Ana X Chakora

13/06/2026

What is The Intimacy Project?

People often ask me this question….and every time I answer, the answer is slightly different.

On the surface, it’s a 4-week immersion into Yoga, Ta**ra, and Ayurveda. But beneath that…

It’s a space to slow down.
To listen.
To breathe.
To feel what it is to be human.

Together we explore daily practice, embodied connection, conscious relationship, the foundations of Ayurveda, and the wisdom traditions of Yoga and Ta**ra.

Not as something to believe.
Not as another identity to wear.

But as an invitation to become more intimate with yourself, your body, your breath, your relationships, and life itself.

The Intimacy Project won’t fix you.

It won’t make your problems disappear.

But it may give you the courage to meet yourself more honestly than ever before.

And from that honesty, something beautiful begins to unfold
✨ Upcoming Intimacy Project Immersions ✨

❤️ 15th October – 12th November 2026

❤️ 4th February – 4th March 2027

✨ New Year Deep Rest Retreat ✨

❤️ 29th December 2026 – 2nd January 2027

A beautiful opportunity to begin the year in nature, with daily practice, deep rest, community, and connection.
All details can be found on the website.

I would love to share the journey with you.

Much Love,
Ana x

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07/05/2026

Hello dear beautiful humans 🤍

On Sunday morning at 10am, I would love to open an online space for us to simply gather and practice together.

A few beautiful beings reached out wanting to practice in the company of friends — to reconnect, be reminded, or simply share space together — and it felt sweet to open this for anyone who feels the call.

I’ll gently guide a Heart of Yoga practice through breath, movement, pranayama, and meditation… and from there, you are welcome to continue practicing as you feel.

No pressure, no expectations — just a space to arrive, breathe, move, and be together for a little while 🌿

Here is the link to join:
https://luma.com/afrxlujb

05/05/2026

🌿 Contact Improvisation meet Ta**ra 🌿

This June, we gather for Lean In Nature — a unique space where Yoga, Ta**ra, and Contact Improvisation meet.

A living, breathing exploration of connection through the body.
Not as separate practices, but as one integrated experience — weaving movement, breath, and awareness directly into your body, into your nervous system, into your actual life.

This is a space to feel, not perform.
To slow down and listen…
To explore somatics through different mediums, and allow them to land in a way that is real, practical, and embodied.

A glimpse into our shared daily rhythm:

🌅 8:00 — Ta**ra Yoga
🌿 10:30 — Embodied Connection
🍲 13:00 — Lunch
🤸‍♂️ 15:30 — Contact Improvisation Workshop
🌙 18:00 — Dinner
💫 20:00 — Movement Jam

If something in you is curious, you’re warmly invited to explore more:

🌐 https://dandelion.events/e/leaninnature26

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Feel free to reach out if you have any questions 🤍

With love,
Ana x Chakora

Thu 4th Jun 2026, 12pm – Mon 8th Jun 2026, 12pm BST (UTC +01:00)

26/04/2026

This isn’t just a retreat — it’s a practice of arriving 🌱

We’ll be exploring contact improvisation, somatics & embodied connection…
Moving from sensation, listening deeply, and allowing rather than forcing.
Slow mornings, late-night jams, firelight conversations, sauna under the stars…

🌀 All levels welcome — you don’t need experience, just curiosity
🌿 Community living, shared space, and gentle co-creation
🔥 Workshops, jams, bodywork & nourishing plant-based meals included

📍 Glastonbury, Somerset
📅 June 4th – 8th 2026

If you feel the call to slow down…
to reconnect with your body, others, and the earth…
this space is for you 💛

Find out more + get your tickets here:
https://dandelion.events/e/leaninnature26

Come as you are 🌿✨

Thu 4th Jun 2026, 12pm – Mon 8th Jun 2026, 12pm BST (UTC +01:00)

17/03/2026

There is so much chaos in the world right now.
We can’t ignore it.
It’s happening.

But are we brave enough to see where that same chaos lives… within us?

