(No availability) 5 Day Awaken Your Enlightened Heart Women Retreat in Vuren, Gelderland

This women's yoga retreat includes breathwork to get rid of any emotional and mental trauma. White Lotus Retreats uses specific guided meditations, dynamic yoga, and sacred ceremonies to connect to the light of the heart and activate your living light-body. You are invited for midweek of discovering who you truly are and helping you remember your authentic natural beauty, the ever-present light that shines from the heart.

This women retreat in a uniquely creative and spiritual place in the Netherlands is about applying a heart-based way of life that creates an opportunity to live in a harmonic, loving, compassionate, joyful, and abundant world. With unconditional love for yourself and all that is around.

Why this retreat?

It is your heart that contains the original instructions of life and when your heart is again in control of your life, life responds with joy and power. Breathe into it. Feel. Come home to yourself in a nourishing, empowering, and transformative mid-week with:

• Daily heart focused yoga
• Guided awakening meditations
• Transformational breathwork
• Nature walks and excursions
• Healing circles and holy rituals
• Daily tasty vegan meals
• Water, tea, and fruit available
• Free time to relax and enjoy

This retreat is for

Everybody who feels the calling to deepen their hearts awakening is very welcome in this retreat. It does not matter what background you have, religion or upbringing, whether you have experience or not in meditation, yoga, or spirituality, you are very welcome to join exactly as you are.

Yoga

You will be introduced to several heart-focused exercise sets based on Kundalini yoga technology to work with the divine feminine energy and guide it from ego to love. Kundalini yoga is a form of yoga that involves chanting, singing, breathing exercises, and repetitive poses. Its purpose is to activate the Kundalini energy (divine feminine energy, or Shakti power). This is a spiritual energy that is said to be located at the base of your spine.

Kundalini literally means the coiled one and is the invisible holy energy, coiled just like a snake in the equally invisible energy center called root Chakra or Muladhara. The key concept to understand is that Kundalini’s upward travel along the Shusumna is a cleansing process and raises your vibration. Kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan® is called the yoga of awareness. When you apply the technology of Kundalini yoga to your bodies and minds, it has the effect of uplifting the spirit.

This technology precisely and consciously combines breath, mudra, eye-focus, mantra, body locks, and postures to balance the glandular system, strengthen the nervous system, expand lung capacity, and purify the blood. It brings balance to your body, mind, and soul. Kundalini yoga is for everyone and it is also seen as the yoga for householders for people who have to cope with the daily challenges and stresses of holding jobs, raising families, and managing businesses. It is a path for everyone who wants the skills to cope successfully with the challenges of your times.

This yoga form was kept very secret until 1969 when Yogi Bhajan taught it openly in order to prepare humanity for the major changes that this planet is going through as you cross from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age. The ancient technology of Kundalini yoga gives you the awareness and the fortitude to make this a smooth transition. The legacy of technical and spiritual knowledge that Yogi Bhajan studied and mastered in India is the gift he brought to the west.

Guided meditation

By learning ways to meditate, you can remember how to move your consciousness through your body, which means leaving your head and entering your physical heart, to find the source of life. You will find your way into your heart and discover a world as real as this outer world, but more ancient and primal. It is the very source of the world you are now walking around in. You will practice different exercises and meditations that are destined to connect to the heart, a new method of activating the Merkaba, your living light body.

Meditation is not only sitting still on a pillow. It is about joy, dancing in the dark, healing, conscious breathing, and finding your way of going into the sacred spaces of your heart. Learn a totally new method of activating the Merkaba from the heart. The Mer-Ka-Ba, including all possible forms of it in existence, needs to be connected within the body including the heart and brain with external connections that were not presented in earlier teachings. This is in order for your human potential to reach the levels that are necessary for ascension to higher levels of consciousness.

Love has a power that has long been forgotten. Power is so strong that it created the universe that you live and move around in. It is your heart that contains the original instructions of life, and when your heart is again in control of your life, life responds with joy and power. Through the practice of different meditation methods, you are given the opportunity to deepen your path of awakening to your true nature, your true being. After this retreat, you will have gained some of the inner tools to continue your ascension process, ready for upcoming changes.

Ecstatic breathwork

You use the breath to accelerate personal transformation by releasing old programs from the subconscious and taking you into an expanded state of consciousness. According to the method of transformational breathwork, (old) fears, patterns, and emotions are stored in your breathing. During a guided breath session, you could discover where your blockages are and you can clear them. During the session, you breathe circularly, combined with music you make your own deep journey. Circular (also: connected) breathing means consciously taking deep breaths without pausing in between.

Furthermore, the inhalation is longer than the exhalation. By breathing this way, you provide your body with oxygen in a different way and that provides effects on three levels: physical, mental-emotional, and spiritual. One specific transformational breathwork method is called quantum light breath, created by the late mystic Jeru Kabbal (1930-2000) who used this method in his teachings and workshops all over the world. He was greatly influenced by Vipassana, an ancient form of meditation where one sits in stillness and silence for extended periods of time.

Jeru realized that when elements of Vipassana were combined with deep rhythmic and consciously connected breath, it could bring a participant into the recognition of oneness without having to sit still in silent meditation for hours a day. Jeru used verbal and energetic guidance along with evocative music to lead people into the recognition of the mind’s separate realities and to encourage an experience of the mystery of true presence.

Example daily schedule

Day 1

• 16:00 Arrive
• Settling in with a tasteful welcome smoothie
• Short introduction
• Yogic breath exploration
• Vegan Indian dinner
• Evening meditation circle

Day 2

• Morning with vegan breakfast
• Forest walk
• Dynamic yoga session
• Afternoon with a healing ceremony
• Flow movement
• Vegan Italian dinner
• Evening meditation

Day 3

• Morning with meditation
• Light body activation
• Vegan brunch
• Afternoon with excursion or assignment
• Yoga chakra journey
• Dance ceremony
• Moroccan dinner
• Mantra meditation circle

Day 4

• Morning yoga journey
• Vegan brunch
• Afternoon with experience of the elements
• Light body activation meditation
• Biodynamic breathwork
• Fusion dinner
• Evening meditation

Day 5

• Morning dynamic yoga session
• Vegan breakfast
• Sharing circle
• Karma yoga
• 11:00 Check out

During this retreat, you will participate in two forest walks.

This retreat will be taking place at Creative and Conscious campsite De Lievelinge, situated in the Lingebos, a Dutch forest in the Betuwe, where the Linge meanders through the landscape. There in the forest, on a mighty beautiful piece of primeval clay on a lovely swimming lake, is a special biotope. An initiative of eight creative and conscious entrepreneurs.

The ideal place to get away from everything, be with like-minded people, and open your heart. De Lievelinge is a titillating place where life is celebrated together. Be open, connect to your forest fairy, and make this retreat an unforgettable illuminated heart awakening experience.

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During this retreat, you will be served daily breakfast or brunch and dinner included in the price. White Lotus Retreats keeps a diet mostly clean of any refined sugar, coffee, alcohol, meat, fish, and dairy to support the process and gain the most out of the intense transformation that yoga and meditation could offer you. Tea, water, and healthy snacks will be available all day.

• 3 heart activating yoga sessions
• 4 dynamic energy activation sessions
• 2 sacred ceremonies (healing and dance)
• 3 evening high vibrational meditation circles
• 1 sharing circle
• 2 forest walks
• 4 nights accommodation
• 4 vegan breakfasts or brunches
• 4 theme dinners
• All-day water, tea, and healthy snacks
• 1 welcome smoothie

• Flights
• Car rental
• Transport from and to the airport

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.