Authentic Relationships: Kundalini Yoga and Meditation retreat in Nepal

Join Tonie Nooyens in a Buddhist monastery for nine days of transformative Kundalini meditation and yoga in Nepal.

Explore your relationships. Discover and express your authentic identity when relating to yourself, to others and to your environment. Live your life with more awareness. Take a journey within on this nine-day Kundalini meditation and yoga course in Nepal.

In one of the most serene and nurturing venues in Nepal, retreat into peace and stillness. 

We are privileged to welcome back Tonie Nooyens to share his beloved, inclusive and transformative teaching of Kundalini meditation and yoga based on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan®.

Using meditation, reflection and deep intuitive listening, we will use these nine days to:

• build our awareness so we can view and review the relationship to ourselves and to others
• explore and understand how we form, sustain and honor relationships
• recognize when and how we act from a false emotional core in our relationships and create painful repeating patterns.

This retreat can be taken by practitioners seeking to join a deep journey into self-awareness and self-growth, and by teachers currently following the Kundalini Level II certification programme

The facilitators were fantastic. No ego, huge depth of knowledge, and fun. I gained incredible insight into myself, my habits, my traumas, releasing these and beginning to heal. A once in a lifetime experience. A massive thank you to everyone involved – the facilitators, the Mahalaya team. Such a special experience and every detail thought of.”

Becky-Jay Harrington, Australia, participant of the Lifestyles & Life Cycles Level 2 Kundalini Yoga course, May 2018

Coming to terms with the wounds of the past, we generate forgiveness so we can let go of what kept us from expressing our true Self and heal ourselves. We can begin to live authentically and to make Love – including self-love – the foundation for our relationships.

Our success as conscious human beings depends on our capacity to be authentic and to respond from our hearts.

Authentic Relationships is a process that acts as a mirror for you, showing your facets as a teacher, your depth as a human being and your areas for growth. The primary objective of this course is to examine our relationships, cultivate intuition, and apply our new insights to every relationship. In this way, the retreat seeks to improve our effectiveness, authenticity and awareness within our relationships.

“Tonie, you held beautiful space for us to discover and transform our SELF. At times it was so tough, tiring and painful and I was able to flow through the process. I felt your strength, neutrality and most of all TRUST. Thank you. Satnam.”

Manjeet Kaur, Malaysia, participant of the Lifestyles & Life Cycles Level 2 Kundalini Yoga course, May 2018

Key Topics

• Explore what an authentic relationship is and what it’s not
• Relate to our soul and higher self as the foundation for authentic relationships in our life
• Understand the special challenges that long-term intimate relationships and marriage face in the Aquarian Age
• Identify the common ways we make relationships fail
• Develop self-love as the key to authentic relationships
• Work on forgiveness to be able to act with integrity to friend and foe
• Recognize the mind’s tendency to create polarization, especially under stress or conflict
• Identify our core paradox and transform it from problem to opportunity
• Create a conscious relationship with the masculine and feminine energies within and around us
• Develop a community based on authentic relationships and conscious communication, being fully responsible, committed and focused on the upliftment of all

Building on the foundations of KRI Level 1, this KRI Level 2 Immersion is about personal transformation, deepening core capacity, character and consciousness. Under the guidance of senior teachers, you will cultivate your yogic capacities of intuition, neutrality and self-love.

Our success as Kundalini Yoga teachers and as conscious human beings depends on our capacity to be authentic and respond from our hearts; our primary objective is to examine our relationships and improve our effectiveness, authenticity and awareness within them. 

Though these are Level 2 Teacher Training courses, Level 1 is not required. These immersions are open to everybody with an interest and are complete unto themselves.

Life on this Kundalini Yoga retreat

During our retreat we will undertake a meditative journey, adapted to both newer and more advanced practitioners. We will be supported by Tonie’s deeply experienced guidance and Dharma teachings from the Khenpo (the abbot of the monastery), and are invited to join the monks of the monastery during their morning prayers.

This will be complemented with asana and breathing practice, mantra and the powerful resonance of gong sound-current. Together in community we’ll follow a yogic lifestyle, with delicious vegetarian foods, sharing in basic tasks and time for relaxation and walking in the beautiful nature of the surroundings. 

For those pursuing accreditation

For those pursuing accreditation (not a condition of participation), the Authentic Relationships course is part of the teacher certification program, The Aquarian Teacher^tm, of the Kundalini Yoga Research Institute (KRI) based in the USA. This course is one of five level 2 courses, each being 62+ hours. All five courses together fulfill the Yoga Alliance 500-hour requirement for advanced teacher training. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lead teacher: Tonie Nooyens

Tonie Nooyens is a highly experienced practitioner in different traditions of meditation, meditational yoga and healing. He is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and one of the lead trainers on the KY Asia Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Program. He travels widely, facilitating teacher training and teaching workshops and retreats throughout Asia, including Cambodia, China, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.

Originally from The Netherlands, Tonie has lived and worked in Asia and Africa for more than 30 years. His service includes an initiative in Cambodia, where he conducts a Yoga and Meditation training program for Cambodians to support stress and trauma-relief activities, as well as communication and personal capacity training for vulnerable groups.

“Tonie is an amazing and wonderful teacher. His wisdom, non-judgement and compassion motivates us to open up and makes learning so much more enlightening and rewarding. He is a true inspiration and role-model teacher!”

Jewels Bertrand, USA, participant of the Lifestyles & Life Cycles Level 2 Kundalini Yoga course, May 2018

 

The venue for our meditation course in Nepal

For Tibetan Buddhists, the hills of Pharping where we immerse for our retreat is considered as sacred as Bodhgaya in India, as it is where the second buddha Guru Padmasambhava (“Guru Rinpoche”) attained the state of enlightenment, before going on to establish Buddhism in Tibet.

The monastery which is our home during the retreat makes important contributions to the preservation and sharing of the Buddhist teachings, and our stay there helps to fund education for the many young monks from remote areas of Nepal. In return, we are blessed with the opportunity to practice in the temple itself, in a beautiful room above the main hall where the glass walls look out across the valley and mountains.

The lovely guest house often surprises our guests for its wonderful spacious and light rooms, comfortable beds for deep and refreshing sleeps, all with modern attached bathrooms, and built in Tibetan style. It is the perfect place to relax, restore and revive.

 

Booking details

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The cost of the course is US$ 1,695 per person (including all your delicious and nourishing meals, accommodation (8 nights on twin share basis), transport between Kathmandu and the monastery, all teaching and course materials).

On offering you a place, we will send you the payment information. We will send you a retreat welcome pack with all you need to know to prepare for your visit on receipt of your $250 deposit.

Please feel most welcome to get in touch if you have any questions for now however.

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