Yossum Return to the Heart Process
23 - 30 April 2012
South-West Turkey, near Gocek

Fully Booked

The Yossum Process guides you into a space of understanding to transform your daily life into a more meaningful reality. The challenges in life, if understood correctly, are the very forces that are making you evolve and live a creative life. The Yossum Process can help you feel the difference between living on an automatic pilot and as a free Human Spirit.

This retreat will be hosted by three highly qualified teachers; Kali Ornelas, Emilio Mercuriali and Skadi van Paasschen.

Being absorbed by modern life tends to make us put aside the potential of our Human Spirit. Through the practices during the Process we are opening possibilities for re-connecting. With Meditation we begin to settle the activity of our busy mind and potentially land in Presence. With Yoga we practice how to come back and experience the connection to our own bodies. And finally with the Self-Understanding workshops we explore what are the underlying causes of forgetting what can bring us true contentment. Silence periods can release more emotional tensions and past related issues than almost any other practice. Silence increases inner awareness and the mind becomes more present, greatly enhancing the ability to absorb yoga and experience meditation.

Most people consider the Yossum Process as a life-changing experience. This Process will take place at Huzur Vadisi, a beautiful retreat center which lies on the gorgeous 'Turquoise Coast' of southwest Turkey, with deep bays, unspoiled islands, dramatic limestone cliffs, and forested mountains rising from the sea. Scroll down to read more about Huzur Vadisi and its surrounding area.

To read more about what happens at the Yossum Process,
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Schedule sample for a day during this Process:

07:45 – 08:30 Meditation
08:30 – 09:00 Tea Break
09:00 – 10:00 Enquiry circle
10:00 Brunch
11:00 – 14:00 Free time / Private Sessions
14:00 – 16:00 Self-Understanding / Enquiry circle
16:00 – 16:30 Tea Break
17:00 – 18:30 Yoga
19:00 Dinner
20:15 Meditation / Meeting with Kali

*Timetable is subject to changes without previous notice


Pratice of Silence
Silence is powerful. Silence raises meditation, yoga asanas practice and awareness to an entirely different level. Kali will carefully prepare the group for a short period of Silence during this retreat (24 to 48 hours). Silence is a time extremely valued by our participants.

Self Understanding Workshops – Enquiry Circles
The Enquiry circles during this retreat will be based on the Enneagram system, a unique tool that offers a structural map of human behaviour. The Enneagram gives us a very clear guiding map to understand our personality structure (ego), to become aware of our conditioned behaviour patterns which act like masks over our authentic self, translating into a loss of contact with Being, our true Self. The correct understanding of the relationship between personality and Being is crucial and must be addressed on any path of inner life. We will begin to look at lifelong patterns of behavior that have originated from the loss of Being, and thus free ourselves a little from it. Spiritual transformation is possible with the increased understanding of what leads us to the loss of contact with Being. Our true Self is ever present, we simply need to understand what is covering our experience of it.

The Enneagram is comprised of 9 Personality Types or ways of operating in the world and, although all of us can express all the personalities types at different times, there is one type that we are most "fixated" with. These personality types are expressions of the loss of contact with Being, our essential nature, and the true value of this knowledge is to help us re-establish this contact. It is important to consider that to discover your personality type does not put you into a box but simply shows you the box you are in so you can get out! This ultimately can help us to be set free from our self imposed limitations and reconnect with our True Self.

The 9 personality types at a glance:
Type 1: The Perfectionist, Type 2: The Helper, Type 3: The Performer, Type 4: The Tragic-romantic, Type 5: The Observer, Type 6: The Loyalist, Type 7: The Enthusiast, Type 8: The Challenger, Type 9: The Peacemaker.

If you don't know your Enneagram personality type already we strongly recommend that you take the following test by clicking here.
Please take the full RHETI test which takes about 45 minutes and costs US$10. It is important that you email us the result of the test one week before the retreat.

One-to-one sessions
Although the activities included in the retreat make the retreat complete in itself, we do offer extra sessions to deepen your experience and address issues on a one-to-one basis.

Kali Ornelas - Self Understanding
Kali's sessions are powerful and eye opening on more levels that can be fully explained unless you experience it for yourself. She often uses the Enneagram system as a mirror for your inner work as well as her skills at trauma healing and other expressions of her many guiding abilities. She meets you where you are. Her intention is to facilitate a safe space where you can touch your own inner- wisdom to connect with what you next step may be, without any judgements or pre-conceived ideas. Sessions with Kali get fully booked in advance, so please indicate in your Booking Form if you would like us to reserve times for you with her.

Emilio Mercuriali - Essence
Emilio uses a system that focus on reconnecting to our true nature through the understanding and processing of our personality structure. In his sessions he facilitates self-exploration and helps to distinguish between the false personality and the real aspects of our Being, which we call Essence. When we recognize essence we start building a relationship with it that keeps on growing and supporting us in our development.

Skadi van Paasschen - Yoga
Skadi is a very experienced Ashtanga Vinyasa and Yin Yoga teacher from Amsterdam. She did teacher trainings in India with Gabriel Azure, Sarah Powers and Paul Grilly. Yin Yoga has the same goals and objectives as any other type of yoga; however, it directs the stimulation normally created in the asana portion of the practice deeper than the superficial or muscular tissues. Yin Yoga targets the connective tissues, such as the ligaments, bones, and even the joints of the body that normally are not exercised very much in a more active style of asana practice.