Discover how relaxation can fill you with great energy and how subtle movement can be full of healing stillness. Bring awareness to your nervous system through Yoga and CranioSacral therapy.
Our unique combination of traditional Hatha Yoga, Yoga Therapy, CranioSacral Therapy and Kirtan (healing chants), meets in a powerful synergy during this retreat. Through our personal immersion in these systems over a long time we have discovered a holistic path to an ever deepening awareness of our self and the subtlety of our being as well as expanding and opening your heart. Our intention is for you to discover a new sense of connection to yourself and your body.
During this retreat we will explore the principles of CranioSacral Therapy and Hatha Yoga. Each day has a different theme, to allow you to discover these two principles and how they can take your yoga practice to the next level. Our intention is for you to discover a new sense of connection to yourself and your body.
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What is Nordic Light Healing and Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral therapy works with a light handed touch, that when applied to the body, enhances the nervous system’s own ability to observe itself, to make the self-corrections that will direct you towards your body’s optimal health on all levels. Unwinding tensions will ripple through all the layers of yourself and bring awareness to which areas that need healing. This recognition allows for a new level of deep rest throughout all the layers of body, mind and emotional being.
This is a healing modality that has as its base Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy and that takes it away from medical and focused anatomy based work into an expanded, intuitive practise where the key principles are breath, awareness, and Love. In one way it is an embodied meditation shared with another human being.
What is Cranio Sacral Therapy (CST), and how do we incorporate it in our yoga?
“Unwinding the patterns that lies between you and the experience of your true self, your optimal health, your real blueprint.”
The purpose of Cranio Sacral Therapy is to connect you to the «breath of life» your body’s innate power and capacity to heal itself. This therapy works with a light touch that helps the nervous system relax and your whole body to unwind, which allows for a new level of deep rest throughout all the layers of body, mind and emotional being.
Unlike most yoga adjustments, which are often directive or corrective, cranio sacral adjustments are not there to impose or correct but to allow the body itself to receive a heightened awareness. We trust that your body has an innate intelligence to unfold itself back into balance and harmony and we love to tenderly and softly assist you in this natural process.
Our nervous system plays a key role in how we feel about ourselves and the way we respond to situations in life.
With a nourishing yoga practice and Cranio Sacral awareness we cultivate our nervous system to be in loving acceptance with everything that flows in through our senses, which defines how we perceive our whole existence.
A new kind of alignment takes place and we can walk through life with an open and heart-connected posture.
We have found these tools to be the “oil” that creates the possibility of our mental, emotional and physical bodies to run smoothly together to create a life full of grace.
DAILY SCHEDULE
(*subject to changes)
THURSDAY-LANDING
We will open the retreat with a smooth landing to settle you into a relaxed state, ready to start the unwinding
15.00 Arrival and check-in
17.00 Introduction and landing Yoga: land into the retreat space and relax into Yoga Nidra
19.00 Dinner
20.30 Evening enjoyments: kirtan, sauna, bonfire
FRIDAY-UNWIND
We all hold tensions and stress within our systems. This day we will explore techniques for releasing both in the yoga classes as well as starting to learn the CranioSacral dynamics
07.30 Nordic Light Yoga: Release and soften
09.00 Breakfast
10.45 Introduction to CranioSacral principles: Unwinding from within
13.00 Lunch
17.00 Nordic Light Heart yoga + Yoga Nidra: Unwind and soften into your being
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening enjoyments: kirtan, sauna, bonfire
SATURDAY-BREATH OF LIFE
This is the day to fully move into awareness of the breath. We will take you into a deep and meditative yoga breathing and introduce the Breath of life
07.30 Nordic Light Yoga: The synchronised breath
09.00 Breakfast
10.45 CranioSacral principles: The miraculous Breath of life
13.00 Lunch
17.00 Nordic Light Heart Yoga + Yoga Nidra: Discovering the inner space
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening enjoyments: kirtan, sauna, bonfire
SUNDAY-DYNAMIC STILLNESS
Moving towards our center of our being, we discover that stillness is full of life and dynamic litfe energy is full of stillness
07.30 Nordic Light Yoga: Flow into stillness
09.00 Breakfast
10.45 CranioSacral principles: Dynamic stillness
13.00 Lunch
17.00 Nordic Light Heart Yoga + Yoga Nidra: Dynamic stillness
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening enjoyments: kirtan, sauna, bonfire
MONDAY-INTEGRATE
It is important to take time for assimilation so that the new found insights can integrate into your daily life
07.30 Nordic Light Yoga: Unifying and coming together
09.00 Breakfast
10.45 CranioSacral principles: Integration
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Closing circle
meet the team
TEACHER’S BIO
JOHAN SVANBORG AND JENNY SOLBERG
Johan
Since 23 years Johan has followed his spiritual calling which have manifested in Shambala Gatherings retreat center and Nordic Light Yoga and Healing. He has spent years in india and Bali immersed in the depths of the yogic teachings. Since 10 years he has studied Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy and has found a new way to combine these 2 visions.
Jenny’s spiritual journey started eight years ago in India, when she met her Yoga teacher. This was the start of a life long study of the inquiry into her real being. A few years ago, she met her Guru in Bali, whom she started studying traditional Vedanta with.
Jenny
She is passionately dedicated to understanding the meaning of true happiness, and what it means to live a spiritual life. In her teaching, she assists with softness and compassion, allowing the uniqueness of every person and their process to take place. She did her first Hatha Yoga TTC in India with Atmavikasa Yoga eight years ago and has been going frequently every year to spend time with there. She has done the Sama Yoga Teacher Training, Svastha Yoga Therapy course and studied a variety of other yoga styles. She has studied Craniosacral therapy as well as Biodynamic Stillness touch.
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“The way you are, Jenny and Johan, give of yourselves and bring forth your practice allows for a grounding, allowing and healing atmosphere to expand in. The whole retreat was like a reset for me and an opportunity to connect to myself on a deep plane with a loving, subtle guidance”
How to get here
Shambala Gatherings
Borntorpet 1
Skinnskatteberg
Sweden
Located just two hours away from Stockholm in Skinnskatteberg, Sweden, the area is easily accessible by air, train and car, making a great option for a short break wildlife destination.
- Coming by air: The nearest airport to Shambala is Stockholm Vasteras. The second nearest airport is Arlanda airport, the main airport in Sweden. You can easily take a train all the way to Skinnskatteberg from both of them.
- Coming by train / bus: We are fortunate to have a train / bus station at Skinnskatteberg only 5 minutes ride from the center. We offer free pick up services from this station in summer.
- Coming by car: Simply open this Google map on your navigator and follow directions to Borntorpet 1 in Skinnskatteberg, Sweden.