Die Magie von Sark
Monica's teaching is intuitive, grounded, and rooted in lived experience. Her practice offers focused caring guidance towards a deep experience of Yoga. Her guidance is attentive and caring, supporting a deep, embodied experience of Yoga rather than a prescribed performance. Monica brings a lightness and playfulness to her work.
Under the guidance of international Yoga teachers and through her own studies, Monica has learned to make space for creativity, integration, and the quiet joy of inner freedom.
The immersion is an invitation to journey through the many layers of our being to the knowing of our essence.
The Practice
This immersion is for you:
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If you may be sensing that something new wants to take shape
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If you are willing to question and open to slowing down
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If you are comfortable with nature, simplicity, and shared space
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If you feel ready to give yourself time without distraction
Places are intentionally limited to preserve intimacy and quality.
The Immersion
Places are intentionally limited to preserve intimacy and quality.
The intention behind each immersion is to: integrate presence, connection, and deep restoration; tend to our nervous system; fall in rhythm with the subtle pulse of life, our body, and our breath; immerse ourselves in the landscape of the island; align with the land and the elements; share in beauty, peace, warmth and community; restore intimacy with the creative source of our being, and uphold the growth of our adult conscious self.
Inhale is the movement of expansion, when consciousness becomes activated by the desire (kama) for creativity. Exhale is the integration, the absorption of the experience back into the vibratory field of potential (consciousness).
At their core, each immersion holds the same essential intention. Both are complete, whole experiences in themselves, rooted in presence, connection, restoration, and conscious growth. What distinguishes them is not the depth of the practice, but the dynamics through which the experience unfolds.
Spring carries the quality of expansion - a moment of becoming, opening, and emergence. Autumn carries the quality of integration - absorption, settling, and inward listening as we prepare for winter. Yet within each immersion, we both inhale and exhale. We open and we integrate. We arrive and we digest.The seasons guide us to connect with different energies of the same living rhythm, allowing the practice to meet us in a way that is honest to the moment, the land, and the body’s natural intelligence.
Our Focus
By virtue of being humans, we are compelled to seek understanding about our existence in the world. During the immersion we will explore the teachings of the Radiance Sutras, a tender dialogue between Shiva (consciousness) and Shakti (creation). Their intimate conversation reflects the sensual play of Spandan, the rhythm of expansion and contraction that underlies all existence.
The most tangible, direct expression of consciousness taking form in us is the experience of the breath. In our breath is the very language of life itself. In the breath we are whole and connected.
The body is the landscape of this experience. During the two immersions we will uncover ancient somatic wisdom through movement, breath practice (Pranayama), and presence. Tapping the primal awareness that manifests through the breath, we will let the body lead moment by moment into the wholeness of our being.
We will also examine the four Dharmas, our soul's desires known as purushartha. They are the ultimate goals of human life, and in order to thrive we need to live from all four.
If you seek to experience life unfiltered, if you wish to practice anew, if you love to feel deeply, join us for an exploration of these living threads of wisdom that bring awareness to our interaction with the creative powers that make us who we are.
I, Monica
Inquisitive, restless, permanently seeking and still learning not to take myself too seriously! After more than 30 years of Yoga, my practice has evolved to reflect new learnings and understanding. I’ve come to know that Yoga is experiential rather than performative and I take a multi-disciplinary approach to the practice, exploring traditional principles and combining them with my interests in science, quantum physics, buddhism, astrology, and functional anatomy.
For me the practice ultimately serves as a refinement of our perception of reality. It points to the transience of this physical being we call ‘I’, and reveals the magic, subtle power of the ‘Self’.