Emoyeni – Cultivating Wisdom & Compassion
ONLINE MEDITATION SESSIONS
Our online meditation sessions are a great way to keep your practice alive. We offer two online sessions a week. For a monthly cost of R200 you can join any or all sessions during the month.
We are often asked how to go about keeping up your meditation practice after a retreat. Our Online mediation sessions — one of the good things to come out of the Covid pandemic– is a great way to do this. Emoyeni offers 4 half-hour meditation sessions each week using Zoom. To try and accommodate the differing lifestyles we offer a mix of morning and evening sessions:
Monday evening: 19.30 – 20.00
Wednesday evening: 19.30 – 20.30 (extra 30 mins for questions/discussion)
WELCOMING THE UNWELCOME
Embracing uncertainty and change with creativity, nature and meditation
(to be announced)
Weekend ~ October 7 -9
Standard rate: R2150 – R2550 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2650 – R3150(en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – R2000
Our tendency when faced with life’s unpredictability, losses and challenges is to resist the ways things are: to shut down, turn away or numb out-(in the countless ways we humans do!).
This retreat offers another, radical path – informed by Buddhism and Jungian psychology – to ‘welcome the unwelcome’, to turn toward and open to what is painful and difficult in ourselves, others and life…
STILLNESS IN MOVEMENT
The way of Tai Chi
Weekend ~ October 14 – 16
Standard rate: R2150 – R2550 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2650 – R3150(en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – R2000
This is a beginners’ Tai Chi workshop intertwined with chi kung exercises. Tai Chi Ch’uan is an ancient Chinese system of exercise that helps to bring the mind and body into harmony…
OPEN THE HEART AND STILL THE MIND
Embracing Life with Courageous, Heartfelt Presence
Weekend ~ October 28-30
Standard rate: R2400 – R2800 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2900 – R3400(en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R850 – R3000
On this weekend silent Open the Heart and Still the Mind Compassion retreat we will explore ways in which meditation and silence can provide emotional containment when we find a quiet resting place within ourselves…
This retreat includes guided sitting and walking meditations, short individual sessions with Sue…
WORK RETREAT
November 4 – 6
Work Retreats are a great way to see the reciprocal nature of service and Dana in practice…
WELL-BEING IN STRESSFUL TIMES
How may we be at peace with a sense of belonging
Mandaza Kandemwa and Moyra Keane
Weekend ~ November 11-13
Standard rate: R2400 – R2800 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2900 – R3400 (en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – R2000
Since time immemorial, traditional healers have served as bridges between humanity and the truths of the natural world.
In this retreat we will explore our connections with nature and with ourselves…
BEFRIENDING OURSELVES
Three days of Self-Compassion practice
3 -days ~ December 15 – 18
Standard rate: R3150 – R3750 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R3900 – R4650 (en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – R2000
Many of us are familiar with the concept of compassion when directed at others…Few of us know how to show compassion to ourselves… This retreat is an opportunity to bring our full and patient attention to the present moment, whatever it is, to learn to gently meet and befriend the confused parts of us that stumble in the dark waging war with each other…
NEW YEAR RETREAT
Taking time to reflect
5 -days ~ Dec 29 – 3 Jan 2023
Standard rate: R5100 – R6100 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R6350 – R7600 (en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – 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…
WONDERS OF THE WORLD & THE OIL IN THE SPOON
Rebalancing outer and inner worlds of climate stability
Johan van den Berg and Mervyn Croft
Weekend ~Jan 13 – 15
Standard rate: R2200 – R2600 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2700 – R3200(en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – R2000
…This retreat will be exploring what we can do in our external world to promote the world we need to create, as well as what can be done internally… It is our practice, externally and internally…, that will help us to remain joyful, inspired and compassionate to ourselves and our planet and to avoid the pit of over-engagement or over-detachment.
BIODANZA
Dancing with life
Weekend ~ January 27 – 29
Standard rate: R2150 – R2550 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2650 – R3150(en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – R2000
Biodanza (commonly translated as “dance of life”), is a unique type of conscious dance that involves music, movement and emotion… There are no steps but it is not just free dancing. Every dance has purpose… and can be practiced at any age and at any level of fitness.
LIVING AS LOVE: A YOGA JOURNEY
Come and share the love of yoga…
Mari-Louise vd Walt and Yageshree Moodley
Weekend ~ February 17 – 19
Standard rate: R2400 – R2800 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2900 – R3400 (en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – R2000
… During this ‘month of love’, come share the love of yoga. Our movement practices will draw on hatha vinyasa, yin and qigong styles (prior experience is not necessary)…
EXPLORING YIN & YANG - TAI CHI AND BAGUAZHANG
From inner harmony to self-defence
Weekend ~ February24-26
Standard rate: R2150 – R2550 (en-suite);
Generous Rate: R2650 – R3150(en-suite);
plus suggested
Teachers Dana: R400 – R2000
On this retreat we explore and combine two of the three Internal Martial Arts of China, specifically the Yang Family style of Tai Chi, and the internal art of Yin Style Baguazhang…
No prior Tai Chi or martial arts experience necessary.
How to make a booking?
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
