Embody the Flow Retreat With Tara Judelle

09/07/2023

-16/07/2023

Embody the Flow Retreat With Tara Judelle

EMBODY THE FLOW RETREAT ALL LEVELS YOGA, MOVEMENT AND MEDITATION RETREAT

A week to submerge into the landscape of embodying the doorways to flow.

In positive psychology, a flow state is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting loss in one’s sense of space and time.  This is what the yogi’s call being immersed in the fourth state, the meditative state of awareness.

We seek to find doorways into the immersive state of awareness through access points in our body/mind in order to enter into states of flow.  Using meditation, inquiry, asana and free movement, this retreat is designed to help return us to our natural state of flow.

I will return for the 8th year to one of my home bases, Okreblue retreat center on the spectacular island of Paros.

Your days will begin with guided meditation, followed by asana and free movement.

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 Okreblue’s extraordinary Indian chef, Suresh, who graces us daily with fresh, organic, vegetarian dishes harvested directly from the Okreblue garden.

I invite you to join 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 where we Embody Flow.

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 July 9th and check-out 12:00 pm July 16th.)
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, Journaling
8:00 – 8.30            Light Snack
8:30 – 10:30           Dynamic yoga and somatic movement explorations
10:30 – 11.30          Brunch
11.30 – 5.00            Free time
• 5:00 – 6.30            Restorative practices
• 7:00 – Onwards    Dinner

PRICING

Superior Rooms

$1699 USD Shared Superior Room + Brunch & Dinner, per person

$2099USD Single Superior Room + Brunch & Dinner

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 immersion includes brunch 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

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™.

BOOKING THIS RETREAT

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