Sacred Shifts - A Journey Through the Layers of Our Being: Body • Mind • Essence
Workshop
Yyoga Workshop
April 17, May 30, July 11
Sacred Shifts is a three-part immersive workshop series that invites participants to explore the layered nature of human experience – moving from the body, through the mind, and toward the innermost layer of the self.
Each workshop guides participants into a deeper and more compassionate relationship with themselves – starting with the outermost layer, the physical body, moving through the mind, and eventually reaching the innermost layer of their being.
Along this journey, participants explore how they relate to each of these layers: the way they inhabit and care for their body, the thoughts and beliefs that shape their inner world, and their connection to their deeper essence. The intention is to better understand the stories they carry, release what may be holding them back, support nervous system regulation, and reconnect with a more authentic sense of self.
Through a carefully curated blend of practices, participants are invited into an immersive inner journey that supports reflection, emotional release, and expanded awareness.
The sessions combine:
- Guided practices for self-reflection
- Yogic breathing techniques and guided visualisations
- Somatic awareness and release practices
- Conscious Connected Breathwork
- Holosomatic bodywork
- Immersive soundscapes using sound-cancelling headphones, allowing participants to focus more deeply on their own internal experience
These workshops create a supportive space for participants to reconnect with their bodies, access deeper layers of awareness, and explore emotions and blockages that may be held unconsciously beneath the surface. Through this process, participants are invited to release emotions stored in the body, bring awareness to limiting beliefs that shape their experience, and reconnect with their deeper essence.
The intention of this series is to shift the way we relate to ourselves – physically, mentally, and at the level of our deeper essence. While each workshop explores one layer, body, mind, and essence are deeply interconnected. This journey invites participants to cultivate a more compassionate and integrated relationship with themselves as a whole.
Participants can join individual workshops, but they are strongly encouraged to take part in the full series, as moving through the three layers progressively allows for a deeper and more meaningful shift.
The Arc of the Series
- Body → Shift how you relate to your physical self
- Mind → Shift your belief systems
- Essence → Shift how you relate to your deeper self
Price
- Individual Workshop – 70€
- Two workshops – 135€
- Full series – 195€
This series is for you if you want to:
- Develop a deeper and more compassionate relationship with your body, mind, and inner self
- Find support if you experience stress, anxiety, burnout, low mood, or periods of depression
- Calm a busy or ruminating mind that finds it difficult to switch off
- Improve sleep and support the body in releasing tension and fatigue
- Release physical tension, emotional stress, or patterns that may be held in the body
- Better understand the thoughts and beliefs that shape your inner experience
- Support your nervous system and cultivate greater emotional balance
- Explore the connection between breath, body awareness, and personal growth
- Move beyond the physical aspects of yoga and explore the deeper mind–body connection
- Create space for reflection, insight, and meaningful inner shifts
- Step outside your usual patterns and open yourself to personal transformation
- Reconnect with your deeper essence and a greater sense of inner alignment
Pregnancy • Recent surgery • Epilepsy, strokes, Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA, “mini-stroke”) seizures, or other brain/neurological conditions • Aneurysms (personal or immediate family history) • Detached retina; Glaucoma • Cardiovascular diseases (including prior heart attack); uncontrolled high blood pressure • Mental disorders (manic disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, OCD, paranoia, psychotic episodes, depersonalization, etc.) • Severe anxiety or PTSD (without professional support) • Use of prescription blood thinners • Hospitalization for any psychiatric condition or emotional crisis within the past 10 years • Osteoporosis or physical injuries that are not fully healed • Acute somatic or viral diseases • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD-II and COPD-III) • Individual intolerance of oxygen insufficiency • Severe autoimmune or inflammatory diseases (Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, severe Fibromyalgia) • Low impulse control.
Returning Home
Our relationship with the body is the foundation of every other relationship in our lives. And yet, many of us live primarily in the mind — analyzing, judging, planning, performing — while the body becomes something we manage, critique, discipline, or ignore. Over time, we disconnect from sensation and lose touch with the body as a place of safety, wisdom, and aliveness.
