative sequence. Shelby received her 200hr vinyasa training with Yoga Works in Santa Monica, CA. She since has continued to train under Patrick Beach and Carling Harps, where she went on to complete her 300hr advanced training with Awakening Yoga Academy. She also has filmed 100+ classes on Patrick & Carling’s yoga platform, Commune Online, consisting of strong vinyasa and ease-filled practices.

Her sincere goal is for people to learn how to show up for themselves, practice compassion, self love, and use their yoga practice as a time for them to turn inward and release the stresses of life. Shelby’s hope is that people leave her classes feeling inspired, challenged, fresh, and with a sense of clarity that translates into their everyday lives.

Shelbys Instagram

It's time to connect with your true self.

retreat offerings
○ 6 nights at the relais in sorrento
○ 3 vegan meals per day
○ vinyasa yoga in the morning
○ meditation, pranayama
○ yin yoga in the afternoons
○ farm tour
○ transfer from and to Sorrento (near train station)

○ water, tea & coffee

not included
○ travel to/from Sorrento
○ city tax (ca. 1,50€ per night)
○ massages, day trips
○ travel insurance (recommended)

investment
from 1.900€

group size
18-25, the hotel is not exclusive for our group

please visit our faqs for infos about our corona policy, travel, airport transfer and much more.

a typical day

07.30 tea, coffee, fruit

08.30 yoga & meditation

10.30 breakfast

beach reading massage

15.00 lunch

17.30 yoga

19.30 dinner

arrival day: check-in to the rooms is from 14.00, 17.00 short welcome flow, 19.30 dinner, 21.00 welcome circle

departure day: no yoga class,
9.00 breakfast, check out of the rooms until 10.00

what to bring

all yoga equipment is available at our retreat location, as well as towels, bed linen & beach towels. we’ll let you know what’s good to bring, a few days before your retreat.

travel info

check- in on arrival day from 16:00, Dinner will be served around 19:00// check- out on departure until 10:00 after breakfast

arrival & departure: pick ups & drop offs from Sorrento train station (free of charge). Getting to Sorrento is easy by train from Naples (1 hour).

questions

please take a look at our faqs or send us an email. Looking forward to hearing from you.

about the place

If you are looking for the lushest of all Yoga Spirit Circle experiences this is for you. The famous Sorrento peninsula with it´s breathtaking views, the charming towns radiating La dolce vita and The Relais indulging you with the exclusivity of a private beach and it´s 4 star amenities. More

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Tags 18.-24.5.

Intermediate English The Relais, Italy Very dynamic Jivamukti Dana Sertel September Philippa v. Heyden

Endless Summer

Endless Summer-fully booked

Intermediate ✺ 22 - 28 September 2024 ✺ The Relais, Sorrento, Italy

Let´s dive together into a feeling of “endless summer”, immersing into the practice with a welcoming, kind and fun group.
A positive outlook on what is to come for us individually and collectively. A spark of inspiration for what we want to create.

Removed from the daily hustle of our everyday lives, we gather in this retreat to meet ourselves in interaction with one another. Come for time alone or come for time with others – your needs are welcome. You decide how you want to experience your time here.

We offer you a retreat where you can be fully yourself. Take things with lightness and ease, as we explore the magic of the practice together. The most insightful spiritual teachings happen, when we feel open and safe. So our main goal is to create an atmosphere of safety and openness for you. We teach from an authentic and informed place. We don’t push, but we challenge you. We take things lightly. We love to have fun and we are also there for the depth. Are you in?

It is in those moments of truth that we can truly let go and allow ourselves to become receptive. If you feel called to join us, we will embark on this journey together.

This retreat is truly uplifting, joyful and full of moments of deep connection.

We are Dana & Philippa! Each time we teach a retreat together, we are also asked to show up for each other and for the retreat group and each time we are even more surprised by the amount of love, joy and connection we get to experience.

Dana Sertel (Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher)

Dana is based in Berlin where she practices and teaches daily – Ashtanga and Jivamukti Yoga. She cares a great deal about authenticity and vulnerability. She is giving thanks to her teachers, who always accompanied her with a loving eye, while giving her the tools she needed. Her classes are vigorous and always come with carefully curated music.
Danas website

Philippa Heyden (Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher)

In early 2015 she completed the Teacher Training at Radhanath Swami’s magical Govardhan Eco Village in India with her teachers Sharon Gannon, David Life, Lady Ruth and Jules Febre under her mentor Yogeswari.

