Relieve stress * Beat depression * Manage anxiety * Improve concentration * Learn self control * Let go of destructive behaviours * Tackle addictions * Improve your mental and physical health *Quieten your mind * Discover inner peace * Find fulfilment *Get the most from everyday life
The Now Project Mindfulness Weekends are for everyone from 18 to 100, complete beginners to experienced practitioners and teachers.
If you are new to mindfulness these weekends will give you a real kickstart to your practice and give you everything you need to live a happier healthy and a more fulfilled, abundant way of life. If you are already practising mindfulness they will take your practice to a whole new level of awareness.
If you’ve been on our retreats before you’ll know what an awesome fun and life-changing experience they are. We’d love to see you again, we have people come back time and time again. Plug back into presence, recharge and deepen your practice. We have a whole new exciting line up for you.
At the Now Project we are interested in real mindfulness, not the watered down faux mindfulness that you see everywhere these days.
Mindfulness isn’t what you think. Real Mindfulness is not thinking, it is developing the ability to not think, to find some quiet space in your mind free of thought, take a rest from the incessant chatter. Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to be able to find space in your mind and be able to switch off you worries, you problems, issues and head dramas? Without all that mental upset going on, you’ll start to get a great deal more from life and a whole new brighter, happier and more fulfilling world comes into view.
Real Mindfulness isn’t anything you could learn at school or from a book because mindfulness isn’t an intellectual practice, you are developing a different part of your brain altogether. Real Mindfulness can’t be understood it can only be experienced and known directly.
That’s what The Now Project Mindfulness Weekends are all about from the very from the very first class we’ll help you to find a deep state of mindfulness and we’ll hold you there for most of the weekend. You’ll learn techniques and practices to help you cultivate mindfulness you’ll learn how to manage your emotions, how to heal past suffering and how to find depth and meaning and how to get the most from everyday life.
Mindfulness training doesn’t have to be deadly serious, we won’t make you dress in robes or sit cross legged for hours, The Now Project Mindfulness weekends are fun, friendly and relaxed. The food is great and the team are second to none. The are all very experienced practitioners, caring and compassionate, they are human, down to earth and real. With mindfulness they have all overcome depression, anxiety, addictions and other real world issues, they teach from experience, they know what it is to suffer and they all have a heart felt commitment to share with you their knowledge and the whole new life they have discovered.
Come and join us on our next retreat, you’ll have a great time meet some fabulous new people and discover a better way of living.
Friday Relax settle in and let the stress dissolveThe retreat starts properly on Saturday morning but most of our guests prefer to arrive on Friday, it gives you a chance to settle in, relax and start to slip into a mindful state of awareness.
Arrive any time after 5.30pm, don’t worry about arriving late, there’s no fixed time and we know some of you will be coming after work, we’ll have a warm welcome and a hot drink ready for you. Get yourself settled into your accommodation, meet the others, chill out at the retreat or you can go for a mindful walk through the three acres of beautiful gardens. You’ll get the chance to meet the team and explore what it is to live mindfully and you’ll get a taste of what we’ve lined up for the weekend.
7.30pm : Dinner (a hot vegetarian meal)
After Dinner : Welcome/Introductions & Meditation If the weather permits we’ll get the camp-fire going.
Saturday- How to Cultivate and maintain Mindfulness
8.00 am Wake Up With Mindful Yoga – Steve is a wonderful insightful teacher and will show you how, through yoga, you can find space in your mind and connect to the body
or Morning Meditation The morning meditations will prepare you perfectly for the day
9.00 am Breakfast
10.30am Mindfulness the Basics with Adrian Adrian will give a talk exploring the key principles of Mindfulness. We will explore what Mindfulness really is, but most importantly we’ll do some mindfulness exercises to help give you a direct experience of thoughtless awareness for yourself. Together we’ll explore the main portals into mindful awareness and the possibilities they offer.
12.00 Break
1.00 pm : The Way of the Body talk with Adrian Mindfulness is the art of aligning mind and body. Adrian will introduce you to the mindful practice called The Way of the Body and he’ll explore how body awareness is the perfect way to bring mindful attention into your everyday life.
Adrian will introduce you to some simple but powerful mindfulness practices from the Great Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
2 pm : Mindful Eating Meditation and Lunch
3.30pm : Walking The Mindful Path and Chi Kung You’ll learn how to use the simple action of walking to bring you into mindfulness. At special points on the walk, you’ll meet a teacher who will slow you down, get you to look mindfully, hear mindfully smell mindful, sit mindfully and how to suck every juicy drop from the experience of being alive Now. You’ll learn how through body awareness you can bring mindful attention to your balance posture and movement. This is the best way to bring mindfulness into everyday activities and to help you discover a richer more profound experience of your day to day life and is the perfect antidote to a busy analytical mind.
6 pm : School of Meditation If you really want to understand mindfulness, We would encourage you to do ten times more meditation than you do reading. If you already have a meditation practice then mindfulness will compliment it beautifully. In fact, meditation, if it has a purpose, is to bring you to a place of mindfulness. If you don’t have meditation practice we would encourage you to get one. Jihan will teach you some simple and more advanced meditation exercises from mindful and yogic traditions and if you were to incorporate some of these into your regular practice it will take your mindfulness to a new depth and understanding
7.30 pm : Dinner
9.00pm : Sound Bath Meditation. Mindful Steve will treat you to a Sound Bath meditation with his 33 hand made Tibetan and Bhutan singing bowls. Don’t worry you can keep your clothes on, just lay back and drift off into the meditation Sound healing practices like a Gong Bath uses vibrational sound and frequency to help reduce stress, alter consciousness and create a deep sense of peace and well being for better health
Campfire, weather permitting
We’re really excited to bring you to our venue. This new space gives us the opportunity to have more guests and the various spaces indoor and out will make for some great teaching developments.
Built in the late 1700’s and owned by Cambridgeshire County Council since 1965, Burwell House retains the atmosphere of a large family home. With three acres of landscaped gardens, an orchard, meadows, a wildlife pond and a wide array of sculptures, it gives us the perfect tranquil setting to hold us in a state of Mindfulness.
The house includes 2 lounges and a conservatory along with a variety of spaces we can utilise for teaching and relaxing. Accommodation is upstairs, with 11 comfortable bedrooms ranging from twin-bedded rooms to larger shared rooms (same sex). All bedrooms have access to toilets and showers and all bed linen is provid
Burwell House is located in the Fen edge village of Burwell, 13 miles northeast of Cambridge
10 minutes drive off the A11 and A14 – within an hours drive of most of East Anglia and the M25.
20 minutes drive from Ely and Newmarket railway stations
45 minutes drive from Stansted Airport
Nearest stations : Ely , Newmarket
From London : London Kings Cross about 1hr 30 mins/then by taxi to Burwell House (5.5miles)
£279 fully inclusive standard accommodation
£379 for a bed in private room for 2* (limited availability)
*Includes all food & refreshments
£100 deposit to secure place, balance 30 days before the retreat
(for more information see Venue & Accommodation info)
Join us for a life-changing weekend
