Spring Wellness & Yoga Retreat

SPRING WELLNESS & YOGA RETREAT

13-15 September 2019

BLUE BUTTERFLY RETREAT CENTRE, TULBAGH

This retreat is the perfect way to celebrate spring and new beginnings! Join Alida Haarhoff & Janet Farquharson for this transformational, healing, and fun weekend in a magical natural setting. This all-inclusive retreat package offers daily yoga and meditation sessions, a sound journey experience, fire drumming circle, yummy veggie feasts & fresh juices, nature walks, and a Yin & Yang workshop on Sunday afternoon. On Saturday Alida will facilitate a full day of family constellation therapy that is intended to create powerful shifts in your life patterns and beliefs. You can choose to have a full constellation for yourself or choose to represent in the energy field, assisting others with their healing process. Whether you represent or have a constellation yourself, you will receive huge insight, understanding and healing in your life.

* What's included-

2 nights cosy accommodation (shared) at the Blue Butterfly Retreat Centre, near Tulbagh

1 x Yin and Yang workshop

1x family constellation therapy workshop

Daily delicious vegetarian meals, snacks and juices

1 x silent labyrinth walking meditation

1x sound journey

Daily yin & yang yoga and meditation classes

1 x drumming circle

Nature walks

Retreat program (subject to change)

Day 1 - Friday, 13 September 2019

16:00 Arrival

17:00 Yin yoga

18:30 Dinner

19:30 welcome and intention setting ceremony, Sound journey

Day 2 - Saturday, 14 September 2019

06:30 Yang Yoga and meditation

08:00 Breakfast and free time

10:00 Family constellation therapy workshop

13:00 Lunch and free time

14:30 Workshop continued

17h30 Drumming

19:30 Dinner

20:30 Pranayam (breathwork) & relaxation

Day 3 - Sunday, 15 September 2019

06:30 Yoga and silent Labyrinth walking meditation

08:00 Breakfast and free time

10:00 Yin and Yang workshop

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Closing ceremony

Your hosts: Janet Farquharson & Alida Haarhoff have been facilitating Yoga & wellness retreats together for the last 5 years, both locally and internationally.They combine their unique and diverse knowledge and skills to offer a nurturing, transformative, healing, fun and uplifting experience.

Janet is a freelance tour guide, yoga teacher, sound healing therapist and vegetarian chef. She began her yoga journey in 2007 and is currently teaching classes and workshops in Cape Town. She has spent much time traveling through Asia, India, and Africa, and is passionate about Eastern philosophy,connecting to nature and understanding different cultures through travel. Her style of yoga focuses on breath awareness and body alignment and includes pranayama, chanting, meditation, and deep relaxation. She also loves drumming, sound healing, and preparing delicious conscious food that you will discover during your retreats with her.

Alida Haarhoff is an intuitive counselor, teacher, and healer in the esoteric and metaphysical fields. Using her own unique blend of tools, such as tarot cards, numerology, and family constellation therapy, Alida uses her highly developed intuition to guide people on their life’s journey. By helping to identify self-limiting patterns and energy blockages, Alida connects directly with your soul energy to understand what it needs and to help you reshape your life and manifest your life’s purpose.

Venue: You will be staying at The Blue Butterfly Retreat Centre, a restored thatched barn with thick walls, wooden floors, with valley and mountain views from every window. The space is surrounded by lush gardens, low stone walls, and many thriving trees all supporting an area that feels peaceful. The studio or workshop space makes up most of the ground floor. This space has wooden floors, bathrooms, plenty of cushions, double doors opening onto a covered veranda, and a big fire place with a stock of wood for the cooler nights.

The kitchen is connected to the studio via the veranda. It is a large farm-style kitchen which is fully equipped and can seat up to 18 persons. The gardens has a fire pit, gazebo, and fishpond in the garden as well as many secluded and restful sitting spots. A gate at the far end of the gardens leads directly into the reserve.

To reserve your space now, a 50 % deposit is required. Contact Alida for more information at [email protected]

Investment: R3450 per person all inclusive.

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"Janet and Alida really created a little paradise in a beautiful setting. Both Ladies have such a positive "feel good" energy that makes you feel valued and appreciated from the first contact. For a long weekend I felt like in a healing bubble, just re-charging on positive energy, love and understanding. I cannot express how grateful I am about that experience and I will certainly sign up for the next retreat!"- Kristina Gransee, participant, 2018

More on Constellation therapy work:-

?Constellation work, as presented by Alida Haarhoff, offers a unique and intense 3 dimensional platform for addressing, releasing and healing generational patterns inherent in all of us, that may be blocking you from reaching your destiny and Divine potential during this incarnation.

Should you choose to experience the full constellation (see below), your family patterns and their impact on you will be identified and addressed within the group dynamic in a major, life-changing way. Whilst those who choose to partake as role-participants (see below), will find themselves in situations relevant to their own current circumstances and will experience equally deep yet more subtle energetic shifts.

Where did Constellation Work originate from?

This alternative approach was developed by German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger in the mid-1990s. Family constellations therapy evolved out of his work as a family therapist and his belief in the energy, both positive and negative, found in familial bonds. Nearly 50 years of studying and treating families led to his observation of patterns of mental health concerns, illness, negative emotions, and potentially destructive behaviours within families, and he suggested individuals might unconsciously "adopt" these concerns as a way of helping other members to cope.

And now, this approach draws from a number of other modalities, including Gestalt Therapy, psychoanalysis, Virginia Satir's family sculpting, psychodynamic therapy, hypnotherapy, systemic family therapy, and Zulu beliefs.

What issues are treated with Constellation Work?

Family constellation work is really effective in addressing concerns that are systemic in nature. These concerns might include family of origin, parent-child relationship difficulties, and intimate relationship challenges.

It can be useful to anyone who:

· is seeking to address negative or harmful relationship patterns 

· wants to be in a romantic relationship

· is attempting to resolve family entanglements

· wants to overcome inner turmoil

· has experienced significant trauma or loss 

· are in search of personal and professional success

The circle are held in the utmost love and respect and the aim is to balance and heal on all levels