Workshop - Healthy Habits for Sitters

Do you spend a lot of your day sitting? Do you feel chronic tension in your neck, shoulders, back, or hips? 
Come to this 3 hour workshop with Rachel and Rebecca Rainey (a pilates, movement and eldoa teacher) to explore and learn healthy habits and self-care.
  • Explore using awareness to recognize patterns of tension from sitting
  • Learn to avoid sitting patterns that create long-term imbalances
  • Explore things you can easily incorporate into even busy days
  • We'll do a 30 minute pilates-inspired movement routine to balance the body
  • Individual sitting check-in and recommendations
  • Learn easy strengthening exercises to do on your own for muscle groups that get weak with lots of sitting
  • Learn stretches helpful to balance chronically tense muscles
  • Learn self-massage techniques
  • Learn some simple anatomy to understand why certain positions or habits create tension
  • Learn basics about the physiology of stress and the negative loops this can create
  • Learn to interrupt those stress loops! 
  • Small group of maximum 8 people 
  • Coffee, tea, and snack pause included
  • You'll leave empowered to continue exploring and improving your sitting habits. To help you on this journey, you will receive a booklet for reference and online access to the 30-minute "movement for sitters" routine

Workshop Dates

Attend one of the following 3 hour workshop dates:
  • March 21st, 2020, 14:00 - 17:15
  • July 11th, 2020, 14:00 - 17:15

Cost

75€ EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
(before February 15th for March workshop, before June 6th for July workshop).
90€ standard registration

Cancellation up to two weeks before -- full refund. Cancellation under 2 weeks: 1/2 refund. Cancellations under 48 hours are non-refundable.

Location
Helmerdingstr. 7, 10245, Ground floor (Near Ostkreuz)

Walking, Wellness & Meditation Retreat - South of France - FALL 2020

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PAST EVENTS

WEekend Meditation Retreat - Berlin 01.02. - 02.02.2020

FINDING INNER QUIET IN THE CITY BUZZ:
Bringing Deep Listening, Rest & Curiosity to Meditation
  • Saturday & Sunday non-residential retreat, February 1st & 2nd 2020
  • Led by Rachel Sever & Noon Baldwin, founder of Ekuthuleni Retreat Center, meditation & Dharma teacher (see more below). 
  • Open for all experience levels. Beginners welcome, or come & deepen your existing practice. 
  • Periods of silence as respite from the noisy city & to practice finding stillness & buoyancy amidst the hubbub
  • Break through the myths about meditation & dive into curiosity within your body & whole self, with others, with the space around, & with the enjoyment of meditation 
  • Guided & silent meditations 
  • We'll explore the 4 postures of meditation
  • Guided somatic explorations to nurture curiosity about the messages & wisdom of the body 
  • Explore how our postures or movements connect into our thoughts & heart
  • Practice deep listening – internally & through guided mindful interaction exercises​
What if meditation is more simple than we think?
More curious?
More joyful?
More restful?
  • Dharma talks connecting Buddhist and spiritual teachings into the practices we be doing, & time for questions both days
  • Loving-kindness (metta) meditations
  • LGBTQI+ friendly, & those from diverse religious and national origin-backgrounds are whole-heartedly welcome. 
  • Tea & simple snacks will be provided. Bring a sack lunch for both days.
  • Held in English at the beautiful Urban Healing Unit (UHU) near Treptower Park (there are several flights of stairs to enter the center)
  • Two full days: Saturday 9:30 – 20h and Sunday from around 9 – 17h 

EMBODIED Meditation Retreat -  France 15.-19.08.2018