Do you feel stressed, drained, exhausted? Are you facing an important decision? Do you need a retreat and finally some time for yourself again !? This break week offers you the ideal setting to find clarity, strength and focus again. For what is really important to you in life. Mindfulness training has established itself in the western world as an everyday way for more presence, serenity and concentration and less stress. The content imparted this week is based on yogic, Buddhist, Ayurvedic and the latest neuroscientific and psychological findings that are thousands of years old. The aim is to transfer a mindful attitude to everyday life and work and to be able to deal more calmly with stress and stressful thoughts and feelings. Learn to deal with high stress levels (work, family, relationships), to get out of negative spirals of thought, to find deceleration, to be more friendly with yourself and to gain more inner balance and joie de vivre. The workshop offers a practical introduction to mindfulness with various body, concentration and breathing exercises as well as mindfulness meditation with theoretical and philosophical aspects. Content of the seminar

• Train perception: body, thoughts, feelings and breath
• Mindful body work and conscious use of the breath
• Mindfulness meditations in rest and movement: Various sitting and walking meditations from the Buddhist Vipasana and Yoga tradition
• Philosophical considerations and theoretical introductions
• Western concepts for coping with stress: communication psychology, mental stress management
• Lots of tests and exercises for your own reflection and personal development
• Time for relaxation, regeneration and rest

Goals for our week together

• deal more calmly with high stress levels
• reduce stress-related symptoms
• learn to focus better despite the many distractions around you
• break out of negative thought patterns
• looking to slow down and come back into more contact with yourself
• gain more serenity, inner balance and joie de vivre

Stefan Geisse, Zurich MBA (Hamburg / Beijing), certified health coach (IHK), psychological advisor (REAA), Ayurvedic nutrition and lifestyle advisor, meditation teacher and yoga therapist. www.stress-auszeit.ch/ Form of instruction Group work and individual support Course times

• Course start: December 9th, 4.30 p.m.
• Friday to Saturday: 7.30 a.m. - 9 a.m., 10.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. (free time in between)
• End of course: December 12th, approx. 11.30 a.m.

In addition, individual coaching hours can be booked with the course instructor (for a surcharge): stress coaching, nutrition and lifestyle advice according to Ayurveda, yoga therapy, massages target group The course is suitable for people who

• feel stressed at work / in private
• want to work on a change in their situation
• want to live more consciously
• want to make an active contribution to maintaining or restoring their health
• want to learn a method of self-awareness and self-exploration

Course fee CHF 290.- Course flyer including room prices Book