A Mindful Life Retreat

RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER

Are you yearning for a weekend to take the tools you practice in A Mindful Life to a deeper level? Join Jean Vitrano and the A Mindful Life community for an immersive mindfulness retreat, putting to work the tools needed to live with more presence, ease, and joy. With an emphasis on slowing down, this time away will allow for plenty of rest and space to meditate, listen, share, and remember what matters to you within a warm, supportive community of individuals.

“I am deeply grateful to Jean for her gentle, wise, rich, vulnerable guidance and tender hand she leads with. Curiosity is the path to peace!”

“The weekend was a perfect mix of silence, practice, workshop and nature. The facilties and food. exceeded my expectations.” 

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This weekend retreat will offer you precious space and time to be yourself, get quiet, and cultivate greater awareness, self-kindness and compassion. In this supportive environment, you will practice being mindful of what is alive in you through reflective exercises and meditations. You will strengthen your ability to stay in the present moment, aware of how you speak and listen, how you move, what you consume, where your mind goes, and what seeds you water. This is your time away to cultivate stillness, embrace your true self and be in community. You will bring home a greater connection to yourself and to the community. It will help to cultivate greater presence and the ability to slow down and savor. It will also deepen your commitment to your practice.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We ask that cell phones are turned off for the weekend.

Please bring something to share at our community sharing event on Saturday night (poetry, art, stories, music, movement, art, etc.). While this is optional, it does create a wonderful evening of connection!

CENTER HIGHLIGHTS

• Intimate setting with personal access to the teacher
• Interactive sessions with question and answer periods
• Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
• Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
• Extensive library of dharma books
• Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful paths, flora and fauna

PREREQUISITES

The retreat is exclusively for participants in Jean’s A Mindful Life groups online or at her Maplewood studio. It will be limited to approximately 22 people, with 4 additional commuter spaces available. Spots are expected to fill quickly.

SCHEDULE

(subject to change)

Friday, April 4

Saturday, April 5

Sunday, April 6