Weekend with Dr Luke Sniewski: Creating Authentic Change (Day 1) | Healing Through Stillness (Day 2)

"All healing starts and ends with the body." ~ Dr Luke Sniewski.

This weekend retreat is designed to support you to awaken your true potential for change, teaching you proven somatic practices to tap into your own healing potential, to support a life with healthy body, mind and spirit. 

This beautiful Weekend of Healing, features two distinct programmes on the Saturday and Sunday. Sign up for just one day, or join us for both for a truly transformational weekend to recalibrate body, heart & mind, in the company of lovely humans!

This is a rare opportunity to learn from Wellbeing Coach & Somatic Therapist Dr Luke Sniewksi. Luke is a certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner - a therapeutic approach developed by renowned Gabor Maté - as well as a Mentor and Facilitator. Luke's book Somawise is a guide to unlocking our innate wisdom, strength and healing capacity. Somawise reveals how our body holds the answers to holistic wellbeing, authentic change, and peaceful relationship. Luke also runs the Somawise Healing Lab.

We have created this programme with love and care, to create an offering that will guide you to reconnect with your own potential for healing and health. Luke's teachings, guidance and facilitation will be complemented with yin yoga practice and breathwork by yoga teacher Freda Wells.

Join us in a safe supportive space, and experience the gift of transformative practices, that will not only leave you feeling uplifted and rejuvenated, but will empower you with new tools to enhance your own healing potential beyond the weekend.

Day 1: Saturday 10 August - Creating Authentic Change Workshop

Time: 9:30am - 4pm

Programme

• Short guided meditation and yoga practice
  
• Talk on Change, Reactivity & Conscious Discomfort
• Water Drying Exercise
• Breathwork
• Processing / integration
• Sauna / Cold
• Group Discussion

Venue Day 1: Pause Yoga Studio - 28 Moana Road, Days Bay.  @pauseyogastudionz
with use of Scenic Saunas NZ at Days Bay!

Day 2: Sunday 11 August - Healing & Integrating through Stillness Workshop

Programme

• Talk by Luke: sources of trauma / conditioning
  
• Stillness Practice
• Processing / Integration
• TRE - Tension Release Exercises
• Yin Yoga
• Group Discussion

Venue Day 2: Wellington Meditation Centre, 31 Hobson Crescent, Thorndon, Wellington

Stillness is the catalyst for authentic and permanent change. When we infuse our practices with the quality of stillness, we empower ourselves to become the conscious creators of our respective lives.

The practices you choose to support the process of change with represents only the first step. This is because how you practice is as or more important than the specific practice we choose. In this sense, every practice is a pathway towards stillness.

When we infuse our practices – whether yin yoga, meditation, breathwork, TRE or thermal stress exposure – with the quality of stillness, we access the practices’ true potential for creating change. This Stillness Workshop guides participants through an immersive experience into the transformational quality of Stillness.

You will leave with:

You will leave with a deeper understanding of – and greater connection to – your body, as well as self-care practices that will support you in everyday life. Your body and mind will have received the gift of recovery. Consider this journey as the personal cocoon, from which you will emerge a new Self after the inner work that you do.
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

About Dr Luke Sniewski

Trained under Sat Dharam Kaur, Luke is a certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, Mentor and Facilitator. His passion for understanding the human body and the mechanisms that drive and dictate human behaviour have led him down a path of self-discovery and personal exploration. His greatest passion is awakening people to their true potential for change.
Through a combination of somatic modalities and self-inquiry practices, Luke guides his clients as they reconnect with their own body. While the process of reconnection with Self can sometimes be uncomfortable, it can lead to profound and life-changing insights. The experiential wisdom garnered through inner work helps people live more authentically and show up in relationships with more calmness and presence.

Luke is a practitioner, mentor, facilitator, and perpetual student of Compassionate Inquiry, a therapeutic approach developed by renowned Gabor Maté, aimed at helping people unearth the root causes of their suffering and self-destructive cycles.

About Freda Wells
Following graduating with a double degree in Psychology and French at Otago University, Freda completed her 200YTT in 2019, with a focus on vinyasa and hatha, with Nico Luce. This training catalysted a lifelong interest in all aspects of yoga: the history, philosophy, psychology, anatomy, physiology, sequencing, energetics and ethics. Freda does her best to live the ‘The Four Agreements’, a book Nico set as the principles of his YTT: “Be impeccable with your word”, “Do not take anything personally”, “Do not make assumptions”, and “Always do your best”. Freda is passionate about - and energised by - activating the potential in others. In recent years she gained her Regenesis Regenerative Practitioner Certificate, Openfield's Workshop Co-Design and Facilitation Masterclass Certificate, and the Riders & Elephant Emotional Culture Deck Practitioner Certificate.

She loves sharing the healing power of yoga with her students, and connecting them with their own inner yoga teacher, agency, and inspire their journey of self-authorship.