Deep Into Presence - A Weekend Retreat

When you lose touch with inner stillness, You lose touch with your Self. When you lose touch with yourself you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
A Weekend of Deepening Presence We will explore and experience different methods of cultivating awareness and training the mind. This weekend will be a combination of teachings, mindfulness through movement (yogic practices), meditation and experiential learning. This course will teach you various methods for entering the state presence (otherwise… Show more know as mindfulness, flow, the zone, no-mind) which is the aim of all meditation. The aim is that you can take away these tools for use in daily life. You Will learn..... Deep Body (and energy) Awareness Awareness of Silence and Space Sensory Absorption One Pointedness Breath Anchoring Antar Mouna (cultivation of witness) Timeless Awareness
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Everything changes once we identify with the witness of the story rather than the actor in it - Ram Dass
Mindfulness, the power of now, flow, presence, the zone. All these words have been used to describe the state of optimum experience and happiness. Mindfulness has been the essence of many ancient spiritual teachings and now is becoming popular in modern psychology. This course consists of a combination of the tools of modern neuroscience and psychology and ancient tools of mindfulness, meditation and yogic practices.
 
You will learn…
 
·       Ancient yogic pranayama, or breathing techniques to radically deepen meditation and induce states of peace.
·       Sample several meditation techniques to see what suits you
·       To decrease stress, anxiety, depression and other negative states
·       To easily and quickly move into the state of flow (also known as presence, the zone or mindfulness)
·       How to use mindfulness to deepen your yoga, tai chi, meditation (or other) practice.
·       How to step out of negative conditioned patterns of behavior and thinking.
·       Much more
 
 
Some Benefits of Mindfulness/Presence
·       Gives you a deep lasting sense of peace
·       Drastically improves your ability to be happy and content (without needing a reason)
·       Improves the quality of your relationships
·       Gives you improved ability to focus and concentrate
·       Ability to step out of conditioned patterns and reactive behaviour and emotions
·       Gives you insights into your psychology and what drives you (increased emotional intelligence)
·       Ability to get into 'the zone' increases. Great for sports and work and pure enjoyment!
·       Improves self esteem and confidence
·       Relieves or reduces insomnia symptoms
·       Reduces or relives addictive and compulsive behaviour
·       Improves clarity of thinking and efficiency
·       Improves your ability to cope with change and loss
 
Mindfulness is 'moment to moment' awareness. It is a state of awareness where we are fully 'awake' and at ease in ourselves. It involves being here fully for the moments of our lives, without striving or judging. It is the ability to step out of the constant drone of mind chatter and therefore not have to live out the minds conditioned patterns. It is a return to our natural state of being.
The Venue: Mangrove Yoga Ashram
Mangrove Yoga Ashram, surrounded by national parks on a tributary of the Hawkesbury. Situated in a peaceful valley on a quiet backcountry road, only 1.5 hours north of the Sydney CBD. the centre is vibrant yet peaceful with simple clean accomodation and lovely class and function spaces. They offer not only a wholesome venue with abundant fresh air, peacefulness and delicious vegetarian food, but also the opportunity to step outside of your normal routine and enjoy worry-free simplicity.
 
 
 
 
 

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