Tantric Yin
& Embodied Meditation
50hr Teacher Training and Practitioner Retreat
BYRON BAy, australia ~ may 26-31
A holding space to explore the full-spectrum of sensory and psychological symptoms that can arise in our practice ~ the sublime as well as the ugly ~ in order to savour the full human experience: body, mind and spirit, as alive, open and integrated.
Learn to rest in naturalness and to befriend yourself on levels previously maybe never thought possible…
Join International yoga & meditation teacher and transpersonal therapist Lara Zilibowitz, accompanied by ceremonial musician Benny Holloway, for a week-long teacher training and practitioner retreat exploring the nature of healing and awakening through the doorways of Tantric yin yoga and embodied meditation.
This is a loving invitation for all facilitators and passionate students wanting to cultivate a truly compassionate inner refuge in their yoga and meditation practice, through rich philosophy, methodology and embodiment exercises that once integrated can be offered up in service to the holding of humanity and your community.
The premise of this training is an untangling of the trance of disembodiment and self-abandonment which is arguably the ultimate pandemic of our times. A return from disconnect and dissociation, a return to the wisdom of SOMA.
Please know all of you is welcome. The raw, the ravaged and the real.
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BYRON BAy, may 26-31
Immerse in a week-long yin and meditation practitioner retreat and teacher training, cradled in the healing hinterland of byron
Come home to yourself, care for yourself and get to know yourself on levels never thought possible…
And learn how to facilitate from this truly devotional place of compassion and relentness kindness.
Through inspired practice and theory across wisdom traditions, depth psychology, and somatics, we will realise our yoga and meditation practice as a welcoming and a returning to the tender, open, vulnerable places within, where we allow our senses to open, where we’re not trying to get anywhere, but allowing experience at deeper and deeper levels to be exactly as it is.
Together we will learn to shine our empathic presence into our cells to truly hold space for whatever is arising. To cut through the millions of previous moments of disembodiment and to begin to encode new circuitry of trust, courage, compassion and self-care into our bodies, brains and hearts.
This approach is the antidote.
Teacher Training map
A rich exploration of ‘yin yoga’ ~ or we could say the ‘lunar arts’ via the Tantric yoga traditions. Understanding its place and difference to the solar vinyasa practice, and the gift that yin yoga offers to train our awareness to hold space for strong energy in the body, in preparation for seated meditation.
Learning the physical and subtle anatomy of yin yoga poses, including the map of the chakras and the role of the koshas *please be aware there will be no TCM theory in this training, the focus of this training has a Tantric orientation*
Detailed exploration of the Nervous System, the map of the psyche, exploring shifting states of consciousness and understanding Trauma Theory, and the role that yin yoga and meditation can play in the healing journey.
Learning the ‘bottom-up’ approach to seated meditation ~ i.e. meditation anchored in the body through the lenses of Tantra Yoga and Buddhist teachings, as well as borrowing from modern body-based trauma healing modalities such as Somatic Experiencing (SE), and somatics (within the fields of bodywork and movement studies).
Exploring mindfulness as ‘a mind full of now-ness’ and playing with the notion of bodyfullness (or body fullness).
Examining Shamanic Trance States and cross-cultural approaches to ‘meditation.
The deeper invitation in this training is to explore the role of spirituality on the healing path as a way of remembering our inherent wholeness.
You will receive a comprehensive manual to support all of the teachings and practices.
You do not need to be a yoga teacher to join us, however prior some experience in seated meditation and a baseline understanding of yin yoga is neccesary.
Extra Layers
Daily sound therapy and music medicine to accompany your practices by Benny Holloway
Ritual dance and enlivening free-movement practices to balance the lunar with igniting solar fire
Guided bodywork & yoga assists
Kirtan and ceremonial song circles
Art therapy integration processes
More magic to be revealed…
Sample Daily Schedule
9-11am Morning Practice
Tea break
11:30-2pm Training/Lecture/Workshop
Shared lunch
3-5:30pm Training/Lecture/Workshop/Practice
We will commence at 4pm on Sunday 25th and complete by 11am on Friday 30th May, allowing time for flights and transfers
Who is this training for?
Open to dedicated students who are called to immerse themselves in genuine self study and inquiry; and excited about the depth and potential of embodied meditation and the lunar arts; as well as those who are interested in teaching yin yoga and meditation in a truly embodied and trauma-informed way.
Each day on the training will be specifically curated to offer you rich experiences, personal insight and empowering take home techniques to open to embodiment, infusing your pure presence into every moment as practitioner and/or teacher.
pledge to no longer abandon yourself
Embark on this deeply healing and nourishing training with a $500 deposit* today
Location
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.
pricing & ACCOMODATION OPTIONS
All booking include a delicious vegetarian lunch each day.
