You can return to flow.
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Imagine returning to a time when you were fully supported, completely safe and at home in your being.
These two life-changing modalities and this incredible communal experience will bring out the peaceful adventurer in you!
Come join us in Hilo, Hawaii for an incredible, once in a lifetime experience in releasing and integrating your stress and coming home to flow and ease in your soma!
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SOMA is your physical body including your:
-thoughts- -feelings- -beliefs- -life experiences-
-intuition- -spirit- -energy field- -essence-
First we will join as a community to practice a powerful series of movements to calm your nervous system and release your tight muscles.
Then during the following days, each person will have private Hanna Somatic Education sessions followed by WRT Water Release Therapy® sessions to further your new, rejuvenated state of being.
These two modalities combined with reset your musculature structure and nervous system at deep, long-lasting level.
PLUS: GORGEOUS BEACH ADVENTURE DAYS, VOLCANO HIKE, A GLORIOUS WHALE SONG BOAT TRIP, TURTLES & DOLPHINS, HEALTHY DELICIOUS FOOD, ECSTATIC DANCE and COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITY!
Flow Your Soma, Murietta Hot Springs, CA - April 2025
You will feel deeply calm and at ease and leave this retreat with a whole new body, being and perspective on your life and what is truly possible.
Included:
Airport Transfer​
3 healthy, delicious meals a day (and to go lunches for excursions)
7 nights accommodation at beautiful Sundari Permaculture Farm and Retreat Center​
2 Hanna Somatic Bodywork Sessions
2 WRT Water ReleaseTherapy® Sessions
Hanna Somatic Movement Workshops
Full Moon Gazing nighttime volcanic soak
Volcano and Waterfall Hikes
Sing with the Whales Boat Trip
Ecstatic Dance
Quantum Light Breath
Soma Rasa Presence Workshop
Hold Your Spot!
Cost $3800
Deposit: $500
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Pay in full the remainder and get a 60 min movement session with Aimee and 60 min emotional support session with Kim.
Pay by Zelle : 541-210-4528
Pay by Venmo : @aimeetakaya
CC payments available with 3% fee
Text : 541-210-4528 to set up your payment
Payment plans available!
Note: This retreat is family friendly and we will have support for families and children for an additional cost.
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Please inquire with Kim or Aimee about bringing your family!
Email: aimee.takaya@gmail.com
Flow Your Soma, Grand Cayman Island, February 2025
Flow Your Soma Sample Schedule
Opening Circle, Somatic Movement Workshop with Aimee & Dinner at retreat location
Day One:
Flow Your Soma Sessions - Free Time Before and After Your Sessions
Day Two:
Morning Movement Class, Gentle Adventure Day : Turtles and Beach Time
Day Three:
Volcano Hike, Beach Time, Dinner at Retreat Location and Somatic Movement Class
Day Four:
Flow Your Soma Sessions - Free Time Before and After Your Sessions
Day Five:
Singing with the Whales Boat Trip
Evening Movement Class, Quantam Light Breath and Soma Rasa Workshop
Day Six:
Morning Movement Class, Vocal Activaction Workshop, Beach Time and Dinner at Retreat Location
Day Seven:
Morning Movement and Closing Circle
Day Eight:
About the Practices
Hanna Somatic Movement
Ever feel a tight muscle in your neck and shoulder and wish you could "undo" the contraction and release the pain?
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This is exactly what you learn to do in Hanna Somatic Movement. This little known modality of movement and bodywork is incredibly effective at training your nervous system to release chronically contracted muscles.
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Every life experience comes with a muscular pattern: from daily stress, sitting at a desk to major traumas and car accidents. These tension patterns layer on our bodies and create immobility, pain and discomfort.
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Using this powerful, gentle, deeply sensuous movement technique, you will release and lengthen tight muscles back to a more natural length and feel a sense of peace, calm and freedom within your body, mind and spirit.
Gently Releasing Lower Back Tension with Hanna Somatic Movement
Private Hanna Somatic Bodywork
You will be expertly guided and assisted in addressing your specific aches, pains and challenges with gentle, loving touch.
Hanna Somatic Body work is a rapidly effective neurological-muscular re-education method that effectively reduces muscle tension, pain and disconnection.
It is generally painless and deeply relaxing and because it is your nervous system making the changes and adjustments, the effects are often deep and long-lasting.
You will learn where and how your body is holding tension and what you can do to release what binds you.
After the bodywork you may feel:
-ready for nap!
-ready to move!
