Harmonize Retreat with Marc Holzman & Tara Judelle

24/06/2023

-01/07/2023

Harmonize Retreat with Marc Holzman & Tara Judelle

Whether you are one of our retreat Alumni or have been postponing this gift to yourself for a few years, we invite you to join us once again or for the very first time to watch the magical sunrise in the east morph into the glowing sunset in the west.  The famous liquid glow of Grecian light is sublime.

In over 15 years that we have been co-creating retreat experiences, never has the urge to commune and support one another felt more destined. And while we often call our gatherings a RETREAT, they are actually more of an ADVANCE  because we have remained loyal to our one common vision: to advance our students towards a deeper level of self-discovery through the power of movement, shared wisdom, meditation, and attunement with nature.

It all happens at the Okreblue retreat center on the spectacular island of Paros.

Our prior retreat students often tell us that we over-deliver; this is a badge of honor that we wear proudly!  Our days begin with sunrise mantra on the beach followed by guided meditation, dynamic movement through traditional yoga and Embodied Flow™️ somatic, Ayurveda lectures, and Nidra sessions.

Marc continues to build on his Ayurvedic knowledge to include the potent and healing essential oils of medicinal plants in combination with Yoga Nidra. Tara continues to explore methods for guiding people into meditation in motion through asana, free movement, and embryological and developmental patterning within Yin Yoga.

We are excited to share our new discoveries with you.

Of course, you’ll also enjoy nearly five free hours daily in which to swim in the pristine, Cycladic, turquoise sea, play in the sun, visit ancient towns and ruins, or simply journal and take long naps.  And let’s not forget our extraordinary Indian chef, Suresh, who graces us daily with fresh, organic, vegetarian dishes harvested directly from the Okreblue garden.

Whether you are one of our retreat Alumni or have been postponing this gift to yourself for a few years, we invite you to join us once again or for the very first time to watch the magical sunrise in the east morph into the glowing sunset in the west.  The famous liquid glow of Grecian light is sublime.

This is how you synchronize your body/mind to the rhythms of nature.

This is where deep rejuvenation begins.

This is why we return.

Come celebrate with us.

Marc & Tara

SCHEDULE

The retreat starts at 5 pm on the first day will conclude at 10 am on the last day.
(Check-in will be 2:00 pm June 24th and check-out 12:00 pm July 1st)

Please find a sample schedule below and note this is to give you an indication only.  Finer details will be confirmed closer to the time.

7:00 – 8:00 – Meditation, Pranayama

8:00 – 8.30 – Light Snack

8:30 – 10:30 – Dynamic yoga

10:30 – 11.30 – Brunch

11.30 – 5.00 – Free time

5:00 – 6.30 – Nidra/Restorative yoga

7:00 – Onwards – Dinner

PRICING

Superior Rooms

$1949 USD Superior Twin Room + Brunch & Dinner, per person

$2349USD Single Superior Room + Brunch & Dinner

SOLD OUT AppartmentTo see the appartments please have look here

Two person minimum occupancy

$2199 – Mistral (sleeps up to 3) + Brunch & Dinner, per person

Room Share Policy:

When booking a shared room while traveling alone, we will do our best to couple you with another same-sex participant that is traveling solo too. In case this is not possible, you will be required to upgrade to a single room. People are coupled based on the order in which bookings come in. So when you book early, there is a high chance that you can share the room with another participant.

FOOD

The training includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. The meals are vegan and vegetarian. Please indicate on your application any dietary restrictions or food allergies. All meals are served at Coretta Cafe, prepared by head chef Angelo. Most ingredients come directly from Okreblue’s gardens.

PHOTOS

Tara Judelle & Marc Holzman

Tara Judelle
My own journey, like most seekers, was one that started with a search for wholeness and the need to alleviate my from my own suffering.

In hindsight the angst that started in my early teens, was, more than anything I could point to, a sense of fundamental longing that comes with our human birth. The one of feeling separate and alienated by the thought constructs of our individual mind.

I practiced guided meditation on cassette tapes. I ran. I looked for God. I found relieve in movement, in dance, in theater, in art, in writing. While I studied extensively and found ways to translate the language of formlessness into form through those mediums there was an underlying connective state I was still in search of. The search took me through University in New York, and to drama school in North Carolina, I still had the underlying anxiousness of what the yoga would call “the mind stuff”.

Where these mediums coalesce/intersect and create the bi-direction spectrum of the Self is through the medium of yoga.

Looking for a language that didn’t require actors, an audience, I found a friend practicing asanas. She gave me a book with stick figures and I started practicing in my room. I moved to Los Angeles in 1997, and took my first official yoga class as an adult in a gym. Afterwards I promptly quit the gym and followed the yoga teacher.

For the next four years, as I struggled as a writer in Hollywood, I found a class once or twice a day. I was writing screenplays, and ultimately wrote and directed a feature film, but yoga had become my obsession.

For the past 20 years I have relentlessly pursued the deeper meanings of yoga. With asana as a gateway, I stepped into philosophy (specifically the non-dual northern based philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism) as taught to me by my teachers Sally Kempton, Carlos Pomeda and Paul Muller Ortega. As well as the Sri Vidya southern based goddess tradition with Douglas Brooks.

From Sally Kempton I studied and practice meditation in earnest. I shed many many layers.

In 2008, desperate to take my understanding of the body infinitely deeper than asana, I found the world of Body Mind Centering®, and have since studied with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Amy Matthews and Myra Avedon who unpacked the world of somatics as ways of bringing the felt since of the three-dimensional body to the broader meaning of the technology of tantra.

The pursuit is always harnessed by my desire to bring the tantric technology to life through the body, not just in meditation but in movement, action ,and group mind.

My teaching and practice were based in Los Angeles, until 2010, I moved to Bali exclusively for 2 years, and from 2012 I have traveled the world offering trainings, workshops, immersions and retreats.

In 2014, I founded the School of Embodied Flow™ with my co-creator Dr. Scott Lyons, who I met through the world of Body Mind Centering®. Together we wanted as a way to bring together the technologies of somatics, tantra, psychology and yoga into a continuum of movement and mindfulness to awaken our whole Self.

We now have taught students from over 50 countries, and have a teaching network of 20 certified teachers and more than 20 inspired teachers in Embodied Flow™.

Marc Holzman
As a pioneer for deep change, Marc has dedicated most of his own life to unraveling this great mystery. An avid Truth-seeker and playful risk-taker, Marc is passionate about refining the art of living and empowering his students to do the same.

Marc is a certified Ayurveda practitioner and Amrit Yoga Nidra teacher with over 18 years’ experience teaching Hatha Yoga and Meditation. He currently lives in both L.A. and Paris for greater access to the workshops, teacher trainings, and retreats he teaches across the globe. He can also be found across the ethers via his many classes streamed on Yogaglo.com. His signature Ayurveda health coaching program, Evolutionary Habits, has been accelerating the wellness path of students since 2012.

Ten years ago, Marc founded Guerilla Yogi, a donation-based community class, to encourage students of all economic circumstances to experience the joy of yoga. Guerilla Yogi continues to thrive in Paris where it has gained tremendous momentum.

Because Marc firmly believes that the highest form of teaching is leading by example, he strives to live with integrity and kindness. And laughter. Always laughter.

BOOKING THIS RETREAT

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