What if joy wasn’t something to chase… but something to remember?

This one-day retreat is an immersive journey into the many expressions of joy. How we feel it in the body, sense it in the heart, and express it through movement, creativity, and connection.

Through a carefully curated blend of practices, you’ll be invited to tune in, listen, move and reconnect with joy as a lived, embodied experience, rather than an idea or something to chase.

🌼 What we will explore together

Somatic movement – awaken aliveness, ease, and presence in the body
Guided meditation – reconnect with your heart, higher self, and an inner state of joy
Tantra-inspired practices – deepen connection with joy as a heart-based, embodied experience
Art Yoga & sensory exploration – use colors, crafts, and creative expression as a pathway to joy

These practices are woven together intentionally, allowing joy to be felt, explored, and expressed in multiple ways: physical, emotional, creative, and relational.

This is not about forcing happiness or performing joy.
It is about remembering a state of joy, feeling it fully, and learning how to carry it beyond the retreat into daily life.

Transmuting with Nature, in alignment, shifting, letting go and remembering Joy. That Spark of Light we choose to carry within, as we begin to prepare to leave the brightest months behind.

Everything can be taken from a person but one thing—the freedom to choose one’s response
-Viktor Frankl

🌼 This retreat is for you if:

You want to engage in transformational and meaningful practices
You feel curious about joy and how it lives in your body
You want to reconnect with playfulness, aliveness, creativity, and presence
You’re open to embodied, heart-led practices
You’re seeking a nourishing day of connection with yourself and others
Its time to do something good for you!!

No prior experience is needed.
All bodies, all expressions, all ways of feeling are welcome.

🗓 Details:

Date: Sunday, 9th May
Duration: Full day (10 am - 6 pm)
Location: The Green, Mission Bay. 6A Nihill Crescent, Mission Bay, Auckland 1071.
Lunch: Vegetarian Lunch & Snacks provided

✨ A rare and unique offering

This retreat weaves together somatic movement, meditation, psychology, tantra, and creative art practices in a way that is rarely offered, creating a rich, multidimensional experience that supports deep integration and genuine transformation.

Valentina, Dinny & Aryia are co-facilitator of this experience. Together they wave a safe space for Presence, Healing and Growth, merging their knowledge and skills to create a Journey that Begins, Burns and Transforms.

YOUR HOSTS:

Dinny, Co-founder of Art Yoga. Artist. Yoga, Meditation & Pilates Facilitator.

Valentina, Tantra Facilitator. Yoga Teacher. Ritualist.

Aryia. Psychosomatic Trance Therapist. Womb & Abdominal Indigenous Healing. Yoga Teacher

Valentina & Aryia co-creators of Sundari Temple. A project rooted into The Traditional Arts of Tantra to bring people closer to themselves, others, and ultimately God.

Come as you are.
Leave with joy not just felt — but embodied.

Contact the host of JOY — A Day of Movement, Creativity & Connection