We may not be holding weapons,
but are we attacking each other in subtler ways?
In irritation… in expectation…
in the quiet frustration when life doesn’t go how we want it to?

It’s the same energy.
Just expressed differently.

Over the past 6 months, I’ve been watching this closely in myself.
How a single thought — slightly unpleasant —
ripples into the body.

I move without awareness…
I rush…
I bump into things, drop things, tighten my jaw, harden my breath.

Or the other way around —
something exciting happens…
I move too fast, lose connection,
and even that creates tension in the body.

This is how our internal world shapes our reality.
Moment to moment.

Listening to music and forcing positivity might soothe it briefly…
but it doesn’t change the pattern.

Only awareness does.
Only slowing down enough to see does.

And beneath all of this…
there is something much more simple.

A deep longing to reconnect.
To nature.
To ourselves.

That quiet moment when you pause…
look at a tree, a candle, the sky…
and something softens.

That’s real.

It only takes a few breaths.
But it takes willingness.
And it takes time.

This is svādhyāya — self-study.
To observe our inner world without judgment.
To see how we move, think, react…
and gently return.

Not to become perfect.
But to become present.

Because being human is not about avoiding pain, frustration, grief, or joy.
It’s about allowing it all…
without getting lost in it.

Life is not something to control.
It’s something to move with.

Like a dance.
With the beauty, the awkwardness, the falling… and the rising.

And right now, in this moment of transition…
from India to the UK…

I rest.
In all that is.

Thank you Adi (please comment so I can tag!) for the dance, and for creating the

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07/03/2026

🤍 7 Days in Silence 🤍
A Nervous System Reset in Nature

We’re inviting a small circle to join us for something beautifully simple.

Seven days in silence.
In nature.
Together.

No phones.
No watches.
No notifications.

Just earth beneath your feet.
Sky above your head.
Fire. Water. Breath.

A gentle full body reset.
A return to your natural rhythm.

Sleep when you’re tired.
Wake with the light.
Walk without destination.
Drink tea slowly.
Watch the fire.
Listen to the birds.

After experiencing the profound stillness of silence in the wild mountains of Montenegro in 2021, we felt how deeply the nervous system can settle when life becomes simple again.

Now we would love to share that experience with you.

🌿 Off-grid campsite near Stroud
• Tents only
• Fire cooking
• Hot tub & showers
• Simple sattvic food
• One shared hot meal daily (kitcheri)

📅 16 – 25 April
💰 £300 per person

This is not a retreat to improve yourself.
It’s a retreat to rest your system.

If your body feels a quiet yes, send us a DM 🤍

Ana & David

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27/12/2025

🌹 *WOMEN OF ARAMBOL — YOU ARE INVITED* 🌹

Women’s Circle @ Heartflow Shala

This is a space where nothing is planned.

We begin by asking one simple question:
✨ *What is alive in you?* ✨

From here, we listen.
To ourselves. To each other. To the collective energy in the room.
With cacao as a gentle heart-opening ally,
we weave the session together in real time —
working with raw emotions, real life experiences, and what truly wants to be expressed.

*This is a circle where all of youiss welcome.*
Come as you are and be seen.
Come as you are and stay quiet.
Come as you are and ask the questions.
Speak the truths that have been silenced for generations.

No conversation censoring,
unless something does not support the collective or the safety of the space.

*Expect the unexpected.*
An unpredictable yet deeply safe container
for women to gather, witness, and support one another
in the realities of living in this world.
Together, we cultivate a way of being that reaches beyond the circle —
building courage for your real self to be seen,
and developing the inner skills needed to thrive in the outside world.

✨ *Details* ✨

🗓 Monday
⏰ 6:00 – 7:30 PM
📍 Heartflow Shala @ Raka Café, Pernem Road
💰 Exchange: 500 rupees

All women welcome.
No experience needed — just honesty and presence.