From a nervous system perspective, this disconnection has profound effects. The body is where safety is experienced. It is where emotions are processed. It is where stress, trauma, and unconscious physical patterns are stored.
When we carry critical narratives about our appearance, worth, or adequacy, the body registers them as stress, tension, and bracing. Chronic self-judgment can subtly keep the nervous system in states of fight, flight, freeze, or collapse. This may show up as tension, numbness, hypervigilance, disembodiment, fatigue, insomnia, difficulty concentrating, or a constant sense of inner pressure.
Focus
This workshop is an invitation to return home to your physical body and to rediscover the body as the place where healing begins. You’ll be guided to reconnect with the physical body as the foundation for healing and creating space for a more compassionate and embodied relationship with oneself.
Through practices that bring attention back to sensation and breath, participants are guided into a deeper experience of the present moment. When we reconnect with the body, the nervous system begins to settle, awareness expands, and new possibilities for healing and change can emerge.
The session includes a guided Holosomatic Bodywork experience, combining:
- Conscious Connected Breath
- Self-massage and intuitive touch
- Somatic movement to explore instinctive physical patterns and support release
- Immersive soundscapes through sound-cancelling headphones
Objectives
Participants will be invited to explore:
- Inherited and learned narratives about beauty, performance, and worth
- Internalized criticism and body image patterns
- The subtle ways we override sensation
- How beliefs about the body shape the way the body feels
- What becomes possible when the body feels safe
- What shifts when we move from controlling the body to listening to it
Takeaways
Participants may leave the workshop with:
- A greater sense of presence and connection with their physical body
- Tools to support nervous system regulation and reduce physical tension
- Increased awareness of how beliefs and emotions are held in the body
- A softer and more compassionate relationship with their physical self
- A renewed sense of the body as a place of safety, grounding, and healing
Towards a Compassionate Mind
If the body is where we experience life, the mind is where we interpret it.
Our thoughts shape the way we see ourselves, others, and the world around us. They influence how we respond to challenges, how we relate to our emotions, and what we believe is possible for our lives. And yet, many of us are not fully aware of how strongly we are influenced by the voice in our head — the inner critic, the worrier, the perfectionist, or the part of us that constantly tries to anticipate and control.
Over time, repeated thoughts can turn into deeply held beliefs about who we are and what we are capable of. These beliefs can quietly shape our choices, our emotional responses, and even how our nervous system reacts to everyday situations.
From a nervous system perspective, thoughts are not neutral. The body responds to what the mind perceives as true. Fearful or self-critical thinking can keep the system in a subtle state of stress or contraction, while more compassionate and flexible perspectives can create a sense of openness, safety, and possibility.
Focus
Creating a more spacious and compassionate relationship with the mind — allowing thoughts to be observed with curiosity rather than judgment, and opening the possibility for new perspectives and greater inner freedom.
This workshop invites participants to explore their relationship with their mind with curiosity and kindness. Rather than trying to silence or control the mind, we learn to observe it, understand it, and relate to it in a more compassionate way.
In doing so, participants begin to recognize how certain beliefs and mental patterns may have shaped their experiences and reactions over time. Through awareness and guided practices, these beliefs can be gently questioned, softened, and gradually reshaped, opening space for new perspectives and more supportive inner narratives.
The session includes a guided Holosomatic Breathwork journey, integrating elements of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) — an approach that explores how language, thoughts, and internal images shape our perception of ourselves and the world. By becoming aware of these patterns, it becomes possible to shift and reframe limiting beliefs and create new mental pathways.
