Retreat for pregnant couples with Robyn Sheldon, Annika Nicol and Dai Heyne

Unwind from the busyness of your daily life, still your mind, and breathe. Silence and meditation create the inner spaciousness to listen deeply to yourself, your partner and your baby. Resonate with your baby’s slower rhythm so that you can support his or her innate trust, love and wisdom during pregnancy and birth.

The art of walking

Walking is the most ordinary of our activities, and a powerful aspect of any journey into Conscious Awareness. Indeed our daily Walking, far from being mindless, extreme exercise, is a Path to the Sacred.

Yoga is a practice of waking up and becoming more aware of who you really are. When we break the patterns of habit we become free to know who we are.

Cleanse your body of impurities through 3 days of detoxifying Vinyasa Yoga. Enjoy uplifting, detoxifying practices with music, and fun in the magic and beauty of the Bodhi Khaya Nature Reserve. It is a welcoming, safe haven in which to awaken your spirit to possibility, explore your truth, and to rest and relax. Explore the surrounding countryside, indulge your spirit with free time to play, write, walk, read and swim. Do as much or as little as you choose.

We spend our lives seeking wealth, love, success, approval, and even ‘spiritual enlightenment’ in the future. Yet right at the heart of life there is an intimacy, a simplicity, a vast spaciousness that is totally beyond words – and which cannot be reached through any effort of ours. In our exhausting attempts to change, to improve ourselves, to become ‘perfect’ or ‘enlightened’, or perfectly enlightened, we end up ignoring this wordless intimacy which exists here and now – an intimacy which is really our true home, and the end of our seeking.

This long weekend retreat will be an integration of psychotherapy and meditation.

Within a contained and nurturing atmosphere of noble silence, we will experience a spiritual approach to developing inner calm and balance through meditation, and a psychological approach through reflective discussion. Sessions of Chi Kung, led by David Francisco, will enhance the experience of integrating our body, heart and mind.

Secrets of the Mindful Kitchen

The food we eat and the way we prepare it is an integral part of the way we experience health and vitality. Often we believe that our spiritual practise is separate to what we are doing on a daily basis. This retreat explores how we can infuse our everyday lives with a greater sense of meaning through the ingredients we select, the way in which meals are prepared and how we conduct our lives at different times of the year. Join Daniel as he demonstrates how to transform even the most simple, natural ingredients into mouth-watering vegetarian cuisine that bursts with flavour and vitality. As a group we will participate in discussions about nutrition as well as meditation and chi kung practise to create a deeper connection with ourselves and our surroundings.

The School makes extensive use of the beautiful and harmonious facilities at Bodhi Khaya, running about 6 retreats per year for various levels of students. These retreats are restricted to students of the School but if you wish to know more about it, please visit our website at www.philosophyschool.com .

Mindful Leadership is experiencing the reality and vividness of the moment without kneejerk reaction based on personal anxiety and judgement.

Dina Oelofsen and her team offers an unique 7 month Mindful leadership intervention for leaders. Bodhi Khaya is used for these interventions through the year.  For more information visit www.mindfulleadership.co.za