YOGA, MEDITATIE & MINDFULNESS 5-DAY VIPASSANA RETREAT IN SILENCE ON THE VELUWE IN HELIOS CENTRE, HEERDE (Netherlands)
Read more about: The Programme, The Location, Your Investment, The Teacher, Sign Up
SILENCING AND DESTRESSING
The Yoga & Mindfulness midweek (summer) retreat will be held in Helios center in Heerde. Center Helios is located above Apeldoorn, wonderfully free in the Veluwe countryside with water and forest in the area. A beautiful center where 25 years have come many participants for courses to get to know your deeper self. You go to work with knowledge, practice and realization in body and mind using methods from Hinduism and Buddhism. You will be introduced to a mix of hatha yoga, Tibetan yoga, Chi Kong, mindfulness, meditation and breathing exercises. A gift to yourself. The midweek retreat is for both beginners and advanced.
What can you expect?
The starting point of the retreat is tranquility, depth relaxation, energy building, insight, knowledge and wisdom. In addition to individual inner vision, there is also room for sharing and connecting with each other if you wish.
During this yoga & mindfulness midweek retreat, different yoga techniques and mindfulness meditations are combined to create more depth for yourself and to experience how both reinforce each other in action. You will be introduced to a mix of hatha yoga, Tibetan yoga, Chi Kong, mindfulness, meditation and breathing exercises. The retreat is for both beginners and advanced.
Themes of the retreat:
stress reduction, concentration, being present in the moment, acceptance, letting go, being instead of doing, recognizing your automatic thinking and behavioral patterns / autopilot.
Mindfulness helps with:
stress complaints, concentration problems, over-fatigue, addictions, pain, insomnia and heavily disturbing emotions such as anger and anxiety.
Yoga helps to...
Obtain a healthy and relaxed body, thus freeing the way for a deeper self exploration and in feelings. 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 through yoga and mindfulness exercises to recognize and understand your thinking and behavioral patterns. Thanks to the insights during these lessons you will be able to shape your life better and widen your awareness. This will help you to work more effectively, at home and at work.
Throughout the retreat you can enjoy a beautiful collection of yoga books and magazines, nature walks, familiarize yourself with inspirational people and you can use the environment for your entertainment. In between, delicious vegetarian cooking is served.
Programme
Monday
14.00 Reception and distribution of rooms
15.00 Acquaintance
16.00 Yoga + Chi Kong
17.30 Pause
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Mindfulness
21.30 Tea
22.00 Good night
Tuesday
7.00 Yoga, various styles
8.30 Breakfast
9.30 Silence walk through the woods
10.50 Coffee & tea break
11.00-12.15 Mindfulness
12.30 Hot meal (vegetarian)
13.00 Karma yoga
13.30 Leisure time
16.00 Yoga
17.30 Snack
18.30 Meal
20.30 Mindfulness
21.30 Tea
22.00 Good night
Program Wednesday and Thursday approximately as the previous days. Only Wednesday is a silent day, ie participants do not speak, no sign language and no phones, computers.
Friday
7.00 Yoga
8.30 Breakfast, in the dining room
9.00 Cleaning up rooms and putting stuff in the car
10.00 Share, deepen and connect
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Mindfulness and singing bowl concert
14.00 Tea and Good trip!
You get....
* 4 nights in a shared room (it is possible to book a single room)
* 2 yoga & mindfulness lessons per day
* Mindfulness workshops on how to increase awareness and energy level
* Tranquility (Shamatha) & Insight meditation (Vipassana) & Non dual meditation (Samadi)
* Silent periods, for example during walks in nature, some lunches and meditations
* Unlimited water, tea, coffee and fruit
* 3 vegetarian meals per day
* Holistic massage (not included in the price)
In the free time in the program there is the possibility to book a massage.
Price: 50 euros for 1 hour, 75 euros 1.5 hours. Payment for this is made on the spot in cash.
In the comments field, please indicate during the registration whether you are interested in this.
No. of Participants
Min. 8, max. 30 participants.
Experiences of participants of earlier retreats given by Hans
It was a very inspiring weekend. As soon as you reach the terrain, the silence takes over. A safe group atmosphere is created in which you can be yourself. There is plenty of space for your own personal development and experience. You get well defined methods that you can easily incorporate in your daily life. It helped me to come back to myself.
Marion
For the very first time, a Yoga and Mindfulness weekend. It was a great and impressive experience. An extensive program where nothing is a must. Worth repeating.
Jacqueline Stoutjesdijk.
It was a very nice weekend, in which I learned a lot and became aware of the functioning of body and mind. Lecturer Hans has a lot of knowledge and experience on the various topics that have been addressed. The atmosphere was also comfortable and totally not boring, but challenging and fresh. The location and care were great and made the whole weekend a great experience!
Jaap Bregman
Thank you very much, Hans!
I often think of you and the exercise you gave me. Last week I was looking for a certain insight and felt a lot of sadness. I then did the breathing exercise and left the sadness behind and then the light came in and I realized what had happened. It was like a cloud drifted past the sun. I could go on.
You made an long lasting impression on me, thank you!
Ivonne
Taught by
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 is based on the MBSR training by Jon Kabat Zinn. Hans himself wrote a follow-up: Mindfulness 2.0, with Vipassana meditating and developing the 10 virtues in the body & mind, including compassion.
He organizes yoga & mindfulness workshops, trainings and retreats in the Netherlands and abroad.
Hans is the author of the recently published autobiographical bestsller book "From Snob to Monk". His calling is: "Discover your True Self. See also at www.hanskloosterman.com.
Your investment and dates
The Yoga and Mindfulness 5-day Vipassana Retreat in Heerde takes place this year on the following date;
23-27 July 2018 in Helios Centre
For a fee of € 50 you can also book a single room.
The cost for this week is 695 euros incl. VAT (full board). Clicking the enroll button will take you to the Helios site so that you can sign up there.
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.
Click on the Sign up button to proceed to the sign up form.