ANS & Friends Retreats
Amrit Nam Sarovar is opening a new chapter of selected events that are complementary to our own program and are aligned with the ANS Teachings.
We open this new avenue based on the high-level expertise that ANS members have in a variety of domains. This latest project will offer diverse events we are ready to support and enhance through collaboration.
Clowndalini
Journey into Divine Comedy
the clown is a super advanced, high-level yogi.
Satyavrati
Do you have the courage to fail and keep laughing?
Can you let yourself be celebrated for your human imperfections?
Welcome to the path of the Sacred Fool.
In this 3-day immersive experience, participants will remember how to play, improvise and be spontaneous. Connecting with our joyful innocence and with the help of a red plastic clown nose (the world’s smallest mask) we can master the art of spectacular failure, release the ego and deepen our yogic wisdom.
Maybe you are a yogi, an energy healer, or a spiritual teacher, but can you channel divinity through laughter? The kind of laughter that shakes the whole belly? Can you bring people joy with your presence?
Along “the spiritual path”, we can fall into the trap of taking ourselves WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. But don’t worry, discovering your inner clown will turn things upside down, teaching you how to embrace your shadows and even laugh at them.
Nothing is as serious as we think it is.
Join The GooRoos to discover your own unique clown persona. Your authentic inner-idiot is longing to be set free!
The Program Includes:
- Daily Kundalini Yoga classes
- Daily classes in Improvisation, Playfulness + Clowning
- Group activities for maximum fun
- Group assignments for maximum ridiculousness
- Personal feedback sessions for developing your inner-clown
- Daily group meals: a delicious and healthy diet, full of pleasure
- Time to rest, integrate and explore the beautiful setting of Le Martinet in the French Alps
What you will gain from this experience:
- Basic skills in physical comedy and improvisation
- A fresh, new perspective on your yoga practice
- Your own bright red clown nose
- Discovery of your unique clown persona
- Increased confidence to be totally authentic, relaxed and light-hearted in front of people
- Ability to spread joy to other people
- Hormonal optimization through laughter and stupidity
- Ego death ;0)
Teaching Team
The GooRoos (Guru Amrit and Gurmukh Nam), are a pair of professional Canadian clowns with over 30 years of combined experience, performing, directing, creating and teaching around the world. These award-winning mischief-makers are also ANS Kundalini Yoga instructors who are highly devoted to their spiritual path.
GURU AMRIT has been teaching clowning for the past 25 years at schools across Canada, USA and South America. An award-winning actor / director for theatre, she’s also a devoted Kundalini Yoga teacher, passionate about unifying the two worlds of spirituality and play.
GURMUKH NAM is a long-limbed clown and kundalini yoga teacher born in Toronto, Canada, now based in France. She graduated from École Internationale Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France and now makes absurd theatre/clown shows and teaches theatre, yoga and clowning to students of all ages. Gurmukh’s priorities as an artist coincide with those she has as a teacher: inspire and uplift individuals and help them to recognize the beauty and absurdity of life.
General Conditions
Retreat from October 3-6 2024 at Le Martinet
Arrival time 16h | program starts at 18h on the day of arrival.
Program finishes at 16h on the day of departure.
Teaching language English with translation to French
Prices
Price for the weekend program is 365 € (incl. VAT).
Included in the price are the teachings and instruction and all meals.
We offer the following room categories
| Single room with shared bathroom | 55 € | night | |
| Single room with own shower | 65 € | night | |
| Double room in double occupancy per person | 45 € | night | |
| Double room in single occupancy | 90 € | night | |
| Suite in single occupancy | 130 € | night | |
| Suite in double occupancy per person | 65 € | night | |
| Bed in a Dormitory | 25 € | night | |
| You sleep in your own tent | 10 € | night |
As the evening temperature in October can fall below 0°C, we recommend booking accommodation indoors. If you choose to camp, make sure to come equipped for colder temperatures.
To contact The Gooroos: thegooroos@proton.me