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~ A Somatic Healing and Family Constellation Retreat
Date: June 14-15 (Saturday-Sunday), 2025
Time: 10am-6pm
Where: Tucked away in the valley of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Detailed Info:
Retreat consists of a two-day journey, gently and mindfully guided with practices based on somatic awareness, authentic movement, constellation work, and embodied reflection.
Embodied Constellation integrates constellation work and somatic practices with more intention and awareness. It offers a quantum perspective that empowers a new paradigm within our current dynamic, offering accelerated shifts from old concepts and patterns that held us back before. Integrating symbolic language, somatic sensation and quantum perspective, this retreat offers an empowering radical perspective for healing and alignment with our personal power and soul path.
Constellation work invites each person to connect with their body from a place of feeling rather than thinking. It strengthens intuition and enhances our somatic awareness and relational understanding. Somatic practices nourish, deepen and support our constellation experience by enabling us to listen deeper and move beyond distraction, thought, habit and conditioning into a greater state of open awareness and connection with ourselves, the gifts of our ancestry, and our higher purpose.
There will be a balanced and complementary focus on both individual exploration and collective presence. The intention of this retreat is to support both our personal and collective evolution and healing in an easeful, playful and creative way that inspires us with new insight and potential!
Come with an open heart and mind. No previous experience necessary.
What is somatic healing?
Somatic Healing is a means of resolving inefficient movement patterns and chronic pain that the body has developed through tension, stress, trauma or bad habit. It re-educates the sensory motor system to recover innate abilities for greater voluntary muscular control and helps release chronic neuromuscular contraction patterns and limited range of movement. Somatic healing nourishes and improves the functioning of the whole person.
What is Family Constellation?
Family Constellation work uncovers and releases unconscious ancestral entanglements that affect all aspects of a person’s health and wellbeing. Through being born into a family, we inherit not only our biological genes, but also belief systems and behavioural patterns that we typically are unaware of or that show up in our personal relationships. Family constellation work enables us to work beyond any story or drama of the past. It brings healing to the present situation that will have a positive impact on all generations, past and present. This work honours all those who came before and recognises the power of re-including any family members who have been excluded which results in profound healing and transformation.
In a group setting, we work with one person’s intention or a shared collective focus. We will set-up a constellation that will involve other members of the group standing in as ‘representatives’ for this person’s family members or aspects within the dynamic we will explore. Whether you are watching the constellation unfold or are a representative involved in the constellation – the healing transcends to bring healing to your own individual circumstance.
Cost:
Without accommodation: $3500
With accommodation:
- Communal space tatami-style $4000
- Private bedroom $4300
Price includes a wholesome vegetarian wellness lunch prepared by local chef, Novy’s Kitchen.
Limited spots available – group size will be kept to 6-8 participants to honor space for intimate connections and personal deepening
About the Facilitator
Dance artist, constellation work facilitator, somatic movement practitioner, holistic therapist and intuitive healer, Laura Sarah Dowdall creates transformational experiences that uplift, empower and inspire people towards greater joy, health,happiness and freedom!
Laura’s passion is helping people get out of their heads and into the wisdom of their bodies. As a socially-engaged dance artist, Laura has collaborated with communities through residencies, performance projects, creative wellbeing retreats, and inclusive dance programs.
Check out Laura’s retreats, one to one sessions and weekly somatic movement sessions online: https://healingyoga.ie/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/healingyogasoma/ https://www.instagram.com/laurasarahdowdall/
About the Space
Surrounded by the lush landscape of Mui Wo, Ning’s Yard is a community retreat center for the healing arts based on sustainable and craftsmanship design. The project started in 2020 with the mission to create a holistic space dedicated to embodied practices and spiritual cultivation for collective well-being.
This is the first public retreat hosted in Ning’s Yard and will be a special inauguration of the space.
About the Host
Liane Mah (she/her) is a movement artist whose work is based on ecological art practices which explores the rich intersection between embodied practice, environmental philosophy, and ecological thinking. Her work is informed by land-based practices rooted in deep listening and affective relating, and seeks to attend to relational work in communities through empowering collective embodied responses. As a creative explorer straddling between cultures and places, she is inspired to engage in emergent processes and spaces that explores decolonial approaches to ecology, land, knowledge sharing and solidarity. Her vision of creating a space places special emphasis on nurturing a welcoming environment for community engagement.
