Are you as excited as we are?!
Join our lighthearted and transformational workshops and immersive retreats in South Africa for the first time!
"They combine shamanic wisdom and scientific knowledge in a delightful manner."
- Adrian
THE RETREATS
4 DAYS
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NO MOBILE PHONES
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4 SESSIONS EACH DAY
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INDIVIDUAL PREPARATION CALL BEFORE RETREAT
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INDIVIDUAL INTEGRATION CALL AFTER RETREAT
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SILENT HOURS IN THE MORNINGS AND EVENINGS
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PENDULATION BETWEEN HIGH ACTIVATION AND DEEP RELAXATION
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A SMALL GROUP THAT SOON FEELS LIKE YOUR FAMILY
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HIGH QUALITY LECTURES ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
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RELATIONAL GAMES THAT PREPARE YOU FOR THE INTEGRATION INTO DAILY LIFE AND REVEAL WHAT IS POSSIBLE WITH YOUR LOVED ONES
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MUSIC, LIVE SONGS AND SOUNDSCAPES
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LIGHTHEARTEDNESS AND RIDICULOUSLY SERIOUS PLAY
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A NERDY MEDICAL DOCTOR AND A MUSIC WIZARD AS SPACEHOLDERS
We invite you to a gentle yet powerful retreat where your body is your greatest teacher.
What's it really like to be you?
Strengthen your ability to feel at the level of bodily sensation and intimately befriend your nervous system in its constant pendulation; 'Safe, unsafe, safe, unsafe, safe, unsafe..'
Learn how to effectively increase awareness, enjoyment and even pleasure in the presence of any feeling.
Train your system to handle more intensity and use life's challenges as opportunities to wake up and heal by going deeper into the felt sense of your body.
Experience how a safe nervous system unleashes the authenticity, joy, clarity and connection that your soul is hungry for!
Become fully autonomous in a practical, effective and integrative breathwork meditation practice that brings bodily intelligence to a whole new level in your daily life.
Increasing your emotional granularity and your capacity to be at peace with what you are feeling in your body lowers your baseline level of stress, heals trauma, expands consciousness and unlocks your natural health and vitality from within every cell of your organism.
"The way the sessions are guided and held by Robbin and Torunn feels super natural and welcoming, as they both live and breathe what they teach. The way they complement each other makes for a diverse, musically delicious and super insightful retreat experience."
- Elias
In a natural, safe, supportive and playful environment we create a potent opportunity to step up and take responsibility and control of your physical, mental and emotional health.
Instill in yourself a thorough understanding, the practical skill, and a deeply felt inspiration for how to use your breath and body awareness to embrace life's inevitable challenges as wonderful opportunities to wake up to more of your natural capacity to heal, love, laugh, lead, connect and create.
Every day starts with a morning practice, consisting of concentration, movement, breathing and relaxation to prepare your mind, body and spirit for the main work of the day, which is an in-depth breathwork session.
The main session includes a lesson explaining the underlying concepts, practical techniques, physiological and philosophical aspects of the practice empowering you to easily implement the practice when you come back home.
In the afternoons we dance, play, sing, share and explore relational exercises to integrate and deepen our understanding and experience of the healing power of breath and body awareness, and connect more deeply with the group as a whole.
THE WORKSHOPS
We offer two different workshops in both Johannesburg and Cape Town as an introduction to the retreats.
BREATH OF FREEDOM
Be safe in your body, be safe in the world
2 hour workshop
Welcome to a lighthearted and playful breathwork meditation. Using the breath to increase body awareness while simultaneously increasing relaxation is a potent way of regulating the nervous system as it lets us befriend and integrate unconscious emotional material in an embodied felt experience.
When we connect with ourselves in this intimate and curious way, we lay the foundation for connecting with others - an essential ingredient for the future of human beings.
