Welcome to awaken your body, to listen deeply and to meet yourself.
Welcome to curiously explore your inner and outer nature, their liquid edges, and to tap into the flow within.
Welcome to be in awe of the Web of Life that we will be weaving through movement, breath and deep rest.
Breathworker, yoga teacher Sanni Parkkinen and dance artist, yoga teacher Anna Thu Schmidt join forces, and invite you to a journey through your inner landscape.
The retreat is a unique combination of yoga, breathwork, dance improvisation, Shake the Dust, and sound journey. The varied weekend program ensures that you leave recharged, grounded and inspired!
On this retreat we do very practical nervous system work. Principles of resourcing, orienting, yielding and softness will function as the foundation of our movement and breathwork practices. Elements of nature will be our guides. Some theory is included, focus is on practice.
We do not practice from the need to do more. We allow more. More life, more softness, more strength, more presence, more stillness, more flow. More healthy range to be HONEST with yourself.
Unfiltered, unmasked, unedited, fully alive. Authentic. Feeling all of it. Life’s full spectrum. And at the same time leaning onto such stable and nourishing support that all of it will not be too much. We will be moving through landscapes, themes, ideas, and the real felt sense of what life tastes like. Movement becomes your language, breath becomes your teacher.
The way you move is the way you move through life. The way you breathe often carries invaluable lessons about your relationship with yourself. When we meet ourselves at this sacred intersection of movement and breath, an effortless reorganisation starts to take place. Things move through and fall into place. Tensions are softened. Resistance melts away. We can rest deeply. Not because we need it, but because it is part of our nature.
And so we travel. So we travel back to the truth. Back to presence. Back to the body.
To sum it up: Elemental Flow Retreat is a celebration of life-affirming practices: yoga, breathwork, dance and somatics. Every day has a theme, every practice has a purpose. Aliveness is a big one. Awakening the body to effortlessly flow through the stream of life. There will be lots of calm practices in addition to the ones that are more active, awakening.
Breathe and move
to open the pathways for creativity
to allow more softness
to tap into the inner rhythms and resonance
to practice and widen your range of regulation - nervous system’s capacity to digest life
to sense the ever-flowing fluidity of everything coming and going
to practice presence and feel it in your bones
to truly listen
PROGRAM
Friday 13.6.: Landing & Grounding
Arrive by 17.00
17:30 Opening circle (Anna & Sanni)
18:00 Breathwork (Sanni)
19:00 Dinner
20:30 Sound Bath with Monochord (Anna)
Saturday 14.6.: Inner and outer landscapes
8:00 Meditation (Anna)
8:30 Hatha Yoga Flow (Anna)
9:30 Breakfast
11:30 Breathwork (Sanni)
13:30 Lunch
15:30 Movement Journey in Nature (Anna)
17:30 Free time
19:00 Dinner
20:30 Sound Journey (Sanni)
Sunday 15.6.: Connection
8:00 Shake the Dust - Flow (Sanni)
9:30 Breakfast
11:30 Connections - Contact Impro (Anna)
13:30 Lunch
15:00 Closing session (Anna & Sanni)
16:30 Goodbyes
A charming historical site on Tautra island welcomes you to explore your inner and outer nature. Indoor yoga and breathwork classes will be at Tautratun samfunnshus, a short walk from Klostergården. If weather allows, dance workshops will be held outside to deepen the nature connection.
Klostergården has much space to retreat and spend time alone during the free time.
To arrive, you can take a train to Åsen. From Åsen there is a bus to Frosta. We can arrange a pick-up from Frosta. Most likely there are cars driving from and back to Trondheim, so sharing would be possible!
Klostergården Tautra, Klostergårdsvegen 92, 7633 Frosta, Norway
Cost & Registration
NOK 5750
The cost includes retreat program, accommodation & food (breakfast, lunch and dinner) at Klostergården Tautra. The cost (for locals) without food and accommodation is NOK 2500. Food can in that case be bought separately.
Although there is a brewery on the site, we recommend an alcohol-free retreat experience.
Accommodation is in private rooms (single). If you wish to share with someone, let us know. Toilets and shower facilities are shared for each building.
Registration closes on May 15th. Deposit payment of NOK 1500 secures your spot in the retreat. The deposit is non-refundable in all circumstances (sickness etc.). In case you are not able to participate and find someone else instead of you, the deposit payment can be transferred to cover that person’s retreat cost.
Final payment (retreat price - deposit) will be due June 1st (1.6.)
What To Bring & Other Useful Information
Comfortable clothes to move in indoors and outdoors
Yoga mat
Extra warm clothes and blanket, eye mask if needed
Water bottle
Notebook and pen for journaling
All practices can be modified to your needs. Note that the retreat includes lots of movement as well as resting in lying down position. If you want extra comfort, consider bringing an own bolster, meditation cushion and/or a few blankets.
The retreat will be taught in English. Everything can be clarified in Norwegian.
If you have any questions, please email to sanni(a)mindgrit.no
Meet the Team
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Anna Thu Schmidt is a dance artist with a passion for improvisation, interdisciplinary projects, site-specific performances, and integrated dance. Anna draws inspiration from nature and wants to share her fascination for the ocean through performances, workshops and retreats.
Anna completed a Hatha Yoga teacher training (200h) at Balance Mind Body Soul in Yogyakarta/Indonesia and has additional training in Yin Yoga, Flying Yoga, Accessible Yoga, Healing Dance (aquatic bodywork), and feeltone Sound Massage. Sound meditation is an indispensable part of her yoga practice. Her companion is the feeltone Monochord. Anna offered Hatha Yoga in collaboration with sound healer Galih Naga Seno in Surakarta/Indonesia, and arranged day retreats with Yoga, Movement and Sound in Germany. In Trondheim, she taught accessible Yoga via Trondheim Kommune Kulturenheten and Yogaswing at Zenit Yoga. Anna also leads ImproDans Trondheim and Contemporary Dance for Adults, offers workshops in contact improvisation and WaterContact and started up PRAXIS Trondheim and Ecstatic Dance in Trondheim.
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Breath wizard, E-RYT 500h yoga teacher, somatic coach
Sanni Parkkinen is experienced breathing educator, breath worker, somatic coach and E-RYT 500h yoga teacher.
In her work, Sanni focuses on nervous system health, breath and respecting the wisdom of the body through curious explorations. She has a deeply intuitive yet rational understanding of the human system, realms of experiences and metaphysics of nature. She is a shamanic vocal work practitioner and drum worker. Her big passion is to explore the convergences of latest research and ancient wisdom.
Sanni's Breathing Unlimited™ approach to breathing & movement work is multidisciplinary, drawing inspiration from various modalities: Integrative Breathing Therapy, Buteyko Method, Breathwork, Taoism, Somatic Experiencing, Body-Mind Centering®, Movement Intelligence, Feldenkrais, Hatha, Tantra & Vijnana Yoga and various body-oriented therapy modalities.More about her background and education can be read HERE.