What inspires her about Jivamukti Yoga is the combination of intensive asana practice, meditation, chanting, various styles of music, pranayama, awareness and awareness of the direct and indirect environment.
Philippas website

It's time to connect with your true self.

retreat offerings
○ 6 nights at the relais in sorrento
○ 3 vegan meals per day
○ jivamukti yoga morning practice
○ chanting, meditation, pranayama
○ afternoon classes restorative/workshop style
○ kirtan & satsang
○ transfer from and to Sorrento train station
○ water, tea & coffee

not included
○ travel to/from Sorrento
○ city tax (ca. 1,50€ per night)
○ massages, day trips
○ travel insurance (recommended)

investment
from 1.900€

group size
18-25, the hotel is not exclusive for our group

please visit our faqs for infos about our corona policy, travel, airport transfer and much more.

a typical day

07.30 tea, coffee, fruit

08.30 yoga & meditation

10.30 breakfast

beach reading massage

15.00 lunch

17.30 yoga

19.30 dinner

arrival day: check-in to the rooms is from 14.00, 17.00 short welcome flow, 19.30 dinner, 21.00 welcome circle

departure day: no yoga class,
9.00 breakfast, check out of the rooms until 10.00

what to bring

all yoga equipment is available at our retreat location, as well as towels, bed linen & beach towels. we’ll let you know what’s good to bring, a few days before your retreat.

travel info

check- in on arrival day from 16:00, Dinner will be served around 19:00// check- out on departure until 10:00 after breakfast

arrival & departure: pick ups & drop offs from Sorrento train station (free of charge). Getting to Sorrento is easy by train from Naples (1 hour).

questions

please take a look at our faqs or send us an email. Looking forward to hearing from you.

about the place

Tags 22.- 28.9.2024

Gentle English All Level Vinyasa Flow The Relais, Italy Fleur van Hille Restorative Nidra September

Abundant Heart

All Level ✺ 23 - 29 September 2023 ✺ The Relais, Sorrento, Italy

Life can be hectic, keeping us on a hamster wheel of thoughts and worries. On this retreat, you’re invited to break free from this state of being by opening and listening to the wisdom of your heart – out of your head, into your heart.

Each day, we’ll flow through our yoga practice, carried by inspiring musical vibrations, and sing mantras that fill us with joy. We’ll use the breath to soothe our nerves and take deep rest with Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra, creating the stillness we need to see ourselves as we really are. And we’ll use the stories and myths behind the asanas as a playful way of understanding life’s universal themes – and looking at our own situations with a fresh perspective.

This shared journey will remind you that you are part of a bigger whole and connect you to the abundant joy that comes with this experience. You’ll learn to let sadness and pain flow through you, gently widening your compassion towards yourself and others. Above all, you will discover that freedom from worry doesn’t come from controlling your outer world, but from trusting yourself in this very moment.

Fleur van Hille

Fleur has been a student and teacher of yoga since 2009 when her career as a professional dancer transformed into a love for yoga’s physical postures, breathing exercises, mantras, and meditation. Since then, her training has spanned the globe and expanded to include advanced postures, philosophy, yoga nidra, and yoga therapeutics.

As a teacher, Fleur is creative and supportive. Her playlists offer a carefully crafted, steady beat that will carry you through flowing transitions and intentional holds. She offers options for all levels, so everyone feels held and at ease, and if there is one thing that characterizes her classes, workshops, and retreats, it is the feeling of being connected. She brings a warmth and joy to her classes that open the door for her students to experience both playfulness and stillness.

Fleur has been teaching yoga retreats with Yoga Spirit Circle since the very beginning. She has returned again and again because her retreats offer a truly profound experience of yoga. She will both guide you and inspire you to explore yoga as a way of living and an experience—one in which our hearts expand to include all of life as one spiritual whole.