Deluxe suite twin share ~ AU$2,950
Deluxe suite solo ~ AU$3,650
Offsite option - training & lunch ~ AU$1,950
*All prices inclusive of GST
SPECIAL EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT OF $100 OFF IF BOOKED BEFORE DECEMBER 31, 2024
INCLUSIONS IN COST
All teachings and practices
Nourishing lunch daily*
Training manual
Help arranging airport transfers
*For those staying on site, there will be an extra fee to cover breakfast & dinner if you’d like to opt in for that!
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Join the training with a $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 $500 required to confirm each place. Remainder balance due 6 weeks before training (April 11)
This training is accredited as 50-hrs Yoga Alliance Continued Education Points
“The week with Lara and Benny was filled with layer upon layer of deep uncovering, heart awakening and full-bodied awareness.”
What Lara offers in training is a transmission of fully experiencing life along with practical tools on how to bring this experience to form.
She holds a compassionate and loving container that is deeply healing and connecting, allowing each of us to individually dive deep into places we hold in the dark, and to bring it forward into light to be witnessed by ourselves and by our sisters.
The greatest gift I received is an activation of a fully connected experience of body, mind and spirit that continues to permeate through all layers of my being. Over the week of training, I feel like I learnt a new language – one that converses between my emotions, my body, the unhealed parts of myself, the healed parts of myself, and the love, compassion and peace that arises from within. I move forward from the training feeling grounded, alive and ready to move forward through the waves of pain, ecstasy and everything in between.
Deep gratitude and love to Lara and Benny for this gift and profound offering.
~ Sheena Wong
“Lara’s Tantric Yin and Somatic Mindfulness training was life changing as a teacher. My teaching has completely evolved since coming back home. ”
I have never met a teacher so embodied in their own work. You can tell she lives and breathes what she preaches and is so authentically passionate to share her gift with anyone that crosses her path.
Her creation of “Body Poetry” has really helped me to understand the role of poetic language in helping students to access their body in ways that bypass the analytical mind. In her classes I truly feel like I am able to experience my self in ways that I have never before. She creates such a safe holding space that allows her students to uncover such profound internal depth. From this depth of experience, her students are able to go out into the world not just with intellectual understanding but embodied experience.
Her attention to detail in the curation of experience speaks to all walks of life. I love the way she is able to share such profound truths, knowledge, wisdom and insights that resonate no matter where her students are at on their journey. She is a true master at speaking to both the highs and lows of human experience in ways that are really digestible.
I would highly recommend this training to anyone who wants to dive deep into the world of somatics and tantric philosophy.
~ Ashley Brown
“Lara has curated a Yin and Meditation training like no other I have seen and the teachings are a testament to her own journey in learning, healing and embodiment to deliver such an in depth, grounded and transformative training. ”
She creates a teaching container where you really get to feel and experience the teachings firsthand rather then reading them from a book, the depth of learning and embodied awareness is so important to be able to then share from. I felt like all the ideas and concepts I had been trying to put the right words to for years had been pulled into a true understanding and whole.
To learn from the base up of profound Tantric Philosophy and Somatic Mindfulness brought a whole new level of depth and although, this is not traditional Chinese Medicine, it felt extremely fundamental and integral to what these practices are and I feel so grateful to digest and learn to teach from this lens because I can’t imagine practicing in any other way.
On a personal level, I feel so extremely liberated by the power of what has downloaded for me. Lara’s ability to hold space is supreme in love, the safety that is held for you to unfold back into your own experience with yourself. This training gifted me… the greatest friendship I have ever felt within myself, I have never felt more seen, more heard and connected to me…. I have resigned a fear of my body and developed instead a great trust, to be able to hold a new perspective and see my emotions, thoughts and sensations as my aliveness and as my being human, has reconnected and anchored me down into my physical body for the first time without the want for escape, distraction or disconnection. I was also able to let go of my mind in a way that I’ve never experienced before, to not have the need to intellectualise and diagnose the sensations and instead realising the grand map of our bodies and its history, there was never a need for a meaning…only feeling. These insights are completely life changing for me as a human, this is something I will carry and share for the rest of my time.
My favourite part of the training was that Lara also provided other tools rather than Yin and Meditation for being able to express, release and feel into your feelings. The art process sessions were extremely impactful, like an unveiling of hidden potent messages from your inner world and to hear the group shares only strengthened the interconnectedness and totality of our experience together. The Sahaja dance sessions really ask you to let go of yourself and any idea of who you should be so you can lean into exactly who you are and let it move through you, both incredible non-verbal tools for expression that made me feel as though my spirit had been unwound and set free.
I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to complete this training with Lara as my teacher and also to experience and be taken further into my journey with the medicine and sounds from Benny. So much life has been illuminated for me during this time and I am only excited to see how the ripples continue to flow down my line.
~ Summer Russell
“One of the most inspiring and deep experiences of my life.
An incredible journey that touched the deepest yearnings of your heart and soul.”
~ 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.”
~ Alex Inch, Theatre Nurse and Yoga Teacher
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