The Embodied Gardener Retreat

Gardening and farming are activities that attract many passionate people that want to be part of nature and create sustainable bio-diverse beneficial habitats. The embodied gardener is a workshop that brings in the spiritual invitations created when caring for the land. Attention might be focused outside admiring plants, interacting with animals, but what if the attention would be placed inwards, what would we discover? This workshop will guide you in exploring how much of ourselves we can find in our gardening endeavours. Come and get to meet a little bit of you reflected back to you. 

Retreat Schedule:

Saturday

9am- 10am – Check in

10am -12.15 pm – Farm Workshop:

– Intro and icebreaker
– Presentation: The mind and the body (thinking and processing)
– Farm walk: Judging what we see
– Journaling break
– Sharing judgments made
– The role of judgment and going to the body: categorizing judgments in term of emotions
– The five basic emotions in the body (moving the emotions in the body)
– Gardening in the body: energy and movement (listening to the body as an invitation to be present)

11:50 Meditation: how do we feel in the garden (Journaling and sharing)

12:10 Moving forward: gardening as a tool to get to know ourselves

12.30pm – Farm to table -Lunch

1pm – 4pm Free time

4.30pm – 6pm – Yoga for farmers & gardeners

6.30pm – Farm to table- Dinner

7.30pm – Sauna (Weather / conditions dependent)

Sunday

8.30am – Breakfast

10 am – 12pm Forest meditation walk

12.30pm – Farm to table – Lunch

1pm – Check out – Jai Store open