February 1-4, 2025
Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
Yoga • Music • Meditation • Dance • Somatic Therapy • Shamanic Arts
RITUAL & RENEWAL RETREAT
All-inclusive 4-day experience from AU$2350, including GST
Very limited capacity… so get in touch today if you want to join us.
Revitalise your life through this soulful and Joyful journey into the body
Join internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and transpersonal art therapist Lara Zilibowitz, plus mystical musician Benny Holloway, on a residential immersion into rewilding your body, mind, heart and soul.
Immerse in four days intuitive yoga, embodied meditation, expressive arts, sound therapy and other shamanic technologies of meaningful ritual and renewal.
This is an invitation to drop deep down into the lusciousness of your body where your nervous system can unwind and your soul can express alongside like-minded kin and community.
Join us on the Byron Art of Being retreat to reclaim your unique embodiment as you remember who you really are - your beauty, your joy, your creativity and your authentic feeling, as doorways into truth, healing and personal meaning.
Please know you are welcome.
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A “life-changing” opportunity awaits…. Deposit US$350 (AU$500) today.*
Byron Bay, Feb 1-4, 2025
Immerse in four transformational days of ceremony and rejuvenation
Come home to yourself, care for yourself and get to know yourself on levels never thought possible…
This is an invitation to awaken the intuitive wisdom within YOU. To realise your body is a powerful ally, an agent of your release and healing, of your mystery and magnificence.
In every session of this retreat and embodiment training you will be progressively empowered to reconnect with your authentic self, which is your birthright. Together we re-member our liberation and inborn healing potential ~ with the aid of art, ritual and music to deepen the investigation.
Your immersion map
The map of the territory will include daily embodied meditation, yoga and free movement, vocal expression and deep sound journeys, shamanic technologies of ritual dance, breathwork, clay creativity and art amplification, deliciously nourishing food and so much more…
Each day on retreat is specifically curated to offer you rich experiences, personal insight and empowering take home techniques to open to embodiment and unravel contraction in the bodymind, infusing your true presence into every moment.
We will utilise the splendour of our private location in Byron Bay to enter into multitude celebrations, rituals and processes to remember who we truly are, when we’re not striving to be what we’re not…
For those that have journeyed with us before, this is a newly curated adventure, with fresh processes and a new venue ~ the perfect layering and deepening of your enquiry.
COME HOME TO YOU
Embark on your transformation with a US$350 (AU$500) deposit* today.
Who should attend?
This retreat is for anyone who craves to reconnect to the sacredness of life and wants to:
slow down and practice embodied attunement in many form
learn to hold yourself in the full range of your expression and energies
open to the dynamic nature of both passion and compassion
wake up to your wild, untamed, original nature
remember your intrinsic creative genius and unique soul essence
realise feeling is the doorway into truth, healing and personal meaning
connect with like-minded community devoted to depth and truth
re-member your JOY and ALIVENESS!
Included ceremonies
Body Poetry Yoga practices
Embodied meditation
Transcendental sound journeys
Voice activation and release
Ecstatic dynamic meditation & dance journeys
Clay creativity
Creative art externalisation
Yin yoga
Trauma-informed Breathwork journey
Tea ceremony & purification ritual
Integration time in silence and nature
3 exquisite vegetarian meals per day
OUR RETREAT PALACE
Your Accommodation
Our home away from home is an stunning wellbeing sanctuary in the hinterland of Byron Bay.
Your wonderfully nourishing haven for the retreat features sprawling lands with climbing jacaranda and bougainvillaea. A nest for rest and healing on 2.4 hectares of tended forest.
The venue is incredibly beautiful and cosy ~ a synthesis of Tuscan villa and English heritage with old world luxury and charm… think wood and stone and sacredness infused into the walls.
The venue has a pool as well as sauna and hot tub, with a light-filled yoga shala and plenty of space for inner and outer exploration.
The rooms themselves are named after inspired artists and creatives across the centuries - each with either twin king singles, or a queen bed for those seeking a solo option.
