Purification-retreat

Where: Dojo, Laren.
Teacher: An Wildeman, Maartje van Hooft, Henriette Wesselink e.o.
Date: Wednesday 8 May, h. 18.00 – Sunday May 12, h. 12.00.
Cost: € 465- (early bird-price upto March 27, 2024, the cost then is € 418,50).
This seminar is open to English-speaking participants.

Our annual cleansing retreat is always a special occasion to discover what our body wisdom truly desires. And to feel how deeply this physical healing and cleansing resonate in our heart and mind.

In this retreat, we work with the principles of semi-fasting, as we have experienced them with Kunikiyo-sensei. We eat accordingly, with the first days being salt-free, allowing our bodies to expel toxins. At the same time, you practice eating what your body indicates it needs. To experiment and feel the effects of nutrition, in the morning, we have our ‘beverage buffet’: various soups and juices, savory and sweet, supporting your body in the cleansing process.

The other meals are flavorful, with pure tastes, and easily digestible. This cleansing is integrated into a varied Dojo program, including exercises for the organs, Hara strengthening, study of relationship areas in the body, meditation, nature walks, etc.

The overall program helps you recover and rejuvenate, returning home with a healthy dose of self-wisdom.

The training is mainly conducted in Dutch, but the staff can provide some lessons in English and translate as needed.

Fernando Montoto

Where: Dojo, Laren.
Teacher: Fernando Montoto
Date: Friday 17 May, h. 20.00 – Sunday May 19, h. 16.00.
Cost: € 275- (early bird-price upto April 5, 2024, the cost then is € 250,-).
This seminar will be conducted in English.
The seminar is fully booked, so no more spaces available.
This seminar is suited for teachers who want to find ways to help their students find more balance and deepen their practice, it is suited for experienced practitioners, but it is also suited for newcomers who want to experience how yoga can improve balance and vitality. Fernando Montoto is a very experienced teacher, who can offer all levels of students a rewarding experience.

How to find a deeper balance through relationpoints and apply this in asana and in movements in Oki-Yoga-style.

In this weekend-seminar senior Oki-Yoga teacher Fernando Montoto will guide you to develop inner awareness and create balance through various Oki-Yoga methods. This will help you in your daily life, but it will also help you to deepen your Yoga-practice….

Marc Vervecken

Where: Dojo, Laren.
Teacher: Marc Vervecken
Date: Saturday 22 June, h. 9.30 – Sunday 23 June, h. 16.00.
Cost: € 265- (early bird-price upto May 10, 2024, the cost then is € 240,-).
This seminar will be conducted in Dutch. This seminar is fully booked.
This seminar is suited for yoga-practitioners with extensive or with little experience. Shiatsu experience is not required.

Healing yourself with Okido Yoga: corrective exercises, relationpoints and structural shiatsu. 

You can find the info (in Dutch) on the specific webpage.

Saying goodbye to Mizue-san in the Dojo

Where: Dojo, Laren.
Date: Sunday June 30, h. 14.00.
No cost.
This meeting is to honour Mizue-san’s work as responsable of the Dojo, now she’s going into retirement from the Dojo.

When we think of the Dojo, we think of Mizue. Mizue has been connected with the Dojo since the establishment of the Dutch foundation in 1979 and thereafter in Laren. Just think how long that is: 45 years! A period of 45 years of unwavering dedicated service. The Dojo and Mizue have become what we are today. The Dojo and Mizue are both undergoing change, towards a new balance and a new stability. The active role of Mizue is being passed on to the new generation and the Dojo continues and changes.

This is an important milestone: on Sunday, June 30, we celebrate Mizue’s farewell as the linchpin and figurehead of Okido Yoga, and the start of the new phase for the Dojo. This will be a special day. Each of us has precious memories, of enjoyable and less enjoyable events, lessons, training, translations, and the uniqueness of Mizue in Laren and also in Amsterdam. We will celebrate Mizue’s enormous contribution over the past 45 years, and together, we will reflect on all the good things we want to preserve and carry into the future. Mizue herself will contribute to this, as will people who have helped build the Dojo over the past years, including yourself, whether for a shorter or longer period.

Mizue has requested input: if you have any questions for her, things she can touch upon or explain on June 30, please let us know. Send us an email: info@okidoyoga.nl

Your presence on this day is highly appreciated. Use the registration form to let us know you’ll be attending. You can find the inscribe button next to this message.

Summertraining

Where: Dojo, Laren.
Teacher: Maartje van Hooft, Jose Starmans e.o.
Date: Saturday August 3, h. 16.00 – Saturday August 10, h. 11.00.
Cost: € 785- (early bird-price upto June 22, 2024, the cost then is € 710,-).
Participation from English-speaking participants is possible.

This summertraining is a regular Dojo-training. The theme is ‘Renewal in the year of the Dragon’.

The astrological sign Dragon symbolizes renewal and vitality. In the program, we focus more on freeing the organs and organ energy, and connecting with the deep Hara and silence axis. Physically, this results in a shift from tension to centering, and often, you can feel how you release (physical) noise and tension, while your body becomes ‘emptier’ and freer. Mentally, you may experience the feeling of coming home to yourself, making it feel like you are less reactive to various stimuli, but can live more ‘from the inside out’ and follow your own energy. By letting go of noise in your system, you connect with a deeper source, from which you can experience vitality and renewal.

Throughout the training, we offer a varied and balanced program. With exercises for cleansing organs, Hara strengthening, studying relationship areas in the body, nature walks, etc. You could call this training a summer retreat. Not a passive retreat, but an active retreat, where there is time and space to connect with the deeper life force.

The training is mainly conducted in Dutch, but the staff can provide some lessons in English and translate as needed.