WEEKEND SCHEDULE
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WEEKEND SCHEDULE 〰️
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS DESCRIPTION
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CLASSES & WORKSHOPS DESCRIPTION 〰️
FRIDAY 9:30 - 11:00
FRIDAY 11:30 - 13:00
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Within the yoga tradition, Tantra invites us to recognise the sacred in every breath, sensation, and experience.
The body and mind are not obstacles to overcome — they are honoured and cultivated with awareness and respect, as vehicles for spiritual realisation.
In a world that feels increasingly fragmented, Tantra offers a radical vision: that everything is connected, everything is sacred, and nothing is outside the whole.
All is one.
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The Art of Listening to the Other Through Massage
Every body carries a story that words cannot fully tell. Through the rhythm of the breath, the touch of the hands and the quiet attention of therapeutical presence, we can learn to listen to this story as it unfolds beneath our touch.
Through partner exercises, we will explore the practice of deep listening to everything that is left unsaid yet the body continuously communicates. How can we cultivate a quality of presence that allows us to truly hear through our hands? How can touch become a form of attentive listening, revealing what is needed in each moment? And how can we sustain this connection with the other throughout the massage, creating a space of trust, responsiveness and care?
Drawing on a range of massage techniques, this workshop invites participants to touch with sensitivity, awareness and an open heart, discovering the resonance that emerges when touch and listening become one.
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Āraṇyaka Gānam is a transformative meditation mantra originating from the Sāmaveda. This "cure for egoism" has two key benefits.
1) Overcoming Selfishness and Rewriting Paradigms: prompting a profound shift in how you view yourself and your relation to the world;
2) Changing Negative Thought Patterns: through the technique known as Pratipakṣabhāvana, we can shift and upgrade our sub-conscious mental conditioning, we can change our course of actions and ultimately, reshape our personal destiny.
FRIDAY 14:30 - 16:30
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What if the invisible thread that connects us to one another is the very same thread that connects us to ourSELF?
In a world that often encourages us to define ourselves by our roles, achievements, stories or differences, we can easily forget something essential: beneath the many identities we carry, there is a deeper presence that has never been separated.
This workshop is an invitation to remember.
Drawing from the wisdom of Ayurveda, Vedic Counselling and Internal Family Systems (IFS), we will explore how true human connection begins with inner harmony.
Ayurveda reminds us that every person is a unique expression of life. We are born with different constitutions, different temperaments, different bodies and different life experiences. Some of us move through life with the lightness of Vata, others with the intensity of Pitta or the steadiness of Kapha. Diversity is not a problem to solve; it is the beauty of nature expressing itself in countless forms.
Vedic wisdom takes us one step further. Just as countless waves arise on the surface of one ocean, we appear different on the outside while sharing the same essential nature. Roles change. Thoughts change. Emotions change. Life changes. But the awareness that witnesses every experience remains untouched.
This awareness is the invisible thread we are invited to remember.
Through the gentle lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), we will also discover that within each of us live many different parts: the one that controls, the one that fears, the one that feels exhausted, the one that still dreams. Rather than trying to silence or eliminate these parts, we will learn to meet them with curiosity and compassion, recognising that each has been trying, in its own way, to protect us.
The journey from separation to connection does not begin in the world around us.
It begins within.
The same compassion we cultivate within naturally extends towards others.
Through guided experiential practices and meditation, this workshop offers a space to reconnect with the quiet presence that has always been there—beneath every role, every story and every protective part.
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Yin Yoga invites us to slow down, surrender, and meet ourselves in the stillness between movements. Through long, passive holds, we release tension held deep in the connective tissues — creating space not just in the body, but in the mind and heart.
Woven together with a Sound Journey — crystal bowls, gongs, and voice guiding us into deeper layers of presence — this session becomes an immersive experience of rest, release, and reconnection.
A reminder that sometimes the most profound thread connecting us to ourselves and to each other is found in the quiet.
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There is a rhythm beneath the skin that knows it is continuous with the rhythms beyond.
“We are all one” sounds beautiful, but how might we move from concept to felt experience of this self-other-world continuum?
Rhythms of belonging weaves somatic movement, non dual philosophy and sacred sound as an invitation to explore interdependence as a sensory experience.
FRIDAY 17:30 - 19:00
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A transformative journey of embodiment, connection, and inner awakening with Chetana & DJ Chidanand
SOMATIC UNWINDING: Yoga · Breathwork · Fascial Flow · Awakening Interoception
LIVE HYBRID ECSTATIC DANCE: Live Mantra Vocals · Harmonium · Electronica · Sound Healing
DJ Fusion featuring Chidanand’s Original Music · Live Vocals & Percussion
DEEP IMMERSIVE SOUND HEALING: Mantra · Meditation · VortexHealing®️ Therapy
Awaken the Heart and Integrate the Journey together.
sATURday 9:30 - 11:00
sATURday 11:30 - 13:00
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The "rest and digest" mode is our natural state of healing, peace, and recovery. It is activated when we feel safe and calm, and is regulated by the parasympathetic nervous system — the opposite of the "fight or flight" survival mode.
In practice, rest and digest is activated when we breathe slowly and mindfully, when we live with awareness in the present moment — through yoga, meditation, mindfulness, tai chi, and similar practices — or when we directly stimulate the vagus nerve through specific exercises.
When we activate the vagus nerve, we feel more relaxed and more capable of connecting with others. This directly contributes to feeling more alike than different — fostering empathy and a greater sense of unity. And that, at its heart, is the essence of yoga.
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Arm Balances Iyengar Workshop
In arm balances, we discover one of yoga's most profound lessons: true lightness is not the absence of effort — it is the fruit of it.
Drawing from the precision and depth of the Iyengar method, this workshop explores the foundations of arm balances — alignment, breath, and the invisible lines of energy that run through the body. Step by step, we build the strength and awareness needed to find ease in what at first seems impossible.
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In a world full of noise, overstimulation and constant doing, we've become experts at living in our heads. But how can we truly connect with others when we've lost connection with ourselves?
In this workshop, we'll explore how stress, trauma and inherited survival patterns shape the way we relate...to ourselves and to the people around us.
Through somatic practices, movement and playful connection exercises, you'll be invited to reconnect with your body's wisdom, awaken your senses and remember what has always been there: the invisible thread that connects us all.
sATURday 14:30 - 16:30
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Somatic practices for regulation, co-regulation, and connection.
Connection with others begins with the ability to connect with ourselves.
This workshop explores the relationship between the nervous system, self-regulation, and human connection — combining theory with embodied practice. Through individual somatic exercises, partner work, and a closing practice of authentic movement and free dance, participants are invited to move from inner awareness to shared experience.
The intention is simple: to leave with practical tools for self-regulation and a lived sense of how connection begins within — and naturally expands outward.
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sATURday 17:30 - 19:00
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Kirtan is one of the oldest and most universal expressions of yoga — the practice of devotional chanting, where voice becomes the instrument and the mantra becomes the thread that connects us to something larger than ourselves.
There are no performers and no audience. Everyone is invited to participate — to add their voice, however it sounds, to the collective sound. In Kirtan, the act of singing together dissolves the boundaries between us, creating a space where individual voices become one.
A perfect way to close the festival — together, united in sound, feeling the invisible thread that has woven through these two days.