While taking delight in warmer days and the blossoming nature, you will be guided with a somatic approach to movement, meditation and nervous system regulation, to be able to listen and follow your inner compass and aliveness as a source of direction, clarity and wisdom.
As nature around us awakens into a new cycle, let us explore the power of rest, pausing, spaciousness and reflection as the birthplace of your imagination and a catalyst of aligned action.
The way we live inside ourselves has been trained into us and that shapes how we imagine, connect, and what we create in the world. Somatic viewpoint considers the body as wise, adaptive, fluid, self-adjusting and self-regulating and therefore a potent gateway to possibility and change. Instead of relying on productivity and busyness as a measure of self-worth and success, let us discover the potency of grounding in our bodies as a way to nurture a sense of aliveness, connection, growth and expansion.
The practices during the week will be a mix of slow and flow. All the ways of moving will be an invitation to deepen self-inquiry, as being in the movement and in the moment with heightened awareness is the key to somatic practices. Rather than pushing or forcing the body into postures, the somatic approach encourages listening to your body’s natural cues, allowing you to move in a way that feels nurturing and restorative.
In the morning sessions we discover how soft and slow can facilitate strength and resilience. The practices combine the therapeutic somatics with mobility building exercises for the main joints of the body into a creative flow.
The evening sessions of Somatic Yin combine the fluid, soft, explorative somatic movements on the ground with the longer held Yin and Restorative poses leaving you feeling relaxed and rejuvenated from inside out.
All sessions include elements of QiGong, breathwork, meditation, self-inquiry, journaling and poetry.
No previous experience of any kind is needed but it is helpful if you are curious about the intersection of body, mind and spirit and the connection between our inner and outer lives.
Liina Tael
Liina is originally from Estonia, but left home for a sabbatical in her late 20s and has spent the last 20 years living and traveling in different parts of the world. She has practiced yoga for over 25 years and has been teaching for 18 years.
Liina’s approach to yoga is non-dogmatic, grounded in both extensive study of various movement and meditation modalities and in her own personal journey. Her classes aim to empower, encourage exploration and offer a safe space to connect more intimately with both – the visible and the invisible, the mundane and the mystical, body-mind and spirit.
Over the past 18 years of teaching yoga, Liina’s focus and teaching style has become increasingly slower, more nuanced and inclusive. Today the three corner-stones of her teaching style are:
somatics inspired by Feldenkrais method, Thomas Hanna (Clinical Somatics) and Tias Little’s S.A.T.Y.A (Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement) training. Somatic viewpoint considers the body as wise, adaptive, fluid, self-adjusting and self-regulating and therefore a potent gateway to possibility and change.
functional anatomy – Liina is motivated by getting her students to feel, know and be interested in their own unique anatomy, nervous system patterns, ways of moving and being. Both on and off the mat.
being a keen student of yoga philosophy, as well as Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese Medicine.
retreat offerings
○ 6 nights in a countryside house in Torri InSabina
○ 9 yoga sessions
○ somatic flow in the morning
○ meditation, pranayama
○ somatic yin in the afternoons
○ inspiring vegan food 3 times/day
○ hike with local guide
○ water, tea & coffee
not included
○ flight or train to Rome
○ airport transfer to In Sabina
○ ceramics workshop & massages
○ dinner on friday at the local pizzeria
○ travel insurance (recommended)
investment
from 1.330€
group size
14
a typical day
07.30 tea, coffee, fruit
08.30 yoga & meditation
10.30 breakfast
reading ceramics pool massage
15.00 lunch or snack
17.30 yoga
19.30 dinner
arrival day:
no yoga class,
16.00 snack
19.30 dinner
21.00 welcome circle
departure day:
no yoga class,
8.30 breakfast
check out until 10.00
all yoga equipment is available at the retreat location, as well as towels & bed linen. bring old sneakers or water shoes for the hike in the river & a pool towel. we’ll let you know again what’s good to bring, a few days before your retreat.
check- in on Sunday from 16:00, fruit snack waiting for you and dinner at 19.30 // check- out on Saturday until 10:00 after breakfast
arrival & departure: group pick ups & drop offs will be organized (only) from Rome Fiumicino airport & drop offs to Fiumicino & Ciampino airport and Termini train station. costs: 35-55€/person/wayabout the place
It doesn’t seem possible that In Sabina is less than an hour’s drive from the crowded streets of Rome. With lush, abundant grounds of its own, along with a natural spring and a magnificent wooden yoga platform which overlooks the valley below, this is a truly magical place that’s ideal for spiritual practice, slowing down, and plunging oneself into nature. More
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