Summer Retreat in Sweden
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Thursday 30th May – Monday 3rd June 2024
5-day / 4-night retreat at the beautiful Narumi Retreat Centre in Sweden
This retreat is an opportunity to reconnect with yourself, away from all the noise and distractions of daily life. Come to clear and nourish your body through the practices of yoga, qigong, and meditation. Taste and enjoy healthy, nourishing food. Explore the journey with people as you connect in new and deep ways. Enjoy the peace, harmony, laughter and beauty in nature all around. In this retreat, we allow our minds to gravitate back towards its natural, effortless and peaceful state, with our body, energies and spirit feeling renewed.
Narumi Retreat Centre
The retreat takes place at the beautiful Narumi Retreat Centre, in the forest of northern Uppland in Sweden. The centre consists of a lush garden, a purpose-built yoga studio, a cosy timber guest house, and an outdoor spa area – all surrounded by nature and forest.
There are a few different types of accommodation available at the centre. The mezzanine loft in the main studio has 4 beds, with 2 additional bedrooms for 2 and 3 people. In the nearby guesthouse, there are 5 beds arranged on the second floor for sleeping. All beds are single in size. A tent is also available for those who want a more outdoor experience.
The Itinerary
The retreat is designed with just the right mixture of guided practices and space for your own exploration and transformation. There will be a program of sessions each day and you are welcome to attend as many of these as you wish. The retreat is led by 3 co-facilitators who are on-hand throughout the retreat to support and guide you in your experiences. Our attitudes, as teachers and guides, are to be supportive and open for your journey here at Narumi centre.
We will nourish mind, body and spirit through practices of yoga, qigong, non-dual meditation, and breathwork, with free time for reflection, exploration, and rest. There will be the opportunity for reiki and oracle card sessions during free time to assist in your journey, and a trip to a local lake for a swim. Evenings are spent around the campfire or in the hot-tub, and on two evenings there will be a guided kirtan session and a sound experience.
We hope you enjoy your time here at the Narumi centre for the Santosha Rose retreat. We look forward to meeting you and being a part of your journey, as you are ours.
Thursday 30th May 2024
- 14:00 – Arrival and settling in
- 15:30 – Yoga for Grounding
- 17:00 – Opening Ceremony & Simran meditation
- 19:00 – Dinner
- 20:30 – Gentle qigong and relaxation
Friday 31st May 2024
- 07:30 – Morning yoga flow and breathwork
- 09:00 – Breakfast
- 10:30 – Free time or reiki session
- 12:00 – Simran meditation
- 13:00 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Afternoon at the lake
- 19:00 – Dinner
- 20:30 – Kirtan
Saturday 1st June 2024
- 07:30 – Chakra balancing yoga
- 09:00 – Breakfast
- 10:30 – Free time or reiki session
- 12:00 – Simran meditation
- 13:00 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Free time or reiki session
- 17:00 – Qigong flow
- 19:00 – Dinner
- 20:30 – Sound bath
Sunday 2nd June 2024
- 07:30 – Morning qigong flow and breathwork
- 09:00 – Breakfast
- 10:30 – Free time or reiki session
- 12:00 – Simran meditation
- 13:00 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Free time or reiki session
- 17:00 – Yin and Yoga Nidra
- 19:00 – Dinner
- 20:30 – Simran meditation and hot-tub
Monday 3rd June 2024
- 07:30 – Morning qigong flow
- 09:00 – Tea and fruit
- 09:30 – Simran meditation and closing ceremony
- 11:00 – Conscious brunch
- 12:00 – Departure
What’s included
- 4 nights’ accommodation
- 4 x breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Snacks, fruit, tea, juice
- Pick up and drop off at train station
- 6 sessions of meditation with Navid
- 2 sessions of breathwork with Navid
- 4 yoga sessions with Sam
- 4 qigong sessions with Kris
- 1 hour of reiki with Sam or Kris
- Evening Kirtan and Sound Bath
What’s not included
- Air travel to Sweden
- Trains from Arlanda Airport to Tobo train station
- Additional accommodation before/after the retreat
- Travel insurance
Getting there
The Retreat is approximately 60-minutes on the train from Arlanda Airport, Stockholm. The retreat includes pick-up and drop off at Tobo train station. Train tickets are approximately £20 each way from the airport to Tobo train station (slight variation with exchange rate) and run regularly throughout the day.
Teachers
Sam Alexander-Vasey
Sam is a yoga teacher, immersive workshop leader, reiki practitioner, mentor and coach. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance and completed her initial yoga teacher training at a beautiful residential training school in Rishikesh. She is particularly interested in exploring how yogic principles, practices and lifestyle can be used in the West as a way of creating greater peace, fulfilment, belonging and joy in a world that sometimes feels set up to put these things perpetually just beyond our reach.
Kris Dudley
Kris has been interested in health, movement and energy since he was young. He spent many years training in karate before becoming interested in diet, nutrition and body-weight training. As an adult, he began to explore meditation, yoga and mindfulness, and discovered qigong in 2019. As a student of qigong, he learned from many different teachers, deciding to train as an instructor to share this wonderful and versatile practice with others. Kris is also a reiki practitioner and has recently began training in sound healing. Kris is open, funny, and warm-hearted, with a wide range of things he enjoys such as the arts, philosophy, science and exploration of the natural world.
Navid Zargham
Navid is the founder of Simran Meditation and Narumi Retreat Centre and has been leading retreats for more than 3 years. He teaches non-duality and meditation weekly at a Ayäm Studio in Stockholm as well as online through Insight timer. Navid has a genuine interest in the vaster and deeper dimensions of life which our current society tend to ignore or even dismiss. He has travelled extensively and has passionately explored the various cultures in their approach towards health and happiness.