Join us for a personal retreat mid-week and some optional gentle yoga and meditation.  Enjoy the tranquillity of the space and embrace the art of doing nothing – seriously. This time out offers a slower rhythm, allowing you to step back from the busyness of life and find peace within.

Join Bruce in exploring the roots of mindful awareness through Kundalini yoga. Immerse yourself in the transformative practices of meditation, chanting and the gentle resonance of the gong and crystal bowls for healing relaxation - practices that nurture your mind, body and spirit enhancing inner peace and vitality.

This retreat offers a gentle yet powerful introduction to emotional healing through the understanding and balancing of the body’s energy centres, known as chakras. The retreat will combine guided exploration of your body’s energy centres and restorative healing techniques for inner alignment, stress relief and emotional clarity.

You will leave feeling lighter, more grounded, and emotionally clearer to continue your healing journey, maintain balance and reconnect with a deeper sense of peace and alignment in your everyday life.

What if life's deepest nourishment begins by simply slowing down? In a world that constantly asks us to do more, move faster, and consume without awareness, this retreat offers something beautifully different: the opportunity to pause, soften, and return to yourself.

Join Nicholas McLean and Minnelie Minnaar for a playful yet deeply intentional weekend celebrating self-care with beautiful food and tranquil natural setting of the Buddhist Retreat Centre. Guided by the philosophies of FeedMeSlowly™️ and Heartbeat™️, this immersive experience gently weaves together mindful nourishment, somatic awareness, sensory movement, creativity, nature connection, and authentic human connection. Together, these practices invite you to slow down, awaken presence, restore your inner rhythm, and rediscover what it truly means to be nourished.

During the retreat you will experience:

FeedMeSlowly™️

Discover mindful nourishment through slow eating and embodied food experiences that invite a deeper relationship with yourself.

Heartbeat™️

An embodied sensory movement journey weaving together breath, music, movement, aromatherapy, nature, and authentic expression.

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, seeking greater balance, longing to reconnect with yourself, or simply craving a nourishing weekend immersed in nature, this retreat offers a welcoming space to breathe deeply, move gently and eat consciously. and remember the quiet wisdom that has always lived within you.

The Slow Way Retreat Part 2: Feed Me Slowly - Holistic Gut Healing Retreat

This extended retreat offers a deeper journey into The Slow Way building on from the weekend retreat. A holistic yogic retreat uniting nutrition and gut health with nervous-system awareness, and embodied mindfulness. Nicholas McLean of FeedmeGreen will be your guide within - through SomaSensing movement, presence in nature, and immersive Slow Feasts, exploring somatic eating as a tool for deeper nourishment, awareness, and restoration. By slowing down and tuning in, we restore vitality, balance digestion, and open to feel life's immense energy.

You don’t have to be an artist to be able to sketch what is in front of you. Everyone can see that some things are shorter than others or to the left or right of something else. So you simply draw it like that. You don’t have to be - or become - an artist to do that. All you need is one eye and two fingers. Participants will be taken through a series of practice sessions in this type of “Seeing-Drawing” after which they will draw a variety of subjects, from still life through to landscape scenes and portraits - all in the space of two days. Sketching is one of the loveliest skills anybody can acquire. You can take your pen and sketchbook anywhere and experience what it is like to be truly present in where you are. All materials will be provided.

In this retreat, we will explore three fundamental areas of our human experience, the three treasures - a healthy body, a happy heart, and a clear and present mind - to create an awareness of and implement techniques for harmony and balance in everyday life. This  relaxed retreat will  incorporate blended sessions of yoga and qigong. We will practise various breathwork and meditative techniques and explore our creativity with an introduction to Neurographic Drawing, a mindful, automatic style of drawing developed by Russian psychologist Pavel Piskarev. The premise is that we are able to rewire our neural pathways when practising this style of meditative drawing. It is a simple therapeutic technique which does not require any artistic experience. We will also take an in-depth look at water crystalography and its spiritual significance by looking at the studies of people like Masaru Emoto and Veda Austin. There will be plenty of time to absorb the stillness of the beautiful surroundings of the BRC with meditative walks and sunset qigong.

When we reflect on how best to support others, we sense a clear and growing need - not only for a beautiful, nourishing space to retreat to, but also for practices that guide us gently back into the fullness of being. In the tranquil embrace of nature, we will explore ways of loosening the grip of habitual busyness and reconnecting with what softens, soothes, and restores us.

This retreat offers a gentle blend of mindfulness, breathwork, yoga, and compassion-based practices - all grounded in present-moment awareness. We will spend time in stillness and in movement, with guided practices to support emotional regulation, embodied presence, and a deeper sense of ease. There will be spacious periods of silence, as well as time for sharing in our human experience. We will have time to immerse in the natural beauty of the surrounding forests and gardens. Whether you are feeling depleted, seeking clarity, or simply longing for deep rest, this retreat is an invitation to return to your own steady centre.

This mid-week retreat will offer gentle hatha yoga and guided meditation and will provide an opportunity to make a new start, to change your perceptions of everyday life, find more balance, and develop more attunement with the present moment. There will be discussions on practical tools for finding greater peace, understanding life’s lessons, and following your heart. Beginners to yoga and meditation are welcome.