Sacred Space:
50 hr Training in Ceremonial Facilitation
UPCOMING DATES:
December 6-11, 2024
January 31 - February 4, 2025
March 22-27, 2025
LOCATION:
CASA Kula, TZUNUNA, GUATEMALA
Yoga Alliance Certified course
with Julia Randall, CJ Ananda & Coby Hadas
“Although you appear in earthly form, your presence is pure consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light”
- Rumi
Looking to take the next step towards holding your own ceremonies, retreats or transformational workshops? Ready to fine tune your space-holding skills to support deep work in your students?
“Sacred Space Training” is a chance to work with three highly experienced space holders to learn the tools you need to know to master the fine art of ceremonial and transformational facilitation.
In the lush valley of Tzununa on the shores of one of the most energetically powerful places in the world, Lake Atitlan, we study and experience what it means to hold a safe and potent container for spiritual work.
Cultivating sacred space is an art, one that takes constant awareness and adaptability. Building a toolbox of skills and offerings, alongside an embodied understanding of how to work with a wide range of possible situations, will prepare you to draw out the threads you are looking for, ultimately building confidence and power in your work.
What You’ll Love about this Retreat…
In this 6 day, 50 hr Yoga Alliance-certified training we will explore the meaning, context and structure of sacred space, including; how to navigate the many facets of facilitating a supportive environment; the creation and maintenance of strong energetic boundaries; the nuances and skills of holding ceremony in multiple forms; techniques for deepening self study and integrating meaningful change; tools for cleansing and clearing; building resilience and adaptation ability as a facilitator; and the underlying art of opening yourself to the flow and being a channel for spirit.
Throughout the training you will receive multiple opportunities for experimentation and feedback amongst a group of like-minded and supportive peers, as well as receiving your own experience of a ceremonial sweat and full moon fire ceremony as offered by your skilled facilitators.
Join us to awaken the power of your spirit while living in a conscious eco-friendly community space tucked in the majestic mountains of incredible Lake Atitlán. Stand strong in your sovereignty and stay explorative in your collaboration, as you build trust in yourself as a facilitator. Learn the mastery of listening and observation as you co-create with Spirit. Step into your power as the master of ceremony that you are.
Highlights of the 50 hr Sacred Space Holding Training;
Learn with experienced facilitators Ananda, Coby and Jiya and receive your own powerful transformational experience
Learn how to set up, maintain and close a safe energetic container
Practice daily yoga and meditation overlooking the magnificent volcanoes of Lake Atitlan
Experience the power of traditional sauna and full moon fire ceremony
Acquire multiple tools and techniques for creating a supportive environment
Understand pre- and post-event management for a thorough and deep experience
Learn the key factors in building group strength and stability, including the use of intentions, sharing and one-on-one transformational work
Facilitate and receive feedback on your own group facilitation and ceremony as you build the skills and confidence to do it yourself!
Thrive in the simple, eco-friendly, nourishing environment of Casa Kula
WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT CASA Kula…
Casa Kula is the Guatemalan home of our Kula Collective co-founders. It is an eco-friendly and nourishing space, filled with all the comforts of home, including healing herbs, tropical fruits, loving animals and warm smiles. Casa Kula is located in Tzununa, in the western highlands of Guatemala, with stunning views of the serene Lake Atitlan and her volcanoes seen through banana palms, avocado trees and lush green coffee forests.
This grounding retreat space offers delicious vegetarian meals, daily yoga and meditation, a large temazcal sauna, beautiful lake-view teakwood yoga platform and flower-strewn ceremony and community areas as well as comfortable shared accommodation and glamping options. Given the limited availability of accomodations, many participants will stay in tents, with comfortable mattresses and bed side tables. Enjoy the stillness and beauty of the mountains supporting you in your process as you relax into the embrace of heart-centered community.
Typical Daily Schedule:
7-8.30 AM Morning Practice overlooking the lake and volcanos
8.30 - 10.00 AM Nourishing Guatemalan breakfast
10-12.30 PM Morning session and assessment
12.30 - 3 PM Free time to rest, study and explore
3 - 6 PM Afternoon session and assessment
6 - 7 PM Dinner
7 - 8 PM Ceremony and gathering
Meet your facilitators …
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CJ Ananda
Ananda facilitates 200 hour and 300 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, Shamanic Cleanses and Transformational Retreats giving each person the heartfelt attention and direct facilitation that cultivates ecstatic, healing and magical experiences. As a teacher, she sees each of her classes as an opportunity to hold sacred ceremonial space.
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Jiya Randall
Jiya is a deeply connected leader who roots her teaching in the healing energy of nature. Her teaching invites students to explore their own, unique unfolding, through profound awareness and trust in the wisdom of the Self. Through her studies with teachers and shamans across the world, Julia has developed a powerful sense of energetic connection and a strong set of philosophical and intuitive teachings, which she shares through creative hatha and yin yoga, sacred fire and medicine ceremonies, kirtan and healing therapies.
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Coby Hadas
Coby spent many years in Latin America reconnecting with the Earth, a connection often severed in modern suburbia. He sailed the Caribbean, learning just how deeply one can relax. He led groups of teenagers through dozens of countries and across five different continents. He spent much time in India where he lived 'Baba Life', renouncing material comforts and exploring the boundaries of meditation.
Pricing:
$1111 USD
Package Includes:
6 nights accommodation in shared room or private tent, 2 vegan meals daily plus snacks, yoga classes,
daily lectures, activities and practicums with feed forward
WHAT JIYA’S PARTICIPANTS SAY:
“Jiya is a true inspiration and a great listener. I contacted Jiya to help me find my way back to self love and to be more aligned with my higher self. She constantly reminded me that all answers are inside of me. Jiya helped me identify my core beliefs and made me understand that a lot of my thoughts & actions was based out of fear. So from self doubt and bad self talk I now know that I’m worthy to be loved. Jiya has the ability to push me back to my true self. I now know that I am enough. I’m so so grateful for all of your support, guidance and wisdom. Thank you so much Jiya for believing in me”
“Jiya has a special gift for working with and guiding people through a spiritual, physical and mental training program. She combines professionalism and fun in her teaching and accepts everyone as an equal student. During the training, Julia demonstrated her strengths as a compassionate, caring individual who has strong leadership and program development skills. I am grateful to have had the experience to learn from and build a relationship with Julia. I strongly recommend her as a teacher and know that her students will gain a better understanding of yoga and peace by working with her.”
“I would like you to know that you have been such an inspiration to me. You and the other facilitators and Kula founders made this training an unforgettable and true spiritual awakening to me. Thank you for holding space and facilitate all that. I honor you and hope we’ll meet again. Until then I will keep this journey, my opened heart and everything I learned alive.”
“Jiya, head facilitator, held our group with grace and joy and a wealth of knowledge. It made the journey that much richer and cemented the material in me in a profound way. I would absolutely recommend diving into one of Kula’s numerous trainings as I hope to do again in the near future!”
“She is a teacher who guided me to see things that were within me all along. Because of this approach to teaching I leant things that did not just stop at the yoga training but they have also stayed with me back home. Her dedication, truth and honesty is such a gift to be in the company of. She has such a vast amount of experience and knowledge and I am so grateful that she shares this with the world!”