Winter retreat in snowy Finland

Winter retreat in Helsinki, Finland in an amazing venue on the island of Suomenlinna, with a World Heritage Site sea fortress. You can stay on-site at Hostel Suomenlinna or book your own accommodation. 

Join us for dancing wave after wave, with darkness and light, between moving and resting. Allowing the winter hibernating bear part of us to rest with other dancing bodies. Waking up the fire and energy inside us, reaching towards our own inner light in the darkness of winter. Weather permitting, there will also be opportunities to move outside in the winter, to hopefully dance with and in snow, and to play with the elements of winter in many ways.

Suomenlinna is an easy 20 minute ferry ride away from central Helsinki. And you can fly direct to Helsinki from many international airports. If you want to explore the Arctic and the North of Finland as well, you can have an adventure in winter magic before or after this retreat. This is the best time of year for skiing, for instance!

Teaching is in Finnish with translation into English available if it is needed (please let us know!).

This workshop counts as 2.5 days of Waves towards the teacher training prerequisites.

Hearts Delight

Hearts Delight

What makes your heart sing?

When does the mystery of life capture your soul? 

When do you feel delight?

Happiness, delight, pleasure, contentment, bliss, and joy are a few words that describe light, expansive emotions. We can experience those feelings in the moments when we meet life with a sense of wonder. Moments where we’re totally present. Even if the situation is challenging.

Most of us are having a cultural or familiar taboo on expressing feelings of fear, anger, or sadness. We usually don’t notice that many of us also have taboos on expressing too much happiness or joy.

Or we assume we need to get rid of emotions like fear, sadness, and anger. What happens if we embrace these emotions?

In this workshop we’ll shake off the dust of our hearts. We’ll explore our capacity for expansion, for joy. We’ll also explore things that might be in the way of experiencing expansion. We’ll take time to feel our limits for joy and see if we can stretch them a little.

So, we can be more delighted, more captured by the mystery that life is.

I invite you to dance and celebrate life on this journey together.