Finding your Sama
Private Yoga and Ayurveda Day Retreat
Private Day Retreat
A personalised day of restoration, regulation, and inner alignment
A one-to-one retreat experience designed entirely around you.
Held in a boutique yoga studio on a Saturday or Sunday of your choosing, this private day retreat offers deep rest, personalised guidance, and practical tools to support your nervous system, energy, and overall sense of balance—without needing to go away.
This retreat may be right for you if you are:
☐ Feeling tired, overstimulated, or emotionally depleted
☐ Finding it hard to slow down or truly rest
☐ Experiencing stress, digestive imbalance, or nervous system dysregulation
☐ Wanting private, tailored support rather than a group experience
☐ Seeking practical tools that integrate into daily life
Before your retreat
Your experience begins with a gentle pre-session intake informed by Vedic and yogic frameworks, offering insight into:
Dosha (constitution and current balance)
Guna (patterns of steadiness, agitation, or heaviness)
Digestive state, daily rhythms, and nervous system tone
From this, your retreat theme is either co-created with you or intuitively designed to support what your system needs most—such as grounding, restoration, clarity, emotional integration, or renewed vitality.
Your private retreat includes
Personalised Yoga & Breathwork
Bespoke yoga practice designed specifically for your body and nervous system
Tailored breathwork to calm, stabilise, or gently uplift
Practices informed by the esoteric sciences of the elements, gunas, chakras, and vayus, thoughtfully adapted for modern life
Vedic Self-Care Practices
Guided Abhyanga (Ayurvedic self-massage)
Simple, accessible self-care rituals that support regulation and embodied safety
Meditation, Sound & Deep Rest
Guided meditation
Sound shower to support sensory settling and nervous system regulation
Yoga Nidra for deep restoration, integration, and recalibration
Food Planning & Home Support
Support to establish a sustainable, home-based Ayurvedic food plan
Food planning guidance and practical cooking support or demonstration
A focus on digestion, nourishment, and ease—rather than rules or restriction
Yogic Philosophy & Integration
Clear, accessible facilitation of yogic philosophy as it applies to modern life
Support for personal growth and the integration of emotional and psychological challenges
Practices that help translate insight into everyday living
Mindfulness & Creative Reflection
Gentle contemplative practices
Mindfulness activities such as calligraphy or reflective inquiry
The benefits of this retreat
You may leave feeling:
✔ Reconnected and grounded
✔ Rested and regulated
✔ Clearer in mind and steadier emotionally
✔ Supported in nervous system resilience
✔ Equipped with practical tools for daily life
✔ Inspired into a more sustainable way of being
This retreat is not about fixing or pushing—
it’s about creating the conditions for balance to return naturally.
Location & booking
Location: Boutique yoga studio
Timing: Full-day private retreat
Availability: Saturdays or Sundays, by arrangement
This offering is intentionally limited to ensure depth, presence, and care.
If you feel drawn to this experience, you’re warmly invited to enquire and begin the conversation.
Finding your Sama applies methods of treating the whole self by applying the esoteric science of chakras, vauys, elements, doshas and gunas.
This Ayurvedic Yoga program involves a completely personalised and tailored experience that starts with the phsyical-body in order to influence the other layers of the body impacted from the years of mental and emotional impressions that disconnect us from our nature…
Finding your Sama uses Ayurvedic Yoga to gradually return to the body in a way that is supportive to release tension and increase stability…
…which in turn effect mind-body (i.e. old karmic bonds) and emotional-body (i.e. trauma release) in order to access your bliss-body (i.e your inner most, your true nature and the abundance of Ojas and the unstoppable force of vitality that results).
Program Inclusions and Method
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Ayurvedic Assessment
My first step is to deeply listen to you:
- your needs, intentions, your current diet and lifestyle and past health/medical history.
We do so through:
- an intake form (email) and
- a 2 hour consultation at the place in which the sessions will take place.
The assessment process forms the beginning of the design stage of your program so that it is unique to your dosha, guna and state of balance.
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Ayurvedic Diagnosis
In a You Tube video series, you will have private access to education about your:
1.) Ayurvedic Dosha (state of balance)
2.) Guna (mental afflictions)
3.) Digestive State of Balance
4.) Ayurvedic Nutrition**
**Ayurvedic Nutrition can be a little overwhelming when new to it. Depending on your needs, it may be that this topic is presented at week 7 instead of week 2).
