Workshops & Talks
Weekend workshops are offered on some of our holidays weeks and are an optional extra, but cannot be booked independently of a holiday.
If you'd like to participate in one of our workshops during your holiday you can select it as part of the online booking process, or by ticking the relevant section on the Booking Form.
Our weekend workshops in 2010 will include:
Awakening to Sound & Dance with Esther De Angelis
19th & 20th June - One 2-hour session each day
Cost: €80
In a culture of buildings and concrete - a culture of ever-more complex technologies, it's easy to forget that we all speak and move in the miraculous language of Nature. It's easy to forget that human language, song, dance and movement was born tens of thousands of years ago and can reconnect us to our true nature in the present.
These two 2 hour workshops are a unique opportunity to explore the use of sound and dance as magical tools to deepen and enrich your connection to life. The sessions are specially designed to awaken your creative and healing instincts in an atmosphere of play and delight.
To dance with others with purpose, with intention, is to create an ocean of sacred moving space where we give ourselves permission to step out of ordinary consciousness and concerns and liberate the extraordinary. When we listen to and follow the wisdom of our bodies, we harmonise with Nature's wisdom - a force of pure energy that is far greater than our own. We cast the mind aside into bodily awareness - connecting with our instincts, our animal wildness. We are moved - carried on an exquisite adventure, feeling into movement, softening into movement, stilling into movement.
Music teaches us important lessons about the way harmony operates in the world and has the potential to connect us with the eternal. Therefore through the creation of spontaneous music together using a range of instruments, we can learn to trust ourselves, and each other. To give and receive, to co-create, shaping sacred space and sounding for one another.
The sounding of the human voice is the oldest instrument in the world and yet it is one which so many of have lost touch with. Countless people hold enormous judgement in particular around their singing voice and hide it in shame. And yet if you were to discover that you have the power to surrender to the flow of your voice you would surely be moved by its purity and essence. The act of singing is therefore a powerful teacher,teaching us to befriend the voices that arise through us, and the feelings they emote -leading to a magical realm that expands our being and brings us rest and renewal.
May this workshop of movement and sound nourish body and soul, a healing celebration of both your individual and our collective self-expression. My job is to assist you with love, compassion and power. My purpose is to help you discover something amazing about life, and be moved by love.
Holistic Healthy Living and Weight Loss with Katrina Brunsden
26th & 27th June - One 2-hour session each day
Cost: €80
Did you know that it is your birthright to feel healthy and vibrant?
Would you like to learn how you can:
- Heal your body of chronic disease?
- Boost your energy levels naturally
- Reduce and release stress?
- Feel healthier within your body and your mind?, and
- Really lose weight for good, with NO more dieting or deprivation ever again?
Just 10 years ago, Katrina Brunsden was overweight, asthmatic and suffered with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She always felt tired and lacking in energy. Her doctors prescribed control medication, but Katrina was intuitively guided to healing tools that enabled her to change all of this. Today she has lost over sixty pounds and has kept it off. She has also radically transformed every aspect of her health and her life and is now a picture of vibrant health, energy and vitality.
Katrina's health transformation story truly is a remarkable one. Her story is uplifting, positive and inspirational; a real-life, jargon free transformation. It provides an aspirational and positive story for women to naturally achieve health and well being, as well as their dreams. She is an inspiration to women all over the world seeking to reconnect to their own bodies' inner wisdom, in a world full of junk food, fad diets, toxic medication and misinformation.
Katrina's web site is
www.fatgirltrim.com
This two-day workshop will be hands-on, creative and fun. We will be using powerful but little-known rapid response and fast-change mind, body and emotion techniques and tools that will enable you to create the same results Katrina has. During this workshop, we will be using these tools and learning how to tap into the power and guidance that lies within every single one of us.
This workshop will leave you feeling energised, empowered with new knowledge and the inner confidence to know that - yes - you can absolutely transform your health, your body and your life, exactly like Katrina has.
If you are ready to heal your body, feel better and have more energy, then attending this workshop could be the most important decision you ever make. Wishing you much love, light and blessings!
Laughter Yoga with Carrie Graham
4th & 5th September - One 2-hour session each day
Cost: €80
Carrie Graham is an Emotional Freedom Therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming coach specialising in health and wellbeing. She became a Laughter Yoga leader 6 years ago after realising that laughter helped her balance her somewhat serious outlook on life. So, now she is serious about laughing and works with individuals and groups to help them lighten up their lives - physically, mentally emotionally using laughter.
These workshops will help you explore laughter - the physical, mental, emotional & spiritual benefits of laughter. We'll use real laughter & pretend laughter to help you discover the essence of unconditional laughter. This is laughter that does not rely on a sense of humour, jokes, a happy mood or good company.
The first workshop will begin the journey with an exploration of your beliefs about laughing & laughter, some of the benefits of laughing and lots of laughing - real and pretend. This is followed by a laughter meditation and visualisation to help you to relax and unwind.
The second workshop will help you continue the exploration of unconditioned laughing and rediscovering your inner 'laughing place'.
These workshops will help you relax and unwind to get the very best from your time at the retreat.