Transformative Bodywork Retreat Poland

A 6-day nature & healing retreat with daily 1:1 Holistic Bodywork & Transformation Work in group setting

Dance in the mystery of life - in your own body. Remember the safety in your bones, access memory in your waters, experience clarity in your mind and activate energy to walk your life in beauty.

This 6-day program offers a holistic approach to transforming physical symptoms, limiting thoughts, belief systems, or overwhelming emotions, by addressing your body, emotions, and mind. The combination of receiving daily 1:1 Transformative Bodywork sessions over the course of several days with accompanying group sessions of integration practices makes this specific format so powerful.

You work on your personal story of transformation, and you are also held and supported by the circle of humans who are entering this work all together. Our group work during this retreat consists of Fluent Body group sessions in the mornings, releasing tension and warming the energy for the day, (expect your heart dancing!) and sessions of evening yoga with guided relaxations to integrate the day and your 1:1 session. Expect relaxing and deepening practices of restorative yoga, yin yoga and mythic, trance-state inducing yoga nidra along with supporting embodied rituals to open and ground your process of the day.

This format can be a great introduction to the universe of somatic healing and a fresh start to address topics of your life with a somatic approach. If you already have experience with somatic therapy, this can be a great dive into a deeper exploration. Open to all who are willing to reconnect, to be vulnerable, to learn and to take responsibility for this life.

The flow of the retreat

Guided by the sounds of nature, we will begin the mornings in silence. We gather in the cozy wooden Maloka or meet by the lakefront outside, for a full body morning practice of Fluent Body guided by Masha. Like this, your day may unfold with a topic, an intention, an inspiration for our days  of connecting with life force.

After a homemade breakfast under the trees or in the cozy woodhouse kitchen, you will receive your 1:1 Transformative Bodywork session personally by one of the retreat facilitators in the Maloka or Tipi and you will receive personal guidance to expand the work of your session in the coming hours. In the afternoon you have time off to enjoy walks around the lake or in the forest. If you are in the afternoon sessions group, you have time for yourself in nature in the morning and will be receiving your individual Bodywork session in the afternoon.

For lunch and dinner, we meet for healthy meals (vegetarian options included). As daylight fades, evenings bring us together for rich somatic integration and sharing circles to go deeper into connection and relaxation and restoration. We journey deeper into our sense of being guided by mythic yoga nidra, sounds and music.

The retreat closes with a special ritual: the Sweatlodge ceremony to close our experience in prayer, grounding our learnings, and preparing us for the journey ahead.

We are part of a huge and intelligent web of life, and through this work, we remember our part and place in it. Holistic Bodywork is a way to explore elemental connection through breath, touch and presence.

Create wisdom that is needed for this world in transition.

The pillars of this retreat

1:1 Transformative Bodywork is the main pillar of this retreat, we could call it the heart-piece. During the 1:1 sessions with one of retreat facilitators, you will learn about your life and thought patterns, the design of your trauma, and meet your fears and dreams. You may allow yourself to fall, to feel, to be with it all and shape a new reality.

Fluent Body is a specific method guided by Masha that combines movement and somatic exploration as effortless and fluid movement. The method is a practice of creative movement, rhythm, and breathing to connect with the body and mind, break through limitations, and foster self-acceptance and emotional exploration.

Yoga informed by somatic schools is a methodology that Jana uses to enter the wisdom of the body through the wisdom of traditional yoga and modern, research-based somatic schools. In these ways, you will manage to release tension, to build stamina, and to land in the here and now.

Yoga Nidra is an ancient technology used by many animist traditions to restore body and mind thus promoting longevity. Taking shape as a guided relaxation practice, this method brings systematic awareness to all parts of the body, inducing a state of deep rejuvenation that shifts brain wave activity from active beta waves to slower, more meditative alpha and theta waves. A state of trance and deep clarity can occur.

Sweatlodge Ceremony is a way to offer gratitude, to reconnect to the elements and to pray for the path ahead. We could say that it's an ancient sauna ritual to purify guided by the sacred geometry of the universe and chants.

Who is it for?

People who want to come for an intensive deep dive, connect to nature, and the elements within.

Women and men who feel the world shifting and want practices that help them stay centered and grounded.

• People craving deep reconnection with their bodies, intuition, and inner wisdom.
• Those navigating big life transitions -identity changes, grief, burnout, transformation, new beginnings.
• Anyone seeking healing through presence, embodiment, and nature.
• People drawn to ancestral or earth-based practices, wanting to reconnect to ritual, community, and non-linear ways of knowing and feeling.

Schedule

Sunday, June 7
by 15:00 Arrival & Check-In
16:30 Welcome & Practicals
17:30 Homemade Dinner
18:30 Grounding Body Relaxation, Opening Circle & Yoga Nidra
20:30 Sauna or Bedtime

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, June 8/9/10
8:00-9:30 Fluent Body, Meditation & Talks9:30 Breakfast
10:30 - 13:30 1:1 Bodywork group 1 / nature & relax time group 2
13:30 Homemade Lunch
15:00 - 18:30 1:1 Bodywork group 2 / nature & relax time group 1
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Yoga informed by somatic schools, Yoga Nidra & Evening Inspiration Talks

Thursday, June 11
8:00 Light Breakfast
9:00 Beginning of Sweatlodge Ceremony
13:00 Homemade Lunch
16:00 Integrative, somatic group session
18:30 Homemade Dinner

Friday, June 12
8:30 Closing Body Practice & Ritual
11:00 Celebration brunch
Around 13:00 departures

Meet Co-Facilitator Masha Naumenko

Masha, born in Ukraine, spent 20+ years in New York CIty, and currently based in Berlin –  is a somatic practitioner, multidisciplinary educator, meditation, and Fluentbody™️ facilitator. Following a holistic approach, with a passion for embodied movement, she explores how to bridge understanding of oneself, people, and our environment more deeply through the body, nurturing our relationship to our innate nature. Her joy is to guide people into pathways of awareness of emotions and patterns, to create more freedom and connection with the natural rhythm of life. We move to remember our innermost joy. We return to the body to rediscover ways of improvisation – where life can easily flow through us once again.

Her work is rooted in Fluentbody, Transformative Bodywork (Somatic Therapy), Vocal Training, Osho Active Meditations & BodyMind Meditative Therapy, and Trauma-resourcing methods. Currently Masha teaches groups, one-to-one, workshops/retreats in Berlin as well as abroad.

Masha's website www.ma-riya.com/

Location, Accommodation and Investment

Location:

This retreat will be held at the nature reserve Silent Lake. More information on this enchanted space surrounded by wild forest and mystical lakes coming soon...

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Accommodation options:

Accommodation will be in shared, spacious and cozy wooden houses like the log house, lake house or tree house with individual beds and shared bathroom (spaces shared between 2-3 people). Single accommodation is possible in more simple, but private spaces, like the glamping bell tent or the caravan-turned-tiny-house.

Investment:

Full price for the retreat is 1625EUR
Includes accommodation, 3 meals a day, full program, and 3 individual Holistic Bodywork sessions & loving guidance by Jana and Masha. Also includes a personal pre-retreat call a week before the retreat with one of the therapists to speak about your intention for the program and retreat after-care. (breakdown: retreat only 999EUR, accommodation 375EUR, meals 250EUR)

Registration:

Please fill out this short questionnaire - and we will contact you to arrange for a 15min application call. if we mutually feel that it's a fit, we require a 350EUR deposit.

If you have questions prior to filling out the questionnaire, feel free to send us an email: jana@janatoepfer.com or mariya.naumenko@gmail.com

Limited spaces: 4-8 participants