Your Journey Begins at the charming beach town of Sayulita, Mexico!
Join James Knight, Founder of Gentle Somatic Yoga® (GSY), for an unforgettable training & retreat in a tropical paradise setting.
James has been coming to Sayulita, Mexico almost every year since 2012 and it is one of his favorite places in the world. Not only will you be empowered with new skills for personal and/or professional development, be ready for some great surprises of local culture, secluded beaches, yummy food, and more... Also, you are invited to bring a friend or family members to join you complimentary if your room accommodation allows, and they don't mind waiting until your breaks to spend time with you (trust us... they won't be bored!).
James has been coming to Sayulita, Mexico almost every year since 2012 and it is one of his favorite places in the world. Not only will you be empowered with new skills for personal and/or professional development, be ready for some great surprises of local culture, secluded beaches, yummy food, and more... Also, you are invited to bring a friend or family members to join you complimentary if your room accommodation allows, and they don't mind waiting until your breaks to spend time with you (trust us... they won't be bored!).
Gentle Somatic Yoga is a simple, practical, and reliable form of brain-to-muscle repatterning that goes to the root cause of most muscular pain, stiffness, and posture imbalances. In GSY, we don't focus on stretching. Instead, we use a technique called pandiculation. The beneficial results can be immediate and long lasting for most people. Be prepared to expand your capacity with an embodied sense of ease and freedom through everyday movement and vibrant health!
ABOUT GSY LEVEL 1
Gentle Somatic Yoga® Level 1 Course with the theme: Your Healing Journey Begins with a Supportive Foundation
Facilitated by GSY Founder, James Knight
Like every great house with a solid foundation, the body thrives and heals with a strong, reliable method of self-care.
As we all know, our biggest investment is our health. Gentle Somatic Yoga is a science-proven and heart-informed method to empower you with skills for self-healing and whole-self integration.
In this GSY Level 1 course you will be learning 25+ Somatic Movement Flows®. Highlights of this training course are:
Gentle Somatic Yoga® Level 1 Course with the theme: Your Healing Journey Begins with a Supportive Foundation
Facilitated by GSY Founder, James Knight
Like every great house with a solid foundation, the body thrives and heals with a strong, reliable method of self-care.
As we all know, our biggest investment is our health. Gentle Somatic Yoga is a science-proven and heart-informed method to empower you with skills for self-healing and whole-self integration.
In this GSY Level 1 course you will be learning 25+ Somatic Movement Flows®. Highlights of this training course are:
- Finding your "Inner Yes" to make generative and nourishing decisions for yourself. Discover ways to move your body that are safe, comfortable, and life-force enhancing (prana)
- Embody the "how and why" Somatic Movement Flows get to the root cause of persistent pain, stiffness, poor posture, anxiety, and lack of energy
- Learn ways to practice nourishing movements that are suitable and adaptable for EVERYbody. Emphasis will be on finding your own inner teacher and relying less on “doing it right” according to instruction or demonstration
GSY Level 1 Training: The Somatic Foundation
This training is right for you if:
- You’ve experienced nagging pain or stress-based symptoms and want to relieve them, including but not limited to:
- Muscle tightness, stiffness or spasms
- Joint pain or inflammation
- Lack of flexibility and/or mobility
- Poor posture
- Anxiety
- Headaches
- Insomnia
- Muscle tightness, stiffness or spasms
- You’re living with chronic pain and other symptoms from an injury, surgery, autoimmune condition, including but not limited to:
- Chronic lower back, neck, or shoulder pain
- Tight hips/pelvis
- TMJ
- Sciatica
- Fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome
- Sports Injury
- You are looking to build a home practice for ongoing self-care, confidence, and and embodied sense of wellbeing
- You are a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, bodyworker, or health care professional that would like to learn new skills that you can implement into your classes and/or private sessions
- You would like to add-on our Certification Option to provide a recognized credential that can help support you to expand your scope of practice
More of what you will learn in this course:
- Sensory Motor Amnesia: The how and why Somatic Movement Flows get to the root cause of persistent pain, stiffness, poor posture, anxiety and lack of energy. Most people experience immediate and long-lasting results.
