Yoga Nidra​

Rosalie will guide you through a practice of yoga nidra, also known as yogic sleep. Your body will be guided into a state of deep relaxation while your mind will remain awake and alert. In this highly receptive state, you can unwind your nervous system, let go of the tension stored in your body, and experience a profound rest.

Rosalie likes to think of yoga nidra as a kind of internal yoga that is practiced while lying on your back with your eyes closed. Yoga nidra opens the proverbial door to your inner world, allowing you to:

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• Tap into your internal guidance

• Receive insights and messages

• Pave the way for your sankalpa or heart-felt intention to unfold

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This session will be set to the sound of singing bowls to help you journey even deeper within yourself.

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As someone who has a super busy mind and a day job in corporate leadership, I am no stranger to sleepless nights. I have tried everything under the sun: melatonin, 5-HTP, valerian, CBD, you name it. There was one practice in particular, however, that I feel really worked…

Yoga Nidra has helped me ground my energy at night, increasing the quality of my sleep. Since I have made a habit of listening to my friend Rosalie’s and her teacher Ali’s Yoga Nidra recordings after a stressful day of work, I have experienced deeper, more satisfying REM sleep. I feel fresher in the mornings now—and I have the data on my Oura ring to confirm it!

Polarity Processing Work​

Matt will teach you a unique journalling technique that harnesses the power of understanding opposites to delve into unconscious patterning within the mind. 

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Journalling helps you take the stance of a witness, maintain presence and develop equanimity within your own life instead of being pushed and pulled between positive and negative polarities. This versatile tool can be used at any time to probe a deeper understanding of life situations that leave you feeling stuck or blocked. In a way, it is a form of self-therapy that is always at your disposal.

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Do you struggle with meditation? I have been learning to meditate for almost seven years, and it still takes skill to quiet my monkey-mind down. Checklists, where I need to go next, things that happened, people who made me angry—all these endlessly run through my head.

Special breathing techniques have helped me to get into the meditative zone. Breathwork is an active way to connect your mind with your body and re-center yourself, and this skill is something you can always keep at your disposal. When I feel suddenly flustered at the office, for instance, or triggered by an event, I turn to my breathwork.

Our breathwork expert, Matt Teague, is magical at holding space for people. He has spent the last year learning from different masters from around the world, and he’ll be bringing Polarity Processing to this retreat. You’ll feel you really have dropped into another world when Matt leads you through his breathwork and meditation. I believe an experience like this is a first in Hong Kong!

Empowered Flow

Aya and Joyce will lead you through Empowered Flow, a Vinyasa style yoga practice created by international yoga pioneer Victor Chau, that seeks to challenge you to transform physically, mentally and spiritually – one asana at a time. You will discover new ways to move your body, experience personal breakthroughs, see the world with a new perspective, delve deep into your weaknesses and turn them into your strength. Just like a caterpillar, you will metamorphose into a better version of yourself – a butterfly that spreads its wings and inspires others through yoga practice.

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Hong Kong probably now has more yoga teachers than school teachers, and I realize about half of Instagram is filled with posts of yoga poses (asanas). Still, this particular Empowered Flow is special and dear to my heart.

I love setting and achieving challenging goals. Empowered Flow employs a unique sequence that prepares and builds your skills progressively, so that before you know it, you are doing things you never thought you could do.

What I love most about Empowered Flow is that it’s so much more than just poses. It helps me to reconnect with myself and release a lot of the ego that does not serve me. In fact, I love it so much that I took my 200 hours YTT with Victor Chau!

It’ll be my honour to bring this practice to you all with my friend and co-teaching partner, Aya Seng.

Gong Bath

The vibrations of the meditation gong have a salutary effect on the body and mind both. Tata will facilitate a gong bath, an ancient sound experience that will encourage the flow of the chi and prana life force through your body. As you listen to the beats, you will feel the physical tension slip away as your circulatory system relaxes into a peaceful rhythm. Meanwhile, your mind will transition from a beta (awake) state to the powerful theta (lucid dream) state of healing and rejuvenation.

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It can be tough to break recurrent patterns—especially harmful ones—but it can certainly be done! Gong baths are powerful experiences that can help you break imprints that have ceased to serve you. I myself have attended a number of gong baths around Asia, and I can attest to the fact that each one has transformed me.

Over the past year, I decided to take this one step further and learn to play the gongs myself. To that end, I began my studies with Gong Master Martha Stewart and became acquainted with other talented practitioners.

I am excited to bring Tata Tse’s Gong Bath practice to all of you on this retreat. Her journey has always inspired me—having discovered sound healing during her battle with cancer, Tata harnessed the power of gong baths to help her on her journey. It is clear, when you hear her beats, that Tata plays from her heart.

Cacao Ceremony

Cacao has a long-standing history of opening the heart and boosting mood.

On this retreat, we will come together in a sacred circle to consume a cacao beverage made from beans and seeds in their purest forms. Matt will lead you through the cacao ceremony to share, connect and seed positive intentions and manifestations. You will perform a relaxing meditation and visualization journey with the view of the beach extending in front of you.

I experienced my first cacao ceremony in Ubud, Bali, and I still remember how my body felt free and blissful, how my mind became receptive to inspirations and insights. I was able to move beyond noisy thoughts and connect to my intuition.

Soil to Soul

What you eat directly translates to how you feel; your food has energy, in more ways than one!

Paloma Gaber will be treating you to farm-to-table meals throughout your entire retreat. Originally trained as a health coach (like me), Paloma has honed the art of cooking heart-based meals: She listens to her heart and translates this energy into the food she shares.

All ingredients are locally sourced from the Organic Lamma Farm, which I personally had the pleasure of visiting last week—I’m still enjoying my big basket of organic goodies! My time at the farm clarified how important these parts of the process really are: touching the soil as I pull out the carrots, or harvesting my own lettuce. In the end, the carrots tasted sweeter; the lettuce was particularly crispy. I could sense that these foods were steeped in the love that had been put into their soil.