Open Body, Stable Mind

In this retreat we’ll be delving deeper into the relevance and practice of body awareness, freeing up the fascia and liberating qi, alongside mind strengthening practices and the cultivation of stillness.

A 6-day retreat is transformative and will enrich your practice significantly. Six full days with very little distraction and a peaceful setting in which to explore the mind and body relationship in depth. People who have attended long retreats (some many times), have found them to be particularly valuable, not only for the significant deepening of their practice, but also the community and support that develops amongst attendees.

If you are serious about the transformation of your mind and body, this retreat would be very useful on a yearly basis to maintain the intensity of focus often required for inner work. But most of all, the retreat is replenishing, interesting and fun…and the food is magical.

Who attends these retreats?

People who are serious about changing their life, taking charge of their mind and developing it constructively to discover its inner dimensions.

People experiencing a recurrent/recalcitrant habit pattern, addiction or challenge in their life, physically, emotionally or psychologically.

People who need constructive time-out from their familiar environment or are simply fed-up with their habitual nature and want to do something useful for themselves.

People who are looking for a way to start an inner journey and realise there is some inertia to overcome.

Therapists/people in the helping profession who need self-care and a safe space for their own deeper introspective discovery.

What happens on a retreat?

Daily mind skills practices, breath-work sessions, perceptual exercises and Tai Chi.

Talks by Graham including question-answer sessions.

Interactive practices with other participants and discovery of dormant inner sense and intuitive abilities.

Develop a daily self-care practice most suitable to you.

Meet like-minded people with a shared intention.

Spontaneous healing of longstanding issues may occur.

An opportunity to experience being totally silent for a few days (course schedule and instruction continues)

Time to reconnect with nature through the intimacy of Aio Wira retreat centre in the Waitakere ranges. Forest walks, river swims and a spa pool.

Time for both solitude and community connection.

Arising insight into the nature of one’s existence.

Cost: $2850 (includes course fee, accomodation and all meals)

Venue: Aio Wira Retreat Centre

Starts 4:00pm on first day till 4:00 pm on last day

Anyone interested in attending or for further information, please contact Mandy at office@grahammead.com.

A 50% deposit is payable upon registration.