- Pandiculation: The main technique that makes this method different than most other popular styles of yoga. This method replaces static stretching with innovative brain-to-muscle re-education
- How to reclaim abandon parts of self, due to stressful life experiences
- Develop an embodied experience of peace and wellbeing that will build confidence for continued self-healing
- How to practice mindful and compassionate movement in a way that inspires deeper connection with your body
- Leading-edge neuroscience balanced with heart-based wisdom
- Whole-Self integration: Mind/Body/Soul
- Tips and guidelines to support your own niche of adaptive and nourishing movement into your group classes and private sessions
** PLEASE NOTE **
- Please budget approx. $50-80 each way for a taxi to pick you up from the Puerto Vallarta (PVR) airport, and drop you off in Sayulita (This amount is much less if you share your taxi with another participant. We can help you find out if others are arriving near the same time as you). Taxi rides are, on average, 45 minutes from Puerto Vallarta to the hotel.
- If you are willing to exit the airport and cross the pedestrian bridge to the other side of the highway, taxi’s are less expensive. We will send more information in an email and it will be on your thank you page.
- It is possible to take a local bus from the airport to Sayulita. They run every 15 minutes or so and cost less than $5 USD. You'll need mexican pesos and know some basic spanish. Contact us for more info if you want to look into this option. James has done this before and he say's its not difficult and fun to drop into the Mexican culture that way. The bus ride takes about 1 1/4hrs.
- There are no banks in Sayulita, but there are ATM machines. Cash versus credit cards: Most places in Sayulita will take cash only (both mexican pesos and american dollars). The hotel will take credit cards but cannot do money exchange. You may consider buying pesos from your bank before you arrive in Mexico.
- We will send you an email of a list of recommended things to bring with you on this trip. This will also be on your thank you page, once you register.
- Please be aware of your health insurance restrictions and options for travel insurance. There are possible hazards in Mexico such as cobblestone streets, uneven or cracked surfaces, weather, digestive challenges, etc. These can all be avoided by being prepared.
Hotelito Los Suenos
ABOUT HOTELITO
Welcome to the Hotel of Dreams, a place to relax, practice yoga, and explore the quaint tropical seaside village of Sayulita. Hotelito Los Sueños cares about your comfort, tranquility and a high level of friendly service.
The staff will provide you the best experience possible; clean, secure, tasteful and comfortable accommodations, optional morning and evening yoga classes taught by hotel sub-contractors, and a delicious vegetarian breakfast buffet. There are complimentary boogie boards, bicycles, beach chairs, and umbrella's available for day use.
Restaurants and evening nightlife are walking distance from the hotel.
MORE DETAILS
Once you settle into Hotelito Los Sueños and you want to walk on the beach or swim in the warm ocean, it located no more than a 5-minute walk from the hotel lobby.
Other features include:
- Air conditioning in every room (except the open air yoga studios)
- Two Pools (new salt water pool!)
- Smoothie bar/Breakfast buffet
- Sun terrace
- 2 beautiful open-air yoga studios with mats, bolsters, blocks and straps. The flooring is composed of a stiff rubber material to give just a bit more cushioning. The mats and studios are cleaned on a daily basis
- Library
- WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge (however not always reliable... some areas better than others). There are internet cafe's in the town of Sayulita.
- In-house massage therapists
- Non-smoking throughout
- No TV’s in the rooms. Their unique hotel is based upon guests going out and experiencing everything Sayulita has to offer (and it has a lot!!)
EXPLORE HOTELITO LOS SUENOS
SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS:
Choose from a variety of rooms:
- Standard Queen
- Superior Queen
- Superior King
- Superior Double - 2 Queen beds and a balcony
- Suite with a kitchen
- Villa with living room and kichen
HANG SPACE
There are plenty of spots to kick off your sandals and relax...
