Easter Sati Yoga Weekend Retreat
April 18 - April 21
Sati Yoga Weekend: Easter bank holiday retreat
18th to 21st April 2025
Cultivating awareness, embodying change
This four day yoga and meditation course is designed for students (from keen beginners to experienced practitioners) who wish to explore the connection between mindfulness (sati in the ancient language of the Buddha) and the classical eight limb system of yoga.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The practice of mindfulness in meditation can be readily applied to the practice of physical asana, using classical hatha yoga postures. Within this approach, meditation, relaxation and breath training are integral elements. Working with a variety of asana, this course explores how we can practice with an embodied awareness, observing emotions and thoughts as they arise, connecting and staying with our breath. By cultivating both active and receptive awareness, our yoga practice becomes both deeper and lighter: a sense of spaciousness and ease in our bodies develops while strength and stability results from a groundedness through gravity.
By the end of the retreat, students will have developed an understanding of how this integrated approach can become a tool of transformation within their own yoga practice as well as how it can be applied to other aspects of their lives.
The day starts with a 2 and a half hour yoga session, integrating meditation and breathwork. Over the course of the retreat, we explore sun salutations, a variety of hatha postures and will play with the relationships between simple, foundational postures and more complex asanas.
Brunch follows the morning yoga. There is free time until we meet again for an afternoon session, based around a more detailed exploration of yogic breathing. The three course vegetarian dinner is prepared from vegetables that are grown on the farm. We finish the day with a 30 minute silent sitting meditation.
This course would be of interest to keen beginners as well as experienced practitioners, and especially to anyone who has an interest in meditation. (Those who have done an 8 week MBSR course may be particularly interested). Yoga teachers are also welcome.
PRICE
In line with our three tier pricing policy:
- Standard cost of this retreat is €620, please pay this price if you can
- Supported rate is €520 for those who can’t afford the full fee*
- Supporter rate of €720 is available for those who would like to support our work and encourage us to continue offering a supported rate and additional discounts on our courses.
A 50% deposit, payable online by bank transfer* or Paypal is required at the time of booking.
*if at all possible, we ask that you pay the deposit by bank transfer so we can avoid paying admin fees to Paypal.
**if your current financial situation is such that the supported rate is not possible for you, and you really feel you will benefit from attending the retreat, please get in touch to see how we might work out an alternative plan. We wish to make our retreats available to everyone and do not want to turn away someone who does not have suffiicient funds.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
These prices include:
- Three nights in shared accommodation.
- Single rooms are available to those paying the standard rate on a limited, first come first served basis at an extra charge of €100.
- All meals (delicious organic vegetarian food, all vegetables grown on our farm)
- 12 hours of tuition of postural practice, breathwork, meditation
- Return transfer from Clare Island harbour to Macalla Farm
DATES
18th to 21st April
The course starts with the evening ferry, leaving the mainland at 18.00 and ends at 10.00 on the Monday with the ferry back to the mainland
ACCOMMODATION
The price is based on shared accommodation. Single rooms are available on a very limited first come first serve basis and cost an additional €100.
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