Awaken Your Senses: A 4-Hour Sensory Retreat

AWAKEN YOUR SENSES

A four-hour retreat built around something we do every day, but rarely give our full attention to: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling.

Think about how often you drink something without really tasting it. Walk into a room without noticing its smell. Hear music while thinking about something completely different. Or move through an entire day while barely noticing what your body has been feeling.

For four hours, we’re going to do the opposite.

Awaken Your Senses is an experience built around slowing things down enough to actually notice them.

Not as something to master or achieve, but as a chance to become curious about what happens when your attention comes back to what is right in front of you.

Exploring the Senses

We’ll begin with the five senses themselves – noticing what happens when we give our full attention to something we see, smell, taste, touch or hear. Nic will guide the group through sensory experiences, reflection and conversation, with space to notice what comes up without needing to turn it into anything.

Tea & Snacks

We’ll pause for tea, light snacks, and time to talk, rest, or simply enjoy what’s in front of us.

Sensing Through the Body

Then we’ll bring that same attention into the body.

Olha will guide a slow, sensory-based movement and breathing practice. Rather than focusing on how a pose looks, we’ll notice what it actually feels like to be in the body – the weight of your feet against the floor, the temperature of the room against your skin, where you hold tension, how your breath moves, and how sensation changes when you move or become still.

You don’t need any yoga experience, and there’s nothing to perform or get right.

Listening Into Stillness

Movement will gradually give way to stillness and a live sound bath.

With your eyes closed and your body at rest, attention shifts toward listening – to the bowls, their vibration, the sounds around you, and the silence in between.

There’s nothing you need to follow. You can simply lie down and experience it.

Closing Circle

We’ll finish together, with a little time to reflect on what you noticed before returning to the rest of your day.

• Four-hour guided retreat
• Five Senses workshop and reflection
• Slow yoga and breathing practice
• Live sound bath with crystal bowls
• Tea, snacks and refreshments
• Curated retreat gifts inspired by the senses
• Complimentary experiences to use after the retreat
• All materials for the workshop

Please bring your own yoga mat, as mats will not be provided.

For the sound bath, feel free to bring anything that will help you get comfortable – a blanket, pillow, eye mask, warm socks, or an extra layer.

If there’s a small personal item that helps you feel grounded or settled, you’re welcome to bring that too.

A water bottle is also a good idea.

Everything else you’ll need for the retreat will be provided.

November 8
12:30–4:30 PM

Vitality BioMed
Suite 280, 7015 Macleod Trail SW
Calgary, AB

Energy Exchange
Early Bird – $139 (until October 10th)
Regular – $169

Hosted by Nic & Olha

Come comfortable. Come curious. You don’t need any previous experience with yoga, meditation, or sound baths.

Because this is a small retreat with limited space and materials, refreshments, and gifts prepared in advance for each guest, all ticket sales are final and non-refundable.

If you’re unable to attend, you’re welcome to transfer your ticket to another person. Just let us know in advance so we can update the guest information.

If the retreat is cancelled by us, ticket holders will receive a refund in accordance with Eventbrite’s policies.