Retreats & Experiences
Welcome
This page shares our upcoming somatic sessions and retreats, and offers a sense of what a retreat day looks like.
BODHI SOMATICS
AN INTRODUCTION
TO
SOMATIC EXPERIENCE
DAY RETREAT
FOR PROFESSIONALS
SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2026
AT
AMANDARI, GREYTON
For people who work with or attend to others
Therapists, counsellors, psychologists, coaches, doctors, GPs, physiotherapists, teachers, social workers, movement & healing practitioners / teachers
A small group of 8 people for a shared, restorative day.
The Day
09:30 – 16:00
(Includes tea and a light, nourishing lunch.)
BODY INTELLIGENCE
Most of what we deal with in life is processed through thinking,
talking and making sense of it.
But experience doesn’t only sit in thought.
It shows up in the body too. In breath that changes, shoulders tighten, posture shifts, energy that drops or spikes,
a nervous system that contracts or settles.
THIS DAY IS ABOUT NOTICING THAT LAYER.
Not necessarily analysing or
fixing it. Just noticing it while it is happening.
A day of somatic exploration
We work with attention, breath, movement and sensation.
You’ll notice how quickly the body responds to memory, thought, and interaction - and how the body responds before we consciously think it.
Moving between guided somatic & intuitive movement,
breath, stillness and simple restorative practice.
There is time to pause throughout - to rest, reflect and notice what is present in the body as it shifts between movement and quiet.
BOOKINGS ARE NOW OPEN
RATES / BOOKING DETAILS & MORE INFO HERE
For enquiries & Bookings
Maja Heynecke
Mobile / WhatsApp - 079 892 1753
Email : maja@heynecke.com
THIS DAY MAY BE FOR YOU IF:
Your professional work involves supporting, holding, attuning to, guiding others.
You may work in therapeutic, clinical, educational, coaching, healing or care-based environments where sustained outward attention, emotional presence, regulation or relational holding are part of daily life.
This includes:
Psychologists, psychotherapists & counsellors
Social workers & support practitioners
Doctors, GPs, nurses & allied health professionals
Coaches & facilitators
Teachers & school counsellors
Physiotherapists, bodyworkers & movement practitioners
Community care workers, trauma, addiction or crisis-support practitioners
No previous somatic, yoga or mindfulness experience is needed.
The day is oriented around your own experience:
rest, regulation, embodiment and reconnection with yourself.
What does a Somatic experience or retreat look like?
Questions often arise about what somatic work actually is, and what a retreat looks like.
Bodhi Somatics is not a fixed method. The day does work within a carefully prepared schedule, but it's not a prescribed set of moves or a fixed sequence of techniques or protocol delivered in the same way each time.
Practices are informed by mindfulness, embodied movement and trauma-aware somatic practices. While the framework will focus on regulation, awareness, reflection and rest, the way I teach will remain responsive to what is happening within the group. This includes the pace, energy, nervous system capacity and the need for settling, space or pause throughout the day.
My holding of this space is based on years of my own contemplative practice and teaching: yoga, meditation, nervous system awareness and embodied movement work. These practices are not offered in a conventional “class” format, but are adapted and integrated through a somatic and relational lens.
For example, movement practices may include slow vinyasa-inspired or yin / restorative-inspired approaches offered in a way that supports interoception and nervous system regulation rather than 'stretching' or physical achievement. Meditation practices may draw from mindfulness or metta-based approaches, used gently to support titration, pendulation, awareness and connection to internal / somatic experience.
Rather than working toward a particular outcome, the emphasis of the day is on creating conditions where people can slow down enough to notice themselves more completely - across various levels including physically, emotionally, mentally and energetically. I always offer you choice, pacing and rest whenever that impulse comes up for you.
Depending on the focus of the retreat, the day may include: gentle embodied movement (including yoga-informed practice), seated or guided meditation, MBSR, guided somatic awareness, breathwork, NSDR, reflective journaling, creative practices, periods of stillness and rest, and practices that support regulation and integration.
Some retreats may also include optional one-to-one support and/ or group reflection.
It is a restorative and experiential day designed to support deeper listening, reconnection and a greater sense of ease within the body and nervous system.
