Awakening to Self Love Silent Meditation Retreat Healsville

This silent meditation retreat, led by two of Australasia’s leading meditation and mindfulness teachers, focuses on our inherent ability to experience self-love and inner healing.

Allow the beautiful and serene natural retreat environment and meditation sessions to support your wellbeing, as you are invited into a simple schedule that includes regular guided sitting and walking mindfulness meditations, instruction periods and check-ins with the teachers.

“It was like a balm for the soul.” – Carmel Brock

Surrounded by State and National forest, Maitripa Centre’s 53 acres of forest and well established gardens are an ideal place to visit for physical and spiritual rejuvenation.

Feel the calm of the surroundings envelop you. Let go and be fully present. Utilise your natural ability to heal and find wholeness within.

Unplug and unwind in an environment where all you need to do is be. Your meals and schedule is all taken care of. Just relax, rest and be guided by your own inner authority on a profound journey of self-acceptance and self-love.

• Reclaim your own inner authority.
• Recharge, reset, restore, and re-align with your authentic self.
• Let go of feelings of not being enough, being broken or needing fixing.
• Simple, non-religious, trauma informed meditation practices and teaching.

Allow the beautiful and serene natural environment, simple structure, gentle guidance, and meditation to do the heavy lifting as you are gently guided and supported in an intentional setting where the only agenda is your own wellbeing.

Throughout the retreat you will have the opportunity to meet one on one with the retreat teachers, Stephen and/or Karl. This gives you the ability to ask questions, share experiences and be supported in a private and 100% confidential environment.

Your retreat fee includes:

• 5 nights accomodation at Maitripa retreat centre (single accomodation)
• All meals
• All group meditation insturction
• All meditation sessions
• All one on one sessions

This retreat is ideal for:

• Beginner meditation and mindfulness practitioners who would like an opportunity for more in-depth practice.
• Experienced meditation practitioners who enjoy immersive retreat experiences.
• Mindfulness and meditation teachers wanting further professional development.
• Anyone who would like a greater degree of self-love, self-forgiveness and self-acceptance in their life.

Your Meditation Teachers - Stephen Archer (Nyanaviro) & Karl Baker.

Stephen Archer (Nyanaviro) is one of New Zealand’s foremost meditation teachers, and has led over one hundred retreats.

Stephen has been involved with mindfulness for over 40 years, starting his meditation journey as an ordained Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest tradition at the age of twenty-three. This involved working closely for 13 years with different teachers and completing a number of long solitary retreats to strengthen his practice.

Stephen has delivered courses in healthcare and prisons and assisted the Mental Health Foundation of NZ to develop their approach to mindfulness. He is a trustee and guiding teacher of the Te Moata retreat centre in New Zealand.

Stephen is in demand as a mindfulness meditation educator in the workplace, having worked with Air New Zealand, the NZ Olympic team, and Weta Workshop amongst others.

Stephen has been constantly evolving his teaching style and relationship to meditation. He teaches in a modern, non-religious and highly accessible style. At the heart of his teaching is the acknowledgement that all dimensions of human nature must be included in our practice.

Stephen’s approach draws from ancient wisdom, modern psychology, neuroscience, and his own unparalleled experience. He is an immensely compassionate teacher, focusing on supporting retreatants and encouraging them to trust their own authority and capacity for wholeness.

Karl Baker is the founder of Mindfulness Works – Australasia’s number one mindfulness training organisation.

Karl has been practising meditation for over 22 years. He has been a student of Stephen for much of that time. He has attended numerous multi-day silent meditation retreats and worked extensively one on one as a student of Jeremy Logan, a leading Insight Meditation teacher and counsellor, and has been a student in the Zen tradition.

Karl established Mindfulness Works, the largest mindfulness meditation training organisation in Australia and New Zealand. He designed and delivered a beginners mindfulness meditation course, which over 40,000 people have participated in. Karl leads a team of over fifty mindfulness meditation educators, including psychotherapists, counsellors and MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) teachers as part of the Mindfulness Works organisation.

Karl approach to mindfulness is centred around his own exploration of what it means to be radically self-accepting. He is a compassionate, authentic, and heartfelt teacher who values the precious opportunity to be authentic and vulnerable in a supportive environment.

The Centre is located at 528 Myers Creek Road, Healesville VIC 3777, ten minutes from the township of Healesville and only an hour and a quarter drive from Melbourne.

If you are arriving at Melbourne Airport and would like to share taxi / mini-bus transport costs to the Maitripa Centre, please let know when you register and we will connect you with others so you can organise your transport together.

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Maitripa Centre, 528 Myers Creek Road, Healesville, Australia