Awaken Stillness
Discover profound peace
Friday 15th to Sunday 17th March 2024
Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre,
Albany, Auckland
*SPECIAL OFFER Sign up a friend and both get $50 off!*
Please see 'Accommodation and Pricing' below for details on redeeming the Friends discount coupon.
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Take yourself to a state of deep inner peace. Uncover the transformative power within and embrace a life of harmonious balance. Join us on this life-changing journey to find profound stillness and make serenity a permanent part of your life.
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On this nurturing 2.5-day retreat we will help you awaken your body’s innate healing powers through Ren Xue Qigong using ancient wisdom and modern qigong practices.
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Immerse yourself in tranquil surroundings, expertly guided practices, and a loving-hearted atmosphere designed to create a state of deep inner relaxation and calm.
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Our experienced teachers will guide you, helping you:
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Embrace profound tranquility amidst life's chaos.
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Discover your true inner wisdom underneath the busyness of your mind.
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Learn practices to help you re-energise, create health, and live in a calm, relaxed and joyful state of being.
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Reconnect with your heart qualities of trust, openness, love, gratitude, and deep respect.
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Feel serenity, beauty and joy within, moment by moment.
Led by Ren Xue Qigong and life cultivation teachers, Fiona, Aiyanna and Claire. The retreat's two days and two nights are thoughtfully designed to best support your own journey of self-discovery and inner healing. We will provide guidance and equip you with powerful methods and tools to integrate into your daily life.
5pm Friday 15th March
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5pm Sunday 17th March 2024
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Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre
Albany
Auckland
New Zealand
Accommodation is offered on this retreat in a variety of options, at different price levels, and you also have the option to stay off site as well. A financial assisted option is available as well.
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*SPECIAL OFFER Sign up a friend and both get $50 off!*
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Please see 'Accommodation and Pricing' below for details on pricing and redeeming the financial assisted and Friends discount coupons.
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The retreat caters for all levels of experience, whether you are new to Ren Xue or an experienced Ren Xue practitioner. Places are limited.
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For more information please contact Aiyanna on 0800 447359 ext 56 or Fiona on 021 022 42775, or email us at info@joyineverymoment.co.nz
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Detailed Information
About Ren Xue
Ren Xue is a wisdom system developed to help practitioners achieve greater health, happiness, sense of wellbeing, and realization and wisdom. It helps us find inner harmony through practices that elevate body, heart, and consciousness, which in turn helps us create outer harmony – in our personal relationships, with society, and with nature.
Ren Xue includes two subsystems – Yuan Gong and Yuan Ming and includes innovative Qigong (Chi gong) methods. The practice includes gentle movements, meditation, and breathing techniques, that enable self-healing to bring positive changes to health and life.
Ren Xue was developed by renown teacher Yuan Tze, drawing on his deep level of understanding and practice in a range of traditions, especially Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Qigong, Traditional Chinese Medicine, martial arts and Tai Chi.
The Teachers
Fiona McLaughlin
Fiona first discovered Ren Xue Qigong when she was suffering from a life-threatening chronic illness and diagnosed with 2 years too live.
Through Ren Xue, she regained her vitality and health. She learned a new way of being, to live in a relaxed and calm state, in harmony with others and the world.
Inspired by what Ren Xue can offer, she now guides others on the Ren Xue path of growth and wisdom.
She helps people live a life where they are no longer swept away by their damaging feelings and thoughts, so they can experience the world with complete trust, openness, love, gratitude and deep respect.
Aiyanna Sophie
Aiyanna has been teaching Yuan Qigong and Ren Xue since 2010. She is a former doctor and naturopath, now working with somatic therapy and Ren Xue to help people see the root causes of their problems and transform these in a way that can make real change to life.
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It is through her own healing journey and processing of childhood trauma, as well as observing this in her clients, that it became apparent to her that many of our deep-held beliefs and coping strategies start with trauma.
Aiyanna has a special interest in intergenerational and developmental trauma and the intricate process of healing from these.
Claire Langley
For as long as she can remember, Claire has felt inadequate in this world. It was only when her husband died in 2009 and she experienced a profound inner shift that she surprisingly began to feel in the right place at the right time.
It wasn't until she found Ren Xue in 2013 that she was able to make sense of what had happened then.
But more importantly, through her teacher training, she slowly began to realise the unique wisdom of the Ren Xue teachings and the path it offers us all to truly uplift our lives and find our way back home to our true heart, true nature and true humanity.
She is now dedicated to sharing these teachings with others.
The Venue
The Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre sits on 19-acres of native bush.
Kawai Purapura is the Maori term for that eternal oneness that exists within the heart of all peoples and all creation.
During your retreat you can enjoy bush walks, streams and glow worms, a full-length pool, spa and sauna.
Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre
14 Mills Lane, Albany
North Shore, Auckland, 0632
New Zealand
Accommodation and Pricing
We encourage you to stay on site for the whole retreat so you can fully immerse yourself in the retreat experience. However, you are also welcome to stay off site if you wish. Accommodation is offered in a variety of options, at different price levels.
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COUPONS
Special Offer - Sign up a friend and both get $50 off!
Enter your friend's name in the 'any additional information' section and enter code
FRIENDS
in 'Enter Promo Code' box at checkout to receive discount.
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Financially Assisted - Gives $100 off full price for those financially challenged.
Enter code
ASSIST
in 'Enter Promo Code' box at checkout to receive discount.
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Financially Assisted and Friends - Gives $150 off full price for those financially challenged and signing up a friend.
Enter your friend's name in the 'any additional information' section and enter code
ASSIST+FRIENDS
in 'Enter Promo Code' box at checkout to receive discount.
