An invitation to move toward greater balance, choice and participation in your life...
The Heart of Inquiry
A Weekend (Silent) Mindfulness Meditation Retreat
May 7th – 9th 2010
With Timothea Goddard and Eva Papadopolou
An opportunity to cultivate and refine your personal practice, and to restore, replenish and reflect. Explore the unfolding processes of the body, heart, mind and spirit and how we can find peace and wisdom and so contribute to our own wellbeing and that of others. We will be cultivating all the practices which you were introduced to in the MBSR course including gentle yoga, sitting, walking, eating and daily mindfulness.
Venue: Govinda Valley Retreat Centre http://www.govindavalley.com.au/
The food at Govinda Valley is superb, and the surrounds are spacious, quiet and full of natural wonders.
Arrive: Arrive: 5pm on Friday the 7th May
This will be a time for finding rooms, going for a walk, setting up in the main hall.
Dinner: 6 – 7 pm
Begin practice: 7 pm
Finish: 4pm Sunday 9th May
Cost:
Twin share with ensuite: $495
(inc GST)
Share with shared bathrooms: $395 (inc GST)
Camping: $295 (inc GST)
Full payment required by 1st May, 1010
Registration:
Please register your interest early so that we can plan for numbers.
Click here to complete online registration form
Payment:
By EFT via internet banking (Account details below)
Please record your surname in the reference field.
Account details:
Account Name: Openground
Bank: ANZ
BSB: 012-241
Account No: 4990-00818
- By cheque or money order
Please make cheques/money orders payable to "Openground".
Post to:
Openground
3/71 Boronia Rd
Bellevue Hill NSW 2023
Refund policy:
Full payment required by 16th April, 2010. No refunds given after the 24th April, 2010
50% refund given up til 24th April, 2010
Teachers:
Timothea Goddard
BA, Dip. Psychotherapy (ANZAP), PACFA Reg. Workplace training Cert IV, Acc. MBSR Teacher, UMass.
Timothea works in private practice as a psychotherapist and educator and is accredited with the Center for Mindfulness, UMass, USA. Since 2004 she has been teaching MBSR and several Practicum programs for health professionals. She is a long time student of yoga and Aikido and practices meditation in the insight tradition. She is passionate about the kind of transformation that mindfulness can make in our lives – in terms of dealing with difficulty, opening to joy and in cultivating wisdom – so that our actions can benefit ourselves and others.
Eva Papadopoulo
Cert.Couns., Grad Dip. Psychotherapy, Mem., A.A.S.P.
Member PACFA Register.
Eva teaches MBSR in Sydney and works in private practice having trained in body-oriented and psychodynamic orientations. Eva has also had extensive experience in teaching meditation through MBSR and as pain-management with cancer HIV and AIDS Her interest in an integrated body-mind approach both personally and professionally has been deepened through many years of training in various meditations, yoga, Ortho-Bionomy, Body Mind Centering (BMC) and dance and theatre improvisation
