Easter Meditation Retreat

Course

In Findhorn

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Findhorn (Scotland)

  • Duration

    3 Days

Learn several different meditation techniques. Develop skills to use in your daily life to help you become and remain calm, relaxed, focused and energised. Suitable for beginners or experienced meditators.

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Location

Start date

Findhorn (Moray)
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Elizabeth Harley

Elizabeth Harley

Teacher

Elizabeth is a teacher member of the Metamorphic Association. Elizabeth has been consciously on her path since a defining moment in 1979. She has studied meditation, healing, nutrition, ascension therapy, the metamorphic technique, and various complementary therapies. When Elizabeth discovered Reiki it became the foundation of her life and she took her Reiki Mastership with the William Rand Centre for Reiki Training in the United States in 1996, her Karuna Reiki® Masters in 1997 and became a Reiki Grand Master (India) in 2001. ...

Course programme

This weekend offers you the opportunity to:

  • Experience and learn several different meditation techniques
  • Discover the most effective way for you to meditate
  • Recharge your batteries
  • Relax, Rejuvenate and Refresh
  • Take some time out for yourself
  • Enjoy some simple and effective yogic exercises

Tune into what feels right for you and have fun!

Many sessions are optional to enable you to tailor the retreat to your own requirements.

If you would like to learn more about meditation, explore different ways of meditating and perhaps learn some new techniques that you feel comfortable with and can fit into your routine at home and work, then this relaxing, regenerating and revitalising weekend workshop is for you!

You will experience the basic forms of meditation using breath, awareness, movement, sound, chanting, mantras, mudras and guided visualisation. We will also be working with the archangels to activate your chakras to a higher level. To bring balance to the weekend you will have the opportunity to join in some yoga sessions, possibly on the beach and participate in the spiritual life of Shambala. The yoga, chanting and some meditation sessions will be optional in order to assist you to tailor the weekend according to what you need and enjoy - you may prefer to opt out of some sessions in order to sleep, swim, walk or spend time exploring the world famous Findhorn foundation!

As Shambala is right on Findhorn Bay, please bring your swimming costume and towel if you enjoy swimming in the sea. Shambala is within minutes of the main Findhorn Community buildings, shop, Universal Hall and sanctuary. On Saturday evening we will visit the incredibly peaceful Pluscarden Abbey to hear the monks chanting.

There are many paths to inner peace. As we are all different, the best path or combination of paths, is the one that suits us as a unique individual. True inner peace, like true happiness, is not dependent on external circumstances, but becomes the mental/emotional bedrock of our existence. Inner peace, like contentment, is a skill that can be learnt. Meditation is the tool for finding inner peace that is common to all traditions in some form.

Research has shown that when we meditate our brain wave pattern alters from the usual beta waves, through the more relaxed alpha waves, to theta and even delta. Alpha ranges from 7-12 HZ and is a place of deep relaxation where we access our creativity. In sleep and the higher states of meditation we experience theta, at 4-7 HZ. This is where the senses are withdrawn from the external to the internal, and is the optimum level for deep thought. Delta waves occur at 0.5-3HZ in the deepest sleep or deepest meditation and confers a profound sense of deep peace.

Meditation Retreat Schedule
Friday

  • Registration 3pm
  • 4-6pm Session: Introductions, Benefits of Meditation, Types of Meditation, the Importance of Preparation, Postures & Mudras, Short Meditation - GCCP
  • 7.15-8.30pm Session: Meditative Chanting. World peace meditation.

Saturday

  • 9am-1pm Session: Preparation, Meditations using the Breath, Guided Visualisation, Walking Meditation, 5 Tibetan Yogas.
  • 2pm Trip to Findhorn Beach. (If the weather is bad we will visit the Findhorn Foundation instead)
  • 4-6pm Session: GCCP, Sitting Meditations, Mantras, Working with the Archangels we will use Meditation, Exercises and Invocations to raise the vibration of our Chakras to a higher level.
  • 7.15pm Drive to Pluscarden Abbey for 8pm Compline, to listen to the monks chanting.

Sunday (We will have a late start this morning to allow time for packing.)

  • 9.30am Taize at the Findhorn Foundation
  • 11am-1pm Session: GCCP, Breathing Meditations, individual choice of sitting or mantra meditation, The 5 Tibetans, Chanting from different traditions.
  • 1.45pm-4pm Session: Guided Visualisation, sharing and discussion.
  • Angel Wishes, Conclusion.

Elizabeth has been practising meditation and various healing modalities since the late 1970's. This interest in alternative ways of being began at a time of transition in her life when she left her nursing career to embrace a simple and beautiful alternative lifestyle in the country, enjoying being as self sufficient as possible. Her interest in natural healing grew with her connection to spirit and nature and she discovered the benefits of herbs, nutrition, flower remedies, essential oils and spiritual healing.

Elizabeth began practicing Aromatherapy in 1990 and discovered Reiki two years later. It became the foundation of her life and she took her Reiki in the United States in 1996, her Karuna Reiki® Masters in 1997 and became a Reiki Grand Master (India) in 2001.

She has taught and performed attunements throughout the UK, Europe, America, Indonesia, India, Egypt and Tibet. She is also a Metamorphic Association registered teacher, a 5 Tibetan Yogas teacher and a Master Teacher in Angels and Ascension for the Diana Cooper School.

In 2002 she was inspired to design the Peacechain and the Peace on Earth range of Peace Jewellery to help promote world peace and interfaith tolerance. She lives in a small woodland, currently managed as a nature reserve.

Elizabeth delivers workshops in both public and private settings and has taught extensively in college and university settings. She travels worldwide to deliver courses and promote inner and outer Peace. Her workshops reflect her wealth of experience and her commitment to revealing and realising the highest human potential within us all. They are inspirational, empowering and transformative and are taught with love, compassion and humour.

Additional information

Payment options: Course fee £TBA (includes accommodation/food) £100 deposit (Balance due 1st February 2011)

Easter Meditation Retreat

Price on request