Retreats have traditionally been a way to pause our normal day to day activities, take ourselves off to a beautiful location in the countryside and reset our mind and body. With social distancing and travel restrictions in place, the entire world has had to look for novel ways to go on retreat and discover new ways to get away from it all all the while developing the self. One such way is to undertake an inner journey.
Mindfulness, meditation, yoga and detoxes are on everybody’s lips these days and being housebound is a good excuse to give inner travel a try. You don’t in fact need to go off on a residential retreat to tap into some much-needed tranquility, learn how to practice mindfulness or undertake a juice cleanse. Through an online and distinctly domestic voyage, you can learn to navigate your inner landscape, follow a supported detox program or attend guided yoga and meditation sessions from home, as well as finding comfort in a like-minded contemplative community coming together to journey inwards.
On a residential retreat, we often learn new techniques for self care that are sometimes difficult to integrate into our lives once we return from the retreat. These online practice periods at home are powerful and novel ways to change it up, to develop and integrate our deepest wisdom and strength in our private spaces away from the rest of the world. These retreats meet the need we all have to learn how to bring the benefit of our loving awareness directly into our ordinary lives. While residential retreats and online retreats are different, they can be equally as valuable.
The purpose of a retreat is to follow the guidance of the practices that allow you to center and calm yourself, tend to your physical, mental and emotional body, quiet your mind, see the present circumstances with clarity and freedom, and open your heart. It takes some dedication to do this which is why having a formal rhythm via an online guided retreat is so important in letting go of usual habits of distraction and busyness. An online retreat can be a hugely beneficial and healing time.
Initially a home retreat may feel unfamiliar or difficult but slowly slowly you will find yourself settling in and feeling grateful for the rewards. Now is the perfect time to draw on the tools at our disposal and live the lives that we want for ourselves.
Why not give our beautiful Boost Your Immune System Online Juice Detox Retreat a try and reset your life. You don’t even have to travel to get there.