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WELLBEING WORKSHOP
Open Heart, Open Mind
Next workshop dates: 16 September 2024 (1 night)
Location: Lime Wood, UK
Feeling overwhelmed by emotions?
Yearning for a deeper understanding of your inner world?
Our transformative Open Heart, Open Mind workshop offers a sanctuary to explore your emotional landscape and cultivate lasting peace.
This immersive workshop delves into the intricacies of human emotions. You’ll gain valuable tools to navigate difficult feelings with grace and learn to nurture the positive ones that bring joy and fulfillment. Through guided exercises and introspective practices, you’ll discover how to cultivate a sense of calmness and centeredness, empowering you to approach life’s challenges with an open mind and a kind heart.
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Find Peace and Clarity at Open Heart, Open Mind
Our world is a whirlwind of information, constant stimulation, and ever-shifting landscapes. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, emotionally reactive, and closed off to new experiences. Yet, in this very chaos lies the opportunity for profound growth.
Join us at the Open Heart, Open Mind retreat and discover the transformative power of emotional intelligence and open-mindedness. Learn to navigate the complexities of your inner world, cultivate inner peace, and approach the world with a sense of understanding and acceptance. This is your chance to create a sanctuary within yourself, amidst the external storm.
This 1-night wellbeing workshop is for you if you seek to:
- gain emotional intelligence and self-awareness
- develop healthy coping mechanisms
- cultivate joy, gratitude, and compassion
- approach life with understanding and acceptance
You learn:
- to identify causes and express feelings effectively
- to manage stress, anxiety, and negativity healthily
- to cultivate joy, gratitude, and compassion for yourself and others
- practices for inner calm and focus
- to develop a growth mindset for a more fulfilling life
The greatest journey of discovery is not outward, but inward.
- Sogyal Rinpoche
Retreat Mentors
Rajesh Ramani
Rajesh Ramani is an internationally sought-after mentor, teacher and retreat facilitator. Over the past two decades, he’s led retreats on emotional and spiritual transformation, facilitated a variety of mind-body wellness programs and run leadership seminars across the world.
Rajesh’s approach is influenced by his background as a banker-turned-monk. He has nearly three decades of meditation and Eastern philosophical training, including 13 years embracing a monastic life as a spiritual teacher at the Oneness University, India. He’s also an International Coach Federation (ICF) registered ontological coach.
Among his many international residencies, Rajesh was previously based at Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary in Thailand, where he worked as a teacher, mentor and life coach for 10 years. In this role, he consulted with clients from around the world, focusing on personal growth, relationship enhancement and emotional balance. He has also worked with Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and Chief Executive Organizations (CEO) and Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) chapters across Asia and Europe.
In 2018, Rajesh and his life partner, Smitha Jayakumar, co-founded ‘New Insight Retreats’ – a platform for mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. They run retreats in Europe and Asia, sharing spiritual principles, mind-body practices and transformative tools that can be used in daily life.
In 2019, Rajesh established the ‘Responsible Leadership Institute’ alongside a consortium of business economists, natural and social scientists, engineers, governance and spiritual scholars. Offering a range of holistic training programs and retreats that mindfully integrate work and life, this vanguard initiative seeks to build a holistic bridge between science and spirituality in the leadership sphere.
Rajesh is currently working on his upcoming book.
Smitha Jayakumar
Smitha Jayakumar is a personal mentor, counsellor and teacher with more than 20 years of experience. Working with individuals and groups, she conducts therapies, workshops and retreats that support mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Her spiritual journey began in her 20s when she practiced as a monk in the Hindu tradition for 10 years. This profound experience molded and inspired her approach to her life and work. She spent the next decade in the wellness field as a ‘Life Enhancement’ mentor at Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary in Thailand where she guided people through life changes, relationship enhancement, emotional balance and self-acceptance.
With an intrinsic understanding of the mind-body-emotion dynamics, Smitha creates sustainable strategies to manage stressful situations, improve a heartful connection with oneself and others, and encourage a positive mindset shift. She is a certified teacher with Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB^™), which combines ancient Buddhist practices with contemporary psychological tools.
A student of the Krishnamachari Tradition of yoga, her therapies are also grounded in holistic practices such as conscious breathing and meditation, to strengthen all areas of human behavior.
Smitha believes, “Awareness is the beginning, the end and the power of every process of transformation.” She fosters a space for self-awareness and self-exploration, facilitating personal transformation through integrated therapies.
Location
Lime Wood, UK
A countryside getaway
Set in the heart of the stunning New Forest National Park, just an hour and a half drive from London, and 20 minutes from the coast, Lime Wood is laid-back luxury at its best – the perfect secluded hideaway.
The ultimate countryside getaway; perfect for weekend breaks, a dash from the city, or an escape from home.
Find Your Center in a Chaotic World
Starting from:
GBP 1,140
Wellbeing workshop date: 16 September 2024
- 1-night stay in a double bedroom at Lime Wood
- Wellbeing questionnaire and advice to help you make the most of your experience
- Insightful workshop with Mindfulness and Beyond mentors, Rajesh and Smitha
- Daily movement, energetic breathwork and mindfulness practices
- Delicious, nutritious and feel-good food in Raw & Cured and HH&Co
- Down time in the Herb House Spa
- Take home toolkit to sustain balance following the retreat
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Make your booking before 1st July 2023, to avail a 10% discount.
