Ceramics & Yoga Weekend Retreat

About the Retreat

The light is already thinning. In a few weeks, Longyearbyen tips into polar night — and this weekend is built for arriving there grounded.

For the first time, Aztrid and Soul Peak are coming together for a weekend of clay and yoga, side by side. You'll sketch and hand-pinch your own tea cup, enjoy homemade onigiri and hand-whisked matcha, and decorate what you've made with carving and underglaze painting. Then Ahyeong guides you through 60 minutes of intentional movement, before the weekend closes with a tea ceremony and polar night intention journaling.

It's a weekend for coming back to your senses before the season asks you to sit with less light: hands in clay, breath and awareness in the body, and a little quiet made for intention.

A collaboration the world's northernmost town didn't know it needed.

The Schedule

We start on paper: a creative brainstorm and sketch of your tea cup design. Aztrid then guides you into pinching — a traditional hand-building technique, shaping clay by hand into a cup that's entirely your own in shape, size, and design.

After a break for homemade sweets and brunch, you'll return to decorate your piece: carving tools for pattern and texture, underglaze paints to mix your own colors and motifs. Ahyeong then leads 60 minutes of intentional movement — space to come back into your senses, feel what your body has to say, and settle deeper into it. The weekend closes with a tea ceremony and polar night intention journaling.

Meet Your Hosts

Aztrid leads the ceramics side of the weekend — sketching, pinching, decorating — guiding you through shaping your own tea cup from a ball of clay into something wholly yours. See more of her work here.

Ahyeong, the founder of Soul Peak, leads the intentional movement practice woven between the clay sessions — 60 minutes built to bring you back into your senses and more in touch with your body. Soul Peak also holds the brunch and tea ceremony.

Good to Know

• Nails: Come with short nails. You'll be shaping clay with your fingertips, and long nails make the clay harder to work and can leave unwanted marks on your piece.

• Your cup: After the workshop, your tea cup needs about a week to dry fully, then two separate firings with a glaze applied in between (glazed inside for food safety, outside by preference).  You will be able to pick up your finished cup on 17th October. 
  
  

DATE: 3rd October 

PRICE: NOK 2,950 

What's Included in the Price

• Clay, carving tools, and underglaze paints for your tea cup

• Firing and glazing — your finished cup is yours to keep

• 60 mins Intentional movement yoga session & polar night intention journaling session with Ahyeong

• Homemade sweets & brunch & tea ceremony