The Yoga Garden, Alcove, QC

*July 3~6, 2025*

Join Jaya for an incredible 4 days and 3 nights of Somatic embodiment practice to invite your body to ground, nervous system to unwind, and presence to emerge. This Retreat will provide you with a multitude of Somatic tools and wisdom to learn to let go of muscle bracing, chronic pain and trauma-related dis-ease, reconnect with your gut knowing, and find your way back into the subtly of being. The pristine Retreat setting will support us in grounding and releasing, while swimming in a quiet lake, walking on forested trails on 35 acres, bathing in the wood-fired sauna, and enjoying fresh-picked, healthy vegetarian/vegan food with sacred community.

There is so much going on in the world today. Give yourself the greatest possible gift you can: a deep nervous system reset, rest and somatic practices for embodied living, and deep presence.

Themes

• Discovering your Nervous System, the Vagus Nerve and how to reset
• Tracking thwarted fight, flight and freeze (FFF) responses through body sensations for integration
• Discharging engrained stress by grounding and regulating the Nervous System with somatic exercises
• Reconnecting with and trusting our intuition by strengthening interoception (gut sense)
• Accessing emotions through the body, e.g. fear, shame, anxiety, grief, healthy aggression
• Rediscovering our inner rhythm through movement for trauma resolution
• Cultivating ancestral resources to integrate Intergenerational trauma and enhance vitality
• Going beyond tension and pain by exploring expansion and contraction
• Seeing trauma-healing as a portal to the Self, and Spirituality as a resource for healing trauma, without spiritual bypassing
• Finding safety in the body, in order to go beyond it into embodied presence
• Demonstrating Somatic Experiencing sessions with various volunteers to illuminate live somatic healing

Please note that while this Retreat will provide therapeutic benefits, we cannot work one-on-one with everyone’s personal content. It will privide a space for transformation and healing within a group setting and experiential education to empower you with somatic tools and practices to cultivate deeper safety and resources from within. Trauma survivors are very welcome; we ask that survivors of sexual abuse or rape, parent with addiction, family suicide or sudden death – have previously been in minimum of 6 months therapy. The well-being of yourself and the group is of utmost importance. We look forward to providing a safe and easeful container for all!

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