tending the heart
A Day of Yoga, Reflection & Ceremony to Honour & Integrate Loss
saturday, april 22, 2023
10:00 am-6:00 pm
enso Retreat Centre, Salt spring Island, BC
Everyone has experienced loss in some form. Unfortunately, many of us haven’t had access to tools and safe spaces to be witnessed; to integrate our grief.
Join Satya (Vedic Priestess Temple) and Sarah Jane Smith Lyons (The Nest Yoga and Embodied Possibility) in a welcoming, sacred space to connect with others and be less isolated in your grief.
Through movement, reflective journaling and ceremony, we will bring understanding, self-compassion and awareness to how grief is showing up, held, and released. We will also learn ancient traditional yogic practices from India that tune us into holding, working with, and integrating our grief.
While death is the most commonly recognized source of grief, many other life experiences result in grief.
All forms of loss are welcome at this retreat.
Investment
Early Bird:
$175
until April 8th
Full Price:
$225
after April 8th
Price includes a delicious Indian Lunch
For more information and to register:
your facilitators
Sara Jane Smith
Sarah Jane is an experienced yoga teacher, facilitator and coach who specializes in working with women who are childless not by choice. Her experience of multiple losses, unexplained infertility and a chronic illness that led to a hysterectomy led her into deep grief, and she realized the necessity of grief tending.
After the death of her father during the pandemic, Sarah Jane found solace in the work of Francis Weller and studied with him in his “Apprenticeship with Sorrow” course.
She has developed a positive personal relationship with grief tending by drawing on Weller, Yoga, embodiment, self-compassion, writing and community practices. She is honoured to share these practices to help you cultivate your relationship.
Sarah Jane leads in-person group yoga classes on Salt Spring Island at her studio, the Nest Yoga, plus online programs and coaching for childless not by choice women at www.embodiedpossibility.com.
Satya Jehman
Satya completed a deep-dive study into renowned grief author and speaker Francis Weller’s work, including participating in his “Apprenticeship with Sorrow" course. After losing her mother to sudden death eight years ago, she has guided folks on the grief journey. Her practice deepened more recently after losing her father to a tragic and complicated death in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Born into the Vedic lineage, Satya has lived the traditional path of yoga all her life – with a more concentrated practice over the last 21 years. Satya carries the gift of ceremony and ritual by the grace of her ancestors. She completed a year-long Yoga Apprenticeship in 2015 (Vijnana Yoga RYT200), and a in-depth study into jnana yoga (self-inquiry) with her teacher in India amid a trio of winters over a decade ago. She also has a background in writing.
Backed with over two decades of yogic study, practice and training - Satya offers a heartful space of utmost respect and compassion to you and your tender heart. She offers ceremony, workshops, retreats and one-on-one support at www.vedicpriestesstemple.com.
