Embody Your Soul Retreat with Cathleen

An invitation to rejuvenate yourSelf and embody your spirit through the practice of Energy Medicine and Yin Yoga

This is a retreat for the exploration of embodiment through the intuitive lens. Our bodies sense and know long before our minds can begin to understand. This retreat will explore the intelligent landscape of the physical and energetic bodies and their vast capacity to guide us through our lives. Soul based living brings health, prosperity, joy and love.

This is a retreat offered through the collaboration of Cathleen Wasielewski, RCST®, MIM® and Dr. Mary Sanders,DC, MIM®. Together we will offer teachings of soulful embodiment through a deep dive into the felt sense of the body’s intuitive nature with teachings of Energy Medicine, Yoga, Meditation and more.

It is as it should be that Cathleen and Mary have come together to be your nurturing and grounded co-facilitators for this retreat. Our collaboration was motivated by the same spiritual force that guided us both to inner healing and to study Intuition Medicine®. We discovered that the truth of our healing was that our deepest spiritual essence had always been within us so we journeyed inward to embrace our true essence. This retreat is designed to open sacred healing space for beautiful spirits just like you … for the reclamation of your original essence.

Mar, 18 — Mar, 25 | $2000

Rates by Occupancy
Single Occupancy $3050
Double Occupancy $2300
Triple Occupancy $2000

About Your Yoga Instructor(s):

Cathleen Wasielewski

Cathleen completed the Master of Intuition Medicine® program in 2019 after 2 years of study with the Academy of Intuition Medicine® in Sausalito California. This education was the culmination of many years of deep personal and spiritual study that has spanned over a conventional medical education leading to a 25 year career in pharmacy to personal self study in complementary medicine and the healing arts and onward into 10 years of study and teaching in the traditions of a variety of styles of yoga and meditation. December 2021 brought advanced certification in the art of Somatic Awakening® and Gestalt Therapy. May of 2022 has marked the completion of certification and registration as a Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist ~ RCST®.

Cathleen had known from a very young age that intuition and spiritual acknowledgement is a valuable aspect of true healing. For any completeness of healing of bodily dis-ease we must consider embodiment which brings attention to the many layers of one’s energy body, emotional body and spiritual body.

 

Mary Sanders

Mary is a Doctor of Chiropractic with an emphasis in Functional Nutrition. She received her doctorate in 1994 from Logan College of Chiropractic and has an emphasis in Positive Psychology where she studied under Dr. Tal Ben Shahar. In addition, she has a Master’s Degree in Intuition Medicine ® from the Academy of Intuition Medicine ® and trained under Dr. Francesca McCartney.

Mary’s zone of genius is in taking an integrative approach to happiness and well-being. By utilizing the wisdom and intuition acquired in energy medicine, coupled with the science-based tools of positive psychology, together we can transform your feelings of boredom, emptiness, and meaninglessness into a life worth embracing.

What's Included

Yoga

Daily yoga classes and yoga props including mats, blocks and straps.

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Transportation

Airport transfer from Puerto Jimenez to Blue Osa and return taxes.

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Accommodations

Intentionally designed beachfront eco-friendly rooms with ocean views and the use of the 25-meter pool.

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Meals

Three delicious farm-to-table meals per day using homegrown, organic ingredients, plus snacks and more to keep you energized and satisfied the whole week long.

Additional Inclusions are:

  •  Daily Morning 120-minute Energy Medicine Teachings
  • Daily Evening 90-minute Yin Yoga (all props available)
  • 2 – 60 minute pre-retreat group calls
  • 1 – 60 minute post-retreat group call

Reserve Your Spot

“Mary is a gifted healer whose compassion allows the space for deep healing. Her body based approach is based on her many years of experience and her knowledge of both the physical body and the energy body. I have made incredible changes in my life that I feel are a result of my work with her. I am truly grateful.”
— CW
“I knew that I needed to heal. There were words I could not say, emotions and energies I could not describe and Cathy, with permission, guided me to bring my energetic body back home to myself. I suddenly remembered what it felt like to be in my body and at peace.”
— EJM

Teaching methodology + practicum

  • Learn how to lead and market successful yoga retreats

  • Learn the principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting, and instruction.

