Retreats: INNER RHYTHM

Rhythmic Harmony

INNER RHYTHM

With EMILIA CIANCI

23–28.6

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MY RETREAT

What does it mean to attune to your inner rhythm? To actually listen to the needs of your body, your heart, and your spirit? In the busyness of our modern world we are often forced into a rhythm that is disconnected from our true needs, from the needs of our nervous systems and, ultimately, disconnected from the pace of the earth and her cycles. We rush through our lives and often lose contact with ourselves, with the world around us, and our capacity to feel intimate with life is dimished.

As we step more and more away from the rhythms of the earth we deplete ourselves, we feel more lost and seperated with our true nature. To restore our natural rhythm is a way to restore connection.

Through yoga, contemplative practices, embodiment explorations and meditations, nature reconnection experiences and simple rituals you will be guided through a deep journey within to reconnect to your own unique unique rhythm, to embrace the fullness of you and actually take time to be and reconnect to the spacious stillness within.

Emilia will guide you in expanding your capacity to feel and to center back in your embodied presence.

Morning Offering:

We start the mornings with a blend of comtemplative practices, guided meditations, breathwork, and then continue with movement explorations that combine Yoga, somatic explorations and Qigoing.
In the mornings we clear our systems, activate our vital flow and increase awareness.

Afternoon Offering:

In the afternoon we cultivate more yin practices of comtemplation, restoration & reflection through deep restorative movement practices (yin yoga, yoga nidra, restorative yoga, qigong, etc), journaling, nature reconnection journeys, rituals and sharing circles.

Special offerings

Silent Tea Ceremony:

Cha Dao is an ancient practice of drinking tea in ritual and presence, becoming a moving meditation practice. This simple yet profound experience allows us to pacify the mind, find inner stillness and harmony, helping us to return to a more embodied and quiet way of being.

Harmony in the Cycles:

A workshop of exploration the nature of our inner seasons in relationship to the outer seasons, a space to reflect, journal and restore harmony within ourselves.

Way of Council:

A way to create a safe space to let our inner worlds be explored in community. This timeless practice restores our sense of belonging, increases our capacity to listen deeply and to be received and witnessed by others.

Nature Reconnection Workshop:

We go out on the land to reconnect to the elemental forces, to restore our sense of intimacy with the rhythms and voice of the natural world.

Water Dance:

because of the stunning location in such proximity to the waters we will bring our movement practice to the waters themselves, exploring how to move in her, dance with her, remember our fluid bodies by immersing ourselves directly in the sea and return to a more open presence in our lives.

Emilia Cianci

Your teacher

Emilia is originally from Italy and now lives between Costa Rica and her home country. Since a very young age she has been dedicating herself to the inner life and what she calls “the way of the soul”. Her devotion is to restoring connection with self and the earth.

She is interested in re-sensitizing our capacity to feel and increase our intimacy with all of life. She weaves many different ways and combines her many years of study and practice in different movement and meditation modalities including yoga, qigong, somatics and dance, healing modalities including craniosacral biodynamics, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional ancestral medicines and rituals.

She offers courses and retreats around the world as well as 1:1 spaces. She is also a birth doula and is in service to supporting new, gentle and awakened ways for babies to come here on earth and women to be re-empowered in their capacity to birth life. Finally she is a lover of crafts, tea, water and in reverence to the way of beauty.

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WHAT YOU WILL TAKE HOME

Remember how to live in harmony with yourself and the natural world
Rediscover the true rhythm of your body and soul
Slow down and create space finding practices that support you to listen more deeply
Remove blocks that don’t allow you to let life flow through you
Find more ease in your life

Replenish and restore your nervous system
Learn simple practices and rituals you can implement in your daily life
Reconnect to the wisdom of the earth, of the seasons and of your inner cyclicality
Connect with a beautiful community of human beings

Retreating with us

5 days/nights long, from Sunday to Friday
Full board in an upscale traditionally designed cottage with private balcony
Two yoga classes per day
One meditation or celebration/ceremony per day
3 abundant and delicious meals each day (cooked using our fresh farm and sea produce)
One group dinner at Kea Retreat’s family’s taverna

Yoga equipment and accessories (mats, blocks, bolsters, straps, and blankets)
Pickup and drop off at ferry station
Swimming pool with in water lounging section
Vegetable garden
A private bay
Spontaneous dancing every night

Additional Activities:

Kayaks – venture into the sea with our kayaks, double or single, to discover caves and more isolated beaches.

Snorkeling – for those looking to discover what’s lurking under the surface and meet our local fish, or do some shell diving, snorkels and goggles are available.

Illoulida – walk down to the ancient capital, Ioulida, during sunset hours to explore the beautiful architecture and small shops (clothing, ceramics, local produce).

Island boat trip – set sail around the island on a calm ocean bed to uncover hidden corners of the island that can only be experienced by boat.

Hikes – the island is full of ancient trails that cross through farmlands and forests, up greeny hills, or down to secret shores with ruins from the 12th century BC.

Kastriani monastery – drive up the windy cliffs of the northern peak of the island to the breathtakingly beautiful blue and white Greek orthodox monastery that overlooks the Aegean sea.

Winery – have a picnic between the grape leaves of Kea Retreat’s vineyard while sipping on their locally grown wine.

Arts and crafts – feel free to use the art supplies situated on the shelf and let your creativity flow.

Music and Instruments – strum away at the guitar or play the tibetan bowls to the intoxicating sounds of nature.

Relax – unwind by picking a book off of the shelf and laying down on one of the outdoor beanbags, hammocks, or couches, or take a few more steps down to the beach and soak up some sun.

TEACHER’S NOTE

Everything on earth holds a rhythm, a unique vibration and frequency as well as a cyclicality. As humans we seem to have stepped more and more away from these cycles both within ourselves and the natural world and, thus, we have walked away from living harmoniously.

However, harmony is at the basis of health and wellbeing. To restore and recover our inner rhythm is a way to weave ourselves back into connection, to find more ease and joy in our lives as well as create a deeper sense of intimacy and belonging to the natural world.