5 DAYS LIFE-EXPANDING RETREAT
25. - 30. AUGUST 2023
VEDUNA RETREAT CENTER, SLOVENIA
“From The Body Up” is a life-expanding retreat with remarkable women co-facilitators &
creative expressers of the new era at one of the most beautiful retreat places in Slovenia.
How much do you listen to your body? How often do you say yes, when your body says no? Do you actually hear when your body is communicating to you? How much space and time do you give your intuition, your soul to speak through you? Is intuition, your inner feminine power, guiding you? Do you live your life from the space of your heart?
Do you feel stressed and disconnected with your body? Does your body feel heavy and tired? Do you want to reconnect with yourself and recharge? Do you feel like there is something missing in your life? Do you feel stuck? Do you want to let go of some of your patterns? Do you want to make changes but don’t know what and how? Do you want to get to know yourself better? Do you want to expand, feel alive and free?
Our body is the root, the base of our life. How in tuned we are with the body sets the tone of our life.
When we are in our bodies, rooted and connected with our soul and intuition we live our life fully and fulfilled.
GROUND . CONNECT . FEEL . RELEASE . EXPAND
At the retreat we’re going to co-create a gentle and safe space for deepening the connection with our bodies and for the expression of our authentic self. During the first three days we will go with the flow of the group and work on different levels of our existence; we’re gonna ground and connect with our bodies & feel and release the layers that are ready to go. Here we have the support of the natural cosmic cycle as the second August’s full moon is recurring at the end of the month. Diving deep, exploring, playing and transforming through movements and creative practices such as gentle yoga flow, somatic movement, yoga nidra and painting, workshop of conscious touch by creating your own essence, jewelry ritual workshop, free flow dance, quantum vibrational meditations and stillness. Sauna will be available for the body and mind detox as well. These days will lead up to last night's Kundalini Activation - the life force energy.
yoga practice, co-facilitator masa marolt
Yoga is self-exploration. We use asana as a tool with which we discover the deepest parts of experiencing and feeling the body. We will encourage introspection. Our focus will be less on how to "correctly" perform a certain pose, instead we'll let intuition run free. We will explore what we need at a given moment and what is our response to this impulse.
Our yoga journey will be aimed at just that - each of us molding our own path towards ourselves, while together creating a space to make this path as pleasant and effortless as possible.
JEWELRY - RITUAL WORKSHOP, co-facilitator ANJA DOBLANOVIČ ŠEŠEK
Jewelry was primarily a supporting element for human beings. I will guide you through a process that will be meditative and approached as ritual, where we will open up to creative force and let her flow through us. Each will create a unique necklace, which will serve and support you in time of integration and everyday life, after the retreat is over. You will be creating with high quality materials and crystals that will support your beauty, intention and inner power.
conscious touch by creating your own essence, co-facilitator MARTINA BORŠČAK
How many times have you thanked your palms that hold, caress, cook, embrace, love? How many times have you gently stroked your face while looking in the mirror and smiled at yourself? How many times have you gently touched your skin with a conscious touch and enjoyed rubbing in your favorite body cream? How many times have you consciously showered, feeling every drop of water?
At the workshop of conscious touch by creating your own essence, we will celebrate our palms and their touch. We will be fully present in making love to our skin and rub a fragrant essence into it, which we will prepare ourselves from spring macerates and essential oils. With the help of body scan meditation, we will make every cell of our body aware and ask our hands to make a conscious touch on the places that need it the most. We are safe in our bodies, we are at home.
FREE FLOW DANCE, co-facilitator ANJA DOBLANOVIČ ŠEŠEK
Free flow dance is decomposition of movement that was learned, that which is regarded as "beautiful and correct" into authentic and empowering. Dance in its essence is medicine. Practice is inviting us to open, surrender and allow the energy to free flow through us. When we allow our bodies to move freely, the body releases tensions and restrained emotions, which could develop as illnesses (psychological and physical), on other hand it amplifies feelings of freedom, joy and connection. Practice is harmony between structure and complete freedom.
quantum VIBRATIONAL meditation, facilitator kaya pogacar
Activation of your cell memory and connection with the upcoming energies of the new era through a guided meditation.
creative painting as an expression of the soul, facilitator kaya pogacar
Guided meditation will lead us to creative expressions of our soul. Acrylic paints and canvas are our tools and the soul is our only guide. The process itself is therapeutic and liberating.
KUNDALINI ACTIVATION, CO-FACILITATOR ANYA TAVCHAR
Kundalini Activation is a spiritual process, a transmission of a natural but powerful life force energy. This is a very natural and flowing process that will not shock your system in any way. This is intelligence at work to give your system what it needs at the moment. It’s a clearing of the pathways as much as possible or as much as you can surrender to at that time. Everyone receives what they are ready for. There is no force.
This is NOT kundalini yoga, kundalini breathwork, or tantra. It's very different from traditional kundalini practices where willful practice is used to raise your energy.
