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“Inner Contact Retreat”

yogaSOMATICS & Expressive Art Therapy weekend retreat

in the beautiful Norwegian mountains

at Blue Mountain Yoga Center

Melkevoll Bretun (Oldedale - Stryn)

April 27 - 30, 2023

with Ateeka & Ola Borud

“Remembering to Remember"


This weekend retreat is an experiential opportunity to rest, relax and go a little deeper towards yourself:  body, heart, mind and inner life.   Together, we will explore meditative and creative practices for embodiment, grounding, centering and well-being.


We will work with various aspects of EMBODIMENT & CREATIVE EXPRESSION practices including yogaSOMATICS movement, myofascial (bindevev) unwinding, breathwork, creative expression through drawing, following the messages of your dreams, practices to connect to your heart and awaken empathy, inner exercises for the energy body, meditative sitting practice throughout the weekend.


ENJOY THE SILENCE

While not a strictly silent retreat, throughout the weekend  we will invite the group to enjoy longer periods of silence and reflection.    

  • Our weekend will include:

  • yogaSOMATICS practice for grounding and well-being in the body

  • Meditation & energy work  in contact with wild nature

  • Creative Expression through Drawing and Reflecting - Communication with your Inner Self

  • Dreamwork - Understanding the deeper meaning of your dreams

  • Deep Relaxation & Guided Relaxation

  • Gentle hands-on healing practices with a partner for relaxation

This weekend retreat is practice-oriented for going deeper towards yourself.

We will practice cultivating a non-judgmental and accepting awareness of thoughts, feelings, senses and body sensations that arise from moment to moment. From this more relaxed and current state of being, we can begin to meet other people in a more open and empathetic way.

This is a weekend for yourself, inner contact and the opportunity for new insights.

This workshop is open to all adults who are curious and open about exploring life energy and being present with life-as-it-is.  No experience is required. 

Beginners will appreciate the ease and new sensations of wellbeing of this practice.  Advanced practitioners and teachers of all kinds of yoga, movement and dance will appreciate a new perspective and being supported by a very experienced teacher in new discoveries.   This retreat is also very well suited for couples who wish to spend a weekend of deeper contact together in a meditative practice.


Ateeka teaches in english and Ola teaches in Norwegian and English - as the group needs.

Retreat Details:

Arrive on Thursday 27 April between 15:00 - 16:00

Our retreat experience between at 17:00 with a welcome yoga practice and a warm meal afterwards.

We continue with our practices through the weekend . . . with breaks for nature walks, resting, relaxing.   

Depatures are on Sunday 30 April after morning session and brunch.



About the location: Blue Mountain Yoga - Oldedale, Stryn, Melkevoll Bretun

Blue Mountain Yoga is a yoga- and retreat center and camping based at the foot of  Briksdal glacier in the idyllic Oldedalen in Norway.  From your high-standard cottage and the beautiful yoga room built into the mountainside,  here you can enjoy views of the huge mountains, the glacier, lake and waterfalls.

All participants will stay in comfortable cabins with a modern bathroom, fully equipped kitchen, living room and terrace.  All cabins are a high standard and a good atmosphere.

You will share your cottage common areas (bathroom, kitchen, living room) with 3 - 4  other course participants.   We have some “couples” rooms and some rooms for single participants as single or double occupancy.    Rooms include a small kitchen, shared bathroom and bed-linens and towels

About the very special yoga hall where we practice:

More than 6000 years ago, a big stone slide  came down the mountainside in the inner end of Oldedalen. Big rocks landed and made their home on this hillside. You can see these stones today all around the Melkevoll Bretun. It is in this stone area that Melkevoll Bretun camping is built, and every summer season people can camp here.   Around one of the biggest stones sitting upon the hillside, the owner of Melkevoll Bretun, Inge Melkevoll, built a special building called “The Blue Mountain Hall”    He created this special yoga room around the largest boulder with stone, wood and glass.   The Blue Mountain Hall has a feeling of being contained in nature, but also with amazing views to the surrounding wild nature.  The hall was built with an intentional integrated part of nature.

The center has a sauna that you can use each day to warm your bones and relax your muscles.

Each day, you will be treated to two delicious warm meals:  a brunch and a dinner.  You can bring your own breakfast items and prepare for  yourself in your cottage kitchen.

On arrivals day, you will be served dinner.  On departures day, you will be served brunch only.

Price:

6900 kr. per person

Includes all teachings with Ateeka & Ola, 3 nights accommodation in comfortable hytte, 2 abundant meals daily and other nice surprises.

3000 kr. non-refundable deposit required to hold your space in the group.

Balance due 1 April 2023

To register:    http://www.yoga-somatics.com/shop-1/deposit-retreat-spring2023