The breathwork experience combines:
- Conscious connected breathing to activate and regulate the nervous system
- Music and immersive soundscapes combined with vocal guidance through sound-cancelling headphones to deepen the internal journey
- Somatic awareness practices to notice how thoughts and emotions are felt in the body
- Guided visualisation and NLP-inspired prompts to help identify and reframe limiting beliefs
Through this process, breath becomes a bridge between conscious intention and deeper subconscious patterns, allowing participants to access and gently reprogram beliefs that may no longer serve them.
Objectives
Together we will explore:
- Recurring thought patterns that shape how we see ourselves and the world
- Limiting beliefs and fear-based narratives that may influence our choices
- The inner critic and protective mental patterns that try to keep us safe
- The difference between the reactive mind and the deeper observing awareness
- How breath and body awareness can help bring calm, clarity, and emotional balance
Takeaways
Participants may leave the workshop with:
- A greater sense of space and calm in their mental landscape
- Tools to observe thoughts without becoming overwhelmed by them
- Increased awareness of beliefs and stories that shape their experience
- A more compassionate and supportive relationship with their inner dialogue
- Greater openness to new perspectives and possibilities
Remembering Who You Are
This final workshop invites participants to explore their relationship with the innermost layer of their existence — the part of themselves that remains beyond conditioning, fear, roles, and expectations.
After reconnecting with the body in the first workshop and exploring the patterns of the mind in the second, this third session turns toward the deepest layer of our experience. It is an invitation to remember a subtle yet fundamental part of who we are that may have been covered over by habits, beliefs, and protective patterns developed over time.
As human beings, we are complex and multilayered. Beyond our physical sensations and mental narratives, there is a deeper sense of self connected to authenticity, meaning, and inner direction. When we lose touch with this layer, we may feel disconnected from ourselves even when life appears to be functioning well, unsure of our direction or uncertain about who we truly are.
Focus
This workshop creates space to reconnect with that deeper sense of self – to remember what has been there all along, opening the possibility for subtle yet powerful inner shifts.
Rather than striving to become someone new, participants are invited to open to what is already present within them. Through guided practices and immersive experiences, they are supported in feeling their own energy more directly and reconnecting with their essence — the most subtle, yet most powerful layer of themselves.
Participants explore what it means to move beyond fear and conditioned identity, and to reconnect with a deeper sense of authenticity and alignment.
The session includes:
- Somatic grounding practices to support nervous system regulation
- A Holosomatic Breathwork session designed to expand awareness and deepen inner exploration
- A group ritual practice supporting shared reflection and intention
- Guided practices to connect with personal awareness and the collective experience of the group
Together, these practices create an environment that encourages openness, insight, and reconnection.
This workshop is not about reaching a final destination. Instead, it offers tools and embodied experiences that participants can carry forward into their lifelong journey of self-discovery and integration.
Objectives
Participants will be invited to explore:
- The difference between ego-driven identity and the deeper self
- What it feels like to reconnect with one’s authentic inner experience
- How fear, roles, and expectations can shape our sense of self
- The idea that human experience is multilayered, extending beyond body and mind
- Practices that support ongoing self-inquiry and personal growth
Takeaways
Participants may leave the workshop with:
- A deeper sense of connection with their authentic self
- Greater openness to inner guidance and personal meaning
- Increased awareness of the layers that shape their identity
- Practical tools to continue their journey of self-exploration beyond the workshop
- A stronger sense of integration between body, mind, and their deeper inner experience
Silvia is a trauma-informed somatic practitioner specializing in body-oriented coaching, breathwork, and bodywork. She is trained in Innercamp’s Holosomatic Method® for Breath and Body Therapy and certified by the Somatic School in the UK. Her work is grounded in somatic principles and informed by polyvagal theory, recognizing that our nervous system shapes how we experience safety, connection, and resilience.
Silvia believes that true healing involves the whole body—not just the mind. Drawing from both modern neuroscienceand ancient healing traditions, she helps individuals release unprocessed tension and emotion held in the body. Her approach supports the integration of body, mind, and spirit, allowing clients to move from patterns of survival and contraction toward presence, freedom, and inner balance.
