Womans Retreat with Swami Karma Karuna
Welcome to an exclusive small womans retreat at Trautskogen in Nord-Odal. Due to covid-19 we only have 7 spots. Swami Karma Karuna has the unique background both trained in a traditional ashram environment and also being a mother, a wife and running her own business. This enables her to relate to women of todays lives backed up by years of ashram training and supported by her studies in psycology.
Yoga and Sacred Feminine
Explore the archetypes of the Goddess in her different forms, Durga the transformative force, Laxmi the abudant quality, Saraswati the emobodiment of wisdom and other forms that connect one to their own innate qualities. Join a supportive circle of women to connect with the Goddess within. Use yoga, pranayama, meditation, mantra and yantra to expand and liberate the potential Shakti (inner force).
Yoga and Women’s Health
From fertility to positive body image, yoga and meditation tools can bring so many amazing benefits to a woman’s health and well-being. Males and females are built differently and also carry distinctive emotional and mental imprints, therefore it's important to be able to tailor yoga to each gender. Delve into the theory and practices designed for women to balance and optimize the physical, mental and emotional aspects of their unique bodies at different stages of life. Learn self-nurturing and energising techniques, explore a women’s natural cycles and gain ability to apply this inspiration to your own life.
In this retreat, we look at some yogic management techniques related to health and wellbeing issues for women including areas such as menopause, menstrual irregularities, blocked emotion and other angles depending on students in the class.
- Asanas (postures for the female anatomy and emotions)
- Bandhas (pelvic floor and core exercises)
- Mudras (gestures to conserve and raise energy)
- Pranayama (breath techniques to balance and calm the mind)
- Meditation (tools for coping during life’s challenges)
- Mantra & yantra (tools for removing blockages and move the energy, see Kali yantra and Durga yantra images above)
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 in Norway 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.
Retreat Place
Trautskogen is a small place one hour north of Oslo, in the middle of the forrest. The guest house does not have running water so be prepared to live simple with an outdoor toilet and campingshower. The yoga room is newly fixed up and has all equipment needed for the practice.
Accomodation
Accomodation is simple. The guest house has three bedrooms, in addition we have a campervan in the garden and we are borrowing our nabours “stabbur” -it is the same as a little cottage.
You will get a single room unless you are traveling with someone, then you can share a room.
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 one hour Karma Yoga a day, the task may be cleaning, chopping vegetables, doing dishes or setting up the table for the next meal.
Food
All meals are included in the price of the retreat. We can accomodate for allergies or food intollerance, just let us know in advance. All food is vegetarian, but we do use dairy and eggs. Let us know if you are vegan -we can cater for that. We focus on local and organic produce as far as is possible and we use some of the products from the farm, like eggs, honey, some herbs and vegetables.
Schedule
08.00 - 09.30 Morning Class with Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha, Mantra & Meditation
09.45 - 10.15 Breakfast
10.30 - 12.30 Theory, Yoga Nidra and Meditation
12.45 - 16.00 Lunch and free time
16.00 - 18.00 Theory, restorative yoga & / havan (fire ceremony)
19.00 Dinner
The schedule is subject to change. First session is 16.00 - 18.00 on Thursday and we end the retreat on Sunday 15.30 - 16.00 with a closing circle.
Subjects for the theory session:
restorative practices
nurturing ourselves
body perceptions
samskaras as woman
different needs at different stages of life
health issues
sleep hygiene
the vagus nerve.
Investment
Price for the full retreat with all teaching, small printed info to take home, food and accomodation in a single room is 6.490,- kr. If you travel with someone you know you can share a room and pay 5.490,-.
You pay 1.000,- kr when booking and the rest is due in April.
On the video you get a presentation of Anahata Yoga Retreat in New Zealand, but also an impression of Karma Karuna.