Bahrain Retreat ✨

✨Join Eva Louise Williams and Sandra Sumpter for an exquisite journey into this feminine body. Every day we will gather for yoga, movement, meditation, breath-work and internal energetic practices which awaken the body, the pelvis, the spine and the energetic Being. We supplement these awakening activities with supportive educational content, sharing, journalling, somatic practice, and beautiful sacred ceremony. Our awakening bodies will be supported by beautiful plant-based food and the restful surroundings of Bahrain.

The retreat format focuses on a deep immersion into the body, movement, breath, and extensive Level 1 & beginning Level 2 Golden Lotus work – a practice and form of feminine embodiment work which incorporates tai chi, qi-gong, somatic exercises, pilates, yoga, birth-work, pelvic floor health and other movement and breath work skills for women to awaken their bodies. These practices are supplemented by daily yoga, pranayama, and yin yoga by the beautiful Sandra Sumpter (biography below), which will help us to integrate daily, and to receive the deepest unwinding and recalibration this sacred retreat time has to offer.

This training explores the Level 1 Golden Lotus content of the 8 extraordinary meridians which originate in the uterus and are responsible for our own formation in the uterus. We will also go into depth with the Level 2 deep pelvic and sexual content - through meditations, education and practice of deep pelvic and feminine embodiment using explicit bodywork techniques derived from practices of taoism, tantra, and somatic sexology to awaken and inhabit the pelvis, your sexuality, sexual reflexology and erotic centres.
Note ✨ The level and depth of this training is always guided and gauged in the moment of the retreat and can vary in depth and engagement from non explicit education and meditation practices, to explicit partner based bodywork practices, depending on the group’s preparedness for different practices, and the levels of experience present.  

We will explore how all the modules from Sandra’s extensive knowledge and profound teachings, as well as the Golden Lotus  Level 1 and Level 2 elements, relate to our fascia, our archetypal spiritual energies. We explore how this deep connection through the body, the womb, and back to these primordial shaping forces has an impact on our sexuality and endocrinology - from a spiritual sensual perspective (as well as traditional Western).

✨This work, and the synergy of these two practitioners teaches a wealth of knowledge regarding how to approach your sexuality, sensuality, spirituality, and femininity. The aim of this retreat is to hold space, integrity, and permission for the activation your innermost erotic, spiritual, and sensual wisdom. The premise we work from is that all women have the capacity to self regulate their own spiritual energy and their health, fertility, cycles etc. if they have the knowledge and the support/guidance to do so.

Biography of Co-facilitator Sandra Sumpter ✨
Sandra Sumpter, MS, 500 hr CYT, comes with a wealth of experience teaching Yoga and Pilates for over 20 years.  She holds a BS in Exercise Science with an emphasis in Cardiac Rehab and a MS in Human Nutrition with an emphasis in Functional Nutrition. In her classes, she fluidly blends Ashtanga and Iyengar disciplines in a combination of Anusara and Embodied Flow yoga in an embodied alignment-based yoga class with appropriate props and modifications to accommodate for your individual needs.  She teaches a range of classes from a fluid, strong vinyasa flow to a gentler grounding restorative yin class. In addition, she teaches Pranayama and Meditation to take your internal practice to the next level balancing your mind and energy systems. 

Timing & Dates ✨
February 7th ✨ 8 Extraordinary Meridians & 1st Gate (arrive 10:30am)
February 8th ✨ 8 Extraordinary Meridians & 2nd Gate
February 9th ✨ 8 Extraordinary Meridians & 3rd Gate (leave 6:30pm - optional farewell dinner)

Overview of Days ✨
7:30am ✨ Awakening Yoga & Pranayama
9:00am ✨ Breakfast & Journalling
10:30am ✨ 8 Extraordinary Meridians Education
12:30pm ✨ Lunch
2:30pm ✨ Somatic Practices & Gates Work
4:30pm ✨ Tea
5:00pm ✨ Sharing, Learning & Discussing
6:30pm ✨Dinner
8:30pm ✨Yin Yoga with Sound & Colour Meditations
9:30pm ✨Moon Bar - goodnight tea, golden milk lattes, and blissballs

Costs & Logistics ✨
Residential Shared Accomodation: $1466 USD || 5500 SAR
Non - Residential Accomodation: $1385 USD || 5200 SAR

✨Residential Shared Accomodation means you will be staying on site with your own bed, single or double, however you will share a room with one, two, or three other women. There are 10 residential spots available. For your own room, please choose the non-residential option and stay off site.
✨Note: The venue is within the Saar area, and many hotels are 10-15 minutes away within the Seef area.

Online Payment. Payment in advance to book your spot. ✨

✨Golden Lotus events are for Women Only ✨