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17th-19th April
8th - 10th May
5th - 7th June
3rd - 5th - July
18th - 20th September
23rd - 25th October
£349 all-inclusive
The Now Project, our meditation retreats are so much more than just a getaway.
You’ll connect with warm, like-minded people, experience real mental clarity, and gain powerful, life-changing tools you can use forever.
Here’s what you’ll take home with you:
Ready to transform your life? Come join us.
How much better would you feel if you could quiet your mind and finally let go of those persistent worries?
Imagine releasing the thoughts that loop endlessly in your head — and actually enjoying more peace, clarity, and joy in your daily life.
The Now Project, our mindfulness and meditation retreats, make it surprisingly simple. Within just a few hours of arriving, you’ll learn practical ways to create that calm space in your mind — and once you do, a whole new, lighter way of living opens up.
Discover a calmer, clearer you at our mindfulness retreats.
Designed to create lasting peace and clarity, these retreats go far beyond temporary relaxation. You’ll learn practical mindfulness and meditation techniques from experienced, authentic teachers that you can easily bring into your everyday life.
Leave with less stress, sharper focus, better emotional balance, and a deeper sense of joy and purpose.
Ready to transform the way you live? Spaces are limited — book your spot in our next mindfulness retreat today!
Have you ever seen a builder meditating? Or a beautician, yoga teacher, barrister, or banker?
At The Now Project Mindfulness retreats, we’ve welcomed them all — rich, poor, and everyone in between, from every background, culture, and faith. No labels, no boxes. Just real people who feel there’s something more to life… and want to discover it.
Whether you’re brand new to mindfulness or already on the journey, our retreats are for you.
Come on your own (lots of people do!) — you won’t feel alone for long. We’re a warm, open, non-judgemental bunch, and genuine friendships often form surprisingly quickly.
If you’re just starting, you’ll leave feeling brighter, lighter, and with simple tools to bring mindfulness into your daily life.
If you’re more experienced, expect your practice to deepen in ways that will truly blow your mind — while having fun and laughing along the way.
Ready to explore what’s possible? We’d love to welcome you.
“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.
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 Yoga
9.00 am Breakfast
10.00 am The Fundamentals of Mindfulness
Break
12.00 pm The Way of the Body
12.45 pm Chi Gong with Steve
1.30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Mindful Walking Mindful sitting Nature Bathing
4pm Mindfulness in the real world
Break
5.30 pm Steve’s School of Meditation and Concentration
7 pm Dinner
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 love different styles of meditation — and that’s the beauty of it! They all lead to the same peaceful place.
Steve’s meditation and attention training is seriously fun (expect plenty of laughs… or a good cry if you need one). You’ll explore lots of different practices so you can discover what feels just right for 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
April 17th -19th
May 8th -10th
June 5th – 7th
July 3rd – 5th
Sept 18th – 20th
Oct 23rd – 25th
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.
