Date: November 27, 2021
Location: Yang Ming Shan, Taipei, Taiwan
Level: All levels are warmly welcomed
(Please note that this is an adult-exclusive retreat available to 18-year-old and over.)
A half day journey specially designed to help you seek tranquility and inspiration through ancient sound healing techniques.
Take a break from your busy schedule and overwhelming workloads. You will be immersed in different kinds of holistic therapies, including sound healing and breathing exercises. In this blissful getaway, these help you slowly feel the deep relaxation and emotional balance.
Our daily life is filled with unnatural sounds that have been constantly disturbing our brain. Now, allow yourself to unwind from the busy environment and create a deep sense of well-being from vibrational waves of bowls, hand drums, bells, and all kinds of inspiring instruments.
What To Expect
Put down the phones together and communicate with the world attentively. Please do not disturb the environment, do not litter, do not maliciously attack others. Wear your most comfortable clothes and bring environmentally friendly tableware. Stay weird and stay unique.
Full schedule will be provided after booking is confirmed.
Meditation Instructor: Dao Malinowski
He was born in Poland and now he enjoys living in Taiwan.
Dao has been on the self discovery journey of yoga for 13 years. 3 years ago he did his Hatha Yoga Teacher training with one of the most respected contemporary Yoga teachers of India-Yogacharya Bharat Shetty in Mysore, south India.
He has been teaching yoga and meditation to students from different backgrounds, levels and ages in Nepal, France and now in Taiwan. Main styles he teaches are classical Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa, Yin Yoga, and Yoga Nidra.
Dao is also working with the healing powers of the sound. He’s often doing sound healing with singing bowls, gongs, didgeridoo, flutes. As well he works with the vibrational power of the mantras – ancient mind protecting tools of the inner sound.
He is a follower of the non-sectarian path of Buddhist meditation, vegan chef (a.k.a ''Vegan Yoga Chef Dao''), passionate photographer and video-maker.
In his free time he likes to study holistic medical traditions of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, depth psychology of C.G. Jung, Tarot and I Ching and also the Shamanic Plant Medicine.
Through years of experience from practicing within different Buddhist traditions and also by learning from Indian wisdom traditions such as Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda and Advaita Vedanta, Dao is on the path of discovery of the body as the gateway towards psychosomatic integration (literal meaning of the Sanskrit word ''Yoga'' is ''Union'').
He is deeply interested in sharing and exploring practices and yogic methods of embodied, grounded, somatic meditation, where the key point is to see the own body (''Soma''), as the sacred Other to whom we can trust and listen to for guidance.
Main source of inspiration for him are his teachers and their teachers: B. K. S. Iyengar, Yogacharya Bharat Shetty, Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers.
Insta @dao_malinowski
Sound Healing Instructor: Derrick
Derrick is currently one of the 400 members of the Global Gong Alliance.
In his college days, he experienced the collapse of his family, the betrayal from his loved one all on the same day. To him, the world suddenly became black and white, but it also led him towards the road of healing.
Derrick has been in contact with Inca shaman and Ayahuasca, and have also gone through various journeys of wellness which finally led him to learn about gongs.
Sound therapy can bring us ideological cleansing through its own vibration frequency. People will be able to dig into the deep subconscious mind, or simply relax and enjoy the endocrine balance that is stimulated by the vibration of the body.
Derrick participated in various activities such as a New Year's Eve gong banquet for a hundred people to help people wash away their accumulated troubles and pressure through the sound of gongs.
Gong Introduction
Gong bath through sound frequency modulation let us achieve the restoration and nourishment of our body, mind and soul.
The powerful vibration frequency resonates with the water in our body which helps us relax and lead our consciousness into a state of meditation.
With natural sound waves, we slowly cleanse our hearts.
Insta @acatlover1123
Space
As human beings (ourselves) are detached from civilization to access a lifestyle of scanty materials, our inner animality generated from primitive natural habitat is emancipated. Inexplicably, we come to our instinctive senses. Right here right now, we’re set to explore the environmental transition between urban space and natural forest. Materials of no practical use, such as gloss, grass, Buddha statues, flowers, fragrances, sounds, yoga, along with other existence of spirituality, are employed as a healing process to convert the digital to the analog.
Transportation
Distance from Dazhi MRT Station
10 minutes by Car/Taxi
Please park your vehicles on Zhishan Road 3rd Section
*Transportation details will be informed one week prior to the event
Retreat Includes
Sound healing session
Guided Meditation session
Mindful group activity specifically designed for self-discovery and self-awareness
Water and tea are served throughout the day
Professional event photos
Music and snacks
A rare opportunity to actually unplug
Retreat Price
Early Bird - 3,200 TWD per person
Early bird tickets are limited, sold till supplies last. (Book before 11/9)
Standard - 3,800 TWD per person
Exclusive Members - 3,200 TWD per person
(Learn more about our exclusive membership)
How To Book?
We value your time and experience spent in Soul Barn Wellness more than anything - which makes these retreats a lifetime journey. We want to help create the most unforgettable experience for you, so our retreats do not accept more than 15 guests per group.
RESERVATION FORM:
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Event date:
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PAYMENT PROCESSED:
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Cancellation Policy
Cancellations made 14 days or more in advance of the event date will receive a 100% refund. Cancellations made between 10 - 13 days of the event will receive a 40% refund. Cancellations made between 3 - 9 days of the event will receive a 10% refund. Cancellations made less than 48 hours are non-refundable unless there’s an emergency. However, the booking can be transferred to a different person if you’re unable to attend.
