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Stress: Balance and Wellbeing
Next retreat dates: 18 – 20 September 2024 (2 nights)
Location: Lime Wood, UK
Become resilient to stress and anxiety.
Recharge and rebuild your innate abilities.
Learn to function from a deep state of restfulness, so you can deal with every curveball that life throws at you.
Re-discover a fresh outlook to life.
Become present in daily life so that it becomes vibrant, joyful and intentional
The Stress: Balance and Wellbeing retreat is an immersive experience that allows you to explore, understand and dissolve the sources of your stress and change your response to it.
This retreat supports you while you re-establish the body-mind-heart connection as you regulate the nervous system and rediscover the peace of balance.
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Do you notice stress building up as you navigate your everyday life experiences and challenges?
Do you want to move away from the sense of exhaustion, restlessness or anxiety that stress creates in you?
Relaxing techniques and annual vacations may be a quick fix, but living worry-free involves a deeper awareness of stress and changing the way you respond to it.
This retreat is for you if you:
- feel the need to take the time and space for yourself
- wish to achieve a wellbeing beyond stress
- want to be free of recurring stress patterns
- want to experience deep relaxation in body and mind
You learn and create:
- the three antidotes of stress
- the five-pronged personal ‘Wellbeing Plan’
- sustainable lifestyle changes and energy hacks
- mindfulness tools and energy transforming breathwork
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What can I expect from this retreat?
SEE
FEEL
Restore your heart and mind connection through powerful inner tuning processes. Build and stabilize positive emotional states with meditative and contemplative practices.
EXPERIENCE
EMBODY
A countryside getaway
“Nearly 90% of our stress is self-created;
either through overthinking and overdoing or
through attachment towards specific outcomes."
Lift yourself from stress, restlessness & anxiety
18 - 20 September 2024 (2 nights)
Starting from:
GBP 2,395
- 2-night stay in a double bedroom at Lime Wood
- Insightful group talks with Mindfulness and Beyond mentors, Rajesh and Smitha
- Daily movement, energetic breathwork and mindfulness practices
- 2 x 30-minute personal guidance sessions
- Breakout group discussions
- Forest bathing in the New Forest
- Delicious, nutritious and feel-good food
- Take home toolkit to sustain balance following the retreat
- 60-minute treatment as well as 20% off of any treatment booked during your visit (excluding Sarah Chapman)
Download brochure to see the schedule, prices, workshop details and more information.
Book retreat
Join us as we journey through a deep state of restfulness surrounded by nature to create a profound healing experience!
A limited number of spaces are available. Contact us for more details or to reserve your space.
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.
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Schedule
Rest your body and mind
- • Arrival and welcome at 8.00am
- Self-orientation introduction
- Opening practice – Reconnect with body and breath
- Breakfast
- Insights session on understanding stress and balance and the Three-step pathway
- Group lunch, Forest Bathing or Herb House Wellbeing Treatment
- Insights session: Mind-breath-energy connection; breakout session
- 60-minute Herb House Wellbeing Treatment or 60-minute inspirational yoga
- Walking meditation
- Group dinner in HH&Co
Reset Body and Mind
- Morning practice
- Insights and Discussion
- Process and Practice
- Evening meditation
Breaking Stress Cycles
- Morning practice
- Insights and Discussion
- Process and Practice
- Evening meditation
Well-Being Plan
- Morning practice
- Insights and Discussion
- Workout and Practice
- Evening meditation
Integration
- Morning practice
- Meditation to embody your action plan
- Networking and Farewell
Schedule
Introduction to the Retreat
- Arrival and Registration
- Introduction to Balance and Well-Being
- Evening Practise
Reset Body and Mind
- Morning practice
- Insights and Discussion
- Process and Practice
- Evening meditation
Breaking Stress Cycles
- Morning practice
- Insights and Discussion
- Process and Practice
- Evening meditation
Well-Being Plan
- Morning practice
- Insights and Discussion
- Workout and Practice
- Evening meditation
Integration
- Morning practice
- Meditation to embody your action plan
- Networking and Farewell
