2026 Offerings in Person


Embodied Wakefulness Retreat
 
Cultivating the Wisdom of the Body
 through Somatic Intelligence

A Retreat for Professionals in the Helping Fields

with Irini Rockwell

Oikia Retreat Center, Aegina, Greece

June 6–9, 2026

We all have our own style and our own particular nature. We can’t avoid it.
The  enlightened expression of yourself is in accord with your inherent nature.
— Chögyam  Trungpa Rinpoche


In the work of supporting others, it’s essential to come home to ourselves. This retreat invites you to slow down, reconnect with your own embodied presence, and deepen your inner resources. Through contemplative and somatic practices, you’ll awaken to a fuller, more integrated sense of being—becoming not only more grounded and alive, but more naturally available to others. As we cultivate embodied wakefulness, we become the instrument through which presence, compassion, and clarity can move. This is not about fixing ourselves, but about discovering the wisdom that already lives in the body and learning to trust it. We will explore:

Mindfulness Meditation. Meditation is the fundamental discipline of returning to ground zero—the timeless present. It offers a tangible sense of simply being, where we release our agendas, credentials, and ambitions. In this space of non-doing, we begin to discover the profundity of our being—just being, at one with being itself. Ultimately, meditation is a labor of love. Our steady attentiveness toward ourselves becomes an act of self-love.

Elemental Embodiment. Our most primal aspect is that we are made of the elements: earth, water, fire, air, and space. Primal being is not about who we are, which is more psychological, but what we are, which is more physical, elemental. The elements are psychophysical—they are the constituents of every physical, sensual, mental, and spiritual phenomenon.

Five Energetic Qualities. The Five Wisdoms are a model of human dynamics: personal styles of perceiving and interacting with your world. They give you a map of your inner world of thoughts and emotions as well as seeing your ways of behaving and relating to others. Ultimately, they are teachings about bringing out the best of who you are and seeing the world with new eyes.

Nervous System Regulation. We’ll explore intuitive, body-based ways to regulate the nervous system and increase vagal tone—supporting resilience, safety, and greater capacity for connection.

To complement this experiential retreat, you are invited to read Unfolding the Mystery of Your Life on the Five Wisdoms Path (Chapters 1, 8, 11, and 12).

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