New Year’s Meditation and Rounding Retreat with Light Watkins
December 29 - January 04, 2019
Light Watkins & Claire Robbie
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About the Retreat
Spend 7 days and 6 nights at Mar De Jade with Light Watkins – one of the world’s leading Meditation teachers. This experience has been tailored to rejuvenate and rebalance, while we reflect on the year past and set intentions for the year ahead. If you’ve yet to learn Vedic or Transcendental Meditation, you can experience comprehensive training with Bliss More author and international meditation teacher, Light Watkins, in this beautiful environment, away everyday life. Or, if you already practice either of those techniques, you will be taught “Rounding,” which is an advanced meditation technique that will renew and elevate your practice to another level. Each participant will be given a tailored transformational program that will have you coming away feeling deeply refreshed, energized and inspired, and ready for the new year. To help you unwind further, international yoga teacher, Claire Robbie, will lead daily vinyasa and yin yoga classes that will enhance your experience, opening body and mind. To help you unwind further, international yoga teacher, Claire Robbie, will lead daily vinyasa and yin yoga classes that will enhance your experience, opening body and mind. Our New Year’s Eve ceremony will help ground you into 2019 and set intentions for the year ahead.
Schedule
Daily meditation, yoga, Rounding and knowledge talks.
Payment & Cancellation Policy
- 6 nights / 7 days accommodation
- Twice daily Vedic meditation/Rounding process
- 3 daily vegetarian, seafood meals (meat, poultry, caffeine and alcohol-free)
- Daily morning and evening Yoga (vinyasa and yin for all levels)
- Daily Vedic knowledge talks on a variety of topics with Light Watkins
- New Year’s Eve celebration, intention setting ceremony
- Use of health and wellbeing facilities (full-size swimming and wading pools, Jacuzzi, cold plunge and steam room)
Retreat Cost Per Person
- SINGLE: $3,595
- DOUBLE: $2,995
- TRIPLE: $2,595
- QUAD: $2,295
About the Teachers
Light Watkins
Light Watkins has been operating in the meditation space since 1998, first as a practitioner, then as an apprentice to his Vedic Meditation teacher, and finally as a teacher himself. He’s currently based in Santa Monica, CA, but travels the world giving talks on happiness, mindfulness, inspiration, and meditation, as well as leading popular meditation trainings and retreats. His passion is to teach people simple tools for increasing happiness. To date, Light has taught meditation to thousands through his live courses, books, and online trainings. He’s taught at Apple, Soho House, Summit, and several tech start-ups around the U.S. His first book, The Inner Gym (L&G), is a 30-day “inner workout” for strengthening happiness, and his upcoming book, Bliss More: How to Succeed in Meditation Without Really Trying (Penguin), is a straight-talk how-to book that teaches busy professionals how to enjoy meditation. Light contributes to multiple wellness blogs and writes a popular daily email called Light’s Daily Dose of Inspiration. Light’s TEDx talk has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, and he is the founder of The Shine Movement, a global pop-up inspirational variety show on a mission to share the stories of regular people who are making a difference in the world.
www.lightwatkins.comClaire Robbie
Claire Robbie has been immersed in the yoga and meditation world for over 15 years. She teaches several styles of yoga, after training in hatha, vinyasa, yin, prenatal, restorative, ashtanga and hot yoga training. Most of her formal yoga education took place in LA, her home for 8 years, with some of the world’s most notable teachers trainers. Yoga and meditation are an integral part of Claire’s life. She sees yoga as a way to depend our mind, body and spirit connection and meditation as a fundamental and non-negotiable life tool. She became a yoga and meditation teacher as both have been immeasurably beneficial in her life, and for her, teaching is a 100% experiential process. She believes that you can’t teach what you haven’t experienced yourself or what you practice yourself. When Claire isn’t teaching she’s hanging with her son jack Jozef or surfing. Claire currently teaches in Auckland is also the Founder of No Beers? Who Cares! NZ’s first sober and sober-focused event company, raising consciousness one cocktail at a time.
www.clairerobbie.co