Women’s Mental Health Yoga Retreat
September 3 - September 8
Spark the inner fire for renewal and purpose
5-Day Yoga Retreat Led by Ajeet Khalsa
With Ellen Spivak, guest artist and teacher
Retreat Cost: $500
Plus accommodations.
Are you ready for some time away in nature? Is it about time you and your inner artist and healer got together for a week to play and pray? Join long-time yogini and artist Ajeet Khalsa and Ellen Spivak for 5 days in northern Maine enjoying lakes, rivers, hikes and daily yoga sojourns.
Highlights
- Silent Meditation
- Daily Morning and Evening Yoga Flow
- Farm to table breakfast, lunch, dinner-Vegetarian/Vegan
- Holistic healing workshops
- Reiki sessions
- Daily sojourns in nature with an easy drive to lakes and rivers
- Therapeutic Svaroopa yoga, Hatha, Vinyasa
- Forest hiking, mountain treks, waterfalls
This Labor Day mental health retreat welcomes all levels of yoga practitioners and anyone identifying as a women, lgbtq++ friendly. Sewall House is a home of healing; set in a small town, you’ll find yourself transported to quiet, self-directed practices each morning and evening that promises to nurture and nourish your body, your heart-space and most importantly, your mental health and well being. The retreat also features two concentrated holistic workshops for professionals, yoga and school teachers including innovative ways to sharpen your problem-solving skills through the process of Acceptance and Integration.
“What happens is that once a problem is resolved through acceptance and integration,
we experience a greater awareness…this makes it easy to access the greater ease of being.”
Retreat Schedule
Sunday, September 3rd
2:00pm- Arrive and settle in
5:30pm to 7:00pm Opening Circle of Intentions
7:00pm Evening Meal
Monday, September 4th
7:30am Silent Meditation on the River
8:00am Vinyasa Yoga Practice
9:45am Breakfast
11:30am Journaling, Creative play
2:00pm Picnic Lunch
3:00pm Free time and Healing Sessions **
5:30pm Yoga Flow
7:00pm Evening meal
Tuesday, September 5th & Wednesday, September 6th
– The Self-Healing Journey
7:30am Silent Meditation on the River
8:00am Vinyasa Yoga Practice
9:45am Breakfast
11:30-1:30pm
Workshop Intensive: Listen and heal from within
Bring deeper awareness to inner conflicts to reach your true being with open mindfulness techniques, Japa mantra and deep listening in pairs. After coming to a serene place of inner stillness, we’ll discuss in groups how to bring this inner healing back to your work/home/relationships.
11:30-1:30pm
Workshop Intensive: Allowing the sacred voices to be heard
Learn how to listen deeply to your inner voices and find a way to express them. Looking at both ‘good and bad’ outcomes, we learn to discern a way to hold both as true in our problem-solving and decision making. Using holistic processes, drawing and singing, we come home.
2:00pm Lunch
3:30pm to 5:30pm Healing Sessions **
5:30pm-7:00pm Slow Bliss yoga practice
7:00-8:30pm Evening Meal
Thursday, September 7th – The Healing power of Nature
7:30 Silent Meditation at the River
8:00-9:30am Slow Flow Yoga Vinyasa
9:45am Breakfast
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Nature Reintegration Day in the woods and streams
Choose a hike to magical waterfalls, deep into the forest, taking time for a picnic in the woods, or take a sack lunch and head out on a kayak for a sojourn on Lake Matawamkeag. In this recoup day, we allow ourselves a spacious silence to appreciate all the work we’ve done and enjoy ourselves in nature.
5:30pm-7:00pm: Yoga Nidra relaxation
7:00-8:30pm Evening Meal
Friday, September 8th Departure Day
7:30am Silent Meditation on the River
8:00am Vinyasa Yoga Practice
9:45am Breakfast and Departures
The Women’s Mental Health Yoga Retreat includes all meals, all yoga classes, nature outings and workshop intensives. Taxes and Airfare not included. Massages and Private sessions are an additional fee. Sewall House Accommodations are not included.
**Self-Care Healing Sessions must be booked in advance
- Deep Tissue Massage: $100/60 $150/90 min
- Karuna Yoga & Reiki: $110/60
About Ajeet Khalsa
Ajeet is a yoga teacher and mom, Reiki healer and holistic-process counselor. She has been leading and training professionals in healing journeys and yogic modalities since1997. She began studies with the Svaroopa Vidya Ashram in 2012, is an E-RYT Teacher-Trainer with Sewall House and is a registered Yoga Alliance Children’s Yoga Teacher. Her book Color Me Yoga is available on Lulu Press. She loves trees.
About Svaroopa©yoga and Hatha Yoga
During the week retreat, you’ll learn Svaroopa© yoga, a simple and slow yogic practice that helps you to release your spine and apply these deeper release to your whole life. Svaroopa® yoga is Hatha yoga, with self-effort involved. This is a path of both self-effort and grace, says Swami Nirmalananda, founder of Svaroopa. Self-effort is very important: you must apply yourself to the practices. Yet, on a path of Grace, you have to remember to make space for something more to happen. This is what Svaroopa yoga excels at and why it is the best yoga for retreat, especially for the mental health relief it provides.
Book your room today.