Renew | Rest | Replenish Mini-Retreat to Start the New Year @Patch

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Sunday, January 05
11 am to 3 pm
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What to Expect?

Start the New Year with a Day of Introspection & Intention-Setting. This 4 hour mini-retreat will soothe & support you with space for creating your SANKALPA or, intention for the year ahad, resting in your body (through Yoga Nidra & Earthwalking) while making room for your heart to have space, coupled with the Earth Sky Body Scan practice and mindful eating lite bites for lunch.

Based on an ancient Hindu practice of "Deep Yogic Sleep" that is Yoga Nidra and arriving at "thoughtless awareness" for deep spiritual connection, you'll experience both upright seated meditation, then lying in the corpse pose of shivasana, as well as silent Earthwalking in the Forest for a "slow living" experience.

Renewal is a powerful path to choose when you set aside your everyday duties in order to reset the compass of the heart.

Rest at Patch, set an intention to put down the old, and make space to plant the Presence of renewed focus.

Replenish retreating for a short time away from the city and your home can help you reframe how and where you seek to focus on this powerful opportunity of the New Year.

  • Yoga Nidra will suppport your deep body reset lying on the Earth
  • Choose to silence mind, body, and speech and bring ease into the moment.
  • Pause at a Mindful Magic Spot in one of our contemplative garden niches
  • Meditative Intention Setting Sit & Walk will ease you into the New Year
  • Let your feet and body Touch the Earth, connecting to your inner nature.
  • Reset your inner compass toward your most intimate heart intention


Event Schedule

Don't miss out on this one-time event. 
11:00 - 11:15
Check-in, Arrive with Fresh Brewed Cacao Tea, choose your mat/cushion

Arrive, pause and learn the“Catch Your Breath” practice.

11:15 - 11:30
Mini-Retreat Opens, Vow of Quiet Invitation for the Day

Learn about Patch of Heaven Sanctuary, the Mindful Pocket Park, why the science of focus and attention training helps mental wellbeing and the benefits of Nature-based Mindfulness.

11:30 - 11:45
What is Intention Setting Vs. Manifesting? How to rest into intention from the Shante Ishta (Eye of the Heart)

Ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the official inauguration of the world's first Mindful Pocket Park.

11:45 - 12:30
Prepare and Settle into Yoga Nidra (deep rest or yogic sleep)

Pause to “make a wish” and send lovingkindness to Nature, this sacred act invites a contemplation of what’s your highest aspiration for Nature and Earth
to be well.

12:30 - 1:00
Awaken into Silent Walking in the Forest

Five Sensory Gardens “guide” the experiential aspect of the 5 Senses.

1:00 - 1:30
Lite Bite Lunch and Mindful Eating Awareness Practice (organic & healthy buffet)

“Check-out” choosing two words to describe in THIS MOMENT NOW the state of their heart-mind upon taking “The Nature Pill.”

1:30 - 2:00
Mindful Earth-Sky-Body-Scan Seated Practice to deepen the intention

Pause to “make a wish” and send lovingkindness to Nature, this sacred act invites a contemplation of what’s your highest aspiration for Nature and Earth
to be well.

2:00 - 2:30
Mindful Magic Spot Contemplation Practice in the Garden

Pause to “make a wish” and send lovingkindness to Nature, this sacred act invites a contemplation of what’s your highest aspiration for Nature and Earth
to be well.

2:30 - 3:00
Taking In the Goodness Planting Practice with Action Step & Shared Tea Time

“Check-out” choosing two words to describe in THIS MOMENT NOW the state of their heart-mind upon taking “The Nature Pill.”

3:00 
Mini-retreat closes

Pause to “make a wish” and send lovingkindness to Nature, this sacred act invites a contemplation of what’s your highest aspiration for Nature and Earth
to be well.

3:00 - 5:00
Time On The Land for Contemplation, Walking & Integration

Pause to “make a wish” and send lovingkindness to Nature, this sacred act invites a contemplation of what’s your highest aspiration for Nature and Earth
to be well.

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Replenish your inner light, reset The New by remembering how to “be a lamp unto your own feet”.
Suzanne Jewell
Chief Experience Officer, Patch of Heaven Sanctuary
Founder of the Mindful Pocket Park @Patch, certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center/Sounds True training, Executive Resilience Coach and Forest Therapy guide.

A former global TV executive and marketing communications expert, Jewell experienced burnout and C-PTSD firsthand, choosing as her healing path putting her “tush on a cush”. A climate refugee due to flooding during Covid brought her to the Open Awareness Buddhist Center, where she took Vows of Refuge, staying for 18 months and deepening her lived dedication to the path of liberation; circumambulation practice (kora walking around the stupas) and supporting the lama was part of daily life. She most loved the daily kayak paddles in the Little River, recording “Pockets of Peace” floating meditations to “invite others to float in the boat” with her.