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

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Sunday, January 11th
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
No refunds or transfers are allowed
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What to Expect?

Start the New Year with a day of introspection and intention-setting. This 4-hour mini-retreat will soothe and support you with space for creating your Sankalpa, or heart-centered intention for the year ahead. You’ll rest in your body (through Yoga Nidra and Earthwalking), make space for your heart to open, and experience the Earth-Sky-Body Scan—a grounding practice that reattunes you to your natural rhythm. A mindful eating lite bite lunch rounds out the journey.

Based on an ancient Hindu practice of deep yogic sleep, Yoga Nidra invites us into thoughtless awareness, where spiritual insight and nervous system reset meet. You’ll be guided through seated meditation, lying in shavasana, and walking slowly and silently through our old-growth forest. This is “slow living” with purpose.

Renewal is a powerful path to choose—especially when we step away from the constant motion of everyday life and reset the compass of the heart.

Why Come?



🧘 Yoga Nidra will guide you into deep rest, lying gently on the Earth.
A full-body reset. Rooted. Restorative. Real.

🤫 You’ll choose stillness.
Silence in mind. Silence in body. Silence in speech.
A return to ease. Inhale. Exhale. Just be.

🌿 Pause at one of our Mindful Magic Spots℠.
Tucked in sacred corners of our contemplative garden.
Let nature whisper what matters most.

🧘‍♂️ We’ll sit in stillness.
We’ll walk with intention.
A meditative practice to ease you into the New Year.

👣 Your feet will meet the Earth.
Your body will listen.
And your inner nature will begin to rise.

🧭 This is your moment to reset.
To align your inner compass.
To rediscover what your heart longs for most.

✨ Replenish your light.
Not by effort.
But by presence.

🔥 And remember— you already hold the flame.
You are the lamp unto your own feet.


Event Schedule

10:00
Check-in, Arrive with Fresh Brewed Cacao Tea, choose your mat/cushion

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

10:15
Mini-Retreat Opens, Vow of Quiet Invitation for the Day

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

10:30
What is Intention Setting Vs. Manifesting? How to rest into intention from the Shante Ishta (Eye of the Heart)

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.

10:45
Prepare and Settle into Yoga Nidra (deep rest or yogic sleep)

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

11:30
Awaken into Silent Walking in the Forest

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.

12:00
Lite Bite Lunch and Mindful Eating Awareness Practice (organic & healthy buffet)

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

12:30
Mindful Earth-Sky-Body-Scan Seated Practice to deepen the intention

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

1:00
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.

1:30
Taking In the Goodness Planting Practice with Action Step & Shared Tea Time

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
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.

2:00-5:00
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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🌿 Meet Your Host

Suzanne Jewell
Chief Experience Officer, Patch of Heaven Sanctuary
Founder of the Mindful Pocket Park℠ | Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher | Executive Resilience Coach | Forest Therapy Guide

Suzanne Jewell serves as Chief Experience Officer at Patch of Heaven Sanctuary.
She is the founder of the Mindful Pocket Park℠ at Patch.

She is certified through UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and Sounds True mindfulness training.
She is also an Executive Resilience Coach and trained Forest Therapy guide.

Before this chapter, Suzanne was a global TV executive and marketing communications expert.
High-achieving. High-speed. Until it all stopped.

She experienced burnout.
She lived through complex PTSD.

And chose a new path—
what she calls “putting her tush on a cush.”

During COVID, flooding displaced her home.
As a climate refugee, she landed at the Open Awareness Buddhist Center.
She stayed for 18 months.

There, she took Vows of Refuge.
Her daily practice included circumambulation—kora walking around sacred stupas.
Supporting the lama. Living the path of liberation.

And paddling the Little River by kayak.
Recording floating meditations—Pockets of Peace—
“inviting others to float in the boat” with her.

🌎 Her Teaching Work

Suzanne teaches workshops and retreats on:
Mindful Leadership. Transformation. Communication. Focus.

She has taught for:
• eMerge Americas
• Babson College, Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Miami Dade College’s Idea Center + MDC Foundation
• Philanthropy Miami
• Radical Partners
• TD Bank
• Chapman Partnership
• Levan Center for Innovation at NSU

At Patch, she leads the Mindful Nature Guide℠ training.
A signature program to activate the Mindful Pocket Park℠.

And in 2024, she launched the Mindful Nature Institute℠.
Why do we celebrate International Peace Day at Patch of Heaven Sanctuary?
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