This retreat offers accessible yoga and meditation practices to help you reconnect with inner balance, resilience, and clarity. Through movement, stillness, and reflection, we’ll explore how to meet life’s challenges with openness, compassion, and trust.
Tutor(s): Swami Krishnapremananda
We are living through increasingly uncertain times. From international armed conflicts and political instability to rising living costs and widespread physical and mental health challenges, the collective pressures of our world inevitably find their way into our personal lives. In such times, finding our centre is not a luxury, it becomes a vital practice for meeting reality as it is, with greater clarity and resilience.
Yoga and meditation offer powerful tools during times of change and adversity. The time we spend on the mat or cushion becomes a refuge, allowing us to reconnect with our inner strength, stability, and capacity for renewal. These practices help us return to our centre, not to escape the world, but to face it with steadiness and compassion.
This retreat invites you to explore how accessible yoga and meditation practices can help you tap into your innate energy and resilience, regulate your nervous system, and move through vulnerability with openness rather than fear. When we allow ourselves to fully feel our grief, sorrow, and confusion, we begin to discover a deeper strength, one that is rooted not in avoidance but in courageous self-awareness.
Throughout our time together, we’ll explore how to stay open to life, even when overwhelmed or stretched to our limits. We’ll practice meeting each moment with kindness, toward ourselves and others, and we’ll cultivate a capacity to return again and again to the centre of our being. From this place, we can engage more consciously with the flow of life, with less contraction and more trust.
Each day of the retreat will begin with a yoga class followed by chanting and meditation. In the afternoons, we’ll be guided through yoga nidra, allowing deep rest and integration. The programme will also include pranayama, bandha, mudra, and mantra, along with selected teachings from the Bhagavad Gita to ground our practice in timeless wisdom. Each evening will close with satsang, a space for questions, sharing, and kirtan, supporting connection and reflection.
This retreat offers you practical and accessible ways to feel more centred, balanced, and resourced, so you can move through life with greater ease, resilience, and trust in your own inner strength.
