Retreat to explore your inner and outer world

06/12/2015

Exciting news......we're retreating to Knopberg, Parys end Feb. Arriving 26th and departing 28th......time with yourself includes a 'total release'.....book now to reserve your space. payment end Jan 2016!

09/11/2015

Hi, I am Rosalind. Yoga facilitator and student. My mat found me over 10 years ago and now getting off is not an option. Yoga is my tool for life choices, for health and well being, for relationship building, for increased strength, for courage to step up to whatever life presents. Life is constantly giving us opportunities for choices. For me, making choices, has become easier the more I have come to know myself. My deep dive into why I am who I am and why I do the things I do, why I have a defence pattern, why I have certain habits, why some of the decisions I have made have been almost exactly the same as my the ones my parents made years ago…I questioned and did not accept that everything is as it should be. My thoughts determine my life so I had to discover what was guiding my thought process.
It’s been a long journey, one with many tears, screams, punching pillows, lion roars, sighs, shivering with shaking and through all this I get a little closer to feeling me. Peeling one habitual layer away at a time to find out why I “tick” like I do, then choosing if I’d like to keep the habit or making a choice for change. I realised the choice is always mine. Having choice is empowering. Developing strength in my body through yoga has been gentle and powerful, connecting to how I move and playing with “being in the moment” has been tricky but then who said life was supposed to be easy. It’s not. This is the most difficult planet to get onto if you believe in reincarnation, for me. Yoga is helping me with my journey through life on this planet. I love to play yoga and am sure I will still be playing yoga for many more years. It’s in my blood

The trainings I have completed have guided me to what I actually know but had just forgotten and I am grateful to my teachers for these learning’s. I am recognized as a Certified Forrest Yoga Teacher, having trained with Ana Forrest two years ago. Forrest Yoga has been the most powerful tool in helping me shift emotional trauma from my body. I’ve applied my learning to the student who attends classes I teach and they too have had powerful releases, much to their surprise. Shifting is not planned, it hits you when you least expect it. For the traditional Eastern philosophy learning’s, IndiYoga Teacher training with Kerry Weavind was gently powerful. This style helps me find softness in myself while at the same time connecting to where I am moving, what I am holding and taking time to learn to “let go”. This too has been a powerful tool in my teachings.
As I move forward I am evolving my teaching to a more therapeutic form of yoga for trauma recovery. Trauma results, not only from big accidents, etc, it stems from words or moments that one cannot digest within oneself. Unexplained instances that are suppressed deep within us and then 40 years on a Downward Dog helps us remember them. Trauma causes us to “fight life” and want to numb it out with drugs and alcohol. I would really like to see beings opt for a more healthy way of dealing with suppressed trauma through yoga rather than chemical substances.

For me Life begins with yoga.
I’d love to help you explore yourself,
become fascinated with yourself in a
whole new way,
and then get addicted…….
to yourself

After all, you are the most important person in your life…..

Come play yoga and find a whole lot of stuff out about yourself on this deep dive retreat......

09/11/2015

Whose "shoes" are you walking in? Most of us are wearing the "shoes" of conditioned behavior learnt over time which have become habit. If you're ready to change your "shoes" this is the retreat for you. Bookings close thus week and only 2 places left.....R.S.V.P now....

03/11/2015

03/11/2015

Introducing ..... Michelle Carpenter, Intuitive Counsellor
I started my personal journey 9 years ago when my world felt like it was falling to pieces. My daughter was 14 months old and her dad decided to abandon us – a pattern I was used to, but at the time did not realise that it was a pattern in my world. I was so angry at the time and so full of resentment I ended up going on – A Self Aware weekend, I knew nothing about it, and I felt like I had nothing to lose. This weekend changed my life in the most profound ways.
I learnt to start taking personal responsibility for ME and that I can’t blame the world for my feelings. I decided to do a course to become a Hospice Caregiver which I worked for Hospice West Rand for over 4 years, and then decided to study NLP. Working with Hospice taught me Empathy……. A word that I have taken a very long time to work with. Life is a continuous teacher for me, I love who I am and who I am becoming.
I have learnt that my children are my biggest teachers,
I am learning to embrace change, work with loss and the biggest thing is learning to LOVE ME
I love to spend time with my 2 beautiful kids and my amazing husband. I love to laugh, I love my yoga practice, I love to cycle, I love to watch TV, I love to read, I love to eat good food, I love to spend time with family and friends.
It is always about me, myself and I. It is never about the other person, it is always about MY FEELINGS – how Life and others made me FEEL.
We forgot when we were little babies and young children how much we loved ourselves and how much we looked at ourselves in the mirror and really loved ourselves unconditionally. And as we started to grow we started to take on
everyone else’s belief systems, patterns and behaviours, and in all of this forgot to LOVE ourselves unconditionally.
We would work with your belief systems, we would work with your programming’s, we would work with your patterns, we would work with your inner child, we would work with your FEELINGS. Our FEELINGS are our guidance system,
except that most times we are in our heads and forget that we have FEELINGS –
which are inside our body and our body is our guidance system. I would guide you with love and care and understanding, yet be honest in the process.
I talk from “WE” as I believe that life is a mirror and we are all parts of one another, so as my clients we would reflect each other at some point in our lives.
I LOVE what I do and I have so many clients who are beautiful reflections of who I am.
I LOVE to see the shifts and changes in people, and especially when they themselves can see and acknowledge the shifts and changes within them – with LOVE.
I believe that Life is our teacher and I am guided by Life in every moment of every day.

27/10/2015

You’re invited…….to get away from everything but yourself..
Explore your inner and outer world, your belief systems, feelings and how they impact on the way you live your life.
You’re invited to journey with a select few others, on a personal journey, one that takes courage and a deep curiosity for Self.
2015 has been a year of ending cycles and new beginnings. What baggage will you take with you into a new beginning?
Do you even know what is packed in your suitcase? Michelle and I can help you explore this within a safe environment, one where
you have permission to unpack, explore and release that which no longer serves you, the stuff taking up space within you,
the space that should be filled with new creative ideas or feelings for the exciting journey ahead.
It’s not as complicated as you think, so don’t think....feel....come and learn how to feel from the inside out so you can live life
From a more authentic place within yourself. If you allow yourself there is very little that comes close to the power of connecting to your body
we just have to get out of our head and sometimes all we need is for someone to hear our story......someone to listen. We’ll do that.

This group availability is small because of the personal journey it encourages. Your journey starts here with us and continues into the new year with
group “catch up” sessions so we can “have each other’s back” once we step onto this brave healing path.
You’re invited...........R.S.V.P for yourSelf

Only 8 places available for 27 till 29 November
Careful, if you don’t feel ready for this, it’s proberly exactly what you need.
R2195 per person sharing (includes intuitive counselling and the activities that help us dig deep, accommodation, meals, yoga)

27/10/2015

THE INVITATION
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking Like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers
And toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can
bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore be trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life your own life from its.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the moon “yes”!
It does’nt interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief
And despair, weary and bruised ot the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't’ interest me who you are or how you came to be her. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It does’nt interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments
Oriah Mountain Dreamer