  • Learn different teaching styles.

  • You’ll learn specific techniques that will enable you to easily teach all levels

  • You’ll also learn how to sequence your asanas to create a natural, therapeutic and transformative arcs in your classes

  • Learn the qualities of effective teaching

  • Learn the business aspects of being a yoga teacher and gain the building blocks of how to build a thriving yoga career

Development of the Professional Essentials

History, Philosophy + Ethics

  • Identify your spiritual stance so you can step into it as a source of strength
  • Identify walls and develop strategies to take them down
  • Create a support network and support strategies and have them in place when you leave
  • Complete a physical and spiritual adventure challenge
  • Learn the business aspects of building a thriving yoga career
  • How to bring the practice of yoga into your everyday life and make it work for you
  • The science and application of mantra
  • An overview of the history of the yoga tradition
  • The ethical standards of teaching yoga

Yoga Humanities

Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™

  • Receive training in Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™ training for Yoga Teachers
  • Go further in your anatomy training
  • Learn how to access muscle function
  • How to sequence transformational yoga classes
  • Learn the energetic and deeper sublime effects of asana
  • The science and application of Mantra
  • Design classes based on Ayurvedic principles
  • Knowledge of both human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.).

Anatomy & Physiology

Techniques, Training and Practice

  • A breakdown in the anatomical and energetic categories of postures
  • Develop a daily meditation practice
  • Learn pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation, and other traditional yoga techniques
  • How to sequence and structure transformational 60 and 90-minute classes
  • Practical experience teaching postures, classes, and meditation
  • Learn deep relaxation techniques
  • Yoga Nidra, as taught by the Himalayan tradition and Western tradition
  • Learn how to conduct and lead fire rituals
  • Kundalini Yoga techniques
  • Learn the subtle energetic aspects of yoga like the Koshas and chakras
  • Kriya Yoga and Laya Yoga

Advance Your Own Practice in Yoga

Techniques, Training and Practice

  • A breakdown in the anatomical and energetic categories of postures
  • Develop a daily meditation practice
  • Learn techniques in pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation, and other traditional yoga techniques
  • How to structure and sequence transformational classes
  • Practical experience in teaching postures, sequencing, and meditation
  • Learn deep relaxation and meditation techniques that come from the Himalayan tradition

Develop a Rock Solid Practice in Yoga

Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™

  • Receive training in Applied Yoga Anatomy + Muscle Activation™ training for Yoga Teachers
  • Develop an understanding of basic anatomy
  • Learn about muscle function and how to improve it (something you will not learn in any other YTT)
  • Knowledge of both human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.)
  • The study of both the subject and application of its principles to yoga practice (benefits, contraindications, healthy movement patterns)
  • Skills to teach yoga classes suited to all levels of practice.

Anatomy & Physiology

History, Philosophy + Ethics

  • An in-depth study and application of the Yoga Sutra
  • How to bring the practice of yoga into your everyday life and make it work for you
  • The science and application of mantra
  • An overview of the history of the yoga tradition
  • The ethical standards of teaching yoga

Yoga Humanities

Teaching methodology + practicum

Get hands-on practice teaching so that you’ll be able to teach on day one after the training is finished. You will:

  • Practice teaching in small and large groups

  • Be ready to teach yoga as soon as you leave the yoga teacher training

  • Get hands-on experience teaching and give/receive feedback

  • Practice assisting students

  • Learn the principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting and instruction

  • Learn different teaching styles

  • Learn qualities of effective teaching and adjust to the student’s process of learning

  • Learn the business aspects of how to build a thriving yoga career

Development of the Professional Essentials