“There is a Happier Healthier and more Fulfilling way of living waiting for you right now"
March 14-16 / May 9-11/ June 27-29/ July 18 -20
£349 all-inclusive
How much better would you feel if you could find some quiet space in your mind and rest from your worries? Or be able to let go of those problems or that issue that goes round and round in your head?
My guess is that you’ll feel a whole to better and get a whole lot more out of life.
We’ll help you find that quiet space in your mind within hours of your arrival and 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 offer the chance to completely unwind, meet incredible people, and have a great laugh too. But it’s more than just a getaway—you’ll leave with experiences and skills that can transform your life. At The Now Project meditation retreats, you’ll learn how to:
The Now Project mindfulness retreats and meditation retreats welcome everyone eager to explore the benefits of mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing. Whether you’re seeking well-being, stress relief, depression support, addiction recovery, or a deeper spiritual awakening, our retreats are designed for you.
Come solo (many do!) and you won’t feel alone for long. Our warm, friendly community fosters fast, meaningful connections—special friendships form quickly at our mindfulness retreats.
We can tell you how life-changing our Mindfulness and meditation retreats are but you wouldn’t believe us – it’s best you hear it directly
“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!
Mindfulness is really simple to learn – over the weekend you’ll benefit from five life-changing classes
1 Mindfulness the basics,
2. The way of the body.
3 Mindfulness of emotions,
4. The energy of mindfulness
5. Mindfulness in the real world
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.
Click on the tabs below for the daily line up
You can arrive any time after 5 pm we’ll have a warm welcome and a hot drink ready for you. You’ll get the chance to settle into your accommodation we are a friendly bunch and we want to put you at ease and let any stress you are carrying dissolve and the magic start to work.
7 pm Dinner Home-cooked vegetarian food (vegan / Gluten-free option)
8 pm Welcome talk and introductions
9 pm Evening Meditation with Steve – Yoga Nidra – Gong bath
Chill out and fun and games around the campfire
8.00 am Wake Up With Connie – Mindful Yoga – Connie 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 Meditation with Simon
9 am Breakfast
10.00 am The Fundamentals of Mindfulness – 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 problem, worries and head drama, but it’s just the start really and Adrian will explore with you the life-changing possibilities this offers you
Break – Tea Coffee Cake
12.30 pm The Way of the Body – 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 most perfect way to cultivate mindfulness and bring it into your everyday life. Mindful walking, mindful eating mindful breathing, mindful everything. Featuring the famous standing in a queue meditation and forest bathing. (It’s alright, you keep your clothes on)
1.15 pm Chi Gong with Steve – Chi Gong is an ancient form of moving meditation a simple system of mindful movements which form the basis of Tia Chi It’s the perfect meditation for people who struggle with traditional “seated” meditation – chi Gong it awakens the body and helps to centre your mind. (don’t worry if you have limited mobility you can even do Chi Gong sitting down)
2 pm Lunch
3.00 pm Mindful Walk – 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
3.45 pm 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
Break – Tea Coffee Cake
5.00 pm School of Meditation – Steve’s passion for meditation has taken him on an incredible journey of exploration, he’s explored many meditation practices, lived in Ashrams in India and studied with gurus and masters, Steve will explore a number of different techniques.
7 pm Dinner
8.30 pm Evening Meditation – Sound bath
Chill out and fun and games around the campfire
7.00 am Yoga with Connie – mindful yoga
or a Lay in
8.00 am Breakfast
9.00 am Mindfulness of Emotions – 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 right action from a place of calm and clarity.
10.30 am Break
11.00 am – Vedic breathwork meditation with Steve
12.00 Break
12.30 pm The Energy Of Mindfulness – 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
1.15 pm Emotional Clearing Meditation – This is a powerful meditation and fantastic for healing unresolved emotional pain. Many of the people who come back to our retreats time and time again come for this experience. You’ll love it.
2.30 pm Lunch
3.30 pm What Now? – How to maintain your mindfulness and create a brighter world – ongoing support.
4.00 pm Retreat ends
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
May 9th -11th
June 27th – 29th
July 18th – 20th
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
"Life is not a problem to overcome, it's a wonderful gift for you to delight in"
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!”
May 9-11/ June 27-29/ July 18 -20
The Now Project is an ever growing mindful community, through our Mindfulness retreats.
We are actively bringing people together and helping each other to discover a better way of living!
We’d love you to join us. One Love x
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Telephone : 01787 252213
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