The Metta Retreat® Right-Mindfulness & Self-Compassion

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Dates:​ 5th - 7th May 2023 & Friday 13th - Sunday 15th October 2023

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Venue: The Homestead, Shropshire Hills of Outstanding Natural Beauty  | Price: £495.00 for shared room | Spaces: 7

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The Metta Retreat® is a unique flame retreat combining ancient wisdom with current science by bringing together two of the most powerful foundational practices known for their profound healing, transformational and positive impact on our psychology, emotions, health and well being. Our retreat combines the latest research in the field of human psychology, health and well being with right-mindfulness and self-compassion based practices.

 

Research has shown that self-compassion increases self-esteem, heals emotional trauma and significantly enhances emotional health and wellbeing, in addition to reducing anxiety, stress, and harmful emotional states such as anger, guilt, shame, self-criticism and depression.

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This experiential retreat is grounded in right-mindfulness and self-compassion integrating practical guidance with transpersonal psychology, mind, body and heart medicine with current evidence based understanding and knowledge. The retreat is intended to help in pragmatic, practical ways, facilitate you in realising and accessing our existing inner resilience and understanding.

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The Flame Retreats® are a healing & tranquil sanctuary getaway, set within the Shropshire hills in the midst of the stunning, peaceful and outstanding natural beauty, the Long Mynd. Our beautiful venue “The Homestead” overlooks the stunning mountains and endless green fields, embodying a warm, peaceful and inviting environment, which many describe as “home from home”.  

 

What will I learn?

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The Metta retreat is grounded in the practice of right-mindfulness:
 

• Learn how to cultivate right-mindfulness and its application in everyday life

• Learn to recognise harmful emotional states

• Discover and experience the true nature of self-compassion

• Learn how to handle difficult emotions with stability and ease

• Transform self-criticism into self- motivation and self-encouragement

• Transform difficult relationships, both with yourself and other

• Introduction to theory and research behind self-compassion and mindfulness

• The evidence-based retreat activities and learning practices will help you:

• Reduce, manage and eliminate harmful psycho-emotional states such as stress, anxiety, fear and anger (all known to impact immunity)

• Discover the depth of mindfulness in everyday practice

• Apply mindfulness and compassion in everyday life

• Learn to cultivate specific "super emotions" to strengthened and improve your immune system

• Equip yourself with effective practical skills to help others
   

The retreat includes freshly home cooked ayurvedic vegetarian food, three times a day. 

 

Who is it for?
 

• Participants who have completed our GMBi 8 week course

• Everyone who wishes to bring peace and health into their life

• For anyone suffering from chronic illnesses such as depression, diabetes, hypertension and CHD

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About the retreat: 

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This retreat is strictly limited to 7 participants. The cost of this retreat is £495.00 per person which includes accommodation (shared room basis) training, all activities, workshops and full-board, including dinner on the Friday evening, through to lunch on the Sunday (all vegetarian, regional food).

 

There are 2 private rooms available this will cost £595.00. 

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You will need to make your own way to the venue which is set in the national trust countryside in Shropshire. Parking available and collection from Church Stretton train station can be arranged.

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On this exclusive retreat, we are able to offers a number of additional therapies at additional cost including:
 

• Ayurvedic Massage

• Energetic healing

• 1-2-1 personal intuitive readings