Video Below features photos from past Inner Freedom and Radical Self Love Retreats in Bali and Australia from 2018 – 2020.
Join us for an intimate women’s retreat in beautiful coastal Lorne, on the Australia Day weekend in late January, to revive, rest and reset, and get your ‘sacred’ Queenly energy on for a wonderful and fulfilling 2022! This is a women’s only retreat, with the intention being to hold a sacred space for women who want to really live life to the fullest in 2022, whatever this looks like for them.
Everyone is unique, so everyone’s dreams are unique, but it is my firm belief that life is here for the living out of our dreams, so this retreat will help you to get clear on those for 2022, and support you in finding optimal practices for your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, during this retreat and moving forward into 2022. Every day starts with inner practices of meditation and yoga, to focus our attention and clear space for downloads and inspiration. Then we do a variety of creative practices to bring our dreams and desires out into the physical realm. Expect to find a safe space for sharing your self, including desires, fears, blocks, so that you can then be supported in overcoming them to enjoy a wonderful 2022!
As well we will explore the beautiful environs of Lorne, with excursions to the beach and the waterfall (weather permitting!).
Program for our ‘Embody Your Inner Queen’ Retreat
Friday 28th Arrival Day 1
- 3pm – 5pm: Arrive at Jenny’s house in Lorne
- 6pm: Introductions, program overview, intention-setting for the retreat
- 7pm: Dinner
- 8pm – 9pm: Relaxing Yin Yoga Session
- 9pm: Tea and bedtime.
Saturday 29th Day 2
- 7:00 am: Get up
- 7:30 – 8 am: Morning Meditation
- 8 am – 9am: Energising Yoga
- 9 am: Fabulicious Fruity Breakfast
- 11 am: Sacred Queen Art Circle: sharing circle where we talk about what ‘sacred queening’ means to you? How do we own our ‘queenly’ energy, and how this will manifest in your life this year? This will be facilitated with paper and drawing / painting materials.
- 12:30 pm: Luscious Vegetarian Lunch followed by relaxation time
- 3 pm: We head down the beach for a swim / play
- 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Relaxing Yin Yoga
- 7pm: Delicious Vegetarian Dinner
- 8pm – 8:30 pm: Crystal Bowls Sound Healing Session: just enjoy and relax.
- 9pm: Tea and Bedtime
Saturday 30th Day 3
- 7:00 am: Get up
- 7:30 – 8 am: Morning Meditation
- 8 am – 9am: Energising Yoga
- 9 am: Fabulicious Fruity Breakfast
- 11 am: Short talk and demonstration about ‘Badass Boundaries’ and the energy of calling in high quality friendships and delightful lovers (should you want one!) followed by …… Osho Dynamic Meditation (guided dance style meditation) to help free your emotions and any stuck energy, getting ready for a free flowing year in 2022!
- 12:30 pm: Luscious Vegetarian Lunch followed by relaxation time
- 3 pm: We for a bushwalk to the local waterfall in Lorne
- 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Relaxing Yin Yoga
- 7pm: Delicious Vegetarian Dinner
- 8pm – 8:30 pm: Heart Songs Mantra Singing – we sing together some Sacred Queen style songs to connect you with your regal heart (words provided).
- 9pm: Tea and Bedtime
Monday 31st Day 4
- 7:00 am: Get up
- 7:30 – 8 am: Morning Meditation
- 8 am – 9am: Energising Yoga
- 9 am: Fabulicious Fruity Breakfast
- 10 am: Sacred Closing Circle: Share some of your inner experience from the weekend, share anything that’s changed or shifted for you, anything that’s on your mind, some of your intentions for 2022.
- 12:00pm : Light Lunch and then time to go home.
FABULOUS FOOD
The food at this retreat will be prepared by a vegetarian chef Cat, a friend of Akasha, and will be a fresh, vegetarian menu full of vibrant and alive plants and fruits. Breakfast will be muesli, fresh fruits, chia pudding and coconut yogurt. The main meal each day will be lunch (think felafel with spicy roast beetroot salad), with dinner being salads and bread / crackers / other healthy carbs on the side.
