Embodiment
Spirit and Body Retreats for Healing
Fascial Fitness - Shamanism - Sacred Sites - Local Culture
Cagliari, Sardinia
Italy
October 3 - 11, 2023
We Travel all over the World. Our Recent Adventures included:
- Day of the Dead – Palenque, Mexico – October 26 – November 2, 2022
- Embodiment – Yucatan, Mexico November 3-9, 2022
Don't miss this year's adventure to Italy with Lisa and Cinzia!
Embodiment retreat is a journey of discovery, healing and energy uplift
for your physical and spiritual wellbeing
Fascial and Movement Fitness
SHAMANIC WORKSHOPS
Structural Integration Bodywork
SACRED SITES
Healing Sessions
AND MORE…
Join us in Italy.
Embodiment is a program of fitness classes in the morning, and shamanic circles in the evening. There are trips out of town to visit ancient sites and connect to the energies of the land.
To enhance your retreat, you have three private structural integration bodywork sessions scheduled with Lisa, and three shamanic sessions scheduled with Cinzia.
Embodiment retreat is a journey of discovery, magic and wonder, a journey of community, healing and transformation.
This October step out of ordinary reality and into the magic of Sardinia, Italy!
The Journey
Embodiment is hosted in Cagliari, capital city of Sardinia. Near the Mediterranean Sea, our backdrop is Castello, the ancient castle, an evocative neighborhood of cobbled streets where we stay during the retreat.
Perched on the hill, Castello offers breathtaking views over the Mediterranean, yet it’s only a few minutes walk to downtown and other historic districts.
Sardinia is a place of outstanding natural beauty, with beaches, great weather, incredible food and wine, unique art and culture. Steeped in history, mysticism and ancient healing energies, Sardinia engages your intellect and nurtures your heart…and tummy!
More about the retreat...
Morning Fascial Fitness:
Defying Gravity & Myofascial Grace
Group Sessions
While tethered and floating, learn how to move with increased ease, fluidity, and power. Through exercises using strong elastic bands* and small soft balls, experience trainings in improving somatic awareness, traction for unwinding the spine, balance for improved strength and daily function, and breath-work.
During Classes Discover…
Power in Your Core
How Myofascial Lines Work
Enhance Grace and Reduce Pain
Practice Breath and Postural Change
Spine-Sparing Training
*All group exercise equipment provided at the retreat, and all available for purchase after the retreat so that you can take it home and incorporate it into your weekly exercise routine.
More about Bodywork...
Structural Integration
Bodywork with Lisa Knighton
We are students of movement living in a body. Sometimes after trauma, injury, or illness the body develops irregular movement and static patterns.
Private Structural Integration Bodywork Sessions* with Lisa open a dialogue between your current movement patterns and how to these patterns may be creating discomfort in your body.
During your Three Series, Lisa offers an analysis of your posture and gait, then through skillful touch, new options for movement and integration, as well as homework, you’ll discover more body freedom, less discomfort, and greater overall tranquility.
*Your first session is 75 minutes, with the remaining two sessions 60 minutes each.
Shamanic Healing with Cinzia Sarigu
The 3 Private Shamanic sessions during your retreat in Italy: Healing, Tutorial, and Reading
Drawing on 20 years experience in shamanism,
Cinzia uses the voice, the drums, psychic channeling and ancient rituals to produce safe and effective results for your healing, guidance and transformation.
Shamanic Healing is a deeply transformative practice that helps you regain strength, balance and vision.
It promotes soul healing, helps you find direction in life and helps to remove negative imprints from curses, psychic attack and illness.
The Shamanic Tutorial expands on the retreat classes and helps you establish or strengthen your personal spiritual practice.
The Reading is a channeling session where we call in your guides and the spirit of the land to get messages for your life path.
What is Shamanism?
A safe space to explore your inner world, connect to your spirit guides and learn healing techniques to take home. Some of the practices we explore are dream weaving, shamanic journey, spiritual healing, oracle reading and channeling sessions. We do ceremony on the land and connect to Spirit at ancient sites.
Retreat Leaders
Lisa Knighton
Lisa is the CEO of AtHomeBeFit, a hybrid exercise studio established in the high desert of New Mexico. As the designer of transformative fitness programs for women, it’s Lisa’s experience that dedicated and deep attention to good quality exercise enhances vitality and achieves a higher quality of life and ease of daily function.
