Creating Space: Mindfulness & Creative Inquiry Retreat for Women

This Retreat at Sharpham gives you space to take time out for yourself to relax, breathe deeply, let go and be guided into your natural creative flow of well-being, exploring and experimenting in the supportive environment of other women.

During this retreat you'll learn how women respond differently to stress and you'll enhance your understanding of mind states that cause stress and anxiety.

Through mindfulness practices and expressive exercises, you'll experiment with new ways of responding differently and more creatively, finding ways to increase your capacity to be in your natural creative flow of well-being.

This retreat is open to all levels of experience and is not about 'artistic' skill. All that is required is an open, curious mind and a willingness to experiment. Bring a notebook and pen - all other materials will be provided.

This retreat is for you if you are:

- new to mindfulness practice or are looking to sustain and reconnect with your practice in a new way
- interested in exploring your own spontaneous creative response
feeling stuck creatively and would like the chance to experiment and play
in need of rest, rejuvenation and renewal
- looking for tools and resources to sustain you in your everyday life
- looking to deepen your experience in a relaxed, supportive environment with other women
- a coach, therapist or other professional looking for new ways to explore your mindfulness in your work with women

During this retreat you'll:

- explore your experience and insights with mindfulness
- use verbal and non-verbal expressive practices that may include journaling, simple play and image making
- become more present in your body, connecting and dropping in with meditation, yoga and free movement
- work with a partner to explore softening your body through mindful touch in respectful and nourishing ways, like gentle foot, shoulder, or head massages
- explore ways to relate and communicate from a deeper place within
learn how to bring mindfulness to everyday activities
- have free time each day to relax, reflect and rejuvenate
enjoy delicious home-cooked vegetarian food
- gain opportunities to reconnect with nature and to benefit from the very special location of Grade 1-listed Sharpham House and Estate, set within a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

For more information visit http://www.sharphamtrust.org/Mindfulness-Retreats/Sharpham-House-Retreats/Creating-Space-A-Mindfulness-Creative-Inquiry-Retreat-for-Women