Unfolding Like a River Retreat
26 - 29 September | Kamala Karoo Sanctuary
Our practice and our lives can be seen to unfold just like a river. The river flows from source to mouth, unfolding naturally during its meandering path to the sea. It goes through many twists and turns, eddies, and falls. It slows down and speeds up at different intervals, just like our lives. During the course of our lives we also experience all sorts of circumstances – it is sometimes free-flowing. Sometimes we experience our own blockages such as health, old-age, sickness or pain. The currents are sometimes rough, sometimes smooth.
During our retreat, we will practice unfolding like a river in openness and allowance, using mindful meditation, yoga, and sound healing practices.
We will just allow ourselves to unfold, with no aims, expectations and goals – letting go into the flow of our practice and the full flow of our lives in openness and allowance.
Peace and tranquility permeates the whole property. The serene interior is a unique celebration of spirit, colour and beauty. Together with the exquisite garden, birdlife and deep silence of the land, you feel embraced. Home.
The retreat has a main house with 5 en-suite bedrooms, communal lounge, dining room and kitchen, 2 en-suite garden units and a secluded en-suite garden cottage with an outside bath. Each room has its own private patio.
Included in the retreat :
Daily meditation and yoga sessions
Sound healing practice
Guided labyrinth walk
Hike to local waterfall and swim in river
Sumptuous vegetarian meals with options of vegan and gluten-free.
Costs: Starting from R11,250
For bookings or enquiries, contact gerry@mindwise.me
About your hosts:
Gerry has completed a four-year Masters in Mindfulness-Based Teaching at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University in Wales, one of the most renowned institutions for mindfulness research and practice. Before this he was a Vice President in a large American entertainment company, working in this area for almost thirty years. He and his wife, Christina, now live in Vilanculos in Mozambique, where he runs MindWise, offering mindfulness and yoga-based retreats, teaching mindfulness to local schoolchildren and developing other programmes.
Terry is a joyful and passionate facilitator, intuitive healer, yoga teacher and powerful sound healer with a beautiful voice. She stands in awe of the unfolding mystery that is this existence and believes laughter is the best medicine. She has a BSc Agric degree and an honours degree in journalism. Her interest in energy and healing took her along another path so she studied reflexology, aromatherapy, sports massage, yoga, Reiki and Karuna Reiki Masters, crystals, bio-energetic healing, labyrinths, sacred geometry, shamanism, A Course in Miracles, Shamanic Breathwork, vision questing and sound healing. She has been immersed in healing work the past 27 years, and is known globally for designing and working with labyrinths. She uses the labyrinth and sound as spiritual tools to facilitate deep emotional healing, awakening the authentic self, accessing creativity and wisdom, and connecting with nature and the Divine.