Guest Teacher Program
Karen Kurzmeyer
February 10th – February 17th, 2024
I have witnessed how many leaders, changemakers, organizers, helpers, seekers, and practitioners are feeling bone weary. Depleting resources have contributed to more stress and anxiety within the work environment, but also within our bodies. Feeling scarce in our body is vulnerable, often translating as I have nothing more to give.
Reclaiming Wholeness Retreat is an invitation to lay down the weight of responsibilities you carry in daily life and start reclaiming a more real, in-timate, and liberated experience of yourself, your needs and desires.
This means actually slowing down first in order to replenish your system – because joy, freedom and creativity are the outcome of replenished ener-gy. It means filling your cup first.
On this retreat we begin to do that by allowing the natural beauty of our surroundings in Thailand be an inspiration. When we trust ourselves to slow down, stillness, silence and breath become our refuge, from which spaciousness and clarity begin to emerge. While somatic gentle move-ment, yoga practices and meditation will be the foundation for change.
Our embodied experience guides our thoughts and actions, so that we can respond intelligently to our challenges, we can also collaborate joyful-ly and effectively with others. Ultimately, supporting each other in creating more meaningful impact in the world.
Karen first visited Samahita Retreat in 2013, as a driven and over-worked business owner. It was a transformative experience on a physical, mental and emotional level. As a former ballet dancer, connecting the body, mind and heart felt like coming home. She never looked back, returned to complete her initial yoga teacher training with Dr Paul Dallaghan and Arielle Nash, sold her company and continued to return each year, completing 1100 hours training as her own practice evolved.
Karen is a certified Integral Faciliator having studied with Diane Musho Hamilton, a master facilitator, mediator and Zen Roshi. The training incorporating developmental psychology, Zen awareness with an Integral approach had a profound effect on the way she connects to the world around her and approaches her work and life.
She’s currently studying a Mastery program with Suzanne Anderson. This in-depth integral leadership development program for women explores the evolutionary capacity for women to live, love and lead with a whole new level of consciousness and leadership capacity.
Karen creates sincere, high-touch spaces for stillness, movement and self-enquiry, where individuals are able to integrate mindful embodied awareness and awaken to their innate wisdom, courage and potential.
She lives in Switzerland and is a mother of three sons.
10 February 2024:
5pm Opening Circle + Gentle Post-Flight Restorative | Welcome Buffet Dinner
17 February 2024
8.00 – 9.30am Closing Circle + Meditation + Gentle Yoga | Brunch
Room Check Out: 12:00 | Safe Travels
6:45am | Coffee/Herbal Tea |
7.00am – 7.25am | Self Silent Cycle (Optional and subject to availability) |
7:30am – 8:15am | Morning Pranayama, Meditation |
8:30am – 10:00am | Energizing Yoga Practice |
10:00am – 13:00 | Brunch Buffet* |
11.00am – 4.30pm | Free Time (massage, holistic therapies, swimming, reading, excursions, relaxing …) |
4.30pm – 6.00pm | Evening Mindful Yin, Restorative or Yoga Nidra Meditation Practice, Workshops, Dis-cussion, Q & A |
18.00 | Dinner Buffet (18.00-20.00 Herbal Steam Room available) |
*Buffet: 8:00 am Lite Breakfast, 10.00 am Hot Breakfast, 11:00am Lunch
The Heart of Samahita is found in its impressive mix of facilities that provide the space for your experience, as well as through the food where tasty and healthy merge powerfully, and in our quality mix of guest rooms, where you can stay in the highest of standards right at the beach or find rooms to suit all budgets from beach to garden. And when here you can also paddle board, kayak and snorkel, amongst other activities. Feel free to take a tour and find out where Samahita is located.