Emoyeni – Cultivating Wisdom & Compassion
Our free online meditation sessions are a great way to keep your practice alive.
Monday evening: 19.30 – 20.00
Wednesday evening: 19.30 – 20.30 (extra 30 mins for questions/discussion if required)
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Weekend ~ December 19 – 21
Standard rate: R1820 (shared ablutions) – R2160 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2420 (shared ablutions) – R2760 (en-suite);
plus suggested centre dana
Includes meals, morning and evening meditation. (Chi Kung and dharma or meditation discussion on request.)
TAKING TIME TO REFLECT
December 29 – Jan 3 (5 days)
Standard rate: R5700 (shared ablution) – R6850 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R7100 (shared ablution) – R8450 (en-suite);
plus suggested centre dana
Teacher’s Dana: R 400 – R2000
The New Year is a powerful symbol of impermanence, of the cycles in nature and in our own lives. It is a time to reflect on the past, to open to the present and to question what it is that we are doing with our lives?
This 5-day meditation retreat will mostly be in silence, giving us the opportunity to deepen our understanding of impermanence and explore how it is inherent in every aspect of our lives – our health, our work, our relationships.
Each day will Include walks in the veld and the mountain, opportunity to reflect on these questions and in
the evenings, time to explore these questions with others.
MAREN BODENSTEIN
16-18 January
Work Retreat Weekend
Working retreats are a great way to see the reciprocal nature of Dana in practice. Besides our scheduled WORK RETREATS . This means that Emoyeni will offer you free board and lodging at our beautiful centre, in exchange for 10 hours of service spread over the weekend from you or, pay for one night and only do five hours of service; the choice is yours.
In order to make this a fair exchange, we reserve the right to select the type of work needed on these retreats.
Weekend ~ January 30 – 1 Feb
Standard rate: R2280 (shared ablutions) – R2740 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2820 (shared ablutions) – R3380 (en-suite);
plus suggested centre dana
A Pema Chödrön–inspired New Year retreat
The New Year often arrives with pressure to resolve, improve or reinvent ourselves. This retreat offers a gentler alternative – starting exactly where you are.
Over the weekend, Pema Chödrön’s work will inform guided meditations, mindful walks in nature and shared reflection – simple, grounded practices that will continue to support your daily life long after the retreat ends.
FINDING A STEADY CENTRE TO OUR LIVES
Weekend ~ Feb 23 – March 1 (6 days)
Standard rate: R7340 (shared ablutions) – R8720 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R9020 (shared ablutions) – R10640 (en-suite);
Teacher’s Dana: R 400 – R2000 plus suggested Centre dana
Life is passage, whether this refers to the process of ageing, or going through life-scenarios, or progressing in a career, or committing to a spiritual ‘path’. We are in movement, and in some sense we *are* the movement of our pulses, our breathing and our hearts and minds.
How does this fit in with the search for stillness? And how can the desire that gets us going arrive at fulfilment, the freedom from craving?
During this retreat we will attune to balance through entering and exploring movement of body, heart and mind via a blend of meditation, qi gong, and chanting.
Prior experience of silent meditation retreats and the ability to peacefully coexist in a retreat situation is strongly recommended
Weekend ~ 6-8 March 2026
Standard rate: R2280 (shared ablutions) – R2840 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2840 (shared ablutions) – R3380 (en-suite);
plus suggested centre dana
Title: Biodanza – Dancing with Life
Biodanza (commonly translated as “dance of life”), is a unique type of conscious dance that involves music, movement and emotion. It was developed in South America by Rolando Toro who drew on his knowledge of art, poetry, mythology, psychiatry and musical semantics to create this extraordinary art form which is now practiced in over 20 countries. There are no steps but it is not just free dancing. Every dance has purpose and the facilitator structures the sequence of dances in a particular way. Biodanza can be practiced at any age and at any level of fitness.
In this retreat we will have three Vivencias (Biodanza sessions). In the first session (Coming Home) we connect through movement and music with a felt-sense of coming home, to our bodies, our community, our human experience. In the second session (Sacred Earth) we reconnect with mother earth and heed to her silent message. In the third Vivencia (Wonderful World) we explore the various ways in which beauty is present in our lives.
Find Us
Google Earth: 25 deg 47′ 41.90″ S; 27 deg 33′ 22.21″ E
GPS decimal: lat -25.794800 long: 27.556224.
Emoyeni is reached by a dirt road, please drive slowly over the last 2 km.
Office Hours
Office hours for bookings:
Weekdays 8 am – 4:30 pm.
Please email, rather than call, us over the weekends.
We run retreats over weekends (sometimes in silence) so phone calls can be problematic.
Contact Details
Emoyeni Retreat Centre, A65 Buffelshoek Farm,
Mooinooi, North-West, 0325
Email: retreat@emoyeni.org.za
Telephone: +27 (0)82 308 1533
