Moving Through Stillness

somatic meditations to support your new year transition

Sunday, Dec. 27th evening through Tuesday, Dec. 29th midday

KRIPALU retreat center (Stockbridge, MA)

Move with your vitality and nourish easefulness

Join this restorative retreat with a process that cultivates bodily ease, a centered mind, and a peaceful heart.

Combining several forms of meditative and contemplative process, along with writing and reflection, you will be guided on a journey to reduce stress levels, tune into yourself with tenderness, and close out this year with the energy of embodied presence and renewal.

The turning of the new year asks us to look inwards and check in with  ourselves. This program offers time and space to reflect, to forge meaning from the year that's ending, and let the language of your body speak through a guided somatic awareness process.

Slow down, to feel and express through your body

This is your opportunity to tend to your heart and to bring your mind into a quality of deep listening. This is a space built through meditative movement that guides your awareness into deeper self-learning.

When we forge a conscious process to move beyond language and into our sensory system, and to draw learning and meaning from what we experience, we transform at a level that we are not often afforded in our day-to-day lives.

Closing this year with kindness, remembering ourselves and each other, and connecting with the natural world, we come into greater resonance with our heart’s longing. And what emerges within us, we bring home and into the rest of our lives.

In this program, you will be guided through:

• Meditation in walking, supported sitting, and laying

• Gentle guided movement and body-centered practices

• Time for reflection, rest, and personal writing

• A compassionate community, to be held in what is unearthed in your whole self: body, mind and heart

NOTE: Please wear clothing for movement and time on the floor, including layers for warmth. Please bring a notebook and pen.  

*This retreat is for all adults, of all ages and stages of life. Some meditation experience is suggested, but all are welcome, including those for whom meditation has felt challenging in the past.

CONTACT KRIPALU to register: Moving Through Stillness with Sandrine Harris

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR: SANDRINE HARRIS

Sandrine shares dynamic experiences of embodied presence, creativity, and connection internationally. The process she engages in is trauma-sensitive, earth-connected, and inclusive of bodily and lived experience. Her work is collectively named Emergent Nature.

Sandrine is a Somatic Experiencing® (SEP) and Pain Reprocessing practitioner who collaborates in integrating lived experience and healing trauma, stress, and chronic pain patterns. As a Feldenkrais® Practitioner (GCFP), Qi gong facilitator, and former professional dancer, she offers sensory- and awareness-based movement to awaken curiosity, relate with environment, and expand self-learning. Facilitating meditation grounded in waking up to our whole human experience, Sandrine's journey in learning and practicing meditation began in 2006 in New York City.

Sandrine has spent more than a decade in somatic and meditative process with adults healing from violence, incarceration, cycles of addiction, illness, and mental health challenges. She is a Death Doula, accompanying humans in their end-of-life journey, and a grief practitioner. As a consultant, she regularly serves organizations in becoming trauma-educated and in learning how to meditate.

Sandrine is heartened to continue her own healing, based in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.