Your Easy Guide To Hosting A Successful Retreat
Why host a retreat? Imagine sharing your knowledge and passion with motivated individuals in a serene setting, seeing firsthand their profound shift in thinking and mindset. That’s the power of a retreat. When you host a retreat, whether it’s around art, yoga or...
Why Yoga? – A Lifelong Inner and Outer Journey
A Culture of Shortcuts Our modern society places a huge focus on efficiency and pace. This applies to fitness and unfortunately our bodies too; as reflected by fad diets, pills, and crash exercise programs. When our objectives become too narrow, for example ‘to...
Let your Inner Child out to play: music and movement reflections
Happy Buddha is full of music. Pianos, drums, volunteers singing in the kitchen, sound bowls – you name it. We offer Sound Healing retreats, Drum and Dance retreats, plus Drum Circles. Does that mean you have to be musically gifted to attend? Absolutely not! We...
6 alternatives to meditation to help you feel calmer and grounded
Here’s how to experience the benefits of meditation without sitting in a quiet room…
You’ve completed a silent retreat.. Now what? Five ways to bring mindfulness back home
Completed a silent retreat? Here are five things you can do to help hold onto some of the mindfulness magic your experienced!
A tech-free weekend: Where meditation and mindfulness leads to a little magic.
A guest & writer details her silent retreat experience and is surprised at how impactful this tech-free retreat is.
Make each morning a ritual
One of the most profound tips I’ve ever heard is: to set an intentional morning ritual. Annie Dillard once famously said ‘how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.’ This might seem simple, but try stay with it for a moment. Given that each of our...
The Magic of Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra first entered my life whilst travelling. I was visiting a tiny Peruvian town full of alternative healing wonders. Upon seeing a poster for Yoga Nidra class I thought, why not? The sleeping woman pictured looked blissful. I was the only participant later...
Practicing self-care (when we need it the most)
If there’s something we can all agree on, it would be that this year has been full of mental, emotional and spiritual challenges for most of us. A major positive aspect to have come from this, is that self-care seems no longer to be an elusive topic. Out of necessity...
What to do when life throws you a curveball
You’re happily cruising through life, work and play. All feels great and then suddenly… Bang! A curveball comes out of nowhere and seriously shakes things up. We’ve all been there. And it’s not always the drastically earth-shattering events either. Sometimes it’s the...
Intuition: turn up your Inner Voice
Some of us hear our inner voice loud and clear. We make aligned decisions quickly and seamlessly. On the other hand, some of us have the opposite experience. We struggle to know what we truly think, want or don’t want. What has happened here is that we’ve silenced our...
Mid-year Motivation: Books to Inspire Momentum
It seems as though time is flying… but can you believe we’re already just over halfway through the year? It’s time to re-examine those New Year’s resolutions, and to take a look at how you’re tracking. It’s time to pat yourself on the back, as well as to...
5 Tips for a Spiritual Summer
There’s no denying the magic of lazy summer days. You know, the ones where soft sand calls our name, and we spend our eating fruit and drinking in sunlight. It’s the time of the year where adventure beckon us, to create some of our most treasured memories… On...
The Nature Connection: Benefits of a Bush Wander
Feel renewed after some time in the bush? Find out how to use the nature connection to boost mood and restore mental energy.
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