YOGA, MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS 5-DAY SUMMER RETREAT 'REALIZE YOUR CHANGE' in Groningen (Land van Nu)

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Mindfulness Retraite in Land van Nu in Groningen

On a beautifully converted farm we hold a spring retreat with the theme: learning to meditate. In addition to silencing through yoga & concentration meditation (shamatha), we work on self-awareness by asking questions in silence to yourself. This self-examination (Vipassana meditation) often creates valuable insights that can be translated into actions. Your thinking, feelings and behavioral patterns may change. Your sense of peace and happiness increases and your distress and feeling of suffering decreases.

Mindfulness is NOTICING the physical, emotional and mental sensations in the NOW. Notice whether these sensations in the NOW are pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, without judgments.

What's in it for you?

Coming in contact with your inner joyful silence
Enhance your awareness, balance and insight
Greater sense of balance between your physical, emotional and mental body
Methods to bend unpleasant sensations to neutral and then to pleasant sensations.

The whole retreat is supported by a delicious vegetarian cuisine, nature walks, poems, Buddhist philosophy, rebalancing massages, singing mantras and a lot of humor. Life is sometimes heavy enough!

You can get a room for yourself or share a room with a roommate. Each room has its own shower and toilet. The beds are already made up and towels are ready. Het Land van Nu has 19 rooms: 6 single and 13 double

In the yoga hall there is a lovely view of the farmland. There are yoga mats, meditationcushions etc present.

Yoga provides a healthy and relaxed body, freeing the way for a deeper inner insight and feel. We investigate and experience our three bodies: the physical body (attitudes), the energetic / emotional body (feeling) and the mental body (thinking). With strength, inspiration and connection as a starting point, you learn to recognize and understand your thinking and behavioral patterns through yoga and mindfulness exercises. This will help you to work more effectively, at home and at work.

Throughout the retreat you can enjoy walks in nature, get acquainted with inspiring people and you can use the environment for your amusement. In between, delicious vegetarian cooking is served.

The Yoga and Mindfulness retreat is given by Hans Kloosterman. Below a review of a participant who participated in a similar retreat in Heerde.

What a beautiful, very intense and especially healing week it was. With you Hans as a very good teacher and coach, the week brought me very close to myself. Many thanks for the well applicable practical exercises, the alternate program and your lovable coaching to gain more insight into ourselves. Thank you so much for your personal attention and advice. It has reinforced my decision that I have to go further my way of becoming happy. A very successful week that gave me insight and inspired me further on my spiritual path.

- Els, Yoga Docent

Het Land van Nu in Groningen

In the calmth and space of the North lies Het Land van Nu (The Land of Now). Here you can still hear the grass grow and see glorious stars. On the spot is an authentic and atmospheric Oldambtster farm dating back to the beginning of the last century. An inspiring location and a living place that offers space for essence.

On Het Land van Nu you are a guest in a living house. Het Land van Nu is a breading place for ideas, a quiet place for rest seekers, an inspiring place to meet and deepen your insights, and above all a place where Yoga LIVES. Het Land van Nu is committed to a sustainable and peaceful world, inspiring positive change and development and provides space for essence and inner peace.

You're welcome!

Also useful to know: Public transport
Het Land van Nu is also accessible by public transport.
As a travel destination you must enter 'Veenweg, Hellum' on 9292.nl , not our address!
You then travel with line 178 or 78 from trainstation Groningen.
From there it is 2.5 kilometer walk, but if you let us know in advance that you are coming by public transport, we will arrange transport from the busstop.

Free of shoes
Because our location is free of shoes, it is nice to bring thick socks or skirts.

The Programme of the Yoga and Mindfulness 5-day Summer Retreat 'Realize Your Change'

– YOU ARE NOT OBLIGED TO PARTICPATE IN ALL SESSIONS - FEEL WHAT YOU NEED!

