WORKSHOPS:
EMBODIED AND COMTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES FOR MOMENTS OF TRANSITION
Riverleaf workshops are shaped by the meeting of natural rhythms and inner listening. Some follow the changing seasons or lunar cycles; others explore Nidra, sound meditation, embodied practice, and contemplative reflection through sound, instruments, stillness, and guided awareness. They may take place in different locations and contexts, while remaining rooted in the same intention: creating space to slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with the rhythms of life.
Each offers a carefully held space to pause, listen, and explore what is shifting, completing, or beginning within.
The practices are guided and structured, while leaving room for personal experience. They draw on sound, embodied practice, contemplative reflection, and ritual, grounded in nervous system awareness, an attunement to natural rhythms, and attentive presence.
WHO IT’S FOR
For those who:
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feel the inner impact of change and transition
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are navigating completion, uncertainty, or new beginnings
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value depth over surface experience
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are drawn to embodied and contemplative practices
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are curious about exploring sound, stillness, and reflection in community
Each workshop offers a thoughtfully held container where reflection can become embodied, and insight can find its place in everyday life.
Perhaps you have been trying to figure something out.
A creative decision. A new direction. A feeling that is difficult to name. Or simply a sense that the rhythm you’ve been living in no longer quite fits.
When we are busy doing, making, solving, and keeping up, it can become difficult to hear what is happening underneath it all.
Clarity does not always come from trying harder. Sometimes it begins with listening.
This practice offers a space to step away from the immediate demands and questions that may be occupying you, and to slow down enough to notice what is already present.
Through gentle movement, guided awareness, Yoga Nidra-inspired rest, sound meditation with singing bowls and monochord, and journaling, we explore listening through the body, the senses, silence, sound, and reflection.
There is nothing to achieve and nothing to make.
Instead, you are invited to become curious about what you notice — and to create some space around what is already here.
Perhaps, in that space, something becomes clearer.
Perhaps something you had not been able to hear before begins to emerge.
Lichun will introduce a reflective tool from her sound therapy work with individuals, offering a way to listen beyond what is immediately known and encounter deeper layers of awareness.
Through this process, you are invited to discover your own insights and clarity, becoming an active and empowered participant in your own process.
Embodied Listening Within
An invitation to pause, listen, and make space for what wants to emerge.
Date
Sunday, 4 October 2026
Time
14:00–16:30
Please arrive a little early to settle in.
Location
HUMAplace, C 3-studios, Huismanstraat 30,
3082 HK Rotterdam
FULL MOON IMMERSION reflective sound meditation with frame drum
The full moon brings illumination and culmination. This immersion supports conscious release and recalibration.
You will be guided through:
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structured reflection and journaling
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breath and grounding practices
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rhythmic drum meditation
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integration time
The steady drum rhythm anchors the nervous system while creating space for emotional clarity and insight.
Participants often leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more internally aligned.
Offered twice per year.
If you feel called to join, you are warmly invited to sign up for the interest list to receive early notification once registration opens.
TRANSITIONAL JOURNEY
Yoga Nidra · Elemental Yin · Sound Meditation
A liminal practice for seasonal renewal and insight
Held at the thresholds between seasons, this immersion supports conscious transition rather than unconscious drift.
Each gathering is designed to regulate the nervous system, create spacious awareness, and guide participants gently across seasonal shifts.
Each immersion includes:
- grounding and arrival
- Yin Yoga aligned with the elemental transition of the season
- guided Yoga Nidra for deep integration
- sound meditation for recalibration
- quiet reflection and closing ritual
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Spring → Summer (Wood - Fire)
From Radiance to Expansion
(Late May – Early June)
A practice of awakening vitality and allowing inner radiance to extend outward. As spring’s quiet unfolding gathers warmth and momentum, the immersion invites participants to inhabit the body with greater presence and aliveness.
Through grounding stillness, gentle movement, and sound meditation, it supports the natural shift from inward cultivation to outward expression — where energy begins to circulate more freely and creativity finds its voice.
The focus is on embodied vitality, heart-centered awareness, and allowing what has quietly taken root through spring to expand into the world with clarity and warmth.
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Autumn → Winter (Metal - Water)
From Descent to Restoration
(Late November – Mid December)
19 December 2026 Saturday 13:00-16:30
A practice of conserving energy and honoring inner quiet.
As the external world accelerates, this immersion offers a deliberate descent — inviting participants to slow, distill, and restore.
The focus is on nervous system regulation, internal reflection, and preparing the body-mind for winter’s inward rhythm.
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Winter → Spring. (Water - wood)
From Stillness to Bloom
(Late February – Mid March)
A gentle emergence from stillness into clarity.
Rather than pushing toward premature activation, this immersion supports gradual awakening — clarifying intention and cultivating steady momentum aligned with the body’s natural timing.
If you feel called to join, you are warmly invited to sign up for the interest list to receive early notification once registration opens.