Online: Beginning Anew – A Winter Retreat for the New Year
with Mona Chopra
Saturday, January 7th, 2023 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ET
As we start a new year and begin again, we have an invitation to ask ourselves anew – how do I want to be in the world?
So often there is a gap between what we most deeply want, what we believe, what we value, our aspirations, what we know to be true – and how we end up living our day to day lives. The busyness of life, the “noise” of the world, the seemingly endless chatter in our own minds – these often obscure the deeper truths from us. We remain caught in the hamster wheel, day after day, making it difficult to fully, truly, wholly and intimately inhabit our lives.
In this half day retreat, we will return to the natural world as our teacher, honoring the rhythm and pace of the winter season, and beginning the process of slowing down, moving into deeper states of yin. Just as trees in the winter become bare, revealing the basic skeleton, we too will practice becoming bare, and noticing what is revealed in that emptiness. We will connect with the primordial element of Water and the waterways within ourselves. How can we bring greater fluidity, clarity, ease, and flow?
Through meditation, contemplation, mindful movement and journaling, we will explore stillness and movement, silence and sound, spaciousness and the paramita of patience, and we will be invited into ever-deepening states of quietude and rest. Within this space, we will let be, and listen.
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Teacher(s)
Mona Chopra
Mona Chopra is a licensed acupuncturist, hypnotherapist and meditation instructor living and working in NYC.
Mona has been professionally immersed in the field of mind-body medicine for over two decades, and personally connected to these teachings and practices since childhood. Foundational to all Mona’s work is the understanding that while suffering is part of life, our capacity to heal is boundless.
Mona is profoundly grateful to all the teachers in her life, in all the forms they have, and continue to appear.
To learn more about Mona and her work: www.peopletreewellness.com