Return to Your SELF - A Midwinter Urban Day Retreat with Tyke

As winter settles in and the longest nights invite us inward, there is a quiet wisdom in the season.

Nature isn’t rushing to bloom. The trees have shed what they no longer need. Beneath the surface, everything essential is gathering strength for the seasons to come.

In the midst of a city glowing with lights, celebration, and anticipation, this retreat offers something different: a chance to pause. To breathe. To listen beneath the noise. To reconnect with yourself before another year begins.

Rather than asking, “Who do I want to become?” we’ll ask a gentler question:

Who am I when I let go of everything I’m not?

This immersive one-day retreat is an invitation to soften into the season. Through embodied movement, meaningful reflection, community, music, and deep rest, we’ll journey through practices designed to help you release what feels heavy, reconnect with your Inner SELF, and cultivate a Sankalpa—a heartfelt intention that arises not from striving, but from remembering.

Together we’ll move.

We’ll reflect.

We’ll laugh.

We’ll share nourishing food.

We’ll celebrate the simple joy of being fully alive in our bodies.

As darkness gently settles outside, we’ll close the day in candlelit stillness, allowing everything we’ve uncovered to settle into the heart.

Leave feeling lighter, clearer, and deeply rooted—not because you’ve become someone new, but because you’ve remembered who you’ve been all along.

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The Journey

Arrival

We’ll begin slowly with tea, nourishing snacks, and space to settle into the day. A gentle arrival into community before turning our attention inward.

Like the first moments of twilight, this is an invitation to slow your pace, soften your breath, and arrive exactly as you are.

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Embodied Vinyasa Flow

Our morning practice awakens both body and mind through intentional movement.

Expect an embodied flow that invites strength, softness, curiosity, and presence—helping you reconnect with your body as a place of wisdom rather than something simply to control.

Together we’ll generate warmth from within, creating energy that carries us into the deeper work of the day.

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Sankalpa Workshop

The heart of the retreat.

Through guided journalling, contemplative exercises, partner reflection, and gentle inquiry, we’ll explore the stories, beliefs, and patterns we’ve been carrying throughout the year.

Winter teaches us that letting go is just as sacred as growth. Before new intentions can take root, we first create space for them.

From this place of honesty and compassion, you’ll uncover your personal Sankalpa—an intention that reflects your deepest values and the authentic expression of your Inner SELF.

Unlike resolutions built on self-improvement, a Sankalpa is rooted in remembering who you’ve always been.

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Shared Brunch

A nourishing pause.

Time to eat, connect, laugh, and simply be together.

Community is part of the practice.

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Ecstatic Movement Journey

An invitation to release.

Through carefully curated music and guided movement, we’ll explore expression beyond words—shaking off tension, meeting emotion with curiosity, and rediscovering the joy of inhabiting our bodies freely.

No choreography.

No expectation.

Just permission to move exactly as you are.

Like snow falling from the branches after a gentle shake, we’ll allow whatever we’ve been holding onto to move through us with ease rather than force.

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Somatic Yin & Sound

As the evening draws in, we’ll transition into deeply restorative somatic yin.

Long-held postures, mindful awareness, breath, and sound create space for the nervous system to settle, allowing the day’s experiences to gently integrate.

Wrapped in stillness, we’ll honour the quiet intelligence of rest—recognising that some of our deepest transformation happens not through doing, but through simply allowing.

This final practice is an invitation to receive.

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Closing Circle

We’ll gather one final time in candlelit reflection, allowing the warmth of the day and the quiet of the season to meet.

You’ll leave carrying not simply memories from the retreat, but a heartfelt intention to guide you into the months ahead—one that feels grounded, authentic, and deeply your own.

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What to Expect

• An embodied Vinyasa Flow

• A guided Sankalpa & intention-setting workshop

• Reflective journalling and partner exercises

• An ecstatic movement journey

• Deeply restorative somatic yin with sound

• Shared brunch and nourishing refreshments

• Connection, community, and spacious time to simply be

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The Feeling

This isn’t a retreat about fixing yourself.

It isn’t about becoming someone new before the calendar turns.

It’s about remembering yourself.

A day to soften the noise, honour the wisdom of the darker season, move what has become stagnant, reconnect with your Inner SELF, and leave with a quiet sense of clarity that can carry you through winter and into whatever comes next.

Nature reminds us that growth doesn’t always happen in the light.

Sometimes the most important roots are formed beneath the surface, in the stillness of winter.

May this be a day to trust that quiet unfolding.

Come exactly as you are.

Leave feeling rooted, spacious, and fully alive.