Coming Home is about coming home to yourself, meeting yourself just as you are, with kindness, stepping into love, exhaling, and resting.

This retreat allows you, to step out of the complexity of life, the engagement, the distraction and to listen deeply to your body, mind, and spirit. With spaciousness and companionship, we encourage you to delve deeper, to meet your resistances with curiosity, love, and tenderness – to journey deeply with your perfectly imperfect self.

This organic, home-grown retreat is hosted and held by the team here at Mana. We provide a caring environment and a daily schedule with resources for creative exploration. Our team will lead a series of soulful sessions to encourage you to deepen your own personal practice or try something new. From conscious movement to sound healing, nature mandalas, and interactive art, there will be a range of inspiration for you to integrate into your own creative process.

Coming Home Retreat at Mana:

What the retreat includes:

The weekend is an all-inclusive package, it includes 3 nights shared accommodation, 3 delicious vegetarian meals each day, all of the daily classes, and a resource gift bag to deepen self-exploration.

Retreat Schedule:

ARRIVE: Friday

Arrivals from 4 pm to settle in and Arrive
6pm-7pm Dinner & Welcome
7.30 pm-8.15 pm Deep Relaxation Session Deep relaxation, guided meditation & Qi Gong. We remain in noble silence until 10 am

UNION OF THE MIND AND BODY: Saturday
7:00-8:00 am Guided Meditation & Qi Gong – our morning meditation will invite us to deepen our connection with self and all that supports us
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast in Silence
10:00-11:30 am Welcoming Circle in Octagon – Introduction to the program, guides, and resources. Orient yourself with the resources available to help deepen your personal enquiry and unite our energies.
1:00-2:00 pm Lunch in Silence A small table for quiet sharing is available.
4:30-6:00 pm Gentle Yoga for your Body and Mind A nourishing practice to unite the body and mind through breath.
6:00-7:00 pm Dinner in Silence A small table for quiet sharing is available.
7.30 pm-8:30 pm Relaxation and Meditation Prepare to rest deeply. Silence through to after breakfast.

EMBODYING CREATIVE EXPRESSION: Sunday
7:00-8:00 am Gentle Morning Yoga Soften the mind to make way for soulful replenishment
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast in Silence
11:00-12:00 pm Chakra Dance -open to the wisdom of your moving body and explore sound and movement in a way that is fun and healing. No dance skills required!
12:00 – 12:30 pm Sound Bath – a healing sound journey to lay down and absorb following your explorative movement practice.
1:00-2:00 pm Lunch A silent table will be provided.
4:00-4:30 pm Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary Walk in silence up the Goddess Path
4:30-6:00 pm Kirtan Circle in the Sanctuary If you feel called to sing, come and join our community chanting. Enter a transforming healing space as we celebrate the gift of life through meditative chants and prayers.
6:00-7:00 pm Dinner A silent table will be provided.
7.30 pm-8.30 pm Movie Night Cozy up in the library for an inspirational light-hearted flick.

GIVING THANKS: Monday
7:00-8:00 am Gentle Morning Yoga Integrating with gratitude all that is.
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast
9:30-11:30 am Closing and Sharing Circle Giving thanks for all we have received: insight, awareness, silence, support, time with our precious selves. Commit to how we will sustain this in our daily lives
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch A time for farewells and giving feedback over a delicious meal.
1:00-2:30 pm Final check out time

Introducing

The Teaching Team

Jade Ferriere

Jade is a Holistic Therapist, Feminine Embodiment Facilitator, and Communications Manager here at Mana. Her work and her passion is helping women, become familiar with their inner dance to awaken to the precious gifts of power, delight, creativity and that most rare jewel – their authentic self.

Weaving together spiritual counselling, hypnotherapy, NLP, earth shamanic practices, sacred plant medicines, bodywork, dance and yoga, Jade guides experiences of inner transformation and sacred ritual that awaken a heart-centred journey of inner grace and wisdom.

Hedwig Bakker

Hedwig has been practicing meditation since 2000 and has completed many individual and group retreats. She has been leading meditation classes, courses and retreats since 2004 in India, Nepal, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. These many years of personal practice and leading retreats & courses have resulted in a richness of experience and genuine joy in sharing, guiding, and leading others in meditation practice. Hedwig’s courses & classes are universal and suitable for people from all walks of life, with or without any spiritual inclination. Her approach is joyful, gentle, practical, down to earth, and yet with a sense of lightness and humour.

Rebecca Leaker 

Yoga provides a pathway for deep self-discovery and transformation from the inside out. It provides practical tools for everyday life so that we can be the best version of ourselves on and off the mat. I am passionate about making the ancient science of yoga accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience. I have been practising yoga for 23 years and have experience teaching beginner, intermediate and private classes, preconception and pregnancy yoga, workshops, workplace yoga, meditation, yoga for children, yoga for people experiencing mental health issues, at festivals, and for students over 70. Our practice is to explore yoga with humour, playfulness, and compassion, to learn more about ourselves, the way, and why we do things if our patterns are serving us and other ways we may approach situations. Then the real magic occurs when we take lessons learnt on the mat into our daily lives.​

I bring this understanding and compassion to my role as a yoga teacher and am passionate about making yoga accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. I give a portion of my yoga earnings to inspiring projects responding to social and environmental issues with practical, innovative solutions.

Pippa Le Lievre

Welcome to ‘pranadance’!