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The fee below is for the retreat without accommodation, and includes food, all teachings and related teaching material.
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Staying off-Site
Retreat Ticket without room $640
with Assisted Price Coupon ($100) $540
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The fees below include accommodation, food, all teachings and related teaching material.
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Rooms with access to shared bathrooms, toilets and showers
Twin Room - Price is per person, Same sex room
1 Bed in Twin Room - Full Price $770
with Assisted Price Coupon ($100) $670
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Single Room - Price is for room - SOLD OUT
Single Room $775
with Assisted Price Coupon ($100) $675
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Queen Room - Price is for room (can sleep up to 2 people - 2nd person needs to purchase 'Retreat without Accommodation')
Queen Room $910
with Assisted Price Coupon ($100) $810
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Rooms with own ensuite
Queen & Ensuite - Price is for room (can sleep up to 2 people - 2nd person needs to purchase 'Retreat without Accommodation')
Queen Room & Ensuite $990
with Assisted Price Coupon ($100) $890
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Camping
Camping - Personal tent per person - bring your own tent. Access to shared bathrooms, toilets and showers
Tent Site $703
with Assisted Price Coupon ($100) $603
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Ways to Pay
When booking the retreat, at checkout you will be directed to Paypal. On Paypal you will be given the option to pay with credit/debit card or with PayPal. If you have difficulties paying with these methods please let us know and we will make alternative arrangements with you.
Retreat Daily Schedule
Day 1: Friday, 15 March 2024
Start Time | Activity |
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5:00 pm | Arrival & registration |
6:00 pm | Official welcoming |
6:20 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm | Discussion and Qigong practice |
9:00 pm | Free time |
Day 2: Saturday, 16 March 2024
Start Time | Activity |
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7:00 am | Qigong Practice |
8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:30 am | Morning program (incl morning tea) |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm | Afternoon program (incl afternoon tea) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm | Qigong Practice |
8:30 pm | Free time |
Day 3: Sunday 17 March 2024
Start Time | Activity |
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7:00 am | Qigong Practice |
8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:30 am | Morning program (incl morning tea) |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm | Afternoon program (incl afternoon tea) |
5:00 pm | Retreat ends |
Meals
The retreat includes nourishing and healthy vegan meals from dinner on Friday to afternoon tea on Sunday. Morning and afternoon tea with snacks, tea, herbal teas and coffee will also be provided. Gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan options will be available.
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Please indicate on your registration form any dietary restrictions you may have to ensure that your needs will be met. Community refrigerators are available for participants who require one for supplements or special food items.
How to Prepare
Before the start of the retreat we recommend you take time to consider your goals and do some journaling on this. This helps set up a wonderful qifield to create transformation in your life! Here's some questions to consider:
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​What would you like to achieve at this stage of your life in order to move forward?
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​What would you most like to see transform in your life?
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​What are your current health or life issues?
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What areas are you focusing on for your personal development and growth?
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​What would you most like to achieve at this retreat?
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Nearer the start of the retreat we will provide you with an online information pack containing useful information regarding Ren Xue. It is very useful to familiarise yourself with this information before the retreat
What to Bring
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Layers of comfortable clothing, to cater for different temperatures
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Blanket for keeping yourself warm during seated practice
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Cushion for floor seating or seated practice (chairs are also available)
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Slippers or socks for the main practice area
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Tablet/laptop or notebook and pens
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Water bottle or thermos flask
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Torch/flashlight
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Swimming togs and towel (for the pool or spa!)
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Personal toiletries, including earplugs in case they may be useful
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Slip on shoes or jandals/flip flops are recommended for the shower block
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List of any prescription medications and/or allergies that we would need to know about in the event of a medical emergency, placed in a sealed envelope with your name on the outside. It will be opened only in the case of an emergency and destroyed after the retreat.
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Please note that a towel, pillow slip, sheets and duvet are provided if you have ordered a room
How to Get There
The main teaching location for the retreat will the Lotus Room at Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre.
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The Retreat Centre is located at 14 Mills Lane, Albany, North Shore, Auckland 0632, New Zealand.
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Please arrive by 5pm on Friday 15 March for registration and so you can settle into your accommodation ready for a 6pm start.
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Please use Google maps to check your travelling times for the specific date and time you are travelling. This is very useful to help you arrive at the venue at the correct time as Auckland traveling times can vary greatly due to rush hour.
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Public Transport
If you are travelling by public transport you can plan your journey here.
If you are traveling from the Airport it is easy to catch a bus and train to Auckland central.
From Auckland central you can travel by bus up State Highway 1 and get off at Albany Bus Station. This bus station is a couple of mins drive from the Retreat venue. We are happy to come and collect you. Please let us know when you register if you require this service.
Cancellation Policy
Cancelling your Registration
If you need to cancel your retreat registration, please do so early. Late cancellations make it difficult to give someone else the opportunity to attend.
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If you cancel your reservation:
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On or before 31 January 2024 we will refund all fees paid minus administrative charges.
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Between 1 February and 27 February inclusive, we will refund all fees paid minus $150 cancellation fee and administrative charges.
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After 28 February no refund will be given unless otherwise agreed with the organisers.
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Refunds will be paid within 30 days of receiving a cancellation notice.
Cancellation by the Organisers
In the event that we need to cancel the retreat due to changes in NZ government COVID policy or other unforeseen reasons, we will notify you as soon as possible and will refund the full fee amount paid – minus any administrative fees incurred.
Contact
For more information please contact
Aiyanna on 0800 447359 ext 56, or
Fiona on 021 022 42775, or
Email us at info@joyineverymoment.co.nz
© 2023 Joy in Every Moment