Yoga Videos with Fleur

Fleurs website

It's time to connect with your true self.

retreat offerings
○ 6 nights at the relais in sorrento
○ 3 vegan meals per day
○ vinyasa yoga in the morning
○ meditation, pranayama
○ restorative or yoga nidra in the afternoons
○ transfer from and to Sorrento train station
○ water, tea & coffee

not included
○ travel to Sorrento
○ massages, day trips
○ travel insurance (recommended)

investment
from 1.800€

please visit our faqs for infos about our corona policy, travel, airport transfer and much more.

a typical day

07.30 tea, coffee, fruit

08.30 yoga & meditation

10.30 breakfast

beach reading massage

15.00 lunch

17.30 yoga

19.30 dinner

arrival day: check-in to the rooms is from 14.00, 17.00 short welcome flow, 19.30 dinner, 21.00 welcome circle

departure day: no yoga class,
9.00 breakfast, check out of the rooms until 10.00

what to bring

all yoga equipment is available at our retreat location, as well as towels, bed linen & beach towels. we’ll let you know what’s good to bring, a few days before your retreat.

travel info

check- in on arrival day from 16:00, Dinner will be served around 19:00// check- out on departure until 10:00 after breakfast

arrival & departure: pick ups & drop offs from Sorrento train station (free of charge). Getting to Sorrento is easy by train from Naples (1 hour).

questions

please take a look at our faqs or send us an email. Looking forward to hearing from you.

about the place

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Tags 23- 29 Sep

German Intermediate The Relais, Italy Vinyasa Flow Very dynamic Stefanie Jacoba September

Root & Revive

Mittelstufe ✺ in German ✺ 17 - 23 September 2023 ✺ The Relais, Sorrento, Italy

Es ist Zeit wieder satt in dir anzukommen.
Der Seele ein zu Hause in deiner Atmung geben.
Der Atmung ein zu Hause in deinem Körper ermöglichen.

Durch eine intensive Asana Praxis im Vinyasa Flow Stil am Morgen holen wir die Gedanken zurück in deinen Tempel, in deinen Körper und schaffen eine feste, friedliche Verbindung zu dir selbst.

Gut zugängliche, geführte Meditationseinheiten am Morgen und Nachmittags helfen dir aus deinem Alltag herauszutreten, damit sich Ruhe integrieren kann.

Dieses Retreat unterstützt dich dabei deinen eigenen Weg in dieser Welt zu ebnen, mehr Urvertrauen in dir aufzubauen und eigene Ressourcen zu beleben.

Abgerundet wir unsere Root & Revive Woche von fordernden Asana Workshops, gemeinsames Chanten, gepaart mit tiefgreifenden Visualisierungs-Reisen. Dabei bist du umgeben von einer magischen Location und einer liebevollen Gruppe an Gleichgesinnten.

Mittelstufe: Du solltest eine regelmäßige Asana Praxis haben und Lust auf dynamische, fordernde Klassen.

Stefanie Jacoba

Seeking for Depth & Truth. Holding Space as a Yoga Teacher. Lover of Human Beings & Dogs.

“Hi! Ich bin Stefanie und teile seit sechs Jahren meine Leidenschaft für das Unterrichten. Mit starken Vinyasa Flow Klassen möchte ich mit dir eine Auszeit vom Alltag nehmen. Meine Lehre dient der Vertiefung der Verbindung zwischen dem eigenen Körper und Seele sowie zu anderen Menschen. Durch die Kombination von integrativer Ausrichtung, Pranayama, Visualisierungen und meditativer elektronischer Musik unterstütze ich dich dabei, dein authentisches Selbst zu entfesseln. Ich habe den Unterricht von Dylan Werner immer als wertvolles Geschenk erlebt, deshalb habe ich mich entschlossen, 2019 sein 300h Advanced Teacher Training zu absolvieren und ich freue mich sehr, all meine Erkenntnisse und Erkenntnisse mit dir zu teilen. Lasst uns gemeinsam in unserer Praxis den Grundstein legen, um sich wieder ganz zu fühlen.”

Stefanie lebt in Wien und unterrichtet bei trbyoga.

Mehr über Steffi

Verschaffe deiner inneren Stimme mehr Gehör, lerne offen & sanft deine eigenen Grenzen kennen & finde in der community mit Gleichgesinnten zurück zum Vertrauen.

