Prana, Pranayama & Prana Vidya Retreat

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The Yogis say that the “quality of your breath reflect the quality of your life”. A fast breath equals a stressed mind, unfocused emotions and a sick body. A slow, deep breath equals a calm, balanced and focused mind, health & well-being.

This retreat will explore prana through Asana, Pranayama, Mudras, Bandhas, Chakras including Prana Vidya theory and practices. Prana (energy) Vidya (knowledge) is an ancient and powerful meditation that deals with the system of prana for healing and spiritual awakening. Knowledge of Prana is knowledge of the universe. Everything moves because of Prana, it is source, means and destination. Prana Vidya is both a final goal of total awakening and it is also a process, which focuses on activating, directing and enhancing the vital energy. 

The key to the ‘knowledge of prana’ is it’s applications into daily life, learning to use our energy consciously, conserve and build it.  Explore the science behind the breath, the importance of the relaxation response and its connection to our physical, mental and energetic experiences. 

Chakra illustrations by Turid Ousland. Ajna and Manipura Chakra are both important in relation to Prana and Prana Vidya practices. All the chakras will be touched upon during the retreat.

Delve into Mudras, which are gestures and expressions of particular states of consciousness and energy. By using them consciously, the practitioner directly and indirectly influences mental and emotional states, health and well being. With the use of mudras, the practitioner can consciously awaken, balance and redirect Prana to influence the physical and subtle aspects of the body and mind.

Experience Prana Nidra and other Prana Vidya meditations to learn how to enhance the flow of energy in your body as well as conserve and direct Prana for health and wellbeing, as this is an important key to healthy organs, optimal endocrine system, balanced weight, mental and emotional clarity and equanimity.

Check out the Salute to the Moon with Karma Karuna:

Swami Karma Karuna

Main teacher for the retreat is Swami Karma Karuna Saraswati. She is an engaging, intuitive yoga and meditation teacher, inspirational speaker, writer and IAYT certified Yoga Therapist with more than 25 years of experience. She has been trained in the Bihar Yoga traditional system and visits India to spend time with her spiritual guides yearly.
Swami Karma Karuna is a co-founder and director of Anahata Yoga Retreat, New Zealand, a Residential yoga retreat offering and integral yogic lifestyle. https://www.anahata-retreat.org.nz/
She also travels throughout the world leading workshops, training yoga teachers, presenting at international events, guiding spiritual sadhana retreats and offering one to one yoga and lifestyle sessions.

Silje Sridharana Indreeide

Silje runs Anahata Yoga and is the assistant teacher for the retreat. Since her teens she has been passionate about how to become more happy and how to find inner peace. Yoga and meditation met these needs and she has been practicing since she first went to India as a 20-year old. She has studied 1 year at Yogalærerskolen i Norge, 6 years apprenticeship with Yggdrasil Yogaskole
and has her teacher training from Bihar School of Yoga, the Rikhia Ashram. Silje also studied medicine for 1 1/2 years. Silje has 15 years experience teaching yoga, the last 10 full time.

Schedule

07.00 - 08.50 Morning practice, Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha & Meditation
09.00 - 10.45 Breakfast and free time
10.45 - 12.50 Theory, Yoga Nidra / Prana Nidra & Meditation
13.00 - 16.30 Lunch and free time
16.30 - 18.15 Afternoon practice, Asana, Pranayama, Mudra and Bandha
18.30 Dinner
20.30 Evening program some evenings, kirtan, havan, satsang

The schedule may alter, but this is a rough outline.

Karma Yoga

Karma Yoga is the yoga of dynamic meditation. Through Karma Yoga, qualities such as being present with the action, witnessing the inevitable thoughts, and remaining unattached to the results of the action can be perfected. Karma Yoga is performing each task with meditative awareness. In this existence, we cannot live without acting, as thought, speech, movement are all part of action.

