Let Your Heart Sing & Your Spirit Dance
A Vibrance Retreat
with Teacher Training Option
Faculty : Ashley Johnson & Ellen Watson
Guest Faculty :
May, 2024
Mexico
Join Ellen and Ashley, in Bali, at Mimpi for our 10 day Yoga, Dance, & Song retreat.
Both Yoginis with thousands of hours of practice and teaching under their belts, Ashley and Ellen developed VIBRANCE to awaken students and teachers alike to the idea that music, mantra, breath, dance, and asana are all yoga.
These time honored embodiment practices are designed to connect you to your own personal power, strength, and authenticity.
Retreat Schedule
Morning Practice: 7:00 - 9:00
Delicious Nutrition Break 9:00 - 10:30
Optional Teacher Training: 11 - 13:30 (6 days)
Afternoon Practice: 14:00 - 18:30
For retreaters, you'll have a nice break between brunch and afternoon practice for Spa, Pool, Rest, Relaxation.
We’ll schedule one morning free, allowing for a snorkel or scuba outing. We’ll schedule a visit to Shakti Temple for a water purification ceremony, and a Dewa Ayu Ceremony in a local village.
With their expertise and unique gifts Ashley & Ellen will guide you in daily practices that tune your personal musical instrument - your Body. Through use of Vibrance’s map of the 8 Chakras & the 8 Senses, we become vibrating, pulsing, energized, awake, engaged, inspired, intuitive and imaginative.
User friendly for all levels of experience, both students and teachers alike are inspired to reclaim your unique creative self-expression.
Taking Yoga Asana to the Dance Floor!
Under the skilled guidance of Ellen & Ashley, we’ll move effortlessly from the mat onto the dance floor.
Focus meets Fluidity
Vibration heals and reveals
Yoga, Sound and Dance compliment one another perfectly, linking breath, voice, movement and the play between structure and freedom.
For many teachers, bringing dance, sound and song into their yoga classes, provides a more enlivened and inspiring practice.
Open your Heart
Sing your Song
Dance your Asana
Fill your cup full of VIBRANCE.
Ellen and Ashley are both E-RYT-500 yoga teachers. Both practice & teach Pranayama, Bhakti, Seva, & Nada Yoga, along with partner yoga, yoga Nidra, and restorative yoga.
Both are Yoga Alliance Certified Providers of Continuing Education through YACEP.
Dance your Dance!
A Moving Meditation Practice, Vibrance engages the rhythms of Nature…the Wind, The Water, The Sun, The Earth, and The Ether. Powered by your heartbeat, fueled by your breath, and catalyzed by music from cultures both ancient and modern, you will sweat your prayers, shed your skin, and dance your dreams into manifestation.
Through the Vibrance Practice you will learn:
- To Dance as a moving meditation practice -
- To Tap into the liberated state of being a child -
- Your eight chakras and how to open them -
- Movements to embody earth, creativity, sexuality, power, heart, voice, vision, consciousness and to energize your aura -
- Move and dance through resistance and rigidity -
- Free your body from the issues held in your tissues -
- Transform fear into courage, curiosity and fascination -
- Frolic with delight -
- Allow your intuition and imagination to guide you to inspiration -
- The steps to move through the doorway of spinning, like a Whirling Dervish -
As a physical and metaphysical workout for mind, body, spirit and soul.
The VIBRANCE Practice prepares you for singing the song only you can sing….your Heart Song.
Sing your Song!
Through the practice of Heart Songs, You will experience the power of your unique voice. Your voice is one of your finest tools for expressing your heart and soul; for healing your body and letting your spirit soar.
As a professional singer, Ashley uses tools and techniques for opening her voice to allow sound from root to crown chakras. You will learn how to connect and balance your chakras through toning and sounding (making vibratory sounds without melody, rhythm, or words). Through sounding, mantra, and singing, we activate and engage all parts of ourselves, bringing us to a greater sense of integration, of being complete as we are. We become connected to our souls, and to our Spirit, through our Spirit.
Meet Your Faculty
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Ellen Watson
Celebrates her 35th year in the staff and faculty of the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California, where she studies, practices and teaches various ways of meditative practice, massage and movement. Ellen is a teacher of Esalen® Massage & Bodywork, 5Rhythms by Gabrielle Roth, Holotropic Breathing, SpiritDanceSoulSong®, Vibrance®, Touching Essence ™, Wake Up & Roar. From 1984 to 2003, Ellen developed and administered the Movement Arts Program in Esalen. In 1996 she founded MovingVentures (www.movingventures.org), which offers workshops, retreats and training courses in Esalen, Bali, China and other parts of the world. Visit: www.TheVibranceCollective.com, to learn more about Vibrance.
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Ashley Johnson
Ashley believes in the power of music, dance, story and song to facilitate wellness in a culture, vibrance in the individual and change in the world. She is a talented multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. She was born moving in the sacred rhythms of the earth and has also trained in ballet, tap, jazz, 5Rhythms, Soul Motion, is a Vibrance facilitator and Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher.
Ashley’s classes and workshops crack open constrictive patterns, inspire freedom in the body and mind and cultivate an expanded sense of creative possibilities. Her playful and integrative approach to creating community through singing and dancing catalyzes a trans-formative experience for students that results in an enlivened sense of well being.
