Meditation Retreat
August 8th - 10th 2008, Shambala Findhorn,
Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. Cost £250 -includes all meals and shared
accommodation. (Some single rooms available at a supplement)
Throughout this retreat you will experience the basic forms of meditation using breath, awareness, movement, sound, chanting, mantras, mudras and guided visualisation. We will also be working with the archangels to activate your chakras to a higher level. You will have the opportunity to join in some Tibetan yoga sessions, perhaps on the beach and participate in the spiritual life of Shambala. On the Saturday evening we will visit the nearby Pluscarden Abbey to hear the monks chanting. As Shambala is right on Findhorn Bay, please bring your swimming costume and towel if you enjoy swimming in the sea!
This
weekend offers you
the opportunity to:
Experience and learn several different meditation techniques
Discover the most effective way for you to meditate
Recharge your batteries
Relax, Rejuvenate and Refresh
Take some time out for yourself
Enjoy some simple and effective yogic exercises
Develop skills to use in your daily life to help you become and remain calm,
relaxed, focused and energised.
Tune into what feels right for you and have fun!
Many sessions are optional to enable you to tailor the retreat to your own requirements.
You will experience the basic forms of
meditation using breath, awareness, movement, sound, chanting, mantras, mudras
and guided visualisation. To bring balance to the weekend you will have the
opportunity to join in some yoga sessions, possibly on the beach and participate
in the spiritual life of Shambala.
As
Shambala is on the waters edge, please bring your swimming costume and
towel if you would like to swim in the sea. The yoga, chanting and some
meditation sessions will be optional in order to assist you to tailor the
weekend according to what you need and enjoy - you may prefer to opt out of some
sessions in order to sleep, swim, walk or spend time exploring the world famous
Findhorn foundation!
If you would like to learn more
about meditation, deepen your practice, explore different ways of meditating and perhaps learn
some techniques that you feel comfortable with and can fit into your routine at
home and work, then this relaxing and revitalising weekend workshop is for you!
There are many paths to inner peace. As we are all different, the best path or combination of paths, is the one that suits us as a unique individual. True inner peace, like true happiness, is not dependent on external circumstances, but becomes the mental/emotional bedrock of our existence. Inner peace, like contentment, is a skill that can be learnt. Meditation is the tool for finding inner peace that is common to all traditions in some form. Research has shown that when we meditate our brain wave pattern alters from the usual beta waves, through the more relaxed alpha waves, to theta and even delta. Alpha ranges from 7-12 HZ and is a place of deep relaxation where we access our creativity. In sleep and the higher states of meditation we experience theta, at 4-7 HZ. This is where the senses are withdrawn from the external to the internal, and is the optimum level for deep thought. Delta waves occur at 0.5-3HZ in the deepest sleep or deepest meditation and confers a profound sense of deep peace.
Elizabeth has been practising meditation and various healing modalities since the late 1970's. This interest in alternative ways of being began at a time of transition in her life when she left her nursing career to embrace a simple and beautiful alternative lifestyle in the country, enjoying being as self sufficient as possible. Her interest in natural healing grew with her connection to spirit and nature and she discovered the benefits of herbs, nutrition, flower remedies, essential oils and spiritual healing.
Elizabeth began practicing Aromatherapy in 1990 and discovered Reiki two years later. It became the foundation of her life and she took her Reiki in the United States in 1996, her Karuna Reiki® Masters in 1997 and became a Reiki Grand Master (India) in 2001.
She has taught and performed attunements throughout the UK, Europe, America, Indonesia, India, Egypt and Tibet. She is also a Metamorphic Association registered teacher, a 5 Tibetan Yogas teacher and a Master Teacher for Diana Cooper’s School of Angels and Ascension.
In 2002 she was inspired to design the Peacechain and the Peace on Earth range of Peace Jewellery to help promote world peace and interfaith tolerance. She lives in a small woodland (managed as a nature reserve,) with her partner and 2 sons.
Elizabeth delivers workshops in both public and private settings and has taught extensively in college and university settings. She travels worldwide to deliver courses and promote inner and outer Peace. Her workshops reflect her wealth of experience and her commitment to revealing and realising the highest human potential within us all. They are inspirational, empowering and transformative and are taught with love, compassion and humour.