Digital Detox Made Fun!
In today’s tech-driven world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, disconnected, and constantly distracted. Our Digital Wellness Retreat program offers a transformative approach to re-connecting with our-selves and the natural world, and enjoying a healthier tech-life balance. This nature-based program is based on our book Less Screen More Green - with a foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall.
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Our Program Offers:
YOGA, CHI GONG, MEDITATION, MINDFUL TECH, FOREST BATHING & CONTEMPLATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
Throughout the retreat, we’ll guide you through mindful practices that empower you to break free from tech dependency (addiction?) and reset your relationship with your phone and digital media.
By the end of the retreat, you’ll have learned healthier tech habits and practical wellness tools.
Mindful Tech Principles, what you will gain:
• Our Best Practices detail the signs of screen-related stress and tech overload; how to reduce these symptoms with eye exercises, stretching, deskercises, and healthier ergonomics - more details on our Home page: Digital Wellness At Work.
• Digital Detox Skills, Rewiring Tech Habits – Learn how: we get hooked by the craving pleasure-hits
of dopamine; to use our tech with a sense of purpose, not endless distraction; to set guidelines and boundaries around screentime, social media, and notifications. Discover how to create a low- EMF, and tech-free sanctuary to sleep well throughout the night and boost your long-term wellbeing.
• Clarity and Focus: Learn techniques to be more fully present in the moment, and develop a calmer mind facing deadlines and demands at work, even in our frenzied, hyper-connected world.
YOGA: Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or new to yoga, this program will help you find deep relaxation and reconnection with your body.​
• Gentle Flow & Restorative Yoga: Focus on slow, mindful movements that restore balance.
• Breathwork & Meditation: Techniques to center your mind and calm your nervous system.
• Somatic Healing: Body-focused practices that release tension and trauma, promoting inner peace.
• Integrating Yoga into Daily Life: Simple ways to incorporate mindful movement into your routine.
What You Will Gain
• Deep Relaxation: Let go of stress and tension through healing poses and meditation.
• Increased Flexibility: Restore flexibility both in body and mind.
• Mind-Body Connection: Cultivate awareness and presence, strengthening your connection.
Mindfulness Meditation practice while on the retreat to settle your body, and focus your mind.
The joy of being truly present - awake and relaxed – dynamic calm.
MINDFUL TECH: How to take these practices home and use healthier tech habits for on-going digital wellness in your daily life.
Getting outdoors, being in nature is always good. However, what's the impact if you're still absorbed in a digital cocoon? What do you miss when you're locked into your playlist? Our Mindful Tech approach is about finding balance with screen-free, analog, and nature-focused activities.
Our Forest Bathing nature walks - unplugged in any green space - offer ways to slow down, tune into our senses, ground ourselves and break free from digital addiction. Nature time heals and fuels us. This is the remedy for digital stress.
Easy Chi Gong
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When we sit for hours a day, our inner river becomes sluggish; we’re lacking oxygen.
Depleted energy manifest as fatigue, or depression.
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Practicing these gentle movements whenever you feel tired or stressed gets your chi life force flowing again.
Breathing in fresh air, we recharge our life force and connect with the natural energy fields of the earth.
Get the blood and lymph flowing. You may be surprised at how good you feel.
Mindful Tech is about finding a healthy balance; using technology with intention— not letting it enslave you. We even use our digital devices in this mindfulness practice. Our Mindful EYE is creative fun for novices and professional photographers alike.
The Mindful Eye - Zen & the Art of Contemplative Photography
Many participants use their smartphone cameras; we request they use airplane mode to stay offline and just be present in the moment.
This meditative practice is to slow down and see the world with fresh eyes, to tune into the colours, textures and vivid display of the phenomenal world.
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Photography has the power to deepen our awareness and reconnect us with the present moment. Inspired by The Mindful Eye approach, we invite you to slow down, observe, and see the world in a way that is both intentional and compassionate.​
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Through guided sessions in nature, you’ll learn to engage fully with your surroundings and capture images with a sense of stillness and reverence, helping you transform your relationship with both nature and yourself. Through the process, you’ll cultivate a practice of truly “seeing” — not just through your camera, but with all your senses, as we do in Forest Bathing.
• Mindful Seeing: Learn techniques to slow down and deepen your connection with nature.
• Techniques for Intuitive Photography: Focus on light, colour, texture, and detail, using your camera as a tool for mindfulness.
• Nature as a Teacher: Engage deeply with nature and let the landscape guide your creative eye.
• Reflective Practice: Share your images (optional) and reflect on your experience, cultivating insight and awareness through the process.
What You Will Gain:
• Mindful Observation: Increase your ability to see and appreciate the beauty in the world around you, whether it's in grand landscapes or small details.
• Creative Expression: Learn to express yourself through the lens, capturing the present moment with mindfulness.
• Expanded Awareness: Tap into the practice of mindful seeing to expand your creativity and presence in everyday life.