About your Facilitator: Akasha Love (aka Michelle E. Taffe)
Akasha is an Australian born yoga and meditation teacher who lived in Spain from 2000 – 2011 before returning in 2011 to live between Australia and Bali. She qualified as a meditation and yoga teacher in 2018, but has a regular practice in both these modalities since 2005. Since 2018, she has hosted a number of ‘Radical Self Love’ Retreats in Australia and Bali, as well as some ‘Inner Freedom’ silent meditation retreats. Akasha is also a facilitator of Vipassana silent meditation retreats, and has assisted at a number of 10 Days retreat at Buddhist monasteries Suan Mokkh and Wat Kow Tham in southern Thailand. Passionate about Self Love, Self Realisation and everything to do with spirit work, she calls herself a ‘soul alchemist’ and has a calling to elevate and uplift others by helping them alchemise their pain / suffering into gold. Akasha is also an artist and a musician with her first album released in 2021, and loves to help people use art as a doorway to accessing the mystical realms of the inner self. Akasha Love (Space for Love) is the spirit name that she downloaded in Bali in 2020.
Akasha is very passionate about supporting women in being all that they came to be, in letting go of people pleasing, in owning their badass boundaries, and in calling in wonderful and nourishing connections and relationships.
TESTIMONIALS FROM PAST RETREATS
“Attending Michelle’s Radical Self Love Retreat in Bali was an amazing experience, perfectly timed, and delivered all I was seeking and more. The location was perfect and I felt warmly welcomed and deeply nurtured from the moment I arrived until the moment I left.
Michelle created a beautiful, open, loving, safe space for me to connect with myself in ways I hadn’t realised that I could or even needed. I very much enjoyed the daily yoga and meditation practices which served to help connect with my mind and body in ways I hadn’t before and by the end of the 6 days had me feeling very pleased with my achievements and confident to continue my practice once back home.
I absolutely loved the daily self-love workshops and gained so much from them. Michelle covered so many meaningful topics, which guided me to some powerful realisations and an overall deepening love and appreciation for myself.
Michelle is a lovely being and an amazing facilitator who is so clearly living and growing in self-love and who is also deeply drawn to helping others to dive deeper into themselves and deeper into their own self-loving journeys.
I would absolutely join another of Michelle’s retreats, and for anyone seeking a safe, loving space to connect with oneself on a deeper level, I’d highly recommend attending.”
Marianne Xola Galvan, Radical Self Love Retreat, Bali April 2019
“I joined Michelle for her Radical Self Love yoga and meditation retreat, and I am so glad I did.
The weekend consisted of meditation, workshops and yoga – all of which were challenging, and subsequently more rewarding. Michelle created a programme that fostered deep reflection and subsequently garnered profound personal insights.
As a very private person I thought I would be uncomfortable given the personal nature of the workshops, but Michelle created a warm, non judgemental, accepting space in which I felt comfortable sharing, and getting deep into the heart of things.
The time I spent with Michelle was really valuable, and many changes have come about in my life as a result.”
Thanks Michelle! X”
Annette Carling, Radical Self Love Retreat, Victoria, June 2018
“I found the overall RSL retreat to be so inspiring and it has assisted me to become more grounded and connected with myself. My teacher, Michelle Taffe, was excellent at bringing people together in a workshop environment, in terms of connecting both with themselves and with each other as a group.
I felt a strong bond develop as the retreat progressed, within the group, that enabled us all to relax more, to open up as a group on emotional and personal, even in a sense spiritual, levels.
Michelle is also a great yoga and meditation teacher; she is patient, communicates very well, and demonstrates yoga practice and meditation on both spiritual and physical platforms, in a connected, calming, supportive and inspiring way. I would really encourage individuals who wish to explore and develop self love , as well as to enhance their yoga and meditation techniques, to attend one of Michelle’s RSL retreats. Apart from the fact that she chooses great locations in which to open up an ambient space for RSL exploration!”
Kim Boursfield, Radical Self Love Retreat, Bali, April 2019
About your co-host, Jenny (owner of the retreat house in Lorne).
Jenny has been to one of Akasha’s ‘Radical Self Love’ retreats in Bondalem, North Bali and they have been in touch since then. Jenny is a radiant soul full of positive energy and has generously offered her house as the location for this very special retreat. Jenny’s house is on the hill at Lorne and has a beautiful view of the sea from her deck where we will do our yoga sessions.
There are only very limited spots available on this retreat – it will be an intimate event for 5 people.
Email: hello@akashalove.life or Watsapp: +61 0423 911 056 to reserve your spot before booking here.
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