We will be surrounded and supported by beautiful nature and land to explore, a natural swimming pool and ayurvedic vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner full of prana with snacks available throughout the day. Organically grown on Veduna or sourced locally. You will have enough time & space for yourself to enjoy everything that the retreat has to offer you.
12 SPOTS AVAILABLE
PAYMENTS
FOOD & ACCOMODATION
Price depends on the room you choose:
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Dormitory 425 eur
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Triple room 525 eur
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Double room 600 eur
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Single room 775 and 875 eur
the program price is 700 eur / AN EARLY BIRD 600 EUR UNTIL 21st june
This includes:
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daily yoga practice
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cacao ceremony
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1x use of sauna
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painting workshop
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jewelry ritual workshop
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free flow dance
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daily quantum vibrational meditations
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workshop of conscious touch by creating your own essence
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kundalini activation
Program price should be paid in full before the retreat starts. You are welcome to pay in installments. Contact Kaya for the program payment and payment plans. Please feel free to book a call if you have any additional questions about the retreat.
kaja.pogacar@gmail.com or WA +386 31 621 849
additional cost
Upon arrival you will be asked to pay the standard tourist tax of €1.75 per night.
Masa is a Vinyasa (RYT 200) and Yin certified yoga teacher. For the past six years she has been living and teaching individual and group yoga classes in Berlin. During her time abroad she attended many yoga and somatic embodiment workshops with international teachers such as Anna Forrest, Jose Calarco, Jambo Truong, Michele Kadison, J. Brown.
She was also a part of the Berlin Yoga conference team. She recently completed a course on Applied Polyvagal theory in therapeutic yoga with Dr. Arielle Schwartz and Stephen Porges.
In 2022 she began her extensive studies in The Yoga Therapy Institute, an international, IAYT accredited school for Yoga Therapy and Yoga Therapy education and training. She is trained to facilitate trauma informed yoga classes. As from the start of this year she has returned back to her roots in Slovenia and is currently preparing a tailored framework for individual yoga practice with elements of therapeutic treatment.
Woman behind Anja OriAn, slow made sustainable brand with intention to create beauty and support women on their journey. Her creative path started in her early twenties, since then she owned an art shop in Barcelona, worked exclusively with linen and hemp, created a unique technique with plant prints, studied and worked with natural dyes and eco print technique and finally dove into metal jewelry, medium with which she currently works.
She is the founder of Free flow dance practice, offers weekly sessions in Ljubljana and works towards offering the practice online. She guides you to sink into your body and unlock the self-healing potential through exercises, music and meditations. She is a catalyst of sorts, a spark that ignites and invites people toward transformation.
Martina is the founder of the Ritualnica platform, which focuses on conscious massage of the head, face and back of the neck. By creating her own massage essences, she supports each client individually. As she has discovered over the years of research that each plant has its own energy record, so she learned to use plants and her signature massage in a way that turns our waters into love. She lives with the principle that we are part of nature and not its owners, so each plant is carefully collected and selected for the rituals she performs. Her vision is to awaken people to the feeling of their own touch. If you feel yourself, you will feel others too.
She is a Kundalini Activation facilitator from Slovenia, who connects her experience with a holding of a raw activating Kundalini Life Force Energy and a Transmission of Light Language. Anya creates a safe space for people to clear up their layers of patterns, illusions, and traumas, bringing them back to finding their freedom and living life to their fullest potential.
I am a mom and an eternal seeker of growth and practices that can lead us to reach our highest quality of life. I've been told by a Balinese Shaman that I can transmute higher energy and that the path will show up. And it did. Life has connected me to a process called AKA - Aliveness Kundalini Activation. And from the moment I first felt this energy, I knew that my mission is to be of service to this process and help people live their best lives. This energy has deepened my connection with myself and helped me to let go of old beliefs and unhealthy patterns. It's an honour to do this work and support you on your path.
Mona is certified Yin (50h) and Vinyasa (200h) yoga teacher, fitness coach, nutritionist and bodyworker. For the past 4 years she has been helping woman to get in touch with their bodies through conscious holistic movement, bodywork and nutrition.
During her last 4 years living abroad she has attended many bodywork and wellness workshops with international teachers.
She is the founder of www.mokafit.com which is wellness platform for Estonian woman. She is helping woman about health, nutrition and movement to live healthy and happy life in their bodies.
Transformation - deaths and rebirths - is the topic of my life.
I couldn’t be more grateful and humble to share with you the birth of this transformational and life-expanding retreat From the Body Up. It's the way I've started my transformational journey. At some point I realized that no matter how much spiritual and therapy work someone does, the changes made in everyday life are the one that make long-lasting transformation - the embodied practices and conscious living.
The topic and the content of the retreat came up very naturally as I could feel there is a collective need for a deeper connection with and for a genuine sensitivity to our body. With the support of creative practices we will transform and melt emotional, physical and mental layers that are ready to go. And with intention to expand our life force energy that is running inside each of every one of us so we can live our life fully, empowered, from inside out, regardless of the “rules” of the different structure systems we live in. To feel alive and free.
Cannot wait to go on this journey with you.
KAYA POGACAR