Steady. Loving. Awake.
A four-day retreat devoted to the heart of practice: arriving in the body, settling the nervous system, and learning to stay with experience—just as it is—with loving awareness.
Taking Your Seat as Loving Awareness
Sandra Vanatko returns to Cayman and the Bodyworks community for her third year. It’s always a meaningful experience—and this year, the invitation is to go deeper into the heart of practice.
This retreat is designed for practitioners who are ready for less explaining and more direct experience.
Across four days, participants train a simple but life-changing capacity: learning to stay with experience as it is—pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral—and to relate to it with kindness. Rather than trying to bypass discomfort or chase a particular state, the practice is to remain present and steady, meeting each moment as it is through loving awareness.
Sessions will weave in yoga and pranayama to help participants come into contact with the felt sense of the body. From there, the group moves into longer meditation sits, with spacious guidance and plenty of silence. The weekend also weaves in inquiry-based breathwork and structured dyad/small-group inquiry—not as “processing,” but as a way of clarifying what’s true and strengthening the capacity to stay loving, awake, and aware in real time.
