Ready to recharge your batteries?
Let’s find healthy ways to dissolve anxiety, manage stress, and build personal resilience. Join our retreat at Banyan Grove, a serene, quiet campus lined with redwood trees in the quaint town of Forest Knolls, an hour or so drive from Berkeley. Spend the weekend practicing mindfulness, meditation, restorative yoga,
self-care, fusion fitness, and join in a healing ritual. Slow down and relax with us. Nurture yourself with essential techniques for daily living so you can help animals without depleting yourself. Scrumptious, healthy vegan food will be catered.
Speakers: The Mindful Vegan author Lani Muelrath and self-care coach Allison Rivers Samson
When: Saturday, June 9, 10am-4pm and Sunday, June 10, 8am-3pm
Where: Banyan Grove, 60 Arroyo Road, Forest Knolls, CA
Overnight Accommodations: Our retreat is presented in partnership with ServiceSpace, which operates our venue. Please indicate if you plan to stay overnight on your registration form. We have room for 20 overnight guests.
Venue: Banyan
Grove can accommodate 40 guests for the retreat, with 20 of those guests staying overnight. If necessary, we may give overnight preference to those who are traveling from out of town.
Enrollment is limited. Reserve your spot by June 1. Register
Now! Retreat Program
Saturday, 10am-4pm
10am-10:30am, Welcome
10:30am-12pm, Mindfulness Training and Practice with Lani
12pm-1pm, Organic Vegan Lunch
1pm-1:45pm, Mindfulness Meditation Practice and Walking Meditation with Lani
2pm-4pm, Integrating Self-Care into Your Daily Life with Allison
4pm-5pm, Nature Walk (Optional)
5pm-6pm, Free Time
6pm-7pm, Organic Vegan Dinner
8pm-9pm, Evening Program
Sunday, 8am-3pm
8am-9am, Organic Vegan Breakfast
9-11am, Restorative Yoga and Mindfulness Practice with Lani
11am-12pm, Nia with Allison
12pm-1pm, Organic
Vegan Lunch
1pm-1:45pm, Walking Meditation with Lani
2pm-3pm, Activist Healing Ritual with Lisa
Mindfulness Training and Practice
We all know that advocating for the animals has a specific set of challenges and stress. With the simple tools of
mindfulness, you can learn to more easily navigate difficult conversations, upsetting situations, emotional stress – and become a more effective advocate for the change you want to effect in the world. With Lani as your guide, find out what the research says about the benefits of mindfulness training - a practical, non-sectarian, science-based practice for restoring and resilience - and come away with specific tools for practicing mindfulness to manage stress and create a healthier
lifestyle.
How to Integrate Self-care into Your Daily Life
So much of what we do is focused on energy moving outward to help others. This is an important part of advocacy, and yet to be sustainable ambassadors for compassion, it’s crucial that we first fill our own cups so that we’re able to give from a source of strength. Allison will share some of the tools
and practices she uses on a regular basis.
Restorative Yoga with Lani
This mindfulness-of-body practice quickly counters stress and restores balance. It is a particularly healing branch of yoga practices that can give you an early entry point into the accumulation of stress, and assist you in into dissolving the build up of anxiety from its stress origins to
what can end up as a crippling anxiety experience. Lani will teach some simple positions from this deeply relaxing style of yoga practice that is receptive rather than active in nature.
Nia with Allison
This fun, easy to follow fitness fusion class that includes Dance + Martial Arts + Yoga brings a new JOY through movement. We'll move in comfortable
clothes and bare feet.
