Riverside Retreat Saturdays:
Journeying into Heartful Stillness
Retreat from the Stresses of Big City Living with 3 Blissful Retreat Days of Yoga, Meditation, Spiritual Discourse and Mantra
Following the success of the recent guided tantric meditation series, we are delighted to be able to offer an even more sumptuous sensory experience with these Saturday retreat days. Designed to offer you inner and outer space, time for yourself and a sense of true spiritual community, each of these days will be a sanctuary from whatever else it may be that you are currently managing in your daily life. Moreover, they will help you to recharge at a deep level and, at the same time, to refocus your energies and your heart towards a greater fluidity. The retreats may be taken together or separately as you wish.
Each retreat will also offer a session of heart-opening yoga. This is yoga at its most accessible and, rather than to make us sweat, its principal purpose is to encourage our senses to soften, to settle and to direct themselves inwards towards the gentle heart journey of the day. After such melting preparation, Katyayani will offer a fully guided tantric meditation session. Possibly the most vivid of all meditation practices and yet one of the most inclusive, this session will take us deep into the heart cave and allow us to experience both the fullness and the stillness of our inner landscape. In the afternoon, we will give voice to what we have experienced in our hearts with a workshop style Kirtan chanting session that is suitable for all, regardless of any prior experience of working with mantras or, indeed, of singing also... Engaging with anything that might have emerged from the morning’s practice, we will find collective and compassionate expression for our individual heart’s own song. The afternoon will close with a simple ceremony of dedication – to our highest well-being and to all that brings us grace and blessing in our lives.