Bodylight Weekend Retreat - 18 -20 October 2024
Facilitated by Edna Levy, the founder of the Bodylight method, with guest Senior Yoga Teacher Atma Okan from Ashram Yoga.
A rare opportunity to learn from two very experienced and inspiring teachers.
Edna Katz-Levy Bodylight founder, and Atma Okan Ashram Yoga senior teacher, will share their knowledge wisdom and experience and guide you through an enriching Yoga Qigong and Pilates weeklend.
Edna and Atma have both been involved with Mana for decades.
Here they share their personal reflections and connections to Mana and to each other:
Edna:
“I first came to Mana in the late 90's with my husband Yaron while participating in an Ashram Yoga retreat. The experience and energy of that first time was very positive, strong and magical. We came back the following years and also started to attend the Mana winter working bee gatherings.
In 2003 I was invited to present the Bodylight method at Mana as part of a 5 days body wisdom conference.
From that point onwards the Bodylight Weekend Retreat has been offered at Mana every year, sometimes twice per year.
Over the years I was actively involved with Ashram yoga both teaching Bodylight at the Parnell studio and attending many classes, courses and workshops taught by Shantimurti and Atma.
During all these years a deep bond of love and respect was created between Atma and myself, which is now seeing the two of us co-teaching at Mana.”
Atma:
“Mana has been an important part of my life history for the last 30 years. Initially I contributed to the publishing of the Mana Newsletter - many an hour spent with the Mana team, fascinating articles and back in the day arranging these for print.
Following this, Mana was an incredible place and space for many Ashram Yoga retreats with amazing yogic wisdom shared over more than a decade. This is one place where I spent some beautiful time with Edna. Our retreats often included some type of theatre, play and performance and one of my favourite memories is when Edna and a good friend Sally-Anne who were both late in their pregnancy choreographed and performed a most spectacular dance together.
I was so honoured to receive Edna's invitation to join and co-facilitate at the Bodylight retreat.”
Co-teaching:
Edna will teach the Bodylight method of mindful movement through Yoga, Pilates and Qigong, while Atma will teach a specific area of knowledge known as the three Gunas (qualities).
The Gunas are the three essential aspects of nature. They manifest as tamas (fixed or dull energy), rajas (dynamic or pulsating energy), and sattva, clear and intelligent energy. They are always present and always changing as we move through different feelings, thoughts, emotions and physical expressions. We can use the dance of the gunas as a map to create recognition of what state we are in and develop our awareness.
Philosophically, theoretically, practically and physically we will work to interweave all of these wonderful concepts and methods, ideas and techniques into a flowing, enriching, inspiring and empowering experience.
Bodylight method is all about unifying, weaving and binding together the many wonderfully wise methods of connecting our mind with our body, through movement, imagery, and knowledge. With Yoga rich and vast ocean of practices, Qigong connection to inner and outer nature of flow and change and Pilates strong mind application, we enrich ourselves and achieve a higher state of being.
Treat yourself to a beautiful and powerful weekend at the Mana Retreat Centre, Coromandel
Immerse in a weekend of Bodylight mindful movement - Yoga, Pilates and Qi-gong
Learn how to influence and enhance your well-being using those practices
Improve your mind-body-breath connection, increase vitality and move more comfortably