Sunday evening arrival from 20.00
20.00 - 21.00 Coffee and tea and distribution rooms
21.00 - 22.00 Acquaintance + Mindfulness Communication

Monday:
09.30 - 10.00 Reception with tea
10.30 - 12.00 Hatha Yoga
12.30 - 13.30 Warm Lunch (vegetarian)
13.30 - 16.00 Free
16.00 - 17.30 Acquaintance & Chi Kong
18.30 - 19.30 Dinner (light meal)
20.00 - 21.00 Mindfulness: silence meditation & insight meditation: what do you want to let go, accept or change?
21.00 - Tea
22.00 - Goodnight

Tuesday
07.30 Yoga, various styles
09.00 Breakfast
10.00 Mindfulle walk through the countryside & the forest
12.00 Coffee & tea
12.30 Warm lunch (vegetarian)
13.30 Free time
16.00 Mindfulness: Insight meditations & reflection with the theme: taking responsibility for your own life
17.30 Leisure time
18.30 Dinner (light meal)
20.00 Mantras for letting go, accepting and transforming
21.00 Tea
22.00 Good night

Wednesday
07.30 5 tibetans + 6 tension release excersices (pelvic area / lower back)
09.00 Breakfast
10.00 Silent walk through the countryside & the forest
12.00 Coffee & tea
12.30 Warm lunch (vegetarian)
13.30 Free time
16.00 Yin yoga
17.30 Leisure time
18.30 Dinner (light meal)
20.00 Silence meditation on the buddha - 4 parts
21.00 Tea
22.00 Good night

Thursday
Like Tuesday and Wednesday

Friday
07.30 Yoga
09.00 Breakfast,
10.00 Transformation of physical, emotional and mental negativity, Theory, practice and realization in the mind.
12.00 Warm Lunch
13.00 Sharing & connecting & singing bowl concert
14.00 Tea and good trip.

What do you get

* 5 nights in a single room or double room
* 2 yoga & mindfulness lessons per day
* Silent periods, for example during walks in nature, some lunches and meditations
* Unlimited water, tea, coffee and fruit
* 3 vegetarian meals per day

Contribution

795 euro incl VAT. The book From Snob to Monk can be bought for 19.95

1 Single Room	+ € 100,--
1 hour Massage:	+ € 50,-- per person (to be payed cash)
1,5 hours Massage:	+ € 75,-- per person (to be payed cash)

Sign up

You can sign up for one of the following dates;

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5-day Yoga & Mindfulness Summer Retreat 'Realize Your Change' 19 - 24 august 2018

In addition there is also a 4-day Fall Midweek retreat MINDFUL AND NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION IN COMBINATION WITH YOGA from 7 until 11 october 2018 (click here for more information)

Way of paying

You can wiretransfer the amount to the bankaccount noted in your confirmation e-mail after you have signed up.

If you are in possession of a dutch Bank account, you can pay through iDeal. After you've signed up you will receive an automatic confirmation email in which the payment details and an iDeal payment link is included. If you can, please try to pay with iDeal as it diminishes the administration time. Using iDeal will automatically process your payment. If it's not possible you can wire transfer the amount. See the bank-details on the invoice or watch under my website/contactdetails. Many thanks.

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The Teacher

About Hans Kloosterman

Hans Kloosterman is a Tibetan Buddhist and studied at the Tibetan Kagyu Vasjrayana Institute in the Belgian Huy, which has a small monastic community with some lama's, monks and nuns. He lived for six years as a monk in training and has studied Buddhism since 2005. From 2000 to 2005 he has followed 3 years of Hatha yoga education and 2 years of meditation training at Osmose in The Hague. He teaches classical classes in hatha yoga, Chi Kong and silence, analytical and non-dual meditation, namely shamatha, vipassana and samadhi.

In a mindfulness training, he teaches people to be present at all times in everything they do and become aware on three levels: physical, emotional and mental. The 8 week mindfulness training 1.0 for beginners will be given according to MBSR training by Jon Kabat Zinn. Hans himself wrote a follow-up: Mindfulness 2.0, with Vipassana meditation and developing the 10 virtues in body & spirit, including compassion.

He organizes yoga & mindfulness workshops, trainings and retreats at home and abroad.

Hans is the author of the recently published autobiographical bestseller book "From Snob to Monk". His calling is: Creating Awareness. See also at www.hanskloosterman.com.