Parts of the beach nearby has natural shade from the trees. Otherwise the hotel can give you an umbrella...
The town of Sayulita is walking distance and has plenty of shopping, cafe's, and tequila bars for those who enjoy margarita's!
Parts of the beach nearby has natural shade from the trees. Otherwise the hotel can give you an umbrella...
The town of Sayulita is walking distance and has plenty of shopping, cafe's, and tequila bars for those who enjoy margarita's!
EAT & DRINK
Complimentary smoothie bar and delicious breakfast buffet is available each morning
A WEEK IN THE LIFE
ADVENTURES
WATER SPORTS
SNORKELING
SEA LIFE
WHALE TOURS
SELF-CARE
MASSAGES
OUTDOORS
JUNGLE HIKES
Gentle Somatic Yoga® and Somatic Wellness™: The Journey Begins. GSY Level 1 in-Person Training and Retreat
Sayulita, Mexico | January 20-27, 2024
About Your Facilitator:
James Knight, founder of Gentle Somatic Yoga®, is one of the early pioneers to bridge Somatics and yoga. He is an Experienced Yoga Teacher, Certified Hanna Somatic Educator from the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training (3rd wave), and Integrative Therapist. His passion is to inspire and encourage others to live a fulfilling life of physical, emotional and spiritual freedom.
From his combined experience as a lifelong yogi, intuitive bodyworker, body-oriented psychotherapist, movement educator and author, James created an easy and reliable method that reverses the cause and effects of muscular pain, stiffness, and other tension-based conditions. Most people find immediate and long-lasting beneficial results.
RATES FOR 7 NIGHTS
***We have a limited amount of rooms allotted to us that GSY hase reserved and paid for. Book soon to ensure you get the room you want. Scroll down to find photos of each accomodation option. Special perk: You can bring guests complimentary if they are not taking the GSY training, if your room choice can accomodate them!These trainings will most likely sell-out so reserve now!***
The cost of the training, for the rooms listed above, INCLUDES:
Selected
Accomodation
Accomodation
Breakfast buffet at Hotelito Los Suenos
GSY Level 1 tuition fees
19% Hotel VAT taxes
Bicycles, boogie boards, beach umbrellas & towels
A DAY IN YOUR TRAINING: This is a sample schedule and could be updated daily, as the needs of the group may change. Also we factor in additonal adventure/rest time during the week as well ~ typically Wednesday from noon onward is a "free day"...
7:00am to 8:45am - Breakfast
9:00am - 10:15am GSY Movement Class
10:30am - 1pm Learning Lab
10:30am - 1pm Learning Lab
1:15pm to 3:15pm
Lunch on your own. Time to explore the town and/or rest
3:30pm - 6:00pm
Discussion and practice teachback. After, dinner on your own or as a group
Discussion and practice teachback. After, dinner on your own or as a group
A $500 non-refundable deposit is due at the time of reserving your spot (exception: a personal emergency, or travel restrictions change depending on your country of origin. Slight cancellation admin fees may apply).
The balance is due on January 4, 2024 ~ or pay in full if you sign up after Jan. 4, 2024.
12:23:2023 NOTE: Since it is so close to the start date for this training, please email us, before you put down your deposit, to ensure we still have rooms available: customercare@gentlesomaticyoga.com
Villa - Can sleep up to
5 People w/ kitchen
~ $2,843
(1 King Bed, 1 Double Bed, 1 Single Bed)
*There are 2 Villas at the Hotel. We have reserved only 1. Email us if interested in this option and we will check on availability.
Suite - Can sleep up to 4 people w/ Kitchen ~
$2,419
(2 Queen Beds)
*There are 2 Villas at the Hotel. We have reserved only 1. Email us if interested in this option and we will check on availability.
Superior Double Queen ~
2 Queen Beds $2,176
Superior King ~
1 King Bed $2,419
Superior Queen ~
1 Queen Bed $2,177
Only ONE Available!
Standard Queen ~
1 Queen Bed $2,116
Only ONE Available!