7 Day Somatic De-Armoring Retreat

Goa, India, 16 - 21 Feb 2026

Why This Retreat?

We all carry layers of tension, emotions, and unprocessed memories in our bodies. These create a kind of armoring in the belly, chest, breath, and nervous system. What we could not face in the moment, the body stored — in our organs, fascia, and subtle energy.

This 7-day (6-night) retreat is an immersion into releasing that armoring and restoring comfort and intimacy with life itself. It is both a deep healing journey and a training in practical tools you can carry into your everyday life.

What You’ll Experience

During this retreat you will explore:

✨ Self-love & the 7 Chakras – how thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence health, intimacy, and expression on different levels of density, physical emotional and spiritual
✨ Archetypes - Shadow & Light – understanding the survival strategies we used to navigate family dysfunction and trauma, transforming them into power and creative energy..
✨ Breath as Medicine – using breathwork to release blocked energy, expand awareness, and reconnect with vitality.
✨ Somatic Healing & De-armoring – Taoist abdominal chi massage and techniques to release blockages in the belly, organs, and heart.
✨ Active Meditations – movement, breath, and awareness practices to shake off old patterns and return to presence.
✨ Playful & Embodied Practices – dance, voice release, and surrender exercises to relax into trust and rediscover joy.

Deeper Intention

This retreat is also about creating inner space:
🌿 Allowing life force to flow with less resistance
🌿 Cultivating witnessing and allowing, beyond chasing or doing
🌿 Rediscovering the ease of simply being

These qualities help us navigate everyday life with more clarity and intimacy — with ourselves, others, and the mystery of existence.

Why Join?

✔ Free your body from stagnant energy and emotional blockages
✔ Learn self-healing tools for yourself, family, or clients
✔ Experience both deep release and joyful expression
✔ Create space for life to flow naturally
✔ Come home to your body, breath, and presence

💡 This is not about sexual intimacy — but about a deeper intimacy with life itself: with your own body, your breath, your emotions, and the mystery of being alive.

Location

Sohum, Arambol (North Goa, India)

https://sohumresort.com/

Teaching Fee (per person):

€500 Early Bird (until 1 Dec 2025)
€650 Regular

Accommodation & Food (per person):

€260 (Sharing 4-beds dorm, separate beds)
€320 (Sharing double room, separate beds)
€400 (Single room)

Book Your Place

Spaces are limited. Secure your spot early to benefit from the early bird rate.

We look forward to meeting you and sharing this journey with you.

Join us, Bashar, Zendrik and Deva on a journey of self love, self healing and self mastery.

Bashar Waleed

Bashar is the founder of AUM Mystic Academy and creator of the CoreChi Process, a body-centered method for emotional release and energetic alignment. His work combines somatic breathwork, de-armoring, and emotional release with elements of Himalayan Kriya Yoga, Kundalini practices, and psychosynthesis-based psychology to support deep transformation and integration.

With a background bridging Eastern mysticism and Western psychology, Bashar’s approach is rooted in the intelligence of the body and the wisdom of the heart. He guides individuals and couples through processes that reconnect them to their vitality, emotional freedom, and embodied truth.

Born and raised between Iraq and Sweden, Bashar brings a unique understanding of polarity, presence, and the meeting of cultures and energies. Through AUM Mystic Academy, he facilitates international retreats, workshops, and mentorships, both online and in person, supporting those seeking authentic healing and awakening through breath, body, and awareness.

Zendrik van der Merwe

At the core of my work in somatic therapy is a deep belief in the power of the mind, body and soul to heal, transform, and restore. Our hearts and minds, feelings and actions, affect the quantum field. LIfe’s stresses, especially unprocessed emotions and traumas, family dysfunction, and also bad diet and lack of exercise, can hold us back from living a meaningful and fulfilling life. Through somatic bodywork, breathwork and energywork, we can release these blockages, restore the flow of prana in the body and bring harmony and happiness to our lives.

Over the past 40 years, I’ve refined my approach to healing, focusing primarily on Taoist abdominal massage techniques to help release blocked emotions, traumas, toxic chi and energetic cysts from the abdomen, thereby restoring balance to the body’s organs and systems. I integrate and teach various other somatic therapies in my private practice with clients and my training courses for therapists. In groups I also incorporate breathwork, qi gong, sound healing, conscious dance, guided meditations and self mastery practices, drawing from the rich traditions of Zen, The Tao, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana, Jungian psychology and transformational process work.

Deva Angel

Deva has been channeling and working with energy for over 25 years. Her work bridges direct transmission from the Angelic Realms, Pleiadian frequencies, and Tantric teachings to support deep energetic healing and awakening.
She has guided thousands of people through their healing journeys, helping them reconnect to their life force, clear energetic blockages, and awaken their natural aliveness.

With a background as a yoga teacher for over 25 years and a Conscious Dance facilitator for 13 years, Deva brings a grounded understanding of the body and energy system. Her sessions and transmissions open the higher currents of light while remaining rooted in presence and embodied experience.

As a direct channel for Life Force Energy Activation, Deva has spent the last decade in Bali supporting both men and women through this channeled energy work. This work awakens vital energy, restores energetic harmony, and upgrades the frequency so the energy system can hold more light.