Mindfulness for Anxiety & Low Mood: 4-night retreat

Overview

The Mindfulness Retreat for Anxiety and low mood is a 4-night stay at The Coach House retreat venue in beautiful South Devon, offering a restorative and supportive environment for those experiencing mild to moderate anxiety and/or low mood.

This is a supportive space where you’ll combine mindfulness practice with time spent in nature, helping you to learn how to step out of cycles of worry & rumination, self-criticism and overwhelm and begin to relate to your thoughts and feelings with greater kindness and balance.

Both retreat leaders are trained mindfulness teachers (and practising therapists and counsellors) with longstanding experience of our approach to Mindfulness-Based Nature Connection.

This retreat incorporates the nature-based mindfulness teachings & practices from our Mindful-in-Nature programme that we ran for nearly a decade.

You’ll stay in a single-occupancy room – most of which are en-suite – in our beautifully converted 18th century Coach House quadrangle.

Please note: this retreat is not suitable for those experiencing severe anxiety, depression, an acute mental health crisis or who require clinical or therapeutic intervention.

Schedule

If you’re coming to stay with us on retreat, it is important to make a commitment to arrive in time for the first group meeting and to attend all the days.

This ensures you experience the retreat programme from start to finish and helps your group of participants to gel.

Silence

All our retreats include periods of silence as a way of deepening into mindful awareness.

If you are new to spending time in silence in the company of other people, it can feel awkward to begin with. But we encourage you to explore the silent periods with a spirit of openness and curiosity – people usually find it to be a positive experience.

The retreats typically move into silence each evening from 9pm – 9/9.30am the following day

Typical Schedule

Day 1: Arrive between 3 – 