Top 5 Mindfulness Retreats

The term mindfulness has become a buzzword over recent years but what exactly does it mean? Well fundamentally its all about awareness. Being aware of and thus controlling your mind and your actions. Learning the technique that allows you to be in the present moment rather than rehashing past events or planning the future. There are many proven benefits of practicing mindfulness which include:

• Helps to reduce anxiety and depression by helping us to be aware of unhelpful thoughts that bring on suffering

• Reduces stress and builds mental resilience, especially when we are dealing with the challenges that life throws at us from time to time

• Increases focus and productivity by helping us deal with distractions and placing our attention on what we are doing

• Helps slow down the ageing process. If stress speeds up the process then mindfulness can helps reduce the speed of ageing.

• Improves our sleep by relaxing our nervous system and removing stressful thoughts at bed time

By going on a mindfulness retreat you can have dedicated time away to learn and practice the technique away from your usual day to day habits and distractions. Our retreats have professional instructors to help guide you through the process and with the inevitable questions and initial obstacles. Our Intro to Meditation packages will give you focused teachings to get you on your way to learning a technique that you can take anywhere