Spring Reset Retreat
A clarifying and reinvigorating weekend
in Sewanee, TN
April 12th - 15th, 2024
with Alexandra Moga
Daily Yoga • Healing Foods • Cleanse Menu • Hiking • Ayurveda 101 Cooking Class • Transformational Breathwork • Marma Acupressure Bodywork • Meditation • Digital Detox
Join Alexandra, a private Ayurvedically-trained chef, and an intimate group of friends and community in the beautiful hills of Middle Tennessee for a weekend of spring cleaning the Mind, Body & Spirit.
Have you ever felt like a good detox was in order, but it felt overwhelming? Making the time. Eliminating distractions. Knowing what protocol is right for you. Managing menus. Getting ingredients. Taking care of all the prep. Having support for the unknown. If you’re new to cleansing, the learning curve can be intimidating.
I want to make it super easy and accessible for you to feel all the power that a cleanse can deliver. You will leave feeling empowered and ready to expand into the next season of your life with clarity, energy, and ease.
This retreat is designed to sharpen the tools of your body, mind, and connection to life by giving you the space and time to rest, digest and release through healing, cellular nourishment.
Shed the old and see from a new perspective!
From Ayurveda, to Traditional Chinese Medicine, and countless spiritual and mindful traditions, we are invited into intentional breaks in the usual as part of the journey to self-realization. Fasting and refining our intake (through all the senses) is one of the most effective ways to jumpstart our lives and any areas needing rejuvenation. Over time, the little lifestyle choices we make accumulate. Environmental pollutants accumulate. Emotions, thought loops, limiting beliefs accumulate. We all need a break to clear out these accumulations, to lovingly tend to ourselves. While there are many ways to go about this, simplicity will be our guiding force.
In the midst of a health scare last year, I took a deep look at healing through food, specifically eliminating troublesome, inflammatory foods so that my body could cleanse and heal itself while supported by nutrient-packed, whole and simple ingredients. After hearing rave reviews of the Medical Medium protocol, I did my research and was all in. While his cleanses may seem restrictive, there is surprising power in their simplicity and results. I knew it was a relatively short-term commitment so for nine days, I buckled down and treated each meal as an invitation to connect to the essence of true nourishment. I quickly realized how much we are conditioned to over-consume. How many layers and stimulants are going to make me feel satisfied? And indeed, don’t they just drive hunger to feed a seemingly insatiable craving, fill a bigger and bigger void? Simplifying allowed me to savor, slow down, and soften into the heart of what I was carrying, what rang true, and what I could release.
This confronting yet healing experience inspired me to help others do the same.
This retreat offers a variety of modalities to speak to the many layers that make you up. Thanks to the various tools of yoga, we will not only clarify our physical bodies, but also our subtle bodies:
BODY: Food, Acupressure Massage, Movement
MIND: Meditation, Mantra
PRANIC (energy): Transformational Breathwork
WISDOM: Silent contemplation, Journaling, Storytelling
SPIRIT: Relationship, Community, Connection
Offerings & Schedule
Ayurvedic meals
Celery juice & heavy metal detox smoothies
Cooking workshop on spring herbs, spices & practices to help the body gently shed stagnant energy
Digital detox
Mantra meditation and music
Transformational Breathwork
Kundalini Yoga, Gentle Flow, Restorative Yoga
Marma Acupressure Bodywork
Nature walks, hiking
Self-care rituals
DAILY SCHEDULE
6am - Sunrise / Silent contemplation
7am - Movement & Pranayama
8am - Breakfast
10am - Morning workshop, outing, or relaxation
1pm - Lunch
3pm - Afternoon workshop, outing, or relaxation
6pm - Dinner
7:30pm - Evening gathering, storytelling, kirtan, quiet time
Your Guide
Alexandra Moga is an artist at heart, dedicated to the path of devotion through writing (poetry, song), taking care, and yoga, all of which she can remember moving her from her earliest memories. During summer breaks in Romania she would meditate alongside her aunt who taught her practices in forgiveness, focused breathing, and energetic visualization. In her teens, she attended culinary arts high school and took her first yoga asana class. Both provided stability and vital expression, finding yoga to perfectly suit her passion for movement and dedication to spirituality. After four years of studying art history in Paris, she returned to New York where she immersed herself in the yogic path with over 1,000 hours of training in the various limbs of yogic teachings (Ashtanga, Kundalini, Restorative, Bhakti, Breathwork, Ayurveda) and teaching since 2010.
Travels throughout Africa, southeast Asia, Europe and India has made Alexandra a student of the thread that ties together spiritual paths and cultural expressions through the arts; namely food, song, poetry and dance. She is a student of her heart, senses, intuition, listening, and the lessons that come from difficulties. Ever open to the gurus, stars, spirits, and Source to deliver wisdom to and through her, she has learned that the dark nights and wrong turns are often incredible gifts to catapult her into fuller self-realization and massive creative expansion. She is deeply grateful for her many, many teachers: friends, family, devotees of the divine, nature and the dream realm.
FINANCIAL EXCHANGE
TOTAL INVESTMENT:
Sliding Scale $495 - $750
This retreat is open to a small group, for sliding scale pricing. If you are financially able to contribute more, this will help cover costs for participants needing financial assistance.
Price includes:
All meals, teas, juices, smoothies
All classes & workshops
Accommodations
Not included in pricing:
Transportation to Sewanee (carpooling available)
PAYMENTS & DEPOSIT
Payments can be made via a 3-month payment plan or in full.
$100 non refundable deposit.
Refund policy:
Up to 60 days out: all monies refunded excluding deposit
Up to 30 days out: 50% refund of payment excluding deposit
Up to 2 weeks out: payments are non-refundable but 75% transferable to a future event with Alexandra.