AWAKE. A One Day Mindfulness Experience
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Experience the true YOU at AWAKE- a one-day mindful living retreat led by your favorite guides in your own back yard. YOU are NOT the roles you play, the things you own or the emotions you have. YOU are limitless, pure, peaceful and powerful potential just waiting to be discovered. Spend the day in a retreat environment with your favorite guides experiencing the true YOU through mindful meditation, gentle asana, dharma talks, a mindful lunch, qi gong/ti chi, music, chant, yoga nidra and more.
Sunday, September 8, 8a - 4 pm @ Newport Street Retreat THEME: Freedom!
Mindful Living Talks + Guided Meditation
You may have noticed the untrained mind tends to do it's own thing and often cause you plenty of pain and confusion. It's always attaching to one thing or pushing away another. The Buddhists compare this to a wild elephant running amok. It's time to train that elephant mind of yours! Your mind can be a useful tool expressing the wonderful mental states of love, compassion, joy and equanimity that you deserve. We'll practice keeping the mind where we want it to be. We'll look to end the chase for more of this and less of that. You'll learn to rest in non-attachment free from clinging. You'll see that in the center, free of attachment and aversion there is only your birthright - everlasting peace. |
Mindful movement via art
Heidi Saltzman, Ph.D. | Heidi is a licensed clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience, she runs a full-time, private practice in Evergreen, Colorado. She uses a client-centered approach, and includes insight-oriented therapy, relaxation, mindfulness, visualization, setting intentions, cognitive techniques, behavioral changes, dream interpretation, art therapy, play therapy and EMDR in treatment as appropriate. Heidi is also a reverend through the Church of Inner Light and becoming a Qoya teacher.
She will be offering a movement art process that focusses on mindfulness and non-attachment to promote radical self-acceptance. Participants will engage in silent, mindful painting and have time to reflect afterward. The movement is about how you feel not about how you look and the art is not about being an artist or creating a great work of art; it is about the process! The art work will not be shared with the group. |
What the AWAKE One Day Mindfulness Experience is all about...
AWAKE is an opportunity to experience YOU. YOU are NOT the roles you play, the things you own or the emotions you have. YOU are limitless, pure, peaceful and powerful potential just waiting to be uncovered. AWAKE is a silent, day-long mindfulness retreat experience including mindful meditation, gentle asana, dharma talks, a mindful lunch, qi gong/ti chi, music, chant, yoga nidra and more. AWAKE is chance to slow down and spend a day in a retreat environment mindfully uncovering the true YOU. We are sure you will leave feeling embodied, radiant, peaceful, at ease and ready to connect more deeply with your life and the relationships within it.
How Mindfulness works…
Mindfulness is present moment awareness. Without a mindfulness practice you most likely spend your days planning for the future or worrying about the past. You may be busy trying to get happy by working hard to change external, worldly things like your roles, job, income, material items and relationships. You may have noticed that looking for lasting peace in impermanent people, places and things simply doesn't work. Mindfulness practice helps you to directly experience that you already are happy, peaceful and at ease. You see it's an inside job. No need to try and get happy once you discover - at your core - you area already 100% complete, peaceful and at ease.
What your experience looks like...
At AWAKE you spend the day coming back again and again to presence. This is where you’ll discover everything you’ve always wanted is already within. You will see directly that you already are complete. Already one with source/God/peace. Throughout your day you’ll be guided by multiple masterful guides to return to your body, breath and peaceful mind. Whether you are walking, sitting, moving through asana, chanting, eating or lying down to rest you will be guided to do so mindfully. You’ll deeply feel your sensations, you’ll tune into your mind, you’ll hear the music and see the beauty of your surroundings. You'll return to embodiment You'll reconnect mind, body and spirit. You will AWAKE to the true YOU.
Sample Schedule... (varies at each retreat)
Sample Retreat Menu = YUM! and so good for you!
Arrival - Coffee, hot tea, sparkling water & iced hibiscus tea in your meeting area - these drinks are available all day!
Mid-morning snack - Dehydrated Apple chips; Roasted Chickpeas with turmeric or Homemade Hummus & veggies
lunch - Possibilities include:
How Mindfulness works…
Mindfulness is present moment awareness. Without a mindfulness practice you most likely spend your days planning for the future or worrying about the past. You may be busy trying to get happy by working hard to change external, worldly things like your roles, job, income, material items and relationships. You may have noticed that looking for lasting peace in impermanent people, places and things simply doesn't work. Mindfulness practice helps you to directly experience that you already are happy, peaceful and at ease. You see it's an inside job. No need to try and get happy once you discover - at your core - you area already 100% complete, peaceful and at ease.
What your experience looks like...
At AWAKE you spend the day coming back again and again to presence. This is where you’ll discover everything you’ve always wanted is already within. You will see directly that you already are complete. Already one with source/God/peace. Throughout your day you’ll be guided by multiple masterful guides to return to your body, breath and peaceful mind. Whether you are walking, sitting, moving through asana, chanting, eating or lying down to rest you will be guided to do so mindfully. You’ll deeply feel your sensations, you’ll tune into your mind, you’ll hear the music and see the beauty of your surroundings. You'll return to embodiment You'll reconnect mind, body and spirit. You will AWAKE to the true YOU.
Sample Schedule... (varies at each retreat)
- 8 am Welcome. Guided "settling in" meditation.
- 8:30 am Mindfulness Talk - Mindful Living explained. How to bring the practice of mindfulness into each moment of your one day experience at AWAKE and into your daily life. Outline of the day's ground rules (i.e. skillful silence/no phones/devices etc).
- 9:30 am Mindful Asana
- 11 am Practice Talk w/ guided practice (i.e. Neurosculpting®)
- Noon Mindful silent vegetarian lunch
- 1 pm Mindful movement. I.e. Qigong/Tai Chi
- 2 pm Guided Seated/Walking Meditation w/ Pranayama and/or call and response chanting or live music
- 4 pm Dedication of practice to benefit all beings + complete.
Sample Retreat Menu = YUM! and so good for you!
Arrival - Coffee, hot tea, sparkling water & iced hibiscus tea in your meeting area - these drinks are available all day!
Mid-morning snack - Dehydrated Apple chips; Roasted Chickpeas with turmeric or Homemade Hummus & veggies
lunch - Possibilities include:
- Butternut Squash Chili, cornbread & fixings
- White Chicken Chile, Farro salad with dried cherry and citrus vinaigrette & hearty bread
- Quinoa Stew, Arugula salad & hearty bread
- Quiche & salad
- assortment of dark chocolates