The Way of the Heart
SWEDEN
A healing music & nature gathering
with Kevin James & Susana
From the 13th – 16th June 2024
Seglora, Sweden
Dive deep into your own true nature with Mantras, healing sounds and a beautiful Swedish summer paradise
We are happy you’re here because we guess you’re ready to connect to your heart, to give it some space in your life, to listen and express with joy, its love and wisdom.
There is no greater gift to this world.
Join us on a Heart-opening gathering where you can immerse yourself in the healing and uplifting power of mantras and Heartsongs.
With the current affairs, it’s easy to feel challenged by these circumstances and without a supportive space where you can rise up to connect with your true being.
That’s why Susana and I created this gathering, to nourish our souls and bodies with healing practices, music and healthy food, immersed in the peaceful and inspiring Swedish nature.
Take this chance to open and free your heart to reconnect with your freedom, joy and happiness.
What is this retreat about?
Imagine..
…chanting by a peaceful lake, surrounded by like minded people singing uplifting Heartsongs and Mantras, that open your Heart more and more and bring you inner peace, helping you to let go of fears and worries.
You’ve practiced meditation, and voice activation in the morning, where you’ve harmonized and balanced your energy field, emotions, and calmed the mind.
You’ve eaten a healthy life-giving food prepared with love and consciousness.
Then you’ve expressed your voice, in the daily chanting circle that opens your heart to the universe.
Then you’ve wandered through the gentle forest, carpeted with blueberries as the lake glistens with the everlasting golden light of the sun while having meaningful and deep conversions with the other participants.
It’s natural and effortless to be here and now and all the stresses that once plagued your mind seem so trivial.
As the days pass you feel more calm, grounded and joyful. Being centered in your Heart, you can see and feel with clarity, feeling connected to life and appreciating its beauty in all forms, feeling a sense of joy coming from within.
What’s so powerful about this gathering is that we get to take that journey together. Over the 4 days we form a heart-family and that’s really what helps us to open up and be as we are, held in a safe and loving environment.
That’s what gives us the space to reconnect to ourselves and the momentum to re-orientate and create our own destiny.
What you will take with you after this gathering..
After 4 days immersed in the healing powers of the Mantras and sacred sounds and experiencing the incredible benefits of singing and exploring your voice you will:
- Feel more grounded and connected to your Heart, as you were able to give space to listen your emotions in a safe environment.
- Find emotional stability and be more calm and relaxed as you have been immersed in nature, inspired by its beauty and connected with its rhythms.
- Connect to your natural voice, as you explored and found different ways of expressing your emotions.
- Be inspired to make a positive change in your life, as you will hear your Heart crystal clear!
- Meet like-minded people where easily can become friends for life, as you shared from a deep level.
- Learn powerful practices that you can take home with you and use them in your daily life to feel more connected and centered.
The Location
Our group will be hosted at the beautiful retreat center of Himladal in Seglora (1 hour southeast of Gothenburg, Sweden), a quiet and peaceful place in nature, next to a beautiful lake.
The land that it is situated on had been waiting for generations for the shift to happen and now it welcomes you to experience the magic, stability, and abundance of Himladal.
The ambiance is simple, grounded, natural, relaxing, transformative and supportive for healing, inner growth, and relaxation.
A yoga shala, a sauna by the lake, walks around.. we will have the place for ourselves where we will enjoy all what this center can offer.
There is a dining hall overlooking the lake, a room with sofas to hang out in and of course the lush nature and the lake that welcomes you.
Activities
Here is a list of all the practices you will be enjoying during the retreat:
Chanting circles
The benefits of chanting are incredible, as it has a positive effect on our mental, physical, and emotional health and harmony.
Chanting mantras and singing together is one of the most powerful and effective ways to connect with your heart, and although science is now beginning to recognise its benefits, the practice is ancient and universal.
When chanting every day like on this retreat, one can experience a state of peace and a connection to the wisdom of the heart that can give us the nourishment from within that is directly applicable to you, your life, and for where you’re at within yourself.
The healing happens by itself without the need to go into problems from the past or worries of the future. The mantras help to resolve and dissolve those blockages without the need to “rationalize” or regress.
It’s a gentle process, where there is no pushing, no confrontation, as it’s done in the joy of singing.
Chakra Voice Activation
An amazing experience of emotional harmony and stability, simply using focused awareness and your own voice. The outcome is a deep sense of peace and fulfilment.
The Chakra Voice Activation is an explorative practice that is based around singing the Indian Swar scales of Sa Re Ga Ma… and using your conscious awareness to focus on the chakras, channeling emotional energy through them to come into a connection with our natural voice and our authentic self beyond the filters of the mind.
Through this practice, you will tap into your own emotional body and feel all the positive emotions of love, peace, wisdom even bliss from within to begin your self-healing journey and emotional harmony, regardless of your outer experience.
This practice which we call “The Morning Practice“, brings a great sense of connection, and fulfillment and helps us lose our dependency on things that come and go for our happiness.
Active Aum Meditation
The Aum is considered the primordial sound of the Universe, the eternal sound that connect us with the Source
Kevin will guide you on a journey into the infinite depths of the mantra Aum as a way to cultivate your own inspiring vision and inner-wisdom.
