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PAST EVENTS

EMBODIED Meditation Retreat -  Berlin 2022

Workshop - Healthy Habits for Sitters  - Berlin 

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 some simple anatomy to understand why certain positions or habits create tension, learn the basics about the physiology of stress and the negative loops this can create, and learn to interrupt those stress loops! 
  • Empower yourself to avoid sitting patterns that create long-term imbalances with increased awareness and take-home tips on easy strengthening exercises for muscle groups that get weak with lots of sitting,  stretches for muscles that get chronically tense, and self-massage techniques
  • Individual sitting check-in and recommendations, and 30 minutes of group pilates-inspired movement to balance the body
  • Small group of maximum 8 people 
  • You'll leave empowered to continue exploring and improving your sitting habits. To help you on this journey, you will receive a workbook for reference and online continuing access to the 30-minute "movement for sitters" routine

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

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.” ~ Ram Dass
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