Urban Retreat
with Eileen Hall, Pandit Shankara & Nadav
Friday 26, Saturday 27, Sunday 28 December 7am to 10am
High Tide Room Bondi Pavilion
This year’s retreat will introduce a fresh new theme crafted to inspire, recharge, and elevate your practice—stay tuned for the reveal!
We’re thrilled to welcome back Pandit Shankar, alongside Nadav Khan, who will guide us through a powerful Puja ceremony—a sacred ritual of gratitude designed to help you release the old and call in the new.
If you’re ready to close the year with intention, connection, and rejuvenation… this is your moment.
Join us for a retreat experience that will nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
$100 for all mornings or $45 drop in.
To book your spot. Email Eileen: shantieileen@gmail.com
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th Jan 2026
10.00AM to 1.00PM
$250 per person
This weekend: Handstands as a practice. Two 3-hour workshops exploring handstands, transitions, and backbends through movement intelligence, with an emphasis on understanding how movement works.
We’ll use coordination drills, locomotion, and jump back / jump through patterns to build strength, awareness, and confidence. From there we’ll work systematically with handstands, arm balances, and backbending — including intelligent progressions toward Scorpion.
Everything is scaled and taught progressively. We finish each session with stillness to integrate the work. Intermediate focus.
Beginners welcome.
WORKSHOP 1
Handstands, Jump Back / Jump-Through & Arm Balances
This workshop looks at handstands and transitions as learnable movement skills.
We start with coordination games and playful jump back / jump through patterns to build strength, timing, and confidence. From there we move into floor-based locomotion to expand movement beyond the mat and improve body literacy.
The second half focuses on handstand fundamentals — bodyline awareness, weight transfer, partner spotting, and press progressions — before finishing with arm balances like Bakasana and Pincha, explored through intelligent entries and exits.
We close with stillness to integrate the work.
WORKSHOP 2
Handstands with Backbend Focus
This workshop explores backbending as a full-body, intelligent process.
We begin by awakening spinal movement through coordination drills and ground-based patterns, gradually layering backbending into locomotion and preparation work.
From there we return to handstand essentials — bodyline drills, shoulder organisation, and clear progressions — before working toward Scorpion handstand using my Backbend Blueprint, including wall work and partner assistance.
We finish with stillness to settle the nervous system and absorb the practice.