Lisa is an expert listener and is keen at creating lasting partnerships. She understands the daring journey through the liminal space that’s required to become more physically fit.
All of Lisa’s programs support the belief that aging with a healthy body and mind is one way to create lasting cultural change. She delights in the idea of our moving our bodies as a way to change the world. Lisa enjoys hiking mountain trails, writing about fitness and wellness, and reading memoirs.
Cinzia Sarigu
CEO and Founder of Ixchel Healing Arts, Cinzia is a medicine woman, shamanic teacher and expert ceremonialist specialised in dream work, mayan cosmology and spiritual healing. A natural born psychic, Cinzia takes you on life changing journeys to rekindle magic and wonder, awaken playfulness and discover your unique intimate relationship to spirit.
Cinzia loves bringing people together, her teachings are profound yet fun and they provide tools for living a healthier, happier, more compassionate life.
Cinzia loves traveling, ancient mysteries and …Mayan chocolate!
Prices
Price USD $1800
50% deposit to register
For payment plans get in touch with Cinzia directly by email: ci.istime@gmail.com
Join our retreat now!
The tariff includes group fitness classes, 3 manual therapy sessions, 3 shamanic sessions, workshops and circles, ceremony, and all materials.
Where to stay:
We provide a list of recommended hotels and B&Bs within the castle walls, so you can chose the option that best suits your needs. The retreat is not residential.
How to get there:
The nearest airport is Cagliari-Elmas. There are direct flights from the EU, and intercontinental flights with a stopover in Rome, Milan and other European cities. We provide tips and advice to reach the island of Sardinia easily.
During the week we have classes and circle time in the morning and in the evening so you have time in the middle of the day to rest, socialize and explore the wonderful places in and around Cagliari, Sardinia.
Testimonials
Register Now on Cinzia's Retreat Page
View our Recent Embodiment Retreats below...
Spirit & Body Retreats
Fitness - Shamanism- Mayan Culture - Xo Ki’in Retreat Centre & Chichen Itza
Yucatan, Mexico
3-9 November 2022
Tucked away in the tropical paradise of the Mexican Caribbean coast, a magical week awaits you...
This year we invite you on a journey across the land of Ixchel, Mayan goddess of the moon and of the healing waters.
Embodiment retreat is a journey of discovery, healing and energy uplift for your physical and spiritual wellbeing, a unique opportunity to nurture yourself on all levels. Set in the backdrop of the Caribbean, relax, restore and train your physical and spiritual muscles.
At Embodiment Retreat you learn tools for taking your spiritual and fitness practice to a new level with daily exercise routine, shamanic workshops, art, meditation and mayan cosmology. Immersed in the pristine nature of the Sian Ka’an biosphere, a UNESCO site of outstanding beauty, you have a chance to slow down, nurture yourself and listen deeply to your body and your soul.
You then prepare your spirit to meet the Mayan Guardians at the Chichen Itza pyramids. Embodiment retreat offers a playful program of fitness classes and a nurturing space for stillness and dreamwork, as well as free time to enjoy the beach. Embodiment is inspired by the wisdom of the mayan culture, to provide a bespoke program that facilitates physical wellbeing and spiritual initiation.
The program includes:
- Fitness classes
- Shamanic Journey
- Mayan Meditations & Cosmology
- Dreamwork & Journalling
- Art
- Talk by Alejandro Duran from “Washed Up”
- Sacred Archeology Tour at Chichen Itza
- And More..
Embodiment is guided by experienced teachers who facilitate the opening of the heart and a deeper connection to the earth through the physical and astral body. Come join us on this unique adventure in the magical land of the Mayans.
The experience is open to experienced seekers as well as beginners, you can participate in the measure that is right for you, both in the fitness classes and the shamanic workshops. Embodiment has a limited number of 8 participants to offer you personalized guidance.
This Autumn step out of the ordinary and into the magic of the Yucatan!!!
Rest, recharge and give space to your dreams.
Embodiment retreat can help you find answers to the personal and collective questions of our time.