A combination of movement (Mudras), intention, feeling and the sacred mantra “Aum”.
This meditation will help you to harness your connection to the core of your being, to release emotional stress, fears and anxieties, to break unconscious habitual thinking patterns and create inspiring vision aligned with your highest self.
Sound Journey
The sound frequencies of the flute and Crystal bowls travel straight to the heart and work their way up to open our minds to the higher realms of existence.
After the day’s activities, it’s really nice to just lie down and deeply relax and focus on the sense of listening.
Get comfortable and focus on the sense of listening. Allow yourself to be taken on a journey with the into the unknown with the meditative and hauntingly beautiful sound of Japanese Shakuhachi bamboo flute, together with the healing sounds of the Crystal bowls.
Dance
A great way to be in touch with yourself in the moment, to experience joy and playfulness, to confront limited judgments of your unique expression that holds you back from being you freely.
Throughout our retreat, usually when we feel we need to move, we will dance together.
After the day’s activities, it’s really nice to just lie down and deeply relax and focus on the sense of listening. Allow yourself to be taken on a journey with the into the unknown with the meditative and hauntingly beautiful sound of Japanese Shakuhachi bamboo flute, together with the healing sounds of the Crystal bowls
Nature walks, sauna & swimming
Being in nature has proved to create the perfect balance between the practices we do together and time to really unwind, enjoy and integrate.
Nature is our teacher and speaks to us in signs. That’s why we love to immerse ourselves in it.
Everyday we will have free time for you to relax. We will take walks in nature with the group, swim in the lake, enjoy an evening sauna or hug one of the very cute sheep 😛
Come and experience the magic of a Swedish summer, where the day never ends and you can bathe in the warm light, swim in the lake, and watch the endless sunrise and sunsets.
Schedule
Friday 14th & Saturday 15th
8.15 am Aum meditation
9 am Breakfast
10.30 am – 12.30 pm Chakra tuning voice exploration workshop
1:00 pm Light lunch
3.30 pm Outdoor group activities (walk, swimming)
6.00 – 7.30 pm Chanting circle
8.00 pm Dinner
9.30 pm Evening sauna
Price
EARLY BIRD
Until 31st of March 2024
Tent
520 €
Standard Shared room
565 €
Deluxe Shared room
(Fully booked)
610 €
STANDARD PRICE
From thr 1st April 2024
Tent
570 €
Standard Shared room
615 €
Deluxe Shared room
(Fully booked)
660 €
What is included?
What is not?
Meet the Facilitators
Kevin James & Susana
What previous participants say about our retreats
Our philosophy
What we've found is that the combination of chanting mantras, doing yoga, having a sense of community, enjoying relaxing time, eating healthy and immersing in nature for several days is the perfect recipe to facilitate a true positive transformation within yourself.
We respect each participant for who they are and where they are at, simply offering support, with the freedom for they to choose, because we recognise that each of us grows in our own way and in our own time. We just provide the best we can to help you grow.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Practical information
How do I register?
Here are the steps to reserve your spot:
- Decide that you want to invest in yourself and to gift yourself with this gathering
- Choose the type of accommodation and make the deposit here according to the type of accommodation chosen:
– TENT: Early bird 290€ / Standard price 340€.
– Standard Shared room: Early bird 335€ / Standard price 385€.
– Deluxe Shared room: Early bird 380€ / Standard price 430€.
- After making the payment, we will contact you to communicate further information and to ask you to fill a questionnaire.
- Make the last payment of 230€ before the 1st of May.
- If you want us to arrange a transfer from the airport or the closest bus/train station, please request it before the 1st of June.
For bookings after the 1st of May , we’ll ask to pay the full price in one payment.
Do I have to know “how to sing”?
If you can talk, you can sing 🙂
Many have joined our retreats with blockages in their voice and have achieved the wonderful and rewarding experience of finding their natural voice.
We will always be singing together so you can feel a safe, free and open space to find your unique expression in your own time and the “morning practice” will provide you with tools to be able to express freely, and improve your vocal skills.
By the end of the week, we will all be singing like angels.
Do I have to participate in all the activities?
All the activities are optional, we understand that some people need more rest and time for themselves and that’s totally fine. We only encourage to participate as an offering for your well-being.
Can I travel alone?
Of course! A lot of the people who participate in our retreats come alone. It is a great opportunity to meet like minded people with similar interests and are in the same vibration. We have so many friends from retreats who are friends for life.
Getting to Himladal
By airplane
The closes airport is Gothenburg-Landvetter and it’s only 30 minutes by car from Himladal.
From there, the best way is to get a transfer that we can arrange for you (25 € in total for both ways).
By train/bus
Most of the time the easiest way is to take the train to Gothenburg and thereafter the bus 300 to Hyssna Handel where we will pick you up by car.
Bus company: https://www.vasttrafik.se/en/travel-planning/travel-planner/
By car
Himladal address:
Tomta Nedergården 1, 515 93 Seglora
Cancellation fees
Sometimes plans change – in such circumstances, the following charges apply to cover costs already incurred with the processing of your booking:
– 50% charge of the first payment applies if a booking is canceled before 1st of May 2024.
– After the 1st May 2024 no refund is possible, but you may transfer your booking to another person.
Language
The retreat is held in English.
