The Deep Path
“The Deep Path” is a spiritual, meditative and artistic event organization that started with one person’s dream and grew into a group of women who support each other and grow together. Under this roof, shamanic healing weekend retreats, handicraft workshops, art events, meetings and conversations have been organized since 2017. As The Deep Path, we discuss the absolute reality of establishing our spiritual existence in a balanced way on our earthly productions, our personality, our relationship with humans, animals and plants, understanding ourselves, reproducing ourselves, changing the shell with awareness and confidence in an endless selection of possibilities, just like other members of nature, and moreover, it invites you to the field of experience of this philosophy with the shamanic rituals, ceremonies, body movement arts and diet. Life is the entirety of the path you take when you flow through the river of experience. That river is sometimes swirling and hard, and sometimes calmly trusting your intuition. It starts with the courageous child taking action once, touching the large and small stones on the road, to know the land by twisting, gliding and flowing, and to befriend the dragonflies on the road... Within the spectrum of the organization there are yoga classes, meditation studies, art therapy practices, dance workshops and shamanic rituals, in which the participants are involved, are carried out by the people who have become the founder, coordinator and team of the community. A hierarchical order is never established within the team, and between us and the participants. The founder, coordinator and team of the community define these adjectives mostly by undertaking the work and taking responsibility. That's why the team also personally prepare and serve the food menus and ensure the cleanliness of the area as a ritual of The Deep Path. Establishing friendships based on reality, depth, transparent communication and trust with the participants is one of the most important achievements of our group.
Handicraft Workshops
Hoop Embroidery Workshop, Mud Sculptures Making Workshop, Macrame Workshop, Mandala Workshop, Fabric Painting Workshop Turning the flow of energy into production calms our minds, while at the same time it allows us to deepen spiritually. In particular, conveying the effects of our spiritual experiences through handicrafts contributes much more to the mental and spiritual health of the participants than we expected in terms of feeling balanced.
Forest Meetings
We hold meetings of 3-4 hours a day in the depths of the Belgrad Forest in the Istanbul region. In these meetings, we first take a silent forest walk, give a yoga class in a designated area, and then go on a shamanic journey with the sounds of the forest. After the Shamanic Journey, we are grounded with improvised dance and body movements and we end our work. Before returning from the forest, we all have a short picnic together, bringing our increased energy together with the frequency of joy and happiness. Our forest meetings take place between 06.30 and 10.30 in the morning on the announced days in spring and summer.
Shamanic Healing Retreats
Shamanic rituals, conversations about shamanism, studies focusing on harmony with nature and self-understanding. In the program, we harmonize our body-mind-spirit-heart quadruple balance with the elements of air-water-earth-fire with yoga classes, impromptu dance practice, silent forest walk, meditations, artistic expression exercises given during the day. Shamanic healing retreats are limited in number of participants. Throughout the program, the experiences, expansions and feelings of the people are constantly observed, counseled and taken care of by Noa, who keeps the area for shamanic studies. The spiritual existence of the participants is approached with infinite respect and sensitivity. The yoga classes applied throughout the program have been transformed into our own school, which we call "Calming Yoga" / "Calming Yoga", by observing the physical and mental states of the participants within 5 years before and after the shamanic rituals, focusing on spiritual deepening and focusing on the most efficient, spiritual deepening. The classes are given by Dilem Ayşıl, The Deep Path event coordinator. In Improvised Dance workshops, we aim to harmonically integrate the participants with the elements and synchronize their mental and bodily beings, because body-mind balance is very effective in Shamanic Healing practices. In Artistic Expression Studies, we create very meaningful lines, colors and shapes in the way of understanding ourselves by combining what flows from our minds with our souls. The studies are then interpreted together with Noa. Shamanic Healing Retreats start from Friday evening and continue until Sunday afternoon in designated places within the specific dates. In the venue, all participants stay under the same roof, eat and participate in activities. Participation in all studies prepared throughout the program is mandatory for participants. Participants who are difficult to carry out the work due to physical or energetic conditions make their presence felt by sitting or lying down in the area. In Shamanic Healing Retreats, the spiritual and energetic existence of the participants is considered as a whole, The presence of each of the participants is what we need in every study. Our participation in the circle is very important in order to feel the energy of being one with the universe while deepening within ourselves.
Music Events
When we listen to the sounds of nature, we sometimes hear it talking to us and teaching us melodies. Founder of The Deep Path community, Noa believes that music, melodies and sounds are the best form of expression for her. For this reason, she delivers the melodies entrusted to her by nature, which she sings in ceremonies, rituals and nature gatherings, to the universe and the hearers in forms that can be accessed and listened to by everyone, using electronic music infrastructures. As The Deep Path, we openly invite all our musician friends who produce their own music, melodies, who listen to nature with respect and transmit those sounds to us, to take part in the events and express themselves.
Nature Retreat with Children and Parents
Preparation for Birth and Bonding Retreat with Pregnant Women
Our aim in the program we have prepared specially for pregnant women and their companions is to inform the participants about preparation for childbirth and to enable them to establish a spiritual bond with their babies. Pregnancy yoga, birth preparation seminars, drum vibration and a bonding ritual with the baby are held within the retreat program.
Nature Retreat with Children and Parents
We meet our children between the ages of 5-10 with their parents in nature. While giving yoga lessons, meditations, shamanic sound journey sessions we have prepared for parents or children's companions, we also spend a productive weekend with children's yoga, educational bodily movements, games in nature, story recitals with expert trainers for children. In this retreat, we can take adults with children to sessions within the scope of our activities, while at the same time creating a safe, educational and healthy space for children. It is being able to connect with nature by taking walks in nature with the whole family. We determine the number of children in proportion to the number of educators in order to spend safe and productive time with children and to create a peaceful environment for parents. Our program includes children's yoga instructors, physical education teachers, literature teacher for storytelling, handicraft instructors.
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