A Mindfulness Retreat for Teens, Parents and Organizations

A self-guided mindfulness sanctuary is offered to learn and practice mindfulness through experiential learning. This is cultivated by “hands on” mindful experiences for reflection, practice and to apply mindfulness to your life. This approach appeals to multiple learning styles and integrates your 5 senses.

We integrate formal and informal mindfulness practices to promote mindful awareness, well-being and to develop your inner resources. Formal mindfulness includes skills and concepts and informal practices include mindfulness practices in daily life.

Sanctuary Offerings:

Mindfulness Sanctuary for experiential learning adolescents-Adult: we are currently offering individual zoom experiences with an online packet for $195 per session. Group Zoom rates are $75 per person. Additionally, you can order the packet as self-guided to do at home at your own self-directed pace at $25 per sanctuary packet.

Packets include: Mindfulness skills, formal and informal practices, a quiz and a skills card for practice and observation log. Please indicate the age of the participant(s) when requesting a packet (pdf).

Our Sanctuary Welcomes You

“Promoting mindfulness, well-being and resilience”

The Sanctuary Story:

Design: We wanted to design a space where children, parents, adults and organizations could go to develop their inner resources. The intention was to share with the community a peaceful learning environment with self-guided mindfulness practices that appeal to both children and adults.

External Resources: Typically, when experiencing chronic problems or everyday stressors we may engage in a variety of short-term activities to cope, including going on a vacation, engaging in media, resting or eating ice-cream. We look outside of ourselves and to external activities to cope. While these may work for a time, we often come right back to ourselves and the challenges of our everyday life. Is there a different way?

Internal Resources: The sanctuary retreat center is a place to learn about mindfulness in an experiential way and develop inner resources to go back out into the world with that last long-term. There are formal and informal (everyday) mindfulness practices to experience at the sanctuary. Formal practices include skills and concepts, informal include everyday practices ie. mindful eating.

Experiential Learning: The sanctuary is for both children and adults because research shows that family and group psychoeducation has improved outcomes when we are learning skills together and it provides us a common language. We integrate experiential learning to accommodate multiple learning styles to be accessible and engaging to all. “Research says we remember 90% of what we see, hear and touch.”

Psychology-Based: Our mindfulness retreat center is universal and psychology- based. While meditation retreat centers are often based in a particular spiritual practice, we want all individuals to benefit from mindfulness meditation which was medically secularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1978.

Inclusive Collaboration: This inclusive concept is derived from an interest in sanctuaries for animals where all are welcomed and nurtured to their full potential. A friend of mine in the business sector and previous neighbor called me “out of the blue” one day and said he wanted to create a sanctuary with rescue animals. I had conceptually wanted to develop this type of space with mindfulness for several years prior and knew it was “meant to be”.

Support: The idea was to create a sanctuary to support individuals of all socioeconomic statuses, physical, cognitive and social-emotional abilities to benefit from and improve their lives. His would include rescue horses in a remote area, with my project focused on mindfulness in an urban environment.

We invite you to come experience the mindfulness sanctuary today!