NB - You could opt to exclude this part of the program if you would like to just experience the yoga without the education associated with your Dosha etc.
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Personalised Ayurvedic Yoga
A unique program will be developed for you to meet your needs, intentions and medical conditions.
Session are 2 hours and include:
1.) Remedial Yoga, Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga:
- Personalised and tailored movement, breathwork, mantra, mudra, bandha, meditation, philosophy
2.) Ayurvedic practices:
- Abhyanga (warm oil massage), herbal medicine, cooking demonstration, nasya (nasal irrigation and hydration), planning for daily habits (dinacharya)
3.) Coaching
Facilitation of activities and resources to encourage your dinacharya (in order to integrate the practices in your life outside of our sessions).
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Trauma Aware Facilitation
The facilitation of yoga and Ayurveda is intended to be sensitive to stress and trauma. For example:
- All practices are offered as optional and multiple variations presented to enable choice and agency.
- There will be no hands on adjustments in the sessions unless discussed after a few sessions together.
- There will be lots of time and space provided to find your own way without feeling rushed or pressured.
- It may be our intention for the practices to help to gently release the stress that lives in the body. This will only be encouraged if grounding and integrating practices are successfully established.
- If trauma is present, it is essential that you have psychology or counselling sessions organised together with your Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy.
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Program Details
- Ayurvedic Yoga with Natalie is offered as a series of 7 sessions at least
- 5 sessions will be practical with an Ayurvedic Yoga program specifically designed for you.
- Weekly or fortnightly sessions suggested
- Sessions are 2 hours in length
- Example program
Week 1 - Consultation and Intake form
Week 2 - You Tube Series
Week 3 - Ayurvedic Yoga #1 Grounding
Week 4 - Ayurvedic Yoga #2 Integrating
Week 5 - Ayurvedic Yoga #3 Uplifting
Week 6 - Ayurvedic Yoga #4 Expanding
Week 7 - Ayurvedic Yoga #5 Harmonising
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Exchange
- Program includes:
+ Ayurvedic Assessment
+ Tailored You Tube Mini Series Videos
+ 5 × 2 hr Ayurvedic Yoga Sessions
+ Self Massage Oil made specifically for you 100ml
+ Ayurvedic Herb sample and recipe for your dosha
+ Lifestyle advice and coaching
- Program Value:
$2500
- Payment plan available
- Concession rate available for consideration on request.
COMMON QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What will happen after I send my EOI?
Once you have sent your expression of interest (EOI) to Nat, she’ll get in touch to start the ball rolling. Its important that we are a right fit to work together. So there may be a phone call or a couple of emails to qualify if this is the case.
Who is this program for?
Nat specialises in offering services to those that are sick and tired of relying on pharmaceuticals and quick fixes; are running on empty, feel overwhelmed and burnt out and/or feeling disconnected from their true essence.
Nat has experience in supporting specific mental health challenges such as: stress, anxiety, trauma, chronic fatigue and depression.
Why are there a minimum of 5 sessions?
The 5 Ayurvedic Yoga sessions are themed to each of the 5 Vayus, which are energy currents within the subtle body that determine how we feel, think and function. Balancing the currents of energy enables: grounding (apana vayu), integration (samana vayu), uplifting (prana vayu), expansion (vyana vayu) and harmonising (udana vayu).
Why do we need to do the consultation?
The consultation is essential in establishing a unique program for your needs. Ayurvedic Yoga recognises you are completely unique and therefore so should your yoga and Ayurvedic self care. The consultation prior to commencing our sessions is neccessary, however, you could opt to exclude the diagnosis mini series.
What is the You Tube Mini Series?
Following the Ayurvedic Assessment, I will be able to determine your Dosha (state of balance), Guna (mental afflictions) and Agni (state of digestion), which form the basis for designing your Ayurvedic Yoga program. A 3-5 part mini series will offer you an understanding of these concepts together with tips on how to integrate this understanding into your lifestyle and diet in order to create deeper change and awareness of the outcomes from the Yoga.
You can choose to exclude the Ayurvedic Diagnosis video if you are not interested in the deeper integration.
Why choose Nat?
Nat is a Yoga teacher of more than 10 years and has been practicing nearly all her life. Nat found Ayurveda a bit later as an incredibly effective tool for diet and lifestyle AND as tool to inform Yoga as a therapy. Nat has personal experience with depression, anxiety, burn out, gut health and (more recently) menopause. You can see all of Nat’s qualifications in the bio section of the website here : LINK.