Teachings of the Four Directions though the Nervous System
A Four Day Retreat at Mount Shasta
Dates: Thursday, July 11- Sunday, July 14, 2024 (+ optional 24 Hour Solo Sit)
Location: Mt. Shasta, CA
Your Guides: Satya Gita + Alaya Babineau
We welcome you to this 4 Day Retreat in Mount Shasta.
This is one of our favorite sacred sights to explore the teachings of the natural world around the wheel, the four seasons, the four directions, and the wisdom it carries to heal our Nervous System. You will be learning skills on how to resource and regulate your embodied being and building greater resilience.
There is so much intense impact in the world today and our nervous system is being over stimulated daily with political, environmental and social unrest. The pressure of survival and consumption can be overwhelming to the point where we find distractions and addictions the only way to find relief. There is another way to be with all that is coming toward us and learning to stay regulated and resilient; is essential for us humans to forage a more peaceful and care based world for all.
Hiking and Swimming
Yoga, Movement & Breathwork
Sacred Ceremony, Community Council and Inquiry
Guided Meditation and Nature Listening
Teachings Four Directions and Contemporary Wisdom
Community Meal Share
Optional additional day: 24-Hour Solo Sit
“To encounter our human body is to encounter the natural world. We tend to forget that we are mammalian primates! The closer we come to the body, the closer we draw to the truth of our own wildness. This connects us to the planetary wildness that we aspire to protect.” ~Lama Willa B. Miller
Community Meal Share And Preparation
How we choose our food is one of the biggest ways to positively affect Climate Change and help the planet and our bodies heal and stay well. We will all be participating in a shared meal plan preparing and supplying food for each other, for a hearty Breakfast and Dinner. Lunch will be your responsibility to provide for yourself. We will be creating a simple healthy meal plan that 2 participants at a time, will take shifts in preparing breakfast or dinner. We will be providing tea, coffee, sweeteners, dairy-free creamers and snacks. A cooking space will be set and all pots and pans provided. You will need to provide your utensils. As we get closer to the date you will be receiving a list of what food you are needing to bring and what you are helping to make for our tribal community food adventure.
Sacred Ceremony And Community Council
Each journey out into the wilderness will give us insights and experience that we will bring back to be witnessed by our tribe. Questions and inquiry may be invited as, together, we explore and reflect on each person’s experience.
In this time together in community we create a sacred container to be seen, heard, affirmed and supported in the unique evolutionary journey of our soul. As we listen to each other’s heartfelt expression in community council, we find reservoirs of strength and compassion, allowing us to be with discomfort. We will experience firsthand that nature, our tribe and our true nature, can hold these vulnerable, unmet places and help us stay present to their healing. Through ongoing revelation, we stretch and grow, finding ever changing expressions of what it means to be a human being in community.
Yoga, Movement And Breathwork
We will share practices such as yoga, movement, breathwork and melting our bodies into trees or rocks to explore how we move and are moved by nature. Allowing the conscious breath to touch contracted places in our body is one of the most natural ways to deepen into presence. We will be guiding you in a variety of breathing practices that can deepen your meditations, bring unmet material to the surface to be explored and open access to the ever present Breath of Life. Feeling the earth beneath our feet, the sun on our bodies, the wind brushing our skin, smelling the air and flowers and hearing the birds can support us in knowing the reality of nature through our body. Learn more about yoga with Satya here.
Being In Wilderness
Simply walking with awareness in the natural world has many benefits for our bodies and mental well being. For some of us, wild nature is an easy and beloved friend, a place to rejuvenate and re-connect to our self, find comfort and relax into the depth of ourselves. For other of us, the natural world can be scary, unfamiliar and bring up deep-seated issues. For yet others, there can be a wish to get more comfortable and more embodied with this majesty that provides such deep beauty and power. Whatever is your truth, you are welcome and will be supported to go deeper in your relationship to wild nature, discovering the subtlest magic of this land and landscape.
"Satya and Alaya are who you want to be with in the wilderness while finding the wild within. For me the Lassen Embodiment retreat was transformative. I was able to find and drop into my long abandoned Self, in a supportive and safe container with the love of intentional community. This is the third retreat I've been on in my entire life and the third with Satya. She is such a deeply special person to me and I am forever grateful to have crossed paths with this extraordinary human." – SM, 2021
About Retreat Co-leader Alaya Babineau
Alaya’s way of sharing reconnects us to our indigenous place within: as we are nature remembering in human form, our belonging to the natural world that birthed us into being. Alaya is a graduate of Wilderness Reflections-Wilderness Quest Apprenticeship and Training. Blessed by the vision quest leader and pipe carrier, Lorindra Moon Star to carry forward the gift of guiding. Alaya is currently offering a 30 Day Online Program: Kindness Kitchen Restoration Practices and Reset. Private bodywork sessions and personal massage instruction for couples. She lives currently in Sebastopol, CA and Louisville, Kentucky.
Investment
Sliding Scale: $750-1800
(If you are opting for a solo sit, please add a min of $250)
Deposits: Non-refundable deposit $300 required to secure your place. This deposit signifies your commitment to the retreat and is deducted from the tuition balance. All deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable. They cover the work of the specific retreat you signed up for, including all communication involved as well.
Tuition Balance: Balance of tuition can be paid as soon as you like up to 2 weeks before the retreat. Simply deduct any deposits made from the amount you’ve chosen on the sliding scale.
To reserve your spot, venmo @SatyaGita-Aune a non-refundable deposit of $300.
Limited to 12 participants.
Not sure how much to pay? Read a little more about sliding scale payments here.