Transform Your Life with Mindfulness & Meditation: Join Our Life-Changing Retreats for Everyone!
"Wow!- what an awesome weekend. I can't thank you and your crew enough for opening my eyes to reality and giving me the keys to escape my self-made prison cell of the mind. Bless you and heartfelt thanks," Clare "
Discover a profoundly better way of life through mindfulness, meditation, sound healing, yoga, Chi Kung, and more
September 5-7
October 31- Nov 2nd
5th - 7th December
23rd - 25th January
£349 all-inclusive
How much better would you feel if you had a way to quiet your mind and find relief from persistent worries? Imagine letting go of the issues that loop endlessly in your thoughts. My guess is that you’ll feel a whole lot better and get much more out of life
At The Now Project, our mindfulness retreats and meditation retreats offer a transformative experience to help you achieve just that—starting within hours of your arrival. it’s really very simple to show you how to do it for yourself, but that is just the start really and once you begin to cultivate some quiet space in your head, a whole new world opens up to you
Our mindfulness retreats are meticulously designed to help you find a quiet space in your mind, fostering a profound sense of calm and clarity that lasts. This isn’t just about fleeting relaxation—it’s about unlocking a new way of living through intentional mindfulness practices. By immersing yourself in our mindfulness retreat, you’ll cultivate mindfulness skills that open the door to a happier, healthier life filled with reduced stress, enhanced focus, and emotional balance. Led by world-class experts, our guided sessions make it effortless to master practical mindfulness techniques you can integrate into your daily routine long after your mindfulness retreat ends. Ready to embark on this life-changing journey? Book your spot in our upcoming mindfulness retreat today and start living with greater purpose—spaces are limited, so secure your mindfulness retreat experience now
At The Now Project, our meditation retreats go beyond a simple getaway. You’ll connect with like-minded people, share moments of joy, and gain life-changing skills. Here’s what you’ll learn:
Boost Happiness and Health: Discover mindfulness practices to enhance your well-being.
Find Joy in Everyday Life: Learn to savour the moment and live more fully.
Manage Challenges: Lift depression, cope with pain, or support recovery from illness.
Overcome Addiction, Depression and Anxiety: Build resilience and strategies for lasting recovery.
Heal Trauma: Find peace and begin your healing journey with compassionate guidance.
Navigate Spiritual Awakening: Explore your spiritual path with clarity and support.
Ready to find calm, connect with others, and transform your life? Join us at The Now Project for a mindfulness retreat or meditation retreat that will leave you refreshed and empowered. Book now and take the first step toward a happier, healthier you.
15 years of experience, hundreds of retreats and thousands of lives transformed
Have you ever seen a builder meditate? I have, we’ve had lots at our retreats, beauticians, yoga teachers, barristers and bankers too, rich, poor and indifferent, from every race, culture and religion. You couldn’t put them in a demographic. Just human beings who sense there is something more to life that they’ve been missing
Now Project Mindfulness retreats and meditation retreats are for everyone who senses that and wants to explore the possibilities of mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing have to offer.
Come solo (many do!) and you won’t feel alone for long. We are a warm, friendly bunch. We are mindful and non-judging, which is rare, and it feels nice, meaningful connections—special friendships form quickly at our mindfulness retreats.
If you are new to mindfulness and meditation, this will be a great kick-start to your practice. You’ll leave feeling a lot brighter, and the world will feel much shinier, but more importantly, you’ll take away everything you need to bring this new awareness into your everyday life.
If you are already on this journey, then these retreats will blow your mind and take your awareness to a whole new level. We’ll have a laugh. meet some great people and have a really good time too
“Join us for a weekend of fun, laughter and learning and discover a profoundly better way of living”
It’s great to learn Mindfulness from books or lectures, but in truth Mindfulness is an experience, and books and lectures can only point you in the right direction.
Mindfulness can’t be grasped intellectually because it isn’t a theory, a belief, or anything to do with mental gymnastics. It’s is a state of being. It’s a heightened state of alert awareness that allows your mind to go quiet.
Then you can rest from the constant mental chatter, your problems, worries and head dramas and get on with the really important issue of enjoying your life.
The basic principles of Mindfulness are really simple and there isn’t much to understand. Mindfulness is all about practice and direct experience. And that is what our Mindfulness retreats are about, we’ll teach you everything that you need to know to practice, but more importantly, you’ll get to experience mindfulness for real and live it for an extended period.
From the outset we’ll help you to achieve a deep state of mindfulness and the retreat is designed to help you maintain your mindfulness for much of the weekend activities – sound healing yoga meditation and chi kung. And that will teach you more about mindfulness than any book, lecture or smartphone app ever can.
We have a wonderful team who can hold a high degree of mindful attention. They will help keep you mindful in between the classes and advance your practice to a new level.
We won’t make you dress in robes or sit facing a wall for hours, there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s just not our style. We prefer to teach mindfulness our own way, we have a modern, plain-talking approach to mindfulness, the teaching is no less profound but we want to make it accessible relaxed and fun. It is a holiday after all.
Go on, treat yourself, and book yourself on our Mindfulness Retreat Weekend everyone deserves a holiday from their head – even you!
