Winter Retreat with Naama
March 6th - March 9th, 2025 • Brandenburg, Germany
Yoga ~ Feldenkrais ~ Movement
This winter retreat guided by somatic educator - Naama Ityel - will create the time and space to slow down in a unique way. Step out of your daily routine and into a state of deep listening to yourself and to nature. During the retreat, Naama will create an environment for exploration, joyful learning, and growth.
Using physical, mental, and spiritual practices this retreat will awaken new insights and offer fresh experience of all levels of yourself. We will perceive internal rhythms, recharge, and embody our spiritual path.
Program
A few methods will be used to deepen connections to ourselves and our bodies: Asana (postures & movements), Pranayama (breathing exercises), and Meditation. These practices will be enriched by other modalities, including Feldenkrais and movement exploration.
We will explore and learn how to:
Create space in our body and mind
Observe habits and explore possibilities for change
Become intimate with ourselves and what is around us
Shift away from distraction, anxiety and overthinking, into a state of greater objectivity, grounding and ease
Sample Schedule (subject to change)
15.00-15.30 Check-in
17.00-20:00 Opening circle and Yoga practice
20.00 Dinner
Thursday
8.30-10.30 Yoga practice
10.46 Brunch
16.30-18.00 Feldenkrais
18:13 Dinner
19:44 Sauna
Friday
Saturday
8.30-10.30 Yoga practice
10.44 Brunch
16.00-18.00 Yoga practice
18.13 Dinner
19.45 Bonfire
Sunday
8.30 -10.00 Yoga
10.15 Brunch and room organising
12.30-15.00 Movement exploration and closing circle
*Silence will be observed Friday & Saturday until 12.00 and Sunday until 10:15.
The Location
Seminarhaus Breitenteicher Mühle, is a luxuriously modernized old mill located in the middle of a nature reserve in Brandenburg, north of Berlin. The mill, a cultural heritage protected building, has been renovated using local and environmentally-friendly materials. Green electricity as well as heating and warm water are obtained from a waterpower from the river Welse.
We will enjoy the luxurious bedrooms and a beautiful and bright yoga studio. The kitchen offers vegetarian (optional vegan) and organic food cooked with mainly local products and products from the garden. In the evenings, we will get warm in the sauna.
Retreat fee: 250€
Accommodation and meals (between 300€ and 330€) will be collected by the owner of Breitenteicher Mühle on arrival:
Double bedroom: 3 nights x 60€ = 180€ per person
Triple/quadruple bedroom: 3 nights x 50€ = 150€ per person
Price for delicious organic vegetarian (optional vegan) meals: 150€ for all days
Investment
Meet your Teacher
Naama Ityel
Naama is a somatic educator that supports people in their self-transformative processes and in bringing social change. Naama is a Yoga, dance and Feldenkrais teacher and a freelance dancer and choreographer.
She Graduated High School for Arts in Tel Aviv, “Mate Asher dance academy“ in Israel, SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) in Austria and Feldenkrais practitioner training in Berlin.
She received her ashtanga-vinyasa yoga teacher certification in “Abhinam School of Yoga” in Dharamsala, India, and has taught yoga since 2009 in the style of Vinyasa flow. Her Yoga classes are inspired by dance, Buddhism, shamanism, and different somatic approaches such as Feldenkrais, Klein technique, BMC (Body mind centering) and contact improvisation.
In 2023 Naama (in collaboration with Anya Kinneavy) founded the Clay Yoga Teacher Training in Berlin.
Naama worked in different institutions and studios such as Yellow-Yoga, Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), FreieUniversität (FU), Tanz Fabrik and Mime Centrum.
