On Site Non-Residential Retreats

From $100 PER PERSON

Day Retreats

Day visits are a perfect escape for a mini-break as Billabong Retreat is only 45 minutes from Sydney, 30 minutes from Castle Hill and 10 minutes from Rouse Hill. Check location

All our day retreat packages include:

use of retreat facilities including magnesium pool and lounges
unlimited teas, coffees and filtered water
delicious whole-food vegetarian lunch
afternoon tea
option to add on daytime yoga classes, wellness workshops, spa treatments, consultations and saunas
Prices from $100 + add on extras

Day visits are a perfect escape for a mini-break as Billabong Retreat is only 45 minutes from Sydney, 30 minutes from Castle Hill and 10 minutes from Rouse Hill. Check location

All our day retreat packages include:

On Site Non-Residential Retreats

Mindfulness invites us to deliberately direct our attention to this moment here and now inside and outside ourselves with an open curiosity, and with an attitude of kindness and compassion towards ourselves and what we are experiencing.

This enables us to discover new ways of relating to ourselves, to how we are in the world and in our relationships, through direct experience as we are experiencing it.

Mindfulness is a non-judgemental awareness of our present experience- noticing what is happening around you and in you at any time.. in the body and the breath, feelings, thoughts, and contemplation of mind states and relation to experience

Stress levels are reduced and we find we have a greater capacity to act more wisely and have more choice in how we respond to the daily challenges in our lives.

On Site Non-Residential Retreats

This enables us to discover new ways of relating to ourselves, to how we are in the world and in our relationships, through direct experience as we are experiencing it.

Stress levels are reduced and we find we have a greater capacity to act more wisely and have more choice in how we respond to the daily challenges in our lives.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programme is the original official, evidence-based intensive 8-week programme developed by Jon Kabat Zinn, the founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

The programme should only be delivered by qualified teachers from a recognised teacher training programme. All facilitators teaching at Ashe House are fully trained to teach the 8 week programmes and adhere to the Irish Good Practice Guidelines for teaching Mindfulness-Based courses as developed by the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI)

This 8 week life-skills course combines experiential mindfulness practices with the latest tools and techniques of neuroscience, positive psychology and the study of well-being.

What to Expect

This is an 8-week Intensive Training Programme consisting of 2.5 hours each session.
A Full Day of Practice usually after week 5 or 6 (10am to 4pm) – on Saturday or Sunday.
The programme includes guided instruction in Mindfulness Meditation Practices, informal mindfulness practices, short talks, experiential exercises, Mindful Movement, group dialogue, poetry, and home practices.
The four Formal Mindfulness practices include the Body Scan Meditation, Sitting Meditation, Mindful Movement (including gentle stretching and mindful yoga), and Walking Meditation.
Informal Mindful Meditation practices involve paying attention to ordinary moments in everyday life. Throughout the 8-week course, participants are given home practice materials including three guided CDs or a recording link for download along with a participant handbook.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is not group therapy although participants are invited to share their direct experiences of the practices and exercises. Time and space is given in each session for group dialogue and mindful communication.
Participants are encouraged to commit to practising for at least 30/40 minutes daily using the CDs supplied along with informal practice.
Home Practice is the most important aspect of the course as it is through personal experience in actually doing the practice that allows changes to organically occur in how we relate to ourselves and the world in our daily life.
The programme itself is challenging and life–affirming. A safe, supportive and deeply engaging experiential environment is provided by the facilitator so that you as a participant can deeply learn, practice, and integrate mindfulness into your everyday life.
3 guided CDs or recording link for download.

What is possible to practice and learn over the 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course?

Gain an understanding and awareness of the body, sensations and the breath from the inside out.
Developing this understanding or felt sense in the body and breath so that you can be fully present in the moment to name and recognise old habitual patterns, habits and beliefs as they arise.
Sensing in the body – improved self-awareness of self and others, using the breath and body as a barometer to stay ‘Here’.
You can live in the body more than in your head!
Noticing thoughts – the practices enhance our ability to focus and pay attention, to recognise thought patterns that are habitual and can in fact cause spiralling into a low mood or intensify stress. Mindfulness practice invites us to choose where to place our attention and how much energy to give to stress-intensifying thoughts.
Observing emotions – allowing emotions to be more fully present, manageable, tolerable and integrated.
Increased ability to manage stress more effectively by recognising your own stress reactions.
Exploring this awareness by inviting and allowing your present moment experience – you may choose to respond in a different way to yourself and the world. New ways of relating to yourself, others and your place in the world.
Inviting more choice: wiser decisions and wiser actions in your life.
Cultivating a warm and friendly attitude – invites and allows warmth, softening, soothing, allowing, deepening.
Invites being kinder and more compassionate to yourself – not wanting to change things or wishing all the time things were different, fighting with yourself, driving and striving – allows space for being kind to yourself.
Accept yourself as you are, not as you wish to be.
Seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary in everyday life – noticing the beauty of the world around and in you.
More presence to self so more present and available to those you are in relationship with – potential for better communication, engagement and connection in relationships, family and work.

On Site Non-Residential Retreats

Non-Residential Retreat Days/Weekend

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💙 Standard Rate

€350 (€150 Deposit)

8-Week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

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💙 Standard Rate

$695