Deep Rest: Yoga Nidra & Acupuncture Workshop
With Suze Retera and Sandra Guy
November 17, 2024
In this 4-hour workshop, Suze (somatic therapist) and Sandra (acupuncturist) join forces to offer you a combination of practices that bring you powerful therapeutic tools that activate your body’s innate ability to recover, heal, and adapt. You will get to experience the practices but also learn the theory behind them and the tools to applythis knowledge in your daily life.
To start the day Suze will teach about sleep, the activity of our brain during the different sleep cycles, and the effects of yoga nidra. She will also teach you the basics about the vagus nerve and the crucial role it plays in your health and well-being. This will be followed by a grounding practice that teaches you how to activate your vagus nerve, allowing you to feel grounded and present in your body.
Sandra will teach you how to support your body during the Spring season from the perspective of Chinese medicine. This will offer you a holistic view of your body and mind and how it relates to nature and its Seasons. You will learn different pressure points and lifestyle practices that you can integrate into your daily life.
In the final practice, all modalities will be combined. You get to enjoy a deeply relaxing yoga nidra combined with acupuncture. You will leave the workshop deeply rested and enriched with valuable knowledge and practices that you can use daily to enhance your health and well-being.
About the Teachers
Suze Retera
Suze is a Psychologist and certified yoga teacher. Throughout the years she deepened her knowledge in both fields by adding Family Constellations, TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) and Yoga Nidra to her qualifications. Her passion for travel, a conscious lifestyle and (self) healing inspired her to start Global Flow Retreats in 2006. Global Flow Retreats offers […]
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Sandra Guy is an acupuncturist with a private practice in Amsterdam, who has been working with Chinese medicine for over 20 years. Sandra grew up in Hong Kong and studied Daoist Self-Cultivation and Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Netherlands choosing to specialize in acupuncture. She graduated from Shenzhou Open University for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Cum […]
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