Free Online Workshop: Create your Home Retreat

‘Invest in what gives you nourishment, rather than identifying poison.’ -E.K.Sedgwick. 

My husband and I regularly have a weeklong at-home retreat over Xmas and New Year, where we follow a light programme of mindful movement and sitting meditation, listen to inspiring talks, go for walks, do some creative writing or artwork, as well as catch up with some backlog of filing etc. What we don’t do is communicate with the outside world except through letters, nor watch movies or drink alcohol (not that we drink much at other times I hasten to say). We do occasionally play cribbage. After a couple of days of getting used to it, this way of life feels blissfully simple and nourishing. It’s a relief not to have to pack bags and travel somewhere else in order to ‘get away’ and have a break from the usual routines. 

I vaguely thought that the current, corona-virus…