To join or ask questions, message me 🤍
📲 WhatsApp: +44 7940 074913

With love,
Ana x Chakora

26/12/2025

✨ TOMORROW ✨

Come experience the hidden magic of
*THE INTIMACY PROJECT*

This free workshop is an open invitation to step inside the essence of what we do — a space where movement, breath, and connection come together to support real life, real bodies, and real humans.

If you’ve been curious about The Intimacy Project, this is your chance to experience it directly.

We’ll be sharing Union in Motion —
a guided, trauma-informed movement journey that begins with you.

🗓 *Saturday 27th December*
⏰ *11:00 – 1:30 PM*
📍 Arambol (exact location shared on booking)

✨ *What to Expect*
• A gentle arrival into the breath and body
• Practices that build safety, grounding, and self-trust
• Movement that starts from the root and slowly opens into the heart
• Very slow, soft, consent-based connection and contact dance
• Time to feel sensation, listen deeply, and move honestly
• Practices guided intuitively by the energy of the group
• Space to return to yourself, integrate, and land
• A closing sharing circle — words, sounds, or silence welcome

Everything is optional and invitational.

You are always free to participate, pause, or simply witness.

🌊 *Why We Do This*
At The Intimacy Project, we believe that connection begins within.
We listen to the body.
We soften the noise of the mind.
We notice old patterns — and consciously choose how we move forward.
We meet ourselves and each other with curiosity, care, and compassion.
This space is trauma-informed, inclusive, and lovingly held.
No experience needed — just a willingness to arrive as you are.

If you feel the call, come and experience it for yourself 🤍

Message Ana to join:
📲 WhatsApp: *+44 7940 074913*
With love,
Ana x Chakora

23/10/2025

No tidy bow, no polished ending… just the raw truth of the in-between.

Lately, I am experiencing the subtle intensity of my existence like never before.

When we truly dare to look at ourselves — really look — with honesty and courage, it can be disarming. Uncomfortable. Confronting. The questions arise like waves crashing on the shore:
🌿 Who am I?
🌿 How did I arrive here, sharing the things I share?
🌿 Who am I to support others?
🌿 Is the way I’m living truly sustainable — for myself, for my community?

For someone who has experienced more than one burnout… the answer, it seems, is: not yet.

And so I pause. I let the mud stir. I let the water ripple. I allow the questions to be asked, not for answers, but for the sake of the asking itself.

🌀 What does it mean to be human, in this moment? To be in this world, this body, this breath?

I rest in the unknown.
I rest in the discomfort.
I rest in the quiet knowing that I am the earth, and the clarity will come.

There is no neat conclusion here — and perhaps that’s the point. Life is not a paragraph with a full stop.
It is a dance. A swirl. A song unfolding.

And so it is.

**rayoga

16/10/2025

“The Dance Begins when we stop trying to make it happen” (Steve Paxton)

Collective Consious jam with in Goa

📍 Heartflow Shala, , Pernem Road, Arambol
🗓️Every Saturday, 11 am - 1 pm
💰 Exchange: 500 INR

Open to all levels: though we recommend having at least three Contact Improvisation classes to feel comfortable with the basics.

What to expect:
We begin in an open circle, arriving together through a guided score. From there, the jam opens into free exploration - a space to listen, move, and meet through gravity, touch, and imagination. We’ll close the session together with a grounding practice.

In these jams, the focus rests on connecting to our hearts and harvesting the earth into shared imaginations. Inviting awareness and attunement towards listening, being your whole self, and cultivating curiosity. Each dance becomes an opportunity to deepen attention and discover new layers of connection.

This is a held container, so please respect time and presence.

💫 Facilitators💫

- Dancer, Bodywork Therapist & Somatic Enthusiast. Former Level 1 Gyrotonic®️ Teacher Trainer, Ryan now explores somatic relations in community, bridging Contact Improvisation with communication, deep listening, and extended care.

- Founder of The Intimacy Project, Ana supports the space through the lens of presence and care.

Come dance, connect, and fall into the poetry of being. 🌸

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