The Journey
Day 1
Arrivals and check in
Opening circle
Co-Regulation exercises
Dinner and social
Day 2
Mayan Meditation
Breakfast
Pelvic Floor Exercises
Lunch & siesta
Ball and Belly Exercises
Mayan cosmology and the mysteries of the Feathered Serpent
Dinner
Shamanic dreaming
Day 3
Mayan Meditation
Breakfast
Snorkeling the Mesoamerican Reef
Talk by Alejandro Duran, CEO of the “Washed Up” project
Lunch and siesta
Shamanic Circle: Sacred Waters
Dinner
Day 4
Mayan Meditation
Breakfast
Defying Gravity Exercises
Lunch and siesta
Shamanic Circle : Spirit & Art
Dinner
Day 5
Mayan meditation
Breakfast
Heart Energy: a vigorous workout in the ocean
Lunch and siesta
Shamanic Circle: Healing the Heart
Dinner
Bonfire under the stars
Day 6
Mayan Meditation
Breakfast
Departure
Lunch in Tulum
Visit a Cenote!
Check in at Chichen Itza
Day 7
Breakfast
Chichen Itza Sacred Tour
Shamanic Ceremony
Partner Play Exercises at the pyramids
Free time
Closing Circle
Lunch
Departure for Cancun Airport
Logistics
We stay altogether in a private retreat centre inside the Sian Ka’an Biosphere south of Tulum, in shared accommodation. The place is remote and incredibly beautiful, you will be immersed in nature, held by the elements of the earth and sky.
Xo Ki’in is off grid and offers many insights about living light on our sacred planet. Xo Ki’in is also the birthing place of Washed Up, internationally acclaimed photographic project to protect the ocean by Alejandro Duran who will be our host and environmental muse.
All our meals will be freshly prepared by Pas, our Mayan chef and kindred spirit. On day 6 we will then travel to Chichen Itza where we will spend the night and visit the sacred site the next morning. On route to Chichen Itza we stop for lunch in Tulum and spend the afternoon in a Cenote.
Embodiment retreat ends at the Chichen Itza pyramids and then we travel together back to Cancun so you may get your flight home or check into your hotel if you’re staying longer. Private transportation will be provided for you throughout the week, we will meet in Tulum on November 3rd and drive to Xo Ki’in together, and we will say goodbye in Cancun on November 9th.
If you are joining us in Palenque for the Embodiment ( Day of the Dead) retreat, you can travel back to Cancun with us on November 2nd, and can continue on to Xo Ki’in on November 3rd, so everything is sorted and organised for you. If you are joining us in Palenque, you can also benefit from $250 discount on the Embodiment retreat in the Yucatan.
You will be provided with all the necessary information to plan your trip and make the most of your experience. Upon registration you will receive a list of what to bring and how to prepare for your Caribbean adventure.
Retreat Leaders
Lisa Knighton
Lisa is the CEO of AtHomeBeFit, a hybrid exercise studio established in the high desert of New Mexico. As the designer of transformative fitness programs for women, it’s Lisa’s experience that dedicated and deep attention to good quality exercise enhances vitality and achieves a higher quality of life and ease of daily function.
Lisa is an expert listener and is keen at creating lasting partnerships. She understands the daring journey through the liminal space that’s required to become more physically fit.
All of Lisa’s programs support the belief that aging with a healthy body and mind is one way to create lasting cultural change. She delights in the idea of our moving our bodies as a way to change the world. Lisa enjoys hiking mountain trails, writing about fitness and wellness, and reading memoirs.
Cinzia Sarigu
CEO and Founder of Ixchel Healing Arts, Cinzia is a medicine woman, shamanic teacher and expert ceremonialist specialised in dream work, mayan cosmology and spiritual healing. A natural born psychic, Cinzia takes you on life changing journeys to rekindle magic and wonder, awaken playfulness and discover your unique intimate relationship to spirit.
Cinzia loves bringing people together, her teachings are profound yet fun and they provide tools for living a healthier, happier, more compassionate life.
Cinzia loves traveling, ancient mysteries and …Mayan chocolate!
Fees
Discount for Palenque Retreat participants $250*
Full Price USD $2250
50% deposit upon register
Fees include:
- 6 nights accommodation
- All meals at Xo Ki’in Retreat Center
- Transport
- Trip to a Cenote
- Chichen Itza Sacred Tour
- Mayan Meditations & cosmology classes
- Fitness Classes
- Shamanic Workshops
- Ceremonies