Autumn Equinox Meditation Retreat: Creating Balance in Your Life, Dunedin, 21st-26th March 2025

Autumn Equinox Retreat : Creating Balance in Your Life with Kovido Maddick and Eric Chagnon

Weekend Retreat Friday 21st March- Sunday 23rd March

5 Day Retreat Friday 21st March - Wednesday 26th March

This retreat will be in the stunning natural environment of St Martin's Island which lies surrounded by the Otago harbour and peninsula. https://quarantineisland.org.nz/index.php/about-us/st-martin-lodge/

Rest reflect and reset. An opportunity to create balance in your life between work and play; aloneness and togetherness; activity and rest; nourishing yourself and helping others and the environment.

Set at the Autumn Equinox a time when night and day are in balance it proposes silence to foster inner work and immersion with nature and also gives time for doing directed activities to enhance connections with others.

So for half the day from the end of the evening meditation to lunchtime there will be silence. Then for the other half from lunchtime until bedtime there will be more talking and dialogue.

This retreat is perfect for:

• This retreat is suitable for experienced mindfulness practitioners and those new to mindfulness and meditation. Meditation instructions will be given by Kovido and Eric.

• People desiring to create balance in their lives

• Those under stress who need a deeply restful break away from it all

• People who feel that they can't meditate

• Individuals seeking clarity about their lives asking themselves "Is this the life I want?" or "How can I enjoy life better?"

• People wanting to quieten their busy minds and develop a kinder relationship with themselves

• People at a junction in their lives who want to contemplate the way forward

• People wanting to spend 5 days in a stunning natural environment benefiting from daily mindfulness and gentle physical activities

• Individuals seeking peace and quiet but also wanting meaningful connections with others
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Kovido Maddick

Kovido has over 40 years experience in mindfulness and meditation and spent 10 years training as a Buddhist Monk in the Thai Forest Tradition under Ajahn Sumedho.

He has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programmes since 1996. He is a certified teacher and coach with Mindfulness Works whose courses he has taught for 10 years. He is co-facilitator of the Dunedin Men’s group and is a Hakomi Graduate.

Eric Chagnon

Eric offers mindfulness courses day-retreats and monthly Mindfulness Nature Walks around Dunedin. He finds joy in guiding others on their paths of self-discovery and is eager to share the benefits of mindfulness with anyone keen to seek within.

Host or Publisher Kovido Maddick and Eric Chagnon