retreat offerings
○ 6 Nächte im Relais in Sorrento
○ 3 vegane Mahlzeiten pro Tag
○ Vinyasa Yoga (morgens)
○ Meditation, Pranayama, Chanten
○ Asana Workshops und Visualisierungsreisen
○ Transfer von/zum Bahnhof Sorrento zum/vom Relais
○ Wasser, Tee & Obst

nicht inkludiert
○ Flug nach Neapel und Zug nach Sorrento
○ Massagen, Tagesausflüge
○ Reiserrücktrittsversicherung (empfohlen)

investment
ab 1.800€

Bitte lies unsere faqs bei Fragen oder schreib uns eine Email an reservations@yogaspiritcircle.com

a typical day

07.30 tea, coffee, fruit

08.30 yoga & meditation

10.30 breakfast

beach reading massage

15.00 lunch

17.30 yoga

19.30 dinner

arrival day: check-in to the rooms is from 14.00, 17.00 short welcome flow, 19.30 dinner, 21.00 welcome circle

departure day: no yoga class,
9.00 breakfast, check out of the rooms until 10.00

what to bring

all yoga equipment is available at our retreat location, as well as towels, bed linen & beach towels. we’ll let you know what’s good to bring, a few days before your retreat.

travel info

check- in on arrival day from 16:00, Dinner will be served around 19:00// check- out on departure until 10:00 after breakfast

arrival & departure: pick ups & drop offs from Sorrento train station (free of charge). Getting to Sorrento is easy by train from Naples (1 hour).

questions

please take a look at our faqs or send us an email. Looking forward to hearing from you.

about the place

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Tags 17- 23 Sep

Rowena Johnson English The Relais, Italy All Level Very dynamic Jivamukti May June

Freedom of the Heart

All Level ✺ 30 May- 5 June 2023 ✺ The Relais, Sorrento, Italy

Alignment is internal work, meaning what matters most is that we live from the truth that speaks to us through our spiritual hearts.

When we initially came to the practice the shifts we felt may have been primarily physical, but as we increase the frequency and the dimension of our practice we begin to sense something deeper is calling to us. Yogic practices provide us with tools for introspection. And with this we’re able to recognise our truth, and take action from a place of inner alignment. This does not have to look like a radical external change, you don’t have to leave the modern world and go and live in an ashram, you can live from this place of deep alignment right there where you are – and this is the most radical realisation.

During this week long retreat we will create space to learn, grow and deepen our connection to practice. So that you can return to your life feeling nourished and refreshed, ready for all that is coming.

Each morning will start with chanting, meditation & pranayama, followed by a deep & purposeful asana practice. The afternoons will be a mixture of workshops designed to explore specific aspects of the practice in more detail.

Rowena Johnson

Rowena is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher, and a 200hr & 300hr teacher trainer, who has been practicing yoga since 2008.

With a personal practice of Ashtanga and Jivamukti, Rowena’s classes are strong, purposeful and interspersed with personal insights, spoken word and uplifting music. The alchemy created is inspiring and potent, far beyond the mat.

Whilst based in Berlin, Rowena teaches internationally on yoga teacher trainings, workshops and retreats.

If you want to take a class with Rowena you can find her at Three Boons Yoga in Berlin (also online classes) or try the yoga video we’ve recorded with her last year.

Yoga Video with Rowena

Rowenas website

"It is not perfection we must seek, but freedom of the heart.” - Jack Kornfield

retreat offerings
○ 6 nights at the relais in sorrento
○ 3 vegan meals per day & snacks
○ jivamukti yoga in the morning
○ meditation, pranayama
○ full moon ceremony
○ asana workshops in the afternoons
○ transfer from and to Sorrento train station
○ water, tea & coffee

not included
○ travel to Sorrento
○ massages, day trips
○ travel insurance (recommended)

investment
from 1.800€

please visit our faqs for infos about our corona policy, travel, airport transfer and much more.

a typical day

07.30 tea, coffee, fruit

08.30 yoga & meditation

10.30 breakfast

beach reading massage

15.00 lunch

17.30 yoga

19.30 dinner

arrival day: check-in to the rooms is from 14.00, 17.00 short welcome flow, 19.30 dinner, 21.00 welcome circle

departure day: no yoga class,
9.00 breakfast, check out of the rooms until 10.00

what to bring

all yoga equipment is available at our retreat location, as well as towels, bed linen & beach towels. we’ll let you know what’s good to bring, a few days before your retreat.

travel info

check- in on arrival day from 16:00, Dinner will be served around 19:00// check- out on departure until 10:00 after breakfast

arrival & departure: pick ups & drop offs from Sorrento train station (free of charge). Getting to Sorrento is easy by train from Naples (1 hour).

questions

please take a look at our faqs or send us an email. Looking forward to hearing from you.

about the place

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Tags 30 May - 5 June