Effort & Ease: Moving Between Strength & Stillness ( A Day Retreat)

This isn’t just a yoga class or a day to “relax.”

It’s a structured experience designed to help you move between effort and ease, intentionally.

Most of us live on one side of that spectrum.
We either push, do, and stay in constant motion…or we collapse into rest without truly resetting.
This day is about learning, in your body, how to access both.

We begin with effort: strength, stability, and focused movement.
Then we shift into ease: recovery, stillness, and deep rest.

Through yang practice, sauna + cold exposure, yin, and yoga nidra, you’ll experience what it actually feels like to move between activation and rest and why both are essential.

You’ll leave having experienced strength, stillness, and rest and what it feels like when your system has space to shift between them.

This is a full-day, guided experience.Each part of the day is intentionally designed to build on the next:

• Build heat and strength
• Step out of doing and into rest
• Slow down and turn inward
• Fully integrate through rest

You’ll be supported through both movement and stillness, without needing to figure anything out on your own.

• 3 guided practices (Yang, Yin, Yoga Nidra)
• Access to sauna + cold plunge
• Lunch
• A full-day, intentionally structured experience
• A balance of movement, recovery, and rest

This retreat is for you if:

• You feel like you’re always “on” and don’t fully switch off
• You want to build strength and learn how to rest properly
• You’ve been craving a reset that actually shifts how you feel
• You want a day that’s structured, supportive, and intentional

You don’t need to be advanced, just willing to participate and meet yourself where you’re at.

Your guide for the day is Alison Réaume, a senior yoga teacher and educator known for her grounded, no-fluff approach to practice.

Her work sits at the intersection of structure and embodiment, blending traditional yoga with a modern understanding of the nervous system, energy, and capacity.

She creates spaces where students can move, rest, and explore without pressure, focusing less on how things look, and more on what they actually feel like in the body.

This retreat is an extension of that work, offering a structured container to experience both effort and ease, without needing to force either.

Info: Welcome & Arrival
Settle in, arrive into the space, and get oriented for the day ahead.

Info: Yang Yoga Practice (Strength & Heat)
A dynamic, energizing practice designed to build strength, create heat, and bring focus into the body.

Info: Sauna, Cold Plunge & Lunch (Recovery & Reset)
Step out of structured movement and into recovery.
Move between heat and cold, rest, and nourishment, allowing your system to downshift and recalibrate.

Info: Yin Yoga Practice (Stillness & Release)
A slower, grounded practice focused on long-held postures, deep release, and turning inward.

Info: Yoga Nidra (Integration & Rest)
A guided, restful practice to support full integration, allowing the body and mind to settle deeply before closing the day.

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