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Yoga for Meditation Bank Holiday Retreat

7:00pm 02 May 2025 - 12:30pm 05 May 2025

Cost: £100.00

Venue: Samye Ling

Bookings for this course will open on 3rd March 2025

With the use of traditional yoga practices this longer weekend offers practical support and encouragement to those who wish to develop a regular meditation practice.

For many people it can be challenging trying to develop a meditation practice, both physically and mentally. Yoga offers a variety of tried and tested preparations and practices to those who seek the benefits of meditation.

There will be an even balance of breath work, movement, relaxation and meditation. This weekend is open to everyone so the posture work is slow and gentle and therefore suitable for complete beginners and those with conditions for which strenuous exercise is not advised.

Preparations:

  • Breath work; breath awareness, abdominal breathing, viloma, alternate nostril breathing and ujjayi pranayama.
  • Movement;  joint releasing sequences, hip opening series, spinal movements, back and abdominal strengthening.
  • Relaxation; yoga nidra -a withdrawal of the senses leading to deep relaxation and conscious sleep and yoga nyasa - directed awareness synchronised with breath.

Meditation Practices:

  • Kaya sthairyam - body stillness.
  • Antar mouna – the practice of inner silence.
  • Ajapa japa - the repetition of mantra synchronised with breath.

Complete beginners as well as more experienced practitioners and teachers are all welcome.

The course begins after supper at 7pm on the Friday and ends in time for lunch at 12.30 pm on the Monday.

Bookings for this course will open on 3rd March 2025, when you will be able to book your place on the course and also guest accommodation by sending an email to bookings@samyeling.org.

NOTE: Please bring comfortable layers of clothing so that you can move freely yet remain warm. The joint releasing movements can actually lower body temperature. Please bring your own mat, sitting block or cushion and a blanket.

Johnny can be contacted at www.jgyoga.co.uk 

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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Meditation means simple acceptance.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Only the impossible is worth doing.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Whenever we see something which could be done to bring benefit to others, no matter how small, we should do it.
Chamgon Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Hasten slowly, you will soon arrive.
Jetsun Milarepa
It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Whatever obstacles arise, if you deal with them through kindness without trying to escape then you have real freedom.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Every sentient being is equal to the Buddha.
Chamgon Kentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Wherever and whenever we can, we should develop compassion at once.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion.
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