Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness 'Stillness' Weekend Retreats on the Veluwe in Helios Centre, Heerde (Netherlands)
SILENCE AND DESTRESSING
We look back on the past year and contemplate the next year 2020. What do we want to continue with, stop and start?
We spend the weekend in silence. You get yin yoga to still more still and go inside. We meditate to increase the mind's ability to concentrate and thereby still the mind. Afterwards the mind is ready to question through analytical questions of insight or the Vipassana meditation method.
There are silence walks, vegan meals and relax massages.
What can you expect?
The starting point of the weekend is stillness, depth relaxation, energy building, insight, knowledge and wisdom.
Themes of the retreat:
stress reduction, concentration and insight, recovery from burn out, being present in the moment, acceptance, letting go, being in place of doing, recognizing your automatic thinking and behavior patterns / automatic pilot.
Mindfulness helps with:
Gaining clarity, stress complaints, recovery from burnout, concentration problems, tiredness, addictions, pain, insomnia and severely disturbing emotions such as anger and fears.
Yoga provides ...
a healthy and relaxed body, thus paving the way for a deeper inner look and feel. We examine and experience our three bodies: the physical body (attitudes), the energetic / emotional body (feeling) and the mental body (thinking). With power, inspiration and connection as a starting point, you learn through yoga and mindfulness exercises to recognize and understand your automatic thinking and behavior patterns. Through the insights during these lessons you are able to better shape your life and to broaden your consciousness. This way you learn to function more effectively, both at home and at work.
Throughout the weekend you can enjoy a nice collection of yoga books and magazines, nature walks, get to know inspiring people and you can you use the environment for your stillness. In between, delicious vegetarian meals are prepared.
What is Yin Yoga?
At Yin Yoga you calmly get into a position and the asanas are held for three to five minutes. In this way the connective tissue is slowly stretched and hydrated and the joints remain flexible. In this way space is created in the connective tissue and joints. Everything in our body has a layer of connective tissue. Connective tissue supports, connects, protects our organs and gives our body structure.
By stretching the muscles through Yin Yoga, tension and stress are released. In this way you not only create space in your body, but also in your head and heart.
Yin Yoga has even more benefits. In this way it stimulates a good flow of prana (life energy) in the body. This life energy flows through the meridians into the body and into the bloodstream. Meridians are narrow energy channels in the skin. These energy lines are all interconnected. The prana that flows through your body through these meridians ultimately has a positive effect on health. This is good for your organs, your immune system and your emotional state.
Who is Yin Yoga for?
Yin Yoga can be healing for people where the balance between Yin and Yang is lost. In our busy lives, the Yang energy is often predominant. Yin Yoga can help you to regain this balance.
In addition, people with stiff connective tissue can benefit greatly from Yin Yoga. By deep stretching during the asanas, Yin Yoga can help you to make the connective tissue more mobile. Yin Yoga is also highly recommended for anyone who wants to become more flexible.
Not only physically can Yin Yoga mean a lot to you, but also emotionally Yin Yoga can help you enormously. Yin Yoga is a meditative form of yoga. While holding the asanas, you focus your attention within, so that you can recognize and recognize what is deep within you.
During the asanas you have the space to observe thoughts and feelings. The wisdom that you find in this space can eventually be taken back into the day.
Program
Friday
14.00 Arrival + Room distribution
15.00 Introduction round, explanation of the weekend + mindfulness exercise program.
ENTRY QUIET
16.00 Yin Yoga
17.30 Snack
18.30–19.30 Vegan dinner
20.00–21.30 Meditation + Mindfulness exercises
Saturday
07.30 Yin Yoga
9 am breakfast
10.00 -12.00 Silent walk through the woods
12.00 Coffee & tea break
13.00 Lunch
13.30 Karma yoga
14.00 Free time + Massages
16.00 Satsang: Mantra singing + questions of life (through silence notes) from the participants in the teacher
18.00 Outdoor campfire
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Meditation + mindfulness exercises
21.00 tea
22.00 Good night
Sunday
07.30 Yin Yoga
09.00 Breakfast, in the dining room
10.00-12.00 Meditation + mindfulness
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Leisure time + massages
LIFTING SILENCE
15.00-16.00 Round Bye Bye, mindfulness & singing concert
16.00- Tea and Good trip!
Number of participants
Min. 8, max. 20 participants.
1 PERSONAL ROOMS : THIS HAPPENED IN CONCERT WITH THE HELIOS CENTER. IF THE CENTER IS FULL, THIS IS NOT AN OCCASION. if the center is not full, it has been agreed that more is paid for a single room for all retreats, even if there are few available. The extra costs for this are & euro; 10 pp per night.
Hans Kloosterman
Hans Kloosterman is a Tibetan Buddhist and studies at the Tibetan Kagyu Vashrayana Institute in Huy, Belgium, which has a small monastery community with a few llamas, monks and nuns. He lived for six years as a training monk and has been studying Buddhism since 2005. From 2000 to 2005 he followed the 3-year hatha training and 2-year meditation training at Osmose in The Hague. He teaches classical hatha yoga, Chi Kong and stillness, analytical and non-dual meditation, namely shamatha, vipassana and samadhi.
In mindfulness training he teaches people to be fully present in everything they do and to become aware on three levels: physical, emotional and mental. The 8 week mindfulness training 1.0 for beginners becomes data according to MBSR training by Jon Kabat Zinn. Hans himself has written a follow-up: Mindfulness 2.0, where Vipassana meditation and the development of the 10 virtues, including compassion, are central.
He organizes yoga & mindfulness workshops, training and travel at home and abroad.
Hans is the author of the bestseller book ‘From snob to monk’. His calling is: “Discovering your True Self”. See also www.hanskloosterman.com .
Thérèse van den Akker
The massages that I offer during the Hans Kloosterman retreat are based on the
Rebalancing vision.
By being touched in a conscious, attentive way, you can experience what's on that
moment in you.
You thereby come more into the now, which already entails immediate relaxation.
What is great about this way of touching is that you get more out of your head, the feeling of you
body and what it has to say to you is the first thing you are invited to
is becoming.
The invitation to feel your body more consciously and to embrace everything that presents itself
space and clears up. In this space you can experience your essential Being.
I work from my intuition, sometimes they are soft, subtle techniques and sometimes deep, strong ones
techniques.
I cordially invite you to make your inner journey during a Rebalancing session.
From 2002, Thérèse van den Akker gives Rebalancing sessions at her practice in Epe.
It is affiliated with the Rebalancing Netherlands platform.
Contribution for her massages; 60 euros for 1 hour and 90 euros for 1.5 hours
You will receive ....
during this weekend retreat
• 2 nights in a shared room
* 2 yoga & mindfulness lessons per day
• Mindfulness workshops on how to increase your awareness and energy level
• Tranquility (Shamatha) & Insight meditation (Vipassana) & Non dual meditation (Samadi)
• Silent periods, for example during nature walks, some lunches and meditations
• Unlimited water, tea, coffee and fruit
• 3 vegetarian meals a day
• 2 weeks in advance you will receive an email with more info / details and a carpool list
Costs and Data
The costs for this weekend are 399 euros incl. VAT (full board). The Bestseller book “from Snob to Monk” can be purchased and signed on the spot by Hans. Price: 19.95.
Signing up
You can sign up for the following datesFri 20-12-2019 - Sun 22-12-2019
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You can wiretransfer the amount to the bankaccount noted in your confirmation e-mail after you have signed up.
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