SICILY, ITALY
OCTOBER 17—22, 2024
PARAMATMA SIRI SADHANA X LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL X KAJSA QUINTERNO
MOTHERLAND is a site-specific immersive kundalini yoga, meditation, sound and subtle body training for women. The sacred ground and holy terrain of Sicily has been inviting us for years to open collective durational ceremony and embody cosmic entrainment within her earthly and mystical energy fields ~ we will be in active call and response with meditational land practices, creative explorations and receiving and offering mothering from and to the earth.
Held sweetly with utmost nourishment in the prismatic portalwomb of mother Sicily, the eternal spiritual, cultural, economic, esoteric, political and artistic crosswinds of the European, African and Asian continents, resplendent with natural feminine expressions of the divine, we will honor with deep practice, appreciation, celebration, respect and reverence for the feminine energy inherent in all creation. October in Sicily is sweet and magical ~ the peak of the summer heat has faded, the Mediterranean is still warm, the harvest rich, the soundscape calmer, and the light softer.
We invite you to experience and explore with us MOTHERLAND ~ the blessing, mystery and magic of unmediated communion and connection with the inherent artistry of the feminine expression and mystery of being, mother as nature, nature as mother. We will open to experiencing the land as the locus of our potentiated individual and collective liberation, the soul nourishment of learning from the flowers, the terrain, the fruits, flowers and vegetables, the soil, the seeds, the ocean, the stars and the hearts of one another, embracing and receiving the purest conduction of the coherent and inherent union with the multidimensionality of the wild and variegated ecosystem herself.
“SICILY IS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING.”
Goethe
With you, welcoming you
PARAMATMA SIRI SADHANA
~ will guide kundalini yoga, meditation, sound, silence and subtle body practices
LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL
~ will guide intuitive cooking and creative practices with materials from the land
KAJSA QUINTERNO
~ will guide mothering practices of the personal and collective body and heart
You will have the opportunity to arrive early (October 15—16) to prepare for our work with master teacher and somatic/energy bodyworker Kuldip Quinterno (Kajsa’s husband/partner!)
Kuldip will also be offering closing sessions for integration. These sessions will be held directly on the ground/earth/land experience of being held and healed by the mother land. More about the somatic healing sessions here.
SCHEDULE
EARLY ARRIVAL
THURSDAY OCTOBER 17
Somatic Sessions
You will have the opportunity to arrive early (October 15—16) to prepare for our work with master teacher and somatic/energy bodyworker Kuldip Quinterno.
DAY 1
THURSDAY OCTOBER 17
Arrivals and Opening Circle
DAY 2—5
FRIDAY OCTOBER 18-MONDAY OCTOBER 21
Morning yoga & meditation
Breakfast
Class(es) 10am - 5pm
with 2 hour break for lunch / siesta
Evening yoga & meditation
+ organic flow of ocean time, flower ceremonies, fires, art practices, land and water offerings & prayers
DAY 6
TUESDAY OCTOBER 22
Breakfast, Closing Prayers and Departures*
*Schedule subject to changes.
APPLICATION
Upon our receipt of this application, we will confirm alignment and then send an invoice for deposit or entire payment, which we request you honor within 24 hours to be mindful of others who are also interested in the training. We communicate via the email address motherland@the-motherline.com — please note to check your spam folder in your email.
Please note the Motherland is a training that values the spirit of community and seva, if you do not practice, honor and hold dear the spirit of sat sangat, please refrain from applying.
For this training we will also be welcoming families (for the first time).
PRICING