300 hr YTT | 22 Day Transformation: Shamanic Awakening

Retreat Highlights

• Experience the fusion of Shamanism and Yoga, two ancient practices from different corners of the world united by one common thread
• Enhance your teaching with a therapeutic, holistic, embodied approach to yoga
• Become intimate with sacred ceremony, integrating through experience and learning to incorporate it into your own offerings
• Grow your 'yogic toolbox' with alignment-based tools and holistic teaching techniques
• Dive deep into your own healing with the medicine of Peru, with cleansing plant baths, Temezcal, sound and energetic healing, with optional traditional coca leaf reading and medicine ceremonies (not part of the training) on days off
• Develop a deep understanding of the roots of yoga through study of ancient texts and impactful self-inquiry
• Visit sacred sites, waterfalls, rivers, hot springs and breathtaking views within the Sacred Valley of the Incas
• Experience the silence and inner contemplation of a day-long Vision Quest in the high Andes
• Have the opportunity to commune directly with the "apus" - sacred mountains or "luminous beings" who are said to intercede on behalf of people, as well as with the local curanderos and pacos (healers), who engage with us for ritual and ceremony
• Help local charitable organizations with their work in our Kula Karma program
• Feel yourself recharge as you come alive in the powerful, ancient and wise energy of the Sacred Valley

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Randi

Gaiatree

Randi Schiffman

Randi ERYT 500 has taught over 50 yoga teacher trainings since 2010. Her expertise is in sharing Holistic Yoga, a well rounded practice including meditation, pranayama, mudra, bandha, mantra, theme weaving and intelligent sequencing. A certified Thai Massage Therapist, she is especially known for her firm and intuitive based hands on assists. She facilitates with a strong energy and passion for the practice which supports her compassionate, graceful and empathic nature. She has an innate ability to take in knowledge, experience it, and share wisdom in an authentic way.

Gaiatree Good

Gaiatri is a passionate teacher, a channel of wisdom that seeds deep understanding, trust and enthusiasm. The holistic nature with which she approaches life imbibes her students with a full spectrum of teachings and skills. Gaiatri lives the philosophy of yoga both in her self practice as well as off the mat. Just as she allows Asana to ground her spirit into her body through deep meditation guided by prana, Gaiatri also brings the unconditional love and union found in deep presence into each breath of her life. Viewing every gifted moment as an opportunity to deepen her connection with universal consciousness through ritual, ceremony, music, dancing, prayer and laughter. Gaiatri is ERYT 500 certified, has a honours degree in Psychology, is a talented Musician, a Reiki master, Breath work practitioner, Energy healer, Sound Healer, Curandera holding ceremonies with various shamanic master plants, Channel for the Angelic realms, Shamanic Astrologer and Initiate into the Hermetic Qabalah. A facilitator for the Kula as well as for various Transformational Retreats involving Plant Medicine and Sound, it is Gaiatri’s greatest excitement to offer her gifts in service for the awakening of the whole.

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