9 Day Ayahuasca Retreat: Yoga Intensive
November 22 - 30, 2019
This retreat is designed for yoga enthusiasts who are interested in the combination of a comprehensive yoga program and traditional Amazonian plant-based healing practices. The integration of these two ancient pathways to healing and self-discovery offers a powerful opportunity for lasting transformation.
During this retreat, you will be guided by yoga teacher Marta Wanderlust-Banick, two Temple facilitators, and one female Shipibo maestra and one male Shipibo maestro from our amazing team of healers. This retreat will combine 4 intimate ayahuasca ceremonies for groups limited to 12 people only with a comprehensive yoga program during the daytime.
The combination of intensive yoga and ayahuasca healing creates an extraordinary synergy where dedicated participants can accelerate their own learning, personal growth, healing, spiritual awakening and integrative process. The Temple of the Way of Light has significant experience over the last 5 years working with unique and highly qualified yoga teachers who not only bring their individual gifts and proven teaching methods but who have extensive personal experience working with ayahuasca in a responsible and sacred way.
Yoga literally means “to yoke” or “join.” It is a path of integration, uniting the personal, individual self with the Universal Self. The aim of the practice of yoga is the movement from a state of separation towards that of our inherent connectedness, or from dualism towards non-dualism. Similarly, ayahuasca also potentializes our capacity to dissolve boundaries of separation and access the states of deep connection and unified “beingness” that are the very aims of yoga.
Ayahuasca can reveal and unlock the subtle realms of energetic experience described in some of the most ancient yogic texts, assisting the yoga practitioner to deeply anchor his/her practice into embodied experience. Yoga teaches us to inhabit our bodies and to become increasingly aware of the life-force within and around us. Through this awareness we develop the capacity to sense where and when the energy within us is not flowing freely and we become empowered to dissolve blockages as well as to consciously invite and conduct life-force-energy to serve the natural intelligence within us.
By bringing the millennial science and art of yoga into working with the vast, natural intelligence of the plant realm we have the opportunity to understand and feel the essential design, effects and benefits of yoga at a much deeper and more expansive level than we might otherwise attain with ordinary awareness.
Ayahuasca works in a similar way, enhancing our natural energetic sensitivity and helping us to identify blockages in our bodies and subtle energy systems. Ayahuasca often also facilitates intuitive, self-corrective movement, guiding us to move and breathe in ways that assist us in balancing the flow of prana within us. Ayahuasca can be invaluable in connecting us to a spontaneous “inner yoga” that is born of increased sensitivity and awareness.
In our experience, the integration of ayahuasca and yoga have greatly supported our guests to access states of deep inner sensitivity. We have found that the medicine greatly assists in accessing the higher levels of awareness cultivated by yoga, helping the practitioner to have greater body consciousness, an inner understanding of posture and anatomy, increased sensitivity to subtle energy and energy meridians, and an increased capacity to concentrate and focus the mind. The combination of ayahuasca and yoga can facilitate outstanding healing outcomes including lasting mental clarity, a more balanced lifestyle, and an overall sense of wellbeing.
Category : Yoga Intensive