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SINGING, SAYING, MOVING, PRAYING with Ryan & Roger

Yoga Retreat Brac Island, Croatia

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23-28 June 2025

6
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Green Yogi Traveler has partnered with the Soulwerk Sanctuary team, renowned for leading retreats across the US and globally for over 20 years. Soulwerk Sanctuary retreat leaders, Ryan and Roger, have crafted a program that embodies their mission: "Your Highest and Best Expression of Yourself Through the Arts."

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Join us for a beautiful fusion of music, movement, and poetry with body-based spiritual practice, offering you space to touch what is best and most beautiful about yourself . . .  Your essence.

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Embrace slow living, as we open to deep connection.
With self
With others
With the Divine

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Connect. Stretch. Journal. Create. Dance. Pray. Sing. Listen. Grow.

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VENUE

Our beachfront Villa Gumonca is situated in peaceful Mirca village, close to Supetar, central town of Brac island, Croatia. Exclusively designed, surrounded with sea view terraces and large eco gardens, it is a place of true well-being! 

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Interiors are decorated with design furniture. Each room has its own bathroom and most rooms have 2 separate beds that can be joined together for couples. The villa has a kitchen that is available for guests to use, plus a professionally equipped and separate kitchen for our retreat cook that will be preparing delicious meals for you. Yoga practice will take place on the covered terrace overlooking the sea or in one of the villas depending on the days.

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The villa is surrounded with gardens featuring organic fruits, vegetables and a variety of Mediterranean herbs. and lawns and has direct access to a petty pebble beach. 

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Amenities:

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  • Every day cleaning service

  • Pool maintenance and concierge on call

  • 24m2 heated infinity pool

  • Sea view sundeck with sun loungers

  • Air conditioning in every room

  • Towels, toiletries, hairdryers

  • WiFi, SAT TV

  • Laundry machine

  • Billiard table, ping pong table

  • Fitness room

  • Private parking places

  • Wood fireplace

  • Snorkeling gear

  • Minibar with wine selection​

TEACHERS
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RYAN KNICKMAN

 

Ryan is an initiate of the Himalayan Tradition of Sages and has been teaching and studying yoga for 24 years. She teaches a breath centric vinyasa class designed to cultivate mindfulness and presence in one’s relationship to their body, mind, and spirit.

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She graduated from Northwestern Health Sciences University’s 700 Massage Therapy program in 2007 and has been practicing deep tissue trigger point therapy for 14 years.

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Ryan has studied with many great teachers, including but not limited to Indu Arora, Rod Stryker, Seane Corn, Doug and David Swenson, Tias Little, Nischala Devi, as well as her late teacher Yogiraj Achala Charles Bates. She has a heart for service and shadow work and enjoys witnessing and assisting others on their healing journeys.

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ROGER SAMS

 

Roger Sams is an initiate in the Himalayan Tradition of the Sages, a music and movement educator and spaceholder through the arts. He is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and was a long-term student of Yogiraj Achala Charles Bates.

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Roger fuses music and movement with body-based spiritual practice and Gestalt therapeutic skills, holding space for breakthroughs and expansion in multiple dimensions.

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PRICES 

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Register by Sept 30, 2024: $2,770
Register by November 30, 2024: $3,000
After November 30, 2024: $3,120

 

​Discount for Green Yogi Collective members:

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Register by Sept 30, 2024: $2,350

Register by November 30, 2024: $2,550

After November 30, 2024: $2,650

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*Click to become a member of the Green Yogi Collective (free)

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INCLUDED:

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  • 5 nights villa accommodation (Double occupancy)

  • Retreat program

  • ​Vegetarian brunch and dinner daily

  • Ferry from/to Split

  • All taxes & basic insurance

 

EXCLUDED:
 

  • Travel to Split

  • Travel insurance

  • Optional activities and spa treatments.

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SECURE YOUR SPOT:

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$500 non-refundable deposit

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BOOKING

Step one in joining our retreat and locking in your discounted price is joining Soulwerk Sanctuary for $15. Once you’re in Soulwerk Sanctuary Roger will support you in registering for the retreat.

JOIN SOULWERKS

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For more information or to schedule a one-on-one Zoom call to explore possibilities email Roger at RogerSams@mac.com

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