Arrive anytime after 5 pm
7 pm Dinner
8 pm Welcome talk and introductions
9 pm Yoga Nidra sound bath
8 am Mindfulness through Yoga
9.15 am Breakfast
10.15 am The Fundamentals of Mindfulness
Break
12.30 pm The Way of the Body
1.15 pm Chi Gong with Steve
2.00 pm Lunch
3.00 pm Mindful Walking, Mindful sitting, Nature Bathing
Break
5.00 pm Yoga Nidra – sound bath
7 pm Dinner
8.00 pm Steve’s School of Meditation and Concentration
9.30 pm Connie’s Kirtan
8.00 am Breakfast
9.00 am Mindfulness of Emotions
Break
11.00 am Indian Vedic Breathwork meditations
12.30 pm The Energy Of Mindfulness
1.15 pm Emotional Clearing Meditation or Somatic Yoga
2.30 pm Lunch
3.30 pm What Now?
4.00 pm Retreat ends
Adrian will explore the basics of mindfulness and help you enter a state of Satori – clearing the clouds of thought from your mind and into a place of clear blue thoughtless clarity. You learn the main techniques for achieving thoughtless awareness. It’s wonderful to be able to switch off your problems, worries and head drama, but it’s just the start, really, and Adrian will explore with you the life-changing possibilities this offers you
Click on the tabs below for description of each class
Adrian will explore an approach to mindfulness favoured by the late great Master Thich Nhat Hahn called The Way of the Body. The alignment of mind and body is the perfect way to cultivate mindfulness and bring it into your everyday life. Mindful walking, mindful eating mindful breathing, mindful everything. It features the famous standing-in-a-queue meditation and forest bathing. (It’s alright, you keep your clothes on)
Mindful Walking – The art of mindful walking, never going anywhere, but always arriving. How to turn the simple act of walking into the most beautiful meditation experience. As the thinking subsides, your senses come alive and a whole new world comes into view
Mindful sitting – You’ll learn how to come alive to your senses and live fully and intensely awake. As your mind falls silent, your senses come alive and a whole new world comes into view
Adrian will explore the art of self-mastery – how to feel and process painful emotions in your body without reacting to them and thereby spreading more pain and suffering into the world. You’ll discover that you don’t need to fear or avoid painful emotions, that they are not bigger than you, and they need not ruin your quality of life. You’ll learn how to manage emotions consciously and move away from reaction towards rthe ight action from a place of calm and clarity.
As the thinking mind quietens, we begin to perceive a more subtle energetic dimension to reality. We’ll explore the energy of mindfulness and touch upon the potential for healing and ultimately world transformation
The magic of loving kindness and gratitude – How to maintain your mindfulness and create a brighter world – ongoing support.
We all prefer different forms of meditation – one is not better than the other as they all ultimately take you to the same place. Steve’s school of meditation and attention training is a lot of fun and a great laugh (or cry if that’s what you need) you’ll get to experience many different meditation forms so you can choose a meditation practice that suits you.
Body focussed meditation practices like Yoga and chi Kung can be powerful vehicles to mindful living – These are optional classes (there are other “way of the body” activities for you to choose from) but all you Yoga enthusiasts will love this you’ll get to explore authentic traditional Indian Yoga and discover how your yoga routine can become part of your mindfulness training and a vehicle to awakening
The Alchemical Brothers will gently guide you into a state of being called “Sound Yogic sleep” a heightened energy-stimulated awareness which at the same time is deeply calming and restorative
They will then help you journey further inward into perceiving and connecting with the healing vibrations and energies in and around you.
Mindfulness came into Adrian’s life in 1999 when he was in a dark place with anxiety depression and alcoholism. He soon discovered that with mindfulness he could escape his troubled mind. Ever since he has been helping others find their way out of their mental suffering and discover a fundamentally better way of living
Steve came on a Now Project Mindfulness retreat in 2014 suffering severe depression and addictions. He realised that mindfulness and meditation was the solution and embarked on a ten-year journey of discovery – he has lived in Ashrams in India and studied with masters and Gurus’ – He’d love to share with you the gems he’s discovered
Fully inclusive: Prices are per person and include all teaching, workshops, and full board.
Skill level: For everyone! Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
£100 deposit to secures your place – Balance due 28 days before the retreat
September 5th – 7th
October 31st- 2nd November
December 5th – 7th
January 23rd – 25th
A choice of accommodation for all budgets
Burwell House is a lovely old stately home dating from the late 1700s set in 3 acres of landscaped gardens including many specimen trees and an orchard. meadows and wildlife pond the building is well equipped with numerous showers and toilets two fabulous teaching rooms and lovely indoor and outdoor dining areas.
We have a range of accommodations to suit all budgets – Shared rooms for the same biological sex unless, of course, you come as a couple (shared deluxe or standard twin). We don’t use the top bunks!
Shared room – £349 (ensuite)
Stay off-site (we can provide a list of local hotels and B&B) – £299
Shared Twin – £369 pp (private room for 2)
Superior Shared twin – £429 pp (private room for 2)
Superior Single (We only have one) £459
Prices are per person and include all teaching, workshops, full board and refreshments
All meals at our Mindfulness and Medition retreats are vegetarian with vegan and gluten-free options – Please advise of any food intolerances we need to cater for.
Burwell House, North Street, Burwell, Cambridgeshire, CB25 0BB
(Satnav postcode – CB25 0EF)
Getting There
Burwell House is located within the Fen edge village of Burwell, approximately 12 miles North East of Cambridge. We are within 10 minutes drive of the A11 and A14 – and are thus within an hours drive of most of East Anglia and the M25.
Burwell House is situated 20 minutes drive from Ely and Newmarket railway stations, 45 minutes drive from Stansted Airport and are on a bus route from Cambridge.
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Ready to transform your life? Book your spot at a Now Project mindfulness retreat or meditation retreat today!”
September 5-7. October 31 – Nov 2. December 5th – 7th. January 23rd -25th.