All-inclusive price of the retreat:
Twin share: $2350 p/p
Solo room: $3250
(price includes GST)
The stage has been set, now time to show up for yourself in deep and true ways…
SECURE YOUR sPOT!
Join our intimate immersion with a US$350 (AU$500) retreat deposit* today.
Want to know more? Email me your questions…
*By booking, you agree to the terms & conditions, available here. Non-refundable deposit of AU$500 (US$350 equivalent) required to confirm each place. Remainder balance due one month before retreat (9 January 2024). GST is included.
Attendee Testimonials
“Being in retreat with Lara is like bathing in an ocean of remembering, where each corner and crevice of your being is saturated with permission to let go; and gifted with the safety, curiosity and unwavering love to do just that. To let go of all ideas you have of yourself and just simply be in the body, this precious body that enables you this life.”
Lara’s teachings are intricate and all inclusive. She speaks to the tantric tradition, yogic wisdom and relevance to this moment. She guides and facilitates from within, feeling The Body that inhabits each body in the room. She is the embodiment of all that she speaks, in her power, grace and authentic expressions.
Through her poetic alchemy, Lara opens you to worlds within worlds, bodies within bodies, whilst maintaining contact with who you truly are; it’s as if she does this for you, so that you can in your own time, dance, weave and breathe your way back home to yourself.
Learning with Lara has been a mirror I never knew I needed. She has reflected qualities of Divine Femininity through graceful leadership, humble pride, reverent compassion and artful courage that enables her to break away from any binding nature.
She is artistry embodied.
We are fortunate in this epoc of time to have female leaders, teachers and integrated mentors like Lara that not only ignite embers, but shine light forward into the night. Her kind is rare, and my wish is for more of humanity to know themselves in her presence.
Whether you are a yoga teacher, a seeker untethered or a human being curious about the nature of things, the opportunity to retreat with Lara is worthy of your time here.
~ Brittany Kimmit, Yoga & Meditation Teacher
“One of the most inspiring and deep experiences of my life.
An incredible journey that touched the deepest yearnings of your heart and soul.”
“I went on a deep shamanic journey, where I navigated between the intrapersonal (knowing myself) and interpersonal (knowing others), I drifted from light to shadow to witness the beauty and magic of my life exactly as it is.
“This weekend was an absolute gift and a prayer answered, a strong reminder of taking the time to listen deeply… to re-inspire ourselves, to heal ourselves, and in doing so, to heal the world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
~ Vicky, Yoga Teacher and Psychotherapist
“I felt like a newborn discovering life for the first time.
A life-changing, awakening experience that I will be forever grateful for.”
“Lara and Benny are alchemists of life and love, interweaving the two to make the most beautiful tapestry.
“Throughout the retreat - moving my body to dancing, painting to singing my heart out, while meeting some of the most exquisite souls of my life - I experienced a new level of freedom, joy and connection unlike any before.
“Lara’s most gracious, rich, profound, loving guidance mixed with Benny’s out of this world music gave me the space to truly come home to myself. I discovered the deepest love in my heart for myself, everyone and everything around me.”
~ Alex Inch, Theatre Nurse and Yoga Teacher
“Two retreats deep, overwhelmed by magic and beauty, I’ve already planned the next one!”
“I’m forever grateful for what I have had the privilege to experience on their retreats.”
“Lara and Benny hold space with so much tenderness and grace. Thank you for being the pinnacle of authenticity: I feel incredibly inspired to follow suit, to keep opening my heart, to continue being unashamedly me.”
~ Sophia Alize, Yoga Teacher and Dancer
“My whole entire body had been revitalised.”
“Lara and Benny hold such a beautiful immersive space, where I felt completely supported and nurtured.
“I belly laughed. I sobbed. My body moved in ways I didn’t think possible. Sound emanated from my mouth like never allowed before. Words and poetry were articulated and flowed to enlighten the mind. It felt like a soothing balm.”
~ Kylie Paget, Reiki Practitioner
JOIN US IN BYRON
Ensure your place with Lara and Benny with a US$350 (AU$500) deposit*.
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