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Friday 24 February 2023
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  • Shine your Light : An Integrative Astrology Retreat Combining Astrology, SoulCollage® And Yoga

    Teacher: Corinna Botoulas and Duncan Rice
    Cost: 2 days accommodation + R450 surcharge
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    corinna botoulas2020duncanrice fullDuring this retreat, Corinna will connect you to your inner light and wisdom, discovering the archetype of your Sun - the masculine, yang, extroverted outward-radiating nature of your being, and the Moon - the feminine yin, receptive, internalized, reflective nature. She will translate the language of Astrology, working with your natal birth chart's Sun and Moon to guide your journey of self-discovery and explore SoulCollage© imageboards.  Duncan will balance these two subtle energies with yoga sessions to create equilibrium in body, mind and soul.

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    Corinna Botoulas was fascinated with Astrology early in life and began formalizing her passion through studies culminating in a distinction in her Astrology Diploma with the Rod Suskin School of Astrology. She realized Astrology is an insightful tool to recognize unique personalized individuality. She believes that a deeper self-understanding, self-compassion and self-tolerance of one's capabilities and weaknesses minimize suffering while accentuating life's benefits. She is also a qualified SoulCollage© facilitator.

    Duncan Rice offers community-based yoga at "Yogam Yoga" in Durban. He has studied and lived in India for many years and has  followed the teachings of Patanjali (Ashtanga Yoga), Ayurveda and Hatha Yoga which are laid down in some of the oldest texts of yoga. His yoga is rooted in ancient tradition passed down by the teachers over thousands of years teaching that we are a multi-layered being from our physical body to your subtle body. Yoga is about creating health and equilibrium in our body, calming the mind and allowing us to be in touch and at peace with our true self.

  • The Practice Of Embodiment Through Therapeutic Yin Yoga, Therapeutic Sound And Mindfulness Meditation

    Teacher: Despina Forbes
    Cost: 5 days accommodation + R300 surcharge
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    despina forbes2022Join Despina for 5 days of therapeutic yoga, therapeutic sound and mindfulness practice to cultivate well-being in a more informal manner. She will be offering two yoga classes per day in the studio which include meditation, breath practice and therapeutic sound (morning and afternoon) - with plenty of time to go at your own pace in between and to opt in or out of the guided practices. A daily morning meditation practice will be offered in the meditation hall. You are invited to join this retreat in supportive Noble silence. There will be scheduled time available for individual intentional discussion offered. Mindful body-awareness practices such as yoga and mindfulness meditation can help us cultivate somatic (body) intelligence and awareness of the sense of the body and how it moves. When we cultivate awareness of our felt sense of self, this provides an intuitive guide and possibilities for reflection that can support appropriate and healthy decisions in our lives. We will be exploring therapeutic yoga, drawing from yin and hatha yoga, breath practice, therapeutic sound and mindfulness practices.

    Combining these practices of movement and relative stillness, with both therapeutic sound and quiet, creates powerful possibilities for insight, transformation and healing for the body, mind, and heart.

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    Despina Forbes’ intention is to hold the space for facilitating well-being - drawing from nature, mindfulness/heartfulness, psychology, yoga, neuroscience, soundwork and sound healing as modalities for cultivating healthy change. She is a psychologist, mindfulness and yoga practitioner in Zululand, South Africa and online and is interested in facilitating cultivation of sustainable well-being. A trained MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) programme practitioner, she has trained and practised internationally, attended mindfulness trainings and programmes with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, the Centre For Mindfulness and Research in Bangor and The Mindfulness In Schools’ Project, UK. She studied her undergraduate and Masters degree abroad and returned to South Africa in 2004 where she continues to practise. She undertook the 200-hour Yoga teacher training under the guidance of Christine Withiel at Jivananda Centre For Well-Being in 2016, completed the Level 1 (100-hour) Insight Yoga training with Sarah Powers in 2017 and furthered her 300-hour training with Yogrishi Vishvekthu, Akhanda Yoga in Rishikesh, India, in 2019. You can find out more about Despina on her website: www.thewholesomspace.com