LATEST UPDATE: Creative Heart Day Retreat has joined together with Heart Of Living Yoga to create a full weekend retreat, 1st-3rd January, called New Light Retreat. It will include all the things below, and more. You can find further details here, as they become available.
Giving ourselves the gift of a creative focus is a wonderful way to calm our minds and open our hearts to new possibilities. Combined with heart melting yoga, meditation and deep relaxation, this beautiful day retreat offers a special way to begin the New Year with gentleness and joy. Over the course of the day, we will be weaving together practices to awaken the creative heart and let it flow into your very own personal piece of art. In the morning, we will make space for our poetic voice to sing through us and in the afternoon we will play with paper, scissors and glue to make our own unique and beautiful collages – which will include our poems.
If a delicious, cosy day of easeful movement, peaceful meditation and creative play sounds good to you, you’re warmly welcome!
What to bring – lose comfortable clothing with layers, yoga mat, at least two or three blankets and a nice cushion, magazines or old calendars, scissors, glue, nice pens, a sheet of thick A4 paper or card for gluing on to, an A4 picture frame and a notebook for writing. You may want to make sure your lunch is easily prepared (e.g. soup made the night before to simply reheat).
Contribution for the day is £45 (£40 early bird discount for those who book and pay in full by the end of November). If money is a concern, please get in touch. We may be able to help. Twenty percent of all proceeds go to support the wonderful work of Connection Space CIC who offer creative, active and therapeutic activities for people across the lifespan. They are based here in Matlock. To register your place, please email Yamuna Devi <me@yamunadevi.com>
Meet the Facilitators
Yamuna Devi is a Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher, visual artist and passionate dancer currently living in London. With more than 10 years of yoga practise she has been blessed with spreading the energy of peace through sharing the teachings and creativity. Her pooch and best friend Chilli inspired the pet influencer brand Chilliwawa - a Heart based story of real life, connection and joy. She is fabulous beyond words. You can learn more about Yamuna at https://yamunadevi.com/
Vishwam Heckert, PhD is a Heart Of Living Yoga Teacher & Trainer, poet and wellbeing coach currently living in Matlock, Debyshire. He’s been practising yoga for over 20 years and teaching it for nearly a decade. He has been facilitating workshops for personal and social transformation for over 25 years with activists, students and creatives. His poetry has been published (or forthcoming) in Amethyst Review, Mooky Chick & Soul Lit as well as in the Heart Of Living Yoga 2021 Calendar. Vishwam is currently working on his first book of poetry – Medicine Poems.