Yoga and Mindfulness Winter Midweek Retreat 'Realize your Change' in Doetinchem (Willibrord Monastery)

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NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS IN 2018...

The new year commences. You have your resolutions, but will you be able to realize them? We experience a lot of stress in our Western society. In our head rest many thoughts and this can be quite difficult. Silence and destressing is becoming an absolute necessity.

The Yoga & Mindfulness Winter Midweek Silence Retreat will be held in the Willibrord Monastery, Doetinchem, in the beautiful and green environment of the Achterhoek in The Netherlands. A beautiful monastery, adjusted to the wishes of modern times. The retreat will be themed: be the change you want to be. In addition to silencing through yoga & concentration meditation (shamatha), we work on self-awareness by asking questions in silence to yourself. This self-examination (Vipassana meditation) often creates valuable insights that can be translated into actions. Your thinking, feelings and behavioral patterns may change. Your sense of peace and happiness increases and your distress and feeling of suffering decreases.

Mindfulness is NOTICING the physical, emotional and mental sensations in the NOW. Notice whether these sensations in the NOW are pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, without judgments.

What's in it for you?

Coming in contact with your inner joyful silence
Enhance your awareness, balance and insight
Greater sense of balance between your physical, emotional and mental body
Methods to bend unpleasant sensations to neutral and then to pleasant sensations.

The whole retreat is supported by a vegetarian cuisine, nature walks, poems, Buddhist philosophy, rebalancing massages, singing mantras and a lot of humor. Life is sometimes heavy enough!

You can get a room for yourself or share a room with a roommate. Each room has its own shower and toilet. The beds are already made up and towels are ready. Het Land van Nu has 19 rooms: 6 single and 13 double

In the yoga hall there is a lovely view of the farmland. There are yoga mats, meditationcushions etc present.

Yoga provides a healthy and relaxed body, freeing the way for a deeper inner insight and feel. We investigate and experience our three bodies: the physical body (attitudes), the energetic / emotional body (feeling) and the mental body (thinking). With strength, inspiration and connection as a starting point, you learn to recognize and understand your thinking and behavioral patterns through yoga and mindfulness exercises. This will help you to work more effectively, at home and at work.

Throughout the retreat you can enjoy walks in nature, get acquainted with inspiring people and you can use the environment for your amusement. In between, delicious vegetarian cooking is served.

The Yoga and Mindfulness autumn retreat is given by Hans Kloosterman. Below a review of a participant who participated in a similar retreat in Heerde.

What a beautiful, very intense and especially healing week it was. With you Hans as a very good teacher and coach, the week brought me very close to myself. Many thanks for the well applicable practical exercises, the alternate program and your lovable coaching to gain more insight into ourselves. Thank you so much for your personal attention and advice. It has reinforced my decision that I have to go further my way of becoming happy. A very successful week that gave me insight and inspired me further on my spiritual path.

- Els, Yoga Docent

The Teacher

About Hans Kloosterman

Hans Kloosterman is a Tibetan Buddhist and studied at the Tibetan Kagyu Vasjrayana Institute in the Belgian Huy, which has a small monastic community with some lama's, monks and nuns. He lived for six years as a monk in training and has studied Buddhism since 2005. From 2000 to 2005 he has followed 3 years of Hatha yoga education and 2 years of meditation training at Osmose in The Hague. He teaches classical classes in hatha yoga, Chi Kong and silence, analytical and non-dual meditation, namely shamatha, vipassana and samadhi.

In a mindfulness training, he teaches people to be present at all times in everything they do and become aware on three levels: physical, emotional and mental. The 8 week mindfulness training 1.0 for beginners will be given according to MBSR training by Jon Kabat Zinn. Hans himself wrote a follow-up: Mindfulness 2.0, with Vipassana meditation and developing the 10 virtues in body & spirit, including compassion.

He organizes yoga & mindfulness workshops, trainings and retreats at home and abroad.

Hans is the author of the recently published autobiographical bestseller book "From Snob to Monk". His calling is: Creating Awareness. See also at www.hanskloosterman.com.

Place: Willibrord Monastery, Doetinchem

Already in the Middle Ages there was a monks monastery near the place where now
the Sint Willibrord Abbey stands. This monastery was called 'Bethlehem', which is' House of
Bread means. Spiritual bread, of course. Find the name of this monastery
we now return to the Bielheimer Beek which runs past our abbey.

We still offer spiritual bread.
In the former farm of the Saint
Willibrord Abbey. A nice location for reflection.

The Programme of the Yoga and Mindfulness Winter Retreat

– YOU ARE NOT OBLIGED TO PARTICPATE IN ALL SESSIONS - FEEL WHAT YOU NEED!

Monday
14.00 Reception with tea
15.00 division of rooms
16.00 Yoga & Chi Kong
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Acquaintance & Mindfulness
21.30 Tea
22.00 Good night

Tuesday
07.00 Yoga, various styles
08.30 Breakfast
09.30 Silence walk through the woods
10.50 Coffee & tea break
11.00-12.15 Mindfulness
12.30 Hot meal (vegetarian)
13.00 Karma yoga
13.30 Leisure time
16.00 Yoga
17.30 Snack
18.30 Meal
20.30 Mindfulness
21.30 Tea
22.00 Good night

Wednesday and Thursday are about the same format as Tuesday but are largely spent in silence to get in touch with yourself even more

Friday
07.00 Yoga
08.30 Breakfast, in the dining room (cleaning up rooms and putting stuff in the car, handing over the key at the reception)
10.00 Mindfulness: sharing, deepening and connecting
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Yoga & Mindfulness & singing bowl concert
14.00 Tea and good trip.

What do you get

* 4 nights in a shared room
* 2 yoga & mindfulness lessons per day
* Mindfulness workshops on how to increase awareness and energy level
* Tranquility (Shamatha) & Insight meditation (Vipassana) & Non dual meditation (Samadi)
* Silent periods, for example during walks in nature, some lunches and meditations
* Unlimited water, tea, coffee and fruit
* 3 vegetarian meals per day
* Holistic massage (not included in the price)

In the free time in the program there is the possibility to book a massage.
Price: 50 euros for 1 hour, 75 euros 1.5 hours. Payment for this is made on the spot in cash.
In the comments field, please indicate during the registration whether you are interested in this.

Contribution

Your contribution for this fully catered full board week are: € 595, - incl. VAT per person.

There are 13 single rooms and 4 double rooms available, all with toilet and shower. Please indicate your choice on the registration form. You are assigned to a room in order of entry / registration. Those who register quickly will be allocated a single room

The only thing you have to pay extra for is renting a set of sheets.

Renting a set of sheets (duvet + pillows are present)

€ 10,-- per person

Sign up

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- Yoga and Mindfulness Winter Retreat 22-26 january 2018 in Willibrord Klooster

The costs for this week amount to 595 euros incl. VAT (full board).

The retreat is fully booked. However you can still sign up for the 3-day Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness Retreat in Groningen from 4 till 7 February 2018. (Click here for more information)

Way of paying

You can wiretransfer the amount to the bankaccount noted in your confirmation e-mail after you have signed up.

If you are in possession of a dutch Bank account, you can pay through iDeal. After you've signed up you will receive an automatic confirmation email in which the payment details and an iDeal payment link is included. If you can, please try to pay with iDeal as it diminishes the administration time. Using iDeal will automatically process your payment. If it's not possible you can wire transfer the amount. See the bank-details on the invoice or watch under my website/contactdetails. Many thanks.

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