All participants are invited to join in contributing to the Retreat through the practice of Karma Yoga. We invite you to bring a new quality to your everyday actions through seeing “work” in a new light. The attitude developed during the practice of karma yoga can be brought back to your life thereby transforming daily living into conscious living.

There will be a maximum of one hour Karma Yoga a day, the task may be cleaning the fire dome, chopping vegetables or setting up the table for the next meal.

Location

Soleggen Fjellstue is situated in beautiful Jotunheimen, aprox. 960 meters above sea level, close to the tree limit, with mountain birch forests, creeks and lakes, with excellent bathing opportunities and mountain hikes just outside the door. The newly built fire dome will be used as our yoga room.

Accommodation follows the yogic virtue of simple living at a basic Norwegian mountain lodge, Soleggen. There is running water and you can choose room with attached bathroom or shared with others.

Food

Food is vegetarian with some egg and dairy, it is possible to cater for vegans and allergies. Soleggen gets biodynamic and organic products from the local farm, Aukrust and take pride in using food with a lot of prana in it!

Price

Total price for retreat, food and lodging:

1. Sleeping in shared room with shared bathroom: 13.900,-

2. Sleeping in single room with shared bathroom: 15.400,-

3. Sleeping in single room with attached bathroom: 16.900,-

Payment is done in 3 rates:

1. Deposit of 2000,- Norwegian Kroner upon booking

2. 5.900,- Norwegian kroner due in April

3. Rest-amount due in beginning of June

If the retreat gets cancelled due to covid-19 you will get a full refund.
If you get sick yourself just before the retreat you do not get a refund, please make sure you have a valid travel insurance.

How to get there?

Adress: Stymmevegen 24, 2686 Lom
Train & Bus from Oslo / Gardermoen: Train to Otta and then a local buss or Nordfjordekspressen to Gaffer (6 km before Lom). Hike up 6 km or order a taxi.
Lokalbuss: Otta Skysstasjon–Graffer 
Nordfjordekspressen: Oslo–Graffer (tlf. 815 444 44)

Anbefalinger:

Tone Mette Wenger

Fysioterapeut

“Jeg vil på det varmeste anbefale alle yoga-interesserte å gå kurs med Karma Karuna. Hun både gjør og er yoga med kropp og sinn. Hun har en utrolig formidlings-evne, og en unik personlighet.

Yogakurs med Karma Karuna er ga meg mulighet til å erfare den sterke og gode effekten yoga kan ha både der og da, men også en innsikt og erfaring jeg kan ta frem når jeg trenger det i hverdagen.”

Kjersti Svenning

“Jeg har tidligere deltatt på Chakra Sadhana kurs med Karma Karuna, og vil fra hjertet anbefale et kurs med henne!

Med dybdekunnskap formidler hun med grundighet, nærvær og personlighet. Det at hun er direkte knyttet til Satyananda-tradisjonen gir kurs med henne en ekstra verdi for meg. Hun bygger bro mellom gammel indisk yoga-tradisjon og vår tid/sted på en unik måte.”

Viveka

Yogalærer

"Jeg deltok på Chakra Sadhana med Karma Karuna i fjor sommer. Det var ni fantastiske dager til stor inspirasjon, der vi fikk fordype oss i temaet gjennom blant annet fysisk yoga, pust og filosofi.

Jeg opplevde Karma Karuna som en varm, empatisk og tilgjengelig lærer, som virkelig ser hver enkelt og gir av seg selv. En opplevelse jeg vil anbefale på det varmeste."

Åse Lærø

Yogalærer, eier av Verket Yoga

“Karma Karuna er en yogalærer i særklasse med unik formidlingsevne, en varm og åpen personlighet, humor og undervisningsglede. Jeg fikk et stort personlig utbytte av retreaten samtidig som jeg hentet ny inspirasjon til bruk i min egen yogaundervisning. Chakra Sadhana kurset tilfredstilte mange behov; både tid for å utføre den omfattende yogapraksisen og det å dykke dypere inn i yogaens teori.”