Lay down, tuck yourself in, and let the fundamental pleasure of simply being alive reveal itself through experiencing yourself as a vital body booming with life moment to moment, healing you frmo within, accompanied by live music and steady guidance. The practice is suitable for everybody, as you will learn how to adjust the intensity according to your own capacity.
RELATIONAL ALIVENESS
Connect with each other, wake up together
2 hour workshop
Welcome to a workshop of self exploration in connection to others. With curiosity of what is happening in your body moment to moment, you allow a deeper and more authentic connection to be revealed.
Through detailed feeling and validating of whatever comes to the surface in you as you are with others, deeper and more intricate layers of human connection are experienced. This has profound effects on the nervous system and allows for new levels of safety and down-regulation of stress, which in turn opens up your perception of others and the world around you.
Get ready to befriend new aspects of yourself as you mirror yourself in others and empower yourself to deepen any relationship in your life.
In a playful and safe setting, this is a powerful practice in nervous system (co-)regulation
"Concrete practices that give more freedom in how I react and respond to my feelings and emotions."
- Håkon
CALENDAR
RETREATS
January 13-17
4 day immersive retreat
Melody Hill (1 hour from Johannesburg)
January 23-27
4 day immersive retreat
Fynbos Estate (1 hour from Cape Town)
WORKSHOPS
JOHANNESBURG
January 9
7.00–9.00pm
RELATIONAL ALIVENESS - Connect with each other, wake up together
Venue: The Dance Junxion, Bryanston
Cost: R290
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January 10
3.00–5.00pm
BREATH OF FREEDOM - Be safe in your body, be safe in the world
Venue: The Dance Junxion, Bryanston
Cost: R290
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CAPE TOWN
January 20
6.00–8.00pm
BREATH OF FREEDOM - Be safe in your body, be safe in the world
Venue: Valley Shala (79 Valley Road, Hout Bay)
Cost: R290
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January 21
6.00–8.00pm
RELATIONAL ALIVENESS - Connect with each other, wake up together
Venue: Valley Shala (79 Valley Road, Hout Bay)
Cost: R290
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Who are the facilitators?
Get to know us!
“Their approach is SOLID, and at the same time fluid & exploratory, allowing space for everyone to find their rhythm - helped us all dive deeper.
Maybe even more important - They are such sweet, fun, playful human beings - reminds me of the quote "Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly".
Having done 4 or 5 other breathwork retreats in the past year, I HIGHLY recommend theirs"
- Brad
The 4-day immersive retreats are held in serene South African surroundings with everything included
Melody Hill (1 hour from Johannesburg)
January 13-17
Sign up now“Very powerful and easy to learn methods for understanding your nervous system.”
- Kristian
Are you ready to gently SMASH your life into the next gear?
Sign up now to secure your spot!
APPLICATION FORM
Melody Hill (1 hour from Johannesburg)
January 13-17 2025
APPLICATION FORM
Fynbos Estate (1 hour from Cape Town)
January 23-27 2025
Practical Information
Price per retreat:
EXTENDED EARLY BIRD until 20th of December: 12 900 Rand
Standard price: 14 900 Rand
Prices include food and accommodation in shared rooms
Single rooms available for an additional cost
Sign up by filling out the corresponding application form
"Its hard to put words to an experience like I had at OYNS. Torunn and Robbin do this retreat with such kindness, generosity, humbleness and love and their sincere urge to help people by sharing their knowledge shines through.
In addition they do it with structure and professionalism so you genuinely feel that you are taken by the hand and lead through a transformative process.
They create a safe space for you to be vulnerable and teach you tools to explore yourself and heal.
I cannot recommend this experience enough. I truly belive that anyone will come out of it as a better person, more grounded and more in touch with yourself, your body and an unmistakable, embodied understanding of your full potential and how to access it.
Thank you again Torunn and Robbin"
- Sverrir
Curious?
Please reach out for a free exploration call!
Big fat hugs and shitloads of love,
Torunn & Robbin
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