Year's training in Mallorca 2024
2 seminars (May/Oct)

A twice a year, 4-day meditation retreat - the vacation that gets you the recharge and the improvement of your health you need, but also the skills to maintain both when you get back home: 9-12 May and 17-20 October 2024.

• Both seminars can be booked separately (dates at the end of the page).

• 4 days (3 nights) in a place of abundance: picturesque, plenty of sun and sea, excellent food.

• So-called "beginners" are welcome, as well as people who already have experience with meditation.

• A meditation program that gets you the deep, regenerative relaxation you need right now.

• The teachings and experiences that will help you integrate simple meditation techniques into your life when you get back home.

• Together with Radha Alina Ionescu - Relationship Coach and Meditation facilitator

As a doctor in Intensive Care, I remember many stressful periods when I was dreaming of a vacation and, at the same time, knowing deep inside that “a vacation won’t cut it”. The stress had already gone too deep, on one hand, and it would undoubtedly regain hold of me on my return, on the other.

Today I hear similar stories from my clients, from different fields of work: corporations, bankers, entrepreneurs, medicine.

• Even if they enjoy their profession a lot, they feel it has been slowly eating at their energy reservoirs:

• They don’t recover from the peaks of stress as quickly as they used to.

• They don’t find it easy to do the activities that used to recharge them (like walks in nature, short getaways from the city, hobbies).

• Their sleep or eating patterns might start getting disturbed or their body starts showing other signals.

• Irritation shows up more than before and gets in the way of their work and personal life.

• They don’t enjoy the work as much as they used to.

My own experience in a highly demanding job and then working with people in similar positions has shown me that there are three main causes for this situation:

1) At some point, we are too wired up to be able to relax

Our mind’s wheels get spinning so much during the work day, it becomes impossible to stop them at the end of it, even if we want to. Our “monkey mind” tries to solve problems and keeps us worried. Sometimes, we even go on vacation and cannot truly unwind, or it takes us its whole duration to finally be able to calm down.

We simply use our mind too much.

Fortunately, meditation has the ability to cut through the noise of our thoughts and take us into true silence, giving our mind the rest it really needs for it to recharge.

2) Stress makes us lose our healthy habits, which in turn makes the stress bigger

Often, in times of pressure, we start skipping meals or we overeat, feel too tired to move our body or, when we do, we push it, we start binging TV series to fall asleep and then we don’t get enough sleep.

All this erodes our ability to navigate stress. Without our healthy habits, we are more vulnerable to worrying, getting stuck, tensing up around our everyday problems.

By spending too much time in our heads, we are getting more and more disconnected from our body. And then we get disconnected from our natural cycles of rest-activity or hunger-satiety.

The antidote to this is moving and growing the awareness of our body, which can definitely be achieved through special techniques of (“active”) meditation.

3) We walk in the same beaten tracks of thinking

You’d think that so much thinking is good for problem solving. But deep inside we all know that it’s not.

All this thinking does is to cement our usual lines of thought, making it difficult to find innovative, quicker or less expensive solutions to our work or life challenges.

That is why, in stress, many of us feel stuck.

Just silencing the mind (even if for a short time) will help us change the perspective on any problem at hand. But furthermore, there are certain meditation techniques which help us specifically become more creative, more open to possibilities, more inclusive of other perspectives.