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Retreats
The Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness has years of experience designing and facilitating retreats for absolute beginners to seasoned meditators, from a half-day to a full week, online or on location, residentially or for commuters who go home each night to sleep.
Attending a mindfulness retreat can be a powerful experience. Giving yourself the gift of an extended respite for learning and practice as well as a protected space in courageous community to do so is very precious indeed. Yet, retreat practice can be inaccessible for many.
It takes time and resources for participants to go on retreat. It also requires a great deal of know-how and effort from organizers to make a retreat successful. Our teachers are available for a fee to groups and organizations for retreat planning and management who wish to provide this gift for their members.
Traditional Retreats
Traditional mindfulness and meditation retreats typically are held primarily in silence and alternate between periods of meditation and mindful movement. Our teachers have designed, managed and led traditional retreats from several hours in length to multiple days. Several of our teachers are trained or certified to lead mindfulness based programs and their respective retreats such as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC).
Organizational Retreats
Our teachers are experienced in designing and leading mindfulness retreats for groups and organizations of a various sizes and backgrounds to meet your specific needs. Often groups are interested in learning about mindfulness and sampling practices that can help their members reduce stress, improve focus, and enhance overall well-being. We can assist organizers in assessing needs prior to planning and measuring impact after the experience if desired.
Custom Retreats
Our mindfulness teachers are creative and love to innovate. We’ve designed programming for people who are brand new to mindfulness as well as seasoned practitioners. Some of our more imaginative retreats have included river floats, a human mandala, a sensory adventure, collaborative art, time with horses, a “rest-in”, live music, a bubble machine, and a food truck with shaved ice for mindful eating. We’d love to design an innovative contemplative retreat experience just for your group.