CLOWNDALINI
A 3-day Retreat IN
Clowning + Kundalini yoga
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oct 3-6 2024
in the french Alps
welcome to the Path
of the sacred fool
The retreat
Do you have the courage to fail and keep laughing?
In this 3-day immersive experience, participants will remember how to play, improvise, be spontaneous and connect with their innocence, all through the lens of Kundalini Yoga!
With the help of a red plastic clown nose (the world’s smallest mask), we can master the art of spectacular failure, release our ego and deepen our yogic wisdom.
Maybe you are a spiritual seeker, a famous artist, a beginner yogi or even a dentist. Whatever your background, the question remains: can you channel divinity through lightness and deep-bellied laughter? Nothing is as serious as we think it is.
Join us to discover your unique clown persona, deepen your yoga practice and lighten up your life.
Your inner idiot is longing to be set free!
what is clowning?
With the help of a red nose (the world’s smallest mask), you can learn skills in physical comedy, and improvisation, make friends with failure, bring joy to those around you, and increase your confidence to be authentic, relaxed and light-hearted in front of an audience.
Like yoga, clowning requires deep humility and provides a portal to your soul. Laughter guaranteed.
what is Kundalini Yoga?
Known as the “yoga of awareness,” Kundalini Yoga includes a comprehensive blend of postures, dynamic movements, breathing techniques, music, mantra and meditation. Through the conscious channeling of life force (kundalini) energy, we can elevate our spirit and experience transcendent bliss. Sat nam!
*** ALL LEVELS ARE WELCOME***
NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY IN EITHER YOGA OR CLOWNING.
PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS UNIQUE COMBINATION OF DISCIPLINES.
Program
- Daily classes in Kundalini Yoga
- Daily classes in Clowning
- Group activities + assignments for maximum fun
- Personal feedback sessions for developing your inner clown
- Daily group meals: a delicious and healthy diet, full of pleasure
- Time to rest, integrate and explore the beautiful setting of Le Martinet in the French Alps
- Basic skills in physical comedy and improvisation
- A fresh, new perspective on your yoga practice
- Your own bright red clown nose
- Discovery of your unique clown persona
- Increased confidence to be totally authentic, relaxed and light-hearted in front of people
- Ability to spread joy to other people
- Hormonal optimization through laughter and stupidity
- Ego death ;0)
What you will gain:
- Skills in physical comedy, improvisation + clowning
- A fresh, new perspective on yoga
- Your own bright red clown nose
- Discovery/development of your unique clown persona
- Increased confidence to be authentic, relaxed and light-hearted in front of people
- Ability to spread joy to others
- Hormonal optimization through laughter and stupidity
- Ego death ;)
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who are we?
Guru Amrit and Gurmukh Nam, are a pair of Canadian clowns with over 30 years of combined professional experience, performing, directing, creating and teaching around the world. These award-winning mischief-makers are also Kundalini Yoga instructors through the Amrit Nam Sarovar school in France. They are highly devoted to their (very serious) spiritual path.
GURU AMRIT (Charlotte Gowdy) has been teaching clowning for the past 25 years at schools in Canada, USA and South America. An award-winning actor and theatre director, she trained with Gaulier in Paris and at the National Theatre School of Canada. She’s also a devoted kundalini yoga teacher, passionate about unifying the worlds of spirituality and play.
GURMUKH NAM (Annie Lockerbie Newton) is a long-limbed clown and kundalini yoga teacher born in Toronto, Canada, now based in France. She graduated from École Internationale Jaques Lecoq and now makes absurd theatre/clown shows, and teaches theatre, yoga and clowning to students of all ages.
oct 3-6 2024
at Le Martinet
Arrival time 16h | program starts at 18h on the day of arrival.
Program finishes at 16h on the day of departure.
Price
The price for the 3-Day program is 365 € (incl. VAT)
All meals, classes and materials are included.
See below for accommodation prices
AccomodatioN Options
Sleep in your own tent 10 € | night
Bed in a dormitory 25 € | night
Bed in a double room with own bathroom 45 € | night
Single room with shared bathroom 55 € | night
Single room with own shower 65 € | night
Suite in double occupancy per person 65 € | night
Double room in single occupancy 90 € | night
Suite in single occupancy 130 € | night
For more information email: thegooroos@proton.me
***As the evening temperature in October can fall below 0°C, we recommend booking accommodation indoors. If you choose to camp, make sure to come equipped for colder temperatures.
***Refunds are not possible, however, if you register and need to cancel for unforeseen circumstances, you can find someone to fill your spot at the retreat.
LE MARTINET
Located in a beautiful valley between forest, meadow and a wild river, this 20-hectare property is the home of the ANS school for Kundalini Yoga. Just next to the village of Saint-Michel-les-Portes, on the edge of the Vercors natural reserve in the French Alps, Le Martinet is a place intended for personal and collective transformation. Bathe in the river, climb the surrounding mountains, sit quietly by the fire,
Le Martinet is a place to fall in love with life!
“The opposite of play is not work –
the opposite of play is depression!”
Amrit Nam Sarovar Kundalini Yoga School
SAS La Bonne Porte
588 Chemin du Martinets
38650 Saint-Michel-les-Portes
France
