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. Practices may include mindful meditation, gentle asana, dharma talks, qi gong/ti chi, music, chant, yoga nidra and more.
Sunday, Jan. 12 9a - 3 pm @ Gather Yoga, Evergreen
PEACE WITHIN YOU, PEACE AROUND YOU
- A Journey through the Senses into your Innate Aliveness -
Toady's retreat theme “Peace Within You, Peace Around You,” focuses on the senses as portals to experience our aliveness. As we open up to the power of our senses, we have greater access to our multi-layered, awakened presence. This depth of presence can support us in cultivating more peace within, thus, we can experience more peace in our world.
Spend a cozy winter day in beautiful Evergreen, CO tuning into your senses with yoga asana, meditation, and illuminated conversation. Practice loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity and deepen into the enlightened teachings of Buddhism, Yoga and Ayurveda.
Erik Vienneau, a registered psychotherapist, seasoned meditation instructor and the founder of AWAKE, and Asiana Harper, beloved yoga instructor and Ayurvedic Practitioner are honored to support you on your path. We are blessed to be joined by the rhythmic sounds of Damon the Zen Drummer to accompany and deepen our practices.
WHAT YOU'LL EXPERIENCE:
Spend a cozy winter day in beautiful Evergreen, CO tuning into your senses with yoga asana, meditation, and illuminated conversation. Practice loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity and deepen into the enlightened teachings of Buddhism, Yoga and Ayurveda.
Erik Vienneau, a registered psychotherapist, seasoned meditation instructor and the founder of AWAKE, and Asiana Harper, beloved yoga instructor and Ayurvedic Practitioner are honored to support you on your path. We are blessed to be joined by the rhythmic sounds of Damon the Zen Drummer to accompany and deepen our practices.
WHAT YOU'LL EXPERIENCE:
- Learn techniques to Self Regulate your nervous system
- Practice accepting and experiencing ALL OF YOU
- Enjoy Damon the Zen Drummer music. Listen here!
- Explore the sheaths of consciousness
- Movement and seated meditation practices to tune the senses
- Guided meditation practice with the Four Immesurables - Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy + Equanimity
Sunday, Jan 12 Erik Vienneau
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Sunday, Jan 12 Asiana Harper
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Sunday, Jan 12 Damon Zen Drummer
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Sunday, Feb. 9 9a - 3 pm @ Gather Yoga, Evergreen
A JOURNEY TO PEACE THROUGH STILLNESS
- Intro to Yoga Nidra with guided meditations -
Can Yoga Nidra really help treat anxiety, depression, insomnia, addiction, trauma/PTSD and many other ailments? Join me Jeremy Wolf for an introduction into this very profound yet simple and accessible form of meditation. We'll explore some of the basic theory of practice, benefits and experience a full session of this sleep-based healing method. Also offered will be talks on Mindfulness, Loving Kindness, Joy, Compassion and Equanimity with guided walking, seated and movement practices.
Sunday, Feb 9 Jeremy Wolf
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Sunday, Feb 9 Erik Vienneau
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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)
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)
- 9 am Welcome. Guided "settling in" meditation.
- 9:30 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).
- 10 am Mindful Asana
- 11 am Practice Talk w/ guided practice
- Noon Lunch Break (BYO or head to healthy local lunch spot)
- 1 pm Mindful movement. I.e. Qigong/Tai Chi/Yoga
- 2 pm Guided Seated/Walking Meditation w/ Pranayama and/or call and response chanting or live music
- 3 pm Dedication of practice to benefit all beings + complete.