The 3 r's retreat: revitalise, rest & restore
What to expect?
The 3 R’s Retreat aims to nurture your health & wellbeing using a variety of somatic & embodiment practices to revitalise, rest & restore your energy. The 3 R’s Retreat is an online offering on the 1st February 2025 10am-3pm, so you can attend from the comfort of your own home. The retreat combines science & wisdom traditions, it will be nourishing, revitalising & restorative.
- A welcome & introduction to the day (opening circle)
- Somatic & embodiment practices
- Gentle yoga
- Meditation
- Breath practices
- Journalling/reflections
- Yoga nidra
- Sharing of final reflections/discussion, closing the workshop (closing circle)
An online retreat space from 10am-3pm where we will be connecting together to revitalise, rest & restore. All the practices will be invitations for you to explore, you can choose what you engage with & how. There will be a short break during the morning session and an hours lunch break from about 12.30. The retreat isn’t recorded but you will be gifted some links to recordings of some of the practices like Ann’s starlight yoga nidra practice which is on her locked youtube channel.
About your Retreat Facilitators
Ann & Cori will be facilitating the retreat.
About Ann:
Ann works as a specialist physiotherapist & integrative somatic practitioner. Ann has worked with people with neurological conditions, pain & fatigue & those wanting to improve their health & wellbeing for many years. She no longer does the work in neurology but continues to work with people with pain, fatigue, and those wanting to improve their health & wellbeing in some way (she often works with people with anxiety & trauma). She works 1:1 with people and offers group workshops including bespoke offerings. Ann’s work is trauma informed, compassionate & integrative, she embodies compassion & the principles of being trauma informed. Ann works collaboratively with people and offers different choices for things to explore, these are two of the trauma informed principles. She aims to empower people through supporting them to connect to their body in a way that builds compassion, trust & safety inside and nurtures their connection to their inner wisdom.
As well as all of her physiotherapy training Ann has trained as a yoga teacher, coach, NLP practitioner & meditation teacher. She has trained in yoga nidra, acceptance & commitment therapy, compassion focused therapy, somatic, embodiment & trauma. She has done some training with the IFS Institute, her work classes as IFS informed. She is also the author of Dancing through Life: A Guide to Living Well.
Ann has lived experience of pain, fatigue and trauma, she understands the recovery journey personally as well as professionally. She has a daily practice which includes meditation, mindfulness & somatic & embodiment practices.
You can find out more about Ann here:
About Cori:
Coris a trauma-informed wellbeing practitioner based in Edinburgh. She is the face of her brand KOA. She identifies as a trauma informed somatic, integrative and holistic practitioner, and offers a variety of offerings including somatic regulation work, workshops, retreats, courses, embodied practices, sound journeys, reiki, yoga, systemic coaching, and mindfulness. Corinne is passionate about working with clients and meeting them where they are on their journey, offering choice and working collaboratively, and based on their individual needs.
In addition to working within the wellbeing sector, Cori has worked actively in the social sector since 1998. Her professional background includes working in education, social care, counselling, criminal justice, substance misuse and coaching. Cori currently works within community justice as a therapeutic social worker in Edinburgh. In this role she facilitates groups, offers 1 to 1 interventions to support change, and has facilitated mindfulness development sessions for social workers. She is a National Compassion and Mindfulness Trainer and is a champion for trauma-informed mindfulness within her field.
As a person, Cori will tell you she has experienced trauma herself and understands how important it is to be heard, witnessed, and heal. She actively engages in mindfulness and embodied practices daily, which have become part of her self-care routine. Cori has trained in trauma within her criminal justice role and completed David Treleaven’s Advanced Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness training. In addition, she is trained in compassionate mind work, a yoga teacher sound therapist, reiki master, mindfulness teacher, somatic/embodiment practitioner and more. Cori endeavours to keep developing professionally and is passionate about having a variety of resources she can access when working with people.
Cori aims to encourage individuals to connect with their bodies, learn how to self-regulate in a healthy way and embody who they are fully.
You can find out more about Cori and her work here:
The retreat is being offered on the 1st February 2025 10am-3pm at a special introductory price of £50. It is important to Ann & Cori to make their offerings as inclusive as possible so there are 2 community funded places available and a pay it forward option to help fund the community funded places (reduced cost places). We trust that people will only ask for a community space if it is truly needed to ensure that those in need of this are able to access it. To book you place email Ann for payment details info@unityphysio.co.uk