Yoga and Mindfulness Weekend Retreat in an old Nun monastery, Samaya
The weekend of 12-13 september is meant for everyone: beginnners and advanced students. Do you want a refresher course of Mindfulness, book now!
- Let your body be supple and strong with Hatha yoga and Chi Kong
- Diminish thoughts in your mind, stop to worry through concentration excersizes
- Became calm and enlarge your self awareness through contemplation (vipassana)
- Astonish yourself about the effect of sound and vibration through the singing bowls concert
Your general feeling of wellbeing will increase. A gift to yourself.
Experiences
It gave me total relaxation and the realisation that I have to stand to think about myself for a while to get back and stay in balance. Life is too fast for me sometimes: It forced me to really relax. The silence, not talking is a blissful experience. It gve me new insights.
- Iris Oostlander
The Yoga & Mindfulness weekend of Hans Kloosterman and Erna Vonck is a recommendation for everyone. A weekend away from all the worries that go on in daily life, away from all the "have to do's" and just having a wonderful weekend for yourself and to yourself. A weekend full of Yoga- and meditation excersizes that make you realize that “YOU” are important. Nothing is obligatory, everything is possible!
- Gerrit de Haan
Location
This retreat takes place on 12-13 september in the retreat centre Samaya, an old nun monastery on the Utrechtse heuvelrug in Werkhoven.
Address; Hollendewagenweg 20, 3985 SG, Werkhoven
Samaya has a very refined vegetarian kitchen. www.samaya.nl
Programme
During this weekend we keep the social silence, even during dinner and during breaks
“Only silence gives peace”
This weekend is the best present you can give yourself.
Saturday
| 09.30 | Arrival and division of rooms |
| 10.30 | Hatha Yoga & Mindfulness |
| 12.00 | Warm meal (vegetarian) in the dining room, free time. |
| 13.00-13.30 | Karma yoga |
| 13.30-16.00 | Free time |
| 16.00-17.30 | Chi Kong & Hatha Yoga |
| 17.30 | Snack |
| 18.00-19.00 | Vegetarian meal in the dining room |
| 19.30 | Mindfulness |
| 20.30-21.00 | Singing bowl concert |
| 21.00 | Tea |
| 21.30 | Good night |
Zondag
| 7.00 | 5 Tibetans + Hatha Yoga |
| 8.30 | Breakfast in Silence, in the dining room |
| 09.30-10.45 | Silent Walk through the forests |
| 10.45-11.00 | Tea |
| 11.00-12.00 | Mindfulness |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-14.30 | Yoga & mindfulness |
| 14.30-15.00 | Sining bowl concert |
| 15.00-15.30 | Tea and good journey |
This weekend nothing is obligatory, everything is possible..
Price
The price of this weekend is 375 euro (incl. 21% BTW) all-inclusive
The Teachers
This weekend you will be guided by Erna Vonck and Hans Kloosterman.
About Erna Vonck
Erna Vonck (1959) gives hatha yoga, dru yoga, ayurvedische massage, ayurvedic cooking. As a teacher Sport and Movement I realized just how important relaxation is.
She first did the Astanga Yoga education at Tony Goes in Montfoort, after which she followed the Saswitha Yoga teacher training in Bilthoven. The specialization year was devoted to yoga for elders and teenagers. Extra modules that she took were amongst others; Breath therapy and Ayurveda.
Erna is conncected for several years to the school community in Laren where she teaches yoga to teenagers. She followed the Ayurvedic massage training at Jade in Utrecht and has been working as masseuse as well.
All things share the same breath, the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit,
with all the life it supports. ~ Chief Seattle
About Hans Kloosterman
Docent: Hans Kloosterman
Hans Kloosterman is a Tibetan buddhist and studied at the Tibetan Kagyu Vasjrayana institute in Huy, Belgium, that has a small monastery community with several lamas, monks and nunns. He has lived six years as a monk in training and studies buddhism since 2005. From 2000 until 2005 he has followed the 3 year hatha training and 2 year meditation training at Osmose in The Hague. He teaches classic hatha yoga, Chi Kong and various meditations such as the non dual meditation (shamatha, vipashyana and samadhi).
During a mindfulness training he teaches people to be fully present in the here and now at everything they do and to make them aware on three levels: physical, emotional, and mentally. The 8 week mindfulness training 1.0 (for beginners) is given according to the MBSR training from Jon Kabat Zinn. Hans has designed an sequal: Mindfulness 2.0, in which Vipashyana meditation and developing the 10 virtues, such as compassion, play an important role.
He organizes yoga & mindfulness workshops, courses and retreats in The Netherlands and abroad.
Hans is the author of the recently released autobiographic book "From snob to monk". His calling is: Creating Awareness. See www.hanskloosterman.com.
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 my administration time. Using iDeal will automatically process your payment. If it's not possible you can wire transfer the amount. Many thanks.
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