It’s incomprehensible to think that we’re just a few weeks away from a brand new year.
It’s time for us all to de-stress and refresh after a crazy 2024. There’s no better way to do that, than with OYNS.
In just one month’s time, the internationally renowned OYNS (Optimize Your Nervous System) team will be heading our way from Norway, to share their light-hearted and transformational workshops as well as intensive immersive retreats in Johannesburg and Cape Town for the first time!
Join the knowledgeable, experienced, compassionate and playful facilitators Torunn Avelsgaard Lien and Robbin van der Crussen at one of their immersive retreats, taking place from 13 – 17 January at Melody Hill (1 hour from Johannesburg) and 23 – 27 January at Fynbos Estate (1 hour from Cape Town).
What better Christmas gift can you gift yourself, your work colleagues and your loved ones, with a 4-day retreat to give your nervous system a reset! Especially when you can still enjoy the Early Bird Discounted price if booked by Friday, December 20th!
Torunn Avelsgaard Lien explains the ongoing need for these retreats, especially at this time of the year; “Modern society is absolutely brilliant in so many ways that we easily forget a basic listening to the signals from our bodies; the signals from nature; the signals from life itself as it moves through us. Subtle signals that remind us of our true potential to heal, lead and create the lives we are here to live. A powerful gift to the planet and our communities is actually to take a timeout and go deep within, and remember what it’s like for our hearts to breathe and feel fully and freely, allowing our nervous systems to recalibrate and give ourselves and our relationships a fresh start.”
This Nervous System Reset is a gentle yet powerful retreat where your body is your greatest teacher. What’s it really like to be you?
Strengthen your ability to feel at the level of bodily sensation and intimately befriend your nervous system in its constant pendulation; ‘safe, unsafe, safe, unsafe, safe, unsafe…’
Learn how to effectively increase awareness, enjoyment and even pleasure in the presence of any feeling.
Train your system to handle more intensity and use life’s challenges as opportunities to wake up and heal by going deeper into the felt sense of your body.
Experience how a safe nervous system unleashes the authenticity, joy, clarity and connection that your soul is hungry for!
Become fully autonomous in a practical, effective and integrative breathwork meditation practice that brings bodily intelligence to a whole new level of daily life.
What to expect – in a nut-shell!
- 4 days
- No mobile phones
- 4 sessions each day
- Individual preparation call with Robinn and Torunn before retreat and afterwards
- Silent hours in the mornings and evenings
- Switching from high activation to deep relaxation
- A small group that soon feels like your family
- High quality lectures on the nervous system
- Relational games that prepare you for the integration into daily life and reveal what is possible with your loved ones
- Music, live singing and soundscapes
- Light-heartedness and ridiculously serious play
- A nerdy medical doctor and a music wizard as space-holders
A recent review:
“The way the sessions are guided and held by Robbin and Torunn feels super natural and welcoming, as they both live and breathe what they teach.
The way they complement each other makes for a diverse, musically delicious and super insightful retreat experience.” – Elias
With small groups of just 18 per retreat and an individual call before and after the retreat with Robbin and Torunn, your personal transformational process will be facilitated in a safe and grounded way.
Curious? Reach out for a free exploration call before committing.
For more information, go to www.oyns.no
Robbin van der Crussenconcludes excitedly; “It’s an inner adventure of increasing body awareness as a way to remember the fullness, wildness and beautiful rawness of being a more integrated, safe and authentic human being. What better place than South Africa to intimately explore how we, starting with ourselves, can harness this challenging, pivotal time on earth and turn it into an opportunity for humanity to transcend out-dated ways of being, inspired by the land we all come from originally.”
NEW YEAR, NEW YOU RETREATS
JOHANNESBURG
13 – 17 January
Melody Hill, Magaliesburg, (1 hour from Johannesburg)
CAPE TOWN
23 – 27 January
Fynbos Lifestyle Estate (1 hour from Cape Town)
Price: R14 900
Early bird price (if booked before December 20): R12 900 (making it an ideal Christmas Present!)
This price includes food and accommodation (but excludes travel) and the 4-days retreat programme
With limited space of only 18 per retreat, sign up now before you’re disappointed.
For more information and to sign up, head to : www.oyns.no/south-africa
For any questions, email: optimizeyournervoussystem@gmail.com
2-HOUR WORKSHOPS
In addition and prior to these retreats, they will be holding 2-hour workshops in Johannesburg on
9 & 10 January and in Hout Bay, Cape Town on 20 & 21 January.
JOHANNESBURG
January 9 at 7-9pm
Relational Aliveness – Connect with each other, wake up together
Venue: The Dance Junxion, Bryanston
Space for 50 people only
Cost: R290
Book online at https://www.oyns.no/south-africa
January 10 at 3-5pm
Breath of Freedom – Be safe in your body, be safe in the world
Venue: The Dance Junxion, Bryanston
Space for 50 people only
Cost: R290
Book online at https://www.oyns.no/south-africa
CAPE TOWN (Please note: change of venue since first press release was issued)
January 20 at 6 – 8pm
Breath of Freedom – Be safe in your body, be safe in the world
Venue: Valley Shala, Hout Bay
Space for 50 people only
Cost: R290
Book online at Quicket
January 21 at 6 – 8pm
Relational Aliveness – Connect with each other, wake up together
Venue: Valley Shala, Hout Bay
Space for 50 people only
Cost: R290
Book online at Quicket
Free Online sessions
If you’d like to see if their work resonates with you before signing up for the retreat, join them on one of their 1 hour FREE weekly online sessions – “Breath of Freedom”, taking place each Wednesday at 17h00 (CET) – which is 18h00 South African time. A simple and enjoyable way to access your body’s inherent wisdom and power to heal itself, through breath, relaxation, and body awareness.
Sign up at their website: https://www.oyns.no
Follow OYNS, Robbin and Torunn on Social Media:
Facebook: facebook.com/oynsnorway
Instagram: instagram.com/oynsnorway
Gently change your inner environment and watch the world around you transform.
Be safe in your body, be safe in the world!
Let your mind have a breakdown so your heart can have a breakthrough!
