All the practices you do in this retreat guide you in connecting with your body and essence, building a strong connection with your centre and self, equipping you with the tools to navigate and release stress, bringing you to Expansion and reminding you to find expansion in your being in daily life. Stress is a part of daily life, but if you don’t have the tools to regulate this stress and bring yourself out of the stressed state, you start living from this place thinking this is what living is. This turns into a chronic state, and you are living in it without even realising it. Without realising this is a state you are supposed to move out of as easily as you moved into it. Anxiety crowds your mind. It feels busy inside, and you feel occupied with many thoughts. That’s what anxiety does. It takes you away from what is in the moment, and prevents you from seeing what you already have in that moment, what is offered in the moment, and prevents you from making the most out of it. When you release the stress, space opens up, in your mind and body. You can think more clearly, see more clearly what is there in the now, and you can use what you have towards what you choose to do. You can access what is within and channel it towards your choice of direction, instead of trying to manage all your thoughts based on assumptions. Anxiety also prevents you from opening yourself up to somethinge new or different, or to have more intimacy in your current relationships. It tells you that it wants to keep you safe, and you fall for that promise because you are not sure either. When you know how to provide that feeling of safety to yourself, then you don’t need anxiety to make these choices for you. You choose to open yourself to the experiences in the moment. This retreat removes what is blocking you from seeing your own potential. It removes what is blocking you to have more meaningful relationships with others. It removes what is blocking you from being in the moment and openning yourself up to the experiences in the moment. It removes what is keeping you behind walls that keep you isolated with the false promise of safety. It redefines your relationship with yourself, with your body, with life and with others. It connects you to what is within, to your truth, and with the trust you build within yourself, your perception of yourself and the world around you changes. This retreat opens you to experience life with joy. You will leave this retreat with the feeling of spaciousness, lightness and expansion. This retreat will not only help you to have a more honest, sincere, compassionate and loving relationship with yourself, but also to see your relationship with life and the world around you from a new perspective, to approach yourself and the universe from a safer place, thus realizing your own potential and living more authentically and intentionally. In this retreat, you will experience all this through the practice of yoga, meditation, somatic approach and experiencing and sound healing sessions with Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls. I am excited to facilitate this retreat at The Land, in Geyikbayırı. The Land is near Antalya, which is in the south of Turkey. It is nestled in a 7,000 m² pomegranate orchard surrounded by forests and nature on the slopes of the Geyikbayiri valley with a majestic view of the Geyik Sivrisi mountain, only 20 minutes from Antalya's city centre. The nature here quietly affects everyone, expands the breadth and imagination, and most importantly it allows you to relax safely by leaning on the mountains and facing the sea. This is a 5-day retreat from the 22nd to the 26th of May, 2024. The price includes the accommodation, all the planned meals and the program. Special Price (until the 31st of January 2024) One person accommodation staying in a double room 555£ (GBP) One person accommodation staying in a single room 627£ (GBP)

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