-deeply calm and centered in your self-energy
-a sense of ease and flow in movement
-optimistic and joyful
-impressed your body's ability to find peace
About the Accomodations
Sundari Gardens
Rainbow Shala is a sustainable retreat in Hawaii with stunning 180° ocean views, built from recycled shipping containers and powered by solar energy with rainwater catchment. Set on 10 acres with gardens, trails, and a yoga shala, it offers four private rooms, two semi-private nooks, and additional glamping options. Guests enjoy a screened living room, fully equipped kitchen, event space for up to 150, flush and compost toilets, showers, Starlink WiFi, and laundry, ideal for eco-conscious retreats and group stays.
About the Facilitators
Aimee Takaya
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is a movement expert specializing in Hanna Somatic Education, Somatic Yoga, Prenatal and Restorative Techniques for returning your body to ease, balance and power.
During the first part of her movement career she taught a rather dogmatic and intense form of yoga that was her first medicine. Being a rather ambitous and passionate person, she ended up injuring herself with too much back-bending and ignoring her bodies signals.
She discovered Hanna Somatics through her father and began to unwind her stress, trauma and injuries on a whole new level.
She is now certified as a Hanna Somatic Educator. She works internationally with Heart-led leaders to help them develop somatically to release tension and pain, perform at a higher level in all they do and enjoy their lives truly, madly and deeply.
In addition, she is a self-taught whole food plant-based chef and a kitchen witch who loves to share nourishing and delectable food with her community.
Kim Ureta
The water has always been my place of calm, and more recently I found my truest self waiting for me there.
I found WRT Water Release Therapy® at the perfect time; I was healing from a neck injury and working through re-parenting myself in therapy. What better place to release trauma? Surrounded by healing molecules, ready to receive and transmute negative energy back into love.
My passion has always been learning about the human body and how to unravel the physical and emotional patterns that keep us from feeling free. Being in water means I can allow the warm water to do the work and I can be present for the other person’s holistic experience. Bringing joy back into bodies, floating in a pool full of safety and peace.
Being supported in water is so precious. I’m so honored to serve others to release their burdens, and rediscover connection to Divine love. WRT Water Release Therapy® is the perfect blend of nurturing and joyful exploration. Allowing for comfort, and hinting toward what’s possible.
I currently teach online every Monday; Processing Emotions with Nervous System Regulation tools. Particularly for those working through addiction and co-dependency.
William Davis
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Just a little about how I got here, teaching and practicing Hanna Somatic Education (HSE). I was an athlete as a teenager and discovered Aikido as a college exchange student in Japan.
I studied and eventually taught it for most of the next 3 decades. During that time, I sustained injuries both on the mat and in other situations, auto accident, falling at work, etc.….
Enough so, that when I discovered Bikram Yoga in my 40s I committed myself to it and eventually taught it. But it didn’t resolve all my pain.
It was with HSE that all my pain was resolved. I say resolved and not gone, because the pain from crushing my right heel may never completely go away. I continue to this day to work with it and get more use all the time. It has been the source of great learning and continues to be.
It has been with both the individual sessions of work and the movements that I have gotten relief. The individual sessions target the specific areas of trauma and/or pain. And the movements are daily practice that keeps me moving with ease.
I began practicing HSE in 2008. I began the formal training with the Novato Institute in 2010, completing my training and certification as a Hanna Somatic Educator in 2013. Later that year I joined the teaching team and have served on that team as a Teaching Assistant and Student Teacher in an additional 16 learning modules.
I am a member in good standing in the Association for Hanna Somatic Education, http://hannasomatics.com
Amanda Richardson
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Hi! I’m Amanda
Growing up in Southern California loving the water, swimming in pools, teaching swim lessons, many beach days in the summer, I never realized how healing water truly is. It was always just a part of me.
It wasn’t until I went to massage school in 2016 that I found out the healing magic of water. My first massage teacher was also an aquatic therapy giver. In the first week of school, she showed us videos of her water practice.
I knew right then my purpose for choosing this career path. Now as a practitioner in WATSU ™, having studied in Oregon, Washington, California, and India, I open my arms and invite you to experience the healing of the warm waters. Watsu takes you on a journey deeper inside yourself. It can be a stand-alone therapy or paired nicely with massage.
And is great for all ages!
Other offerings include Baby Watsu, Pregnancy Massage & Watsu, and Swim Lessons.
See you in the water!
Now serving the High Desert & Inland Empire
Instagram- @waterofthedesert
Hold Your Spot!
Cost $3800
Deposit: $500
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Pay in full the remainder and get a 60 min movement session with Aimee and 60 min emotional support session with Kim.
Pay by Zelle : 541-210-4528
Pay by Venmo : @aimeetakaya
CC payments available with 3% fee
Text : 541-210-4528 to set up your payment
Payment plans available!
Note: This retreat is family friendly and we will have support for families and children for an additional cost.
​
Please inquire with Kim or Aimee about bringing your family!
Email: aimee.takaya@gmail.com
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