Embodied Awakening: Yoga Immersion Days
Yoga days for shared transformation. Time out to explore and heal our deeper lives.
A full-day experiential journey into body, breath, heart, and awareness.
These immersion days are designed to offer you a space for slowing down, turning inward, and reconnecting with what is most alive within you. Through a carefully held sequence of embodied yoga, breathwork, guided reflection, meditation, and structured sharing, we explore a chosen theme as a lived experience rather than an idea.
Each day centres around a specific inquiry such as self-compassion, trust, boundaries, or inner connection. We begin by gently enquiring into the theme silently, within ouselves—how it shows up in our lives, where it feels easeful, and where it feels challenging. From there, we move into embodied yoga practices selected specifically to support the theme of the day. Practices that support grounding, openness, and inner sensitivity.
The Yoga posture practice will be followed by breath-led awareness and guided contemplative practice.
After a soothing tea break, there is space for reflection in pairs or small groups —allowing insights to deepen through speaking and listening. This is followed by facilitation and integration of the morning work.
A light lunch and break provides time for rest, connection, and informal conversation.
In the afternoon, we move into a guided profound inner journey process inspired by therapeutic inquiry practices, supporting deeper layers of awareness connection with hidden parts within, and emotional integration. This is followed by further partner sharing and group reflection, allowing the day’s experience to settle and become embodied understanding.
We close with a restorative practice such as yoga nidra or a guided healing visualisation, supporting the nervous system to soften and the day’s insights to integrate.
This is a space for sincere inner exploration, held with care and simplicity. It is suitable for those who feel drawn to personal growth, embodied practice, and reflective inquiry in a group setting. And for those new to this kind of inner work, who have been touched by the Heart of Ayurveda approach to Yoga and would like to move deeper into this approach.
Daily Itinerary
9.30am Introduction to the Day’s Theme: A Yoga Perspective
9.45am Embodied Yoga Practice – practices that allow us to experience and embody the day’s theme.
10.30am Guided contemplation and inner enquiry on the theme.
11.00am Tea break
11.30am Triad work – sharing insights from the Yoga and Contemplation practice in small groups.
12 noon Light lunch.
1.00pm Guided Inner Jourmey Practice – transforming cellular memory.
2.00pm Journaling insights
2.15pm Diad (pair work) -sharing insights and key takeaways from the guided inner journey.
2.40pm Sharing amongst the whole group – and time for questions about the practices and insights.
3.00pm tea break
3.30pm Guided Yoga nidra or healing visualisation inspired by the theme of hte day – to fully integrate our body, heart and mind with it.
4.00pm, closing of the retreat day, celebrating the insights and learning.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
You will learn – by experience:
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The capacity of Yoga posture to support our mental-emotional state and spiritual transformation.
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The key role of pranayama in shifting mind and heart.
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The true vastness and wisdom of your inner being, s you enter deep meditative states.
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The power of guided inner enquiry to support profound shifts within
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That the body holds memory which can be accessed, released and transformed – given the right guided processes.
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That your natural state is one of ease, wisdom and compassion
- The naturally transforming potency of journeying thorugh body, breath, energy, mind and emotions into the our inner depths. .
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“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Who Are These Day Retreats For?
These days are for those who feel drawn to slow down, turn inward, and explore their inner experience with honesty and care.
They are suited to those who are curious about the relationship between body, breath, mind, and awareness. You may already have a yoga or meditation practice, or you may simply feel a sense that there is something deeper you would like to connect with.
This is not about flexibility, performance, or getting anything “right.” Rather, it is a space for noticing, feeling, and allowing—at your own pace.
The day includes guided reflection and opportunities for sharing in pairs or small groups, so it is most supportive for those who want to share and experience their the awakenings they may experience with others, while always being free to honour their own boundaries.
Above all, these immersion days are for those who are interested in personal and spiritual growth in a grounded, embodied way—within a small, supportive group setting.
What You’ll Need
- Yoga clothes
- Yoga mat, meditation cushion, blanket.
- Notebook and pen
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Upcoming Dates:
Saturday May 9th, Satuday July 4th, Saturday September 5th, Saturday November 7th
Your Teacher
My name is Sara Palmer (Shama) and I am the founder of Heart of Ayurveda.
Inner enquiry, a transformational approach to Hatha Yoga practice, and meditation have long formed the basis of my spiritual practice.
I have studied and practiced various enquiry techniques over the past 25 years, and have been a dedicated practitioner of the classical approach to Hatha Yoga and Tantra Yoga for many years.
A meditation practice that puts me in touch with the depths of my own being, and the oneness of life becomes the flowering of all these practices.
As time moves on, and the awareness of life’s brevity becomes all too apparent in our increasingly precarious world, these practices and this transformation approach call to me ever more deeply.
As I was taught to always share or teach what I am practicing, because “there lies the shakti (the transformational potency)” , I want to offer these days to you.
DAY RETREAT INVESTMENT:
£45.00 PER DAY, £35 FOR CONCESSIONS.
““We are not just what we eat, we are what we digest and assimilate.”