Retreat Outline
DAY 1:
10am
Arrival
Opening Circle
Somatic Movement: Unravel and Release
Enjoy a nourishing somatic journey to centre the mind, unravel the body and anchor you into the present moment and the voice of your body.
Through this journey we will explore repatterning and renewing our hard-wired habits so we can open the body – mind to new potential and possibilities.
Constellation Mandala
A practical exercise to gain insight and perspective on any question, issue or intention you are working with and how we can shift, adapt and change our experience through this process.
Lunch – picnic by the sea
Somatic Sensing
A practice to recognise our yes and our no, to gain insight into our body’s nonverbal expressions and the powerful insights it offers.
Group Constellation
Through observation and representation you will learn about and experience the resonant field and the wisdom, personal healing and insight it imparts to each of us. We will explore a shared topic through this embodied group experience and witness the unfolding grace and unique insight constellation work offers us.
Somatic Integration
Grounding eco-somatic meditation to integrate our journey and enable deep restorative rest and relaxation.
day two:
10am
Authentic Movement
Non verbal silent practice to help gather, express and process sensation, impulse & instinct.
This beautiful practice invites us to observe with curiousity and participate from a place of empty unfolding. It is an opportunity to trust, allow, and deepen your connection with your true self.
Group Constellation
experience the power of the group constellation process and the personal insight and collective learning it offers.
Lunch
Systemic Constellation
A Practice focused on generational healing and restoring the flow of energy and unconditional love through the family line.
Embodied Constellation
This special container will enable our personal constellation to reveal itself within the collective journey of the group, supported by our movement, sound, interaction, space, solo and group practice.
Somatic Integration
Practice of releasing and letting go, emptying and creating space for new beginnings and possibilities
Sharing Circle – Closing
One to One sessions to further support your process will be available before and after the retreat – in person and online, contact laura@healingyoga.ie to book your session.
participant experience:
“The retreat was enlightening, re-connecting and relaxing. Laura makes it a very special experience.
I feel energised, refreshed, rested, reconnected, grateful, open and relaxed.” (Geraldine)
“I found the entire experience very fulfilling. I really enjoyed the dancing after initially being quite inhibited. I feel happy, open, warm, light and invigorated.” (Ann)
“I loved Laura’s energy and enthusiasm. The weekend was fabulous, creative, thoughtful, inspired, fun and playful. I am feeling inspired, connected, spacious, joyful, unbridled, powerful, sensual, happy, free, loving, safe, grateful, vibrant and whole.” (Victoria)
Your retreat host
Laura brings her expertise as a Dancer, Yogi, Energy Healer, Intuitive, Family Constellation Work Facilitator and Somatic Movement Therapist to take you on a journey of embodied bliss, reconnection, joy and new potential!
WELCOME!
This is a unique and powerful journey process that creates healing that will ripple into all aspects of your life and that of your family.
The ancestral and land healing aspect of this workshop will radiate healing to our ancestors of the past, our family of the present and generations yet to come.
For more information & videos see- Facebook & Instagram
Email me with any questions: laura@healingyoga.ie
Click here to: Read more about Family Constellation work!
client feedback:
“I attended Laura’s vitality retreat weekend, not knowing what to expect. The energetic work that I gained over the retreat weekend was commented on by my acupuncturist afterwards. He assured me that my whole energy body had changed and asked me the reason for it! Since then, I have continued to reap great benefits from the healing work Laura offers through workshops, one to ones sessions and weekly online classes.
Laura has amazing psycho-spiritual skills to facilitate groups. Her sessions are intrinsically multidimensional in nature. She works in such a holistic way: cognitively, emotional, spiritually, bodily. I have done yoga for years and travelled extensively around the world doing all kinds of healing and yoga workshops. It is not an exaggeration to say that Laura is attuned to a Higher Consciousness. I could not recommend her enough!”
– Noelia, Psychotherapist, 2022
