This two day residential retreat at Maitripa Buddhist Retreat Centre offers an opportunity to enhance your awareness of, and connection to energy, largely through the modalities of Reiki, Yoga and Meditation.

 

The Japanese word Reiki, translates to mean Universal Life Energy, or Universal Life Force. Reiki is a simple, natural, healing technique that utilises the universal life force to improve health and wellbeing and enhance quality of life. The flow of life energy through us is what keeps us alive. Yet this flow is uneven for many. The stresses and tensions of daily living and our thought patterns, combine to create blocks and imbalances to the flow. These blocks are reflected in the body and can manifest as malfunctions or disease.

 

Reiki is Unconditional Love: when given from one person to another sometimes miracles occur  ~ Hawayo Takata, Reiki Master

 

Reiki accelerates the body’s ability to heal physical ailments and opens the mind to the causes of disease and pain, the necessity for taking responsibility for one’s life and the joys of balanced health. It can also ease tension and anxiety, raise the general level of energy and feeling of well-being, and promote positive personal growth.

 

The gift of Reiki is the feeling of being reconnected to your source, of ‘coming home’.

 

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain ~ C G Jung

 

As well as experiencing three individual Reiki sessions during this retreat, Yoga and Meditation will be offered each morning between 7-8am. This will be followed by breakfast. When you are not scheduled to have a Reiki session, you will be free to enjoy a walk around the grounds of Maitripa, rest, read, journal or converse with others. Lunch will be offered at 12.30pm and each afternoon will include a ‘Debrief Circle’ to share what may have arisen for you during the Reiki/Yoga sessions. A Restorative Yoga session will also be offered. Dinner will be served at 6.00pm, and on Saturday evening we will meet for a Meditation session.

 

Retreat package includes:

•    Two night’s accomm in your own room (shared bathroom)

•    Three individual Reiki sessions

•    Yoga/Meditation sessions

•    Restorative Yoga Session

•    Philosophy Talks/Debrief Circles

•    Gourmet vegetarian and gluten-free meals – two breakfasts, two lunches, two dinners (all dietary requirements catered for)

 

Check-in is available from 2pm onwards on Friday 17 May. Check-out will be at 2pm on Sunday 19 May.

 

If you are interested in coming along, or have any queries about the retreat, please call Fiona on 0431 080 157 or e-mail to: fionahyde1@gmail.com 

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