3 Days 3 Nights. A unique mental wellbeing development retreat to suit you. Designed to relieve anxiety and stress. (Non-residential package available)

Awareness is the fundamental basic to mental health. This refers to awareness both to our “external” reality and our internal mental states and involves the development of attention. Following and dependant on this awareness we need to work with our negative emotions in an open honest way, so that we learn to not be controlled by these emotions. Then we enable connection by enhancing our positive emotions; love, compassion wisdom and connection bring us to a healthy state free from isolation and emotions which lead from this.

“This mental development ideally requires a threefold process. Initially we need to listen; this may be from teachers, books, videos. Then we need time to contemplate and understand the truth or not of what we have heard. Finally we must integrate this understand into our minds, for “words alone will not suffice”

Practically, a simple clam abiding meditation practice such as focusing on the breathing, done regularly, will bring the first step of awareness into our minds. We must view this technique as a marathon rather than a sprint. Once we have established this focus, calm and ability to get below the thoughts we can use this to develop and work on the aspects of letting go of negative and increasing positive emotions.

While we may not be able to eliminate unhealthy emotions right away by working with them we can learn to let them go, not be affected by them and take the harmful aspect of the emotions out of the way so we can deal more effectively in these moments.

Enhancing positive emotions:

Disconnection is probably the biggest and most harmful problem in our modern world. There are manifold reasons for this, the way we live less and less in communities, the predominance of screens rather than actual face to face contact, the media creating fear etc. Suffice to say the mental health crisis that the world faces now is largely attributable to this reality. We cant immediately change the way the world is but we can bring this connection back for ourselves individually through cultivating these positive emotions of love, compassion, connection, wisdom etc.

Tenzin Josh

The retreat will be conducted by Tenzin Josh, fully qualified psychologist and meditation teacher

Tenzin has trained for over 35 years including spending 15 years as a monk alongside HH Dalai Lama in India. His journey began as a psychologist in the west and continued through learning the wisdom of the east. As a monk, initially he was 3 years in meditation retreat in the mountains and then spent 12 years in the Dalai Lama’s monastery studying in depth up to PHD level. He is one of only a few westerners to have ever had this incredible privilege studying the traditional Tibetan language monastic curriculum. After this period and with the Dalai Lama’s instruction and blessings Tenzin decided he wanted to use his knowledge and experience to help others alleviate their suffering and achieve their best life possible. It is this mission which has set Tenzin on this path to help you find peace, happiness, and fulfilment through mental well-being.

Dao Sethi
From Yin Dee Yoga Studio

Dao Sethi is an enthusiastic yoga & crystal bowl therapy instructor from Phuket. She started her yoga journey from 2005 and she received the first yoga training certification in 2018 in India at the Satyam Vedic Yoga School Rishikesh. Dao’s expertise in multi-style yoga and later continue her study for sound therapy using crystal as one of a popular material to creates a clear and bright sound in order to promote relaxation and reduce stress.

Meaya

Meaya earned her RYT 500 Yoga Alliance certification through Ananda Yoveda Shala, specialising in Hathai, Alignment, VinyasaYoga Shala, specialising in yoga focus class, Pranayama as the preparation to meditation state of mind, Restorative Yoga with Yoga Healing Massage, Yoga Nidra and Chakra Meditation, completed the course of the Coach for spiritual program Crystal Bowl Therapy being a lifelong learner, when teaching she hopes for her students to find balance mentally, physically and spiritually providing them with a practise that they can embody in their daily life off the mat. Her class offer unique meditative sequence with international themes, emphasising the importance of proper alignment, pranayama breathing techniques, mindfulness and meditation. She is honoured to teach yoga, helping to bring balance, awareness, health and happiness to others life.