Creative Empowerment

Awaken your creative spirit

As a child you may have received some benign career advice like "pursuing artistic talent is a waste of time..." and subsequently you have allowed other things to claim priority over your creative talent. But what happens when a creative urge is repressed? Supressed creativity may turn out to be one of the main reasons behind the pandemic use of anti-depressant pills.
 
The one thing that hinders creativity is lack of belief in the right to proclaim and develop one's talent. Beliefs are: "I can't afford the time to nurture my creative soul", or "I am not good enough", or "I will fail", or "I am too old", or "my creative longing is self-indulgent and a waste of time". Even one negative thought repeated over and again becomes a belief with the power to entomb the fledgling spark of a creative genius.

The Transform retreat will allow you to identify your self-defeating beliefs and to notice whether there is a creative voice behind it, waiting patiently to be heard. Perhaps there is an artist inside of you waiting to emerge - or perhaps a director, a designer, an entrepeneur, a singer, a writer, a photographer, a life coach, a healer.
 
We will be using established techniques to take you deep into your creative self to look at what is holding you back and what steps you can take to honour and claim your talent.
 
Through powerful and practical techniques such as yoga, meditation, creative visualisation, goal setting, mask work, drawing, self enquiry, vision boarding, chanting, singing & dancing we will awaken your innate creativity and discover the person you were born to be.

The Program

Sunday: Arrivals from 12:00 noon
1:00: Welcome Brunch
2:00: Unpacking/Settling in
3:00 – 6:00: Individual 'Goal Setting' coaching with Rosie
(Half hour slots from 3 – 6)
6:30 - 7:30: Yoga Nidra with Lelly:
7:30 – 9:00: Mocktails, welcome meeting & supper
9:00: Inspiring Talk: Yair Sagy on The Chakras

Monday: Roles & Core Values
09:00 - 10:30: Yoga Class
10:30 - 11:30: Breakfast
12:00 – 2:00: Introductory Creative Session: what is creativity?'
course objectives & overview, meeting your support 'buddy'
sharing/discussing your Life Chart with your buddy
2:00 – 3:00: Lunch
3:00 – 5:00: 2nd Creative Session
Defining our various 'roles' & our core values: Pinpointing which roles/values we wish to develop
5:00 - 6:30: Time to reflect/write/walk or enjoy a holistic therapy
6:30 - 7:30: Evening Meditation (introduction to meditation with Lelly)
7:30 - 9:00: Mocktail & Supper
9:00: Optional Inspiring TED Talk: Sir Ken Robinson on creativity & education

Tuesday: Taking off the Mask
09:00 - 10:30: Yoga Class
10:30 - 11:30: Breakfast
12:00 – 2:00: 3rd Creative Session: Mask Work: Identifying our masks. Deciding which 3 masks we are ready to give up & why. Decorating our masks, pinpointing 1 gesture per mask/removing them
2:00 – 3:00: Lunch                        
3:00 – 5:00: 4th Creative Session: Clutter & Distraction.
Making a list of activities/distractions/mindsets that do not serve us or our creativity. Simplifying & 'tidying' our lives in order to clarify what is really important to us.
5:00 - 6:30: Time to reflect/write/walk or enjoy a holistic therapy
6:30 - 7:30: Evening Meditation (Creative Visualisation with Rosie) 
7:30 - 9:00: Mocktail & Supper
9:00: Optional Inspiring TED Talk: Dr Jill Bolte ‘My stroke of genius’

Wednesday: Nurturing Myself
09:00 - 10:30: Yoga Class
10:30 - 11:30: Breakfast
12:00 – 2:00: 5th Creative Session: Self Nurture through discipline: creating a creative haven, good diet, exercise, spiritual practice, gratitude, being true to your creativity daily.
2:00 – 3:00: Lunch  
3:00 – 5:00: 6th Creative Session: Stop/Start List: specific things we can give up/start doing daily to increase self nurture.
5:00 – 7:00: Optional Gourmet Creative Cuisine Workshop (€25 per person) or time to reflect/write/walk or enjoy a holistic therapy
7:00 – 8:30: Gourmet Creative Cuisine Supper (€15 no-workshoppers)
8:30 – 9:30: Inspiring Seminar: What to Eat & How to Eat It
                   (Kaliyoga Nutritionist Veronika Poola)

Thursday: Naming & Embracing My Talents
09:00 - 10:30: Yoga Class
10:30 - 11:30: Breakfast
12:00 – 2:00: 7th Creative Session: Intuitive Drawing Workshop to access our inner artist: led by Kalyani Sandrapragas-Bryant
2:00 – 3:00: Lunch                        
3:00 – 5:00: 8th Creative Session: Naming our creative attributes:  self limiting beliefs that hold us back/changing our minds to move forward, Remembering a time that we felt most creatively fulfilled & finding a gesture to express this.
5:00 – 6:30: Silence - write a poem to express the essence of you.
                    Find an object in nature that represents you.
6:30 - 7:30: Creative Visualisation:  ‘Seed’ Meditation with Rosie
7:30 - 9:00: Mocktail & Supper
9:00: Movie: Louise Hay: You Can Heal Your Life

Friday: Visualising My Future
09:00 - 10:30: Yoga Class
10:30 - 11:30: Breakfast
12:00 – 2:00: 7th Creative Session: Creating your vision board & sharing it with the group
2:00 – 3:00: Lunch                        
3:00 – 5:00: 8th Creative Session: The daily (baby) steps we can take to bring our dreams to life (personally/professionally)
5:00 – 6:30: Time to reflect/write/walk or enjoy a holistic therapy
6:30 - 7:30: Cleansing Ritual/Sankalpa Offering with Lelly
7:30 - 9:00: Mocktail & Supper
9:00: Ecstatic Dance Workshop with Lelly/Rosie

Saturday: Making My Dreams come True
07:00 -8:00: Optional Yoga Self Practice
8:00 – 9:00: Breakfast
9:00 – 12:00:  Individual ‘checking out’  one to one coaching consultations with Rosie: Creating a 12 month calendar
12:00: Fond Farewells - transfers to Malaga airport

* Please note that whilst the course material is fairly fixed, the daily schedule may be subject to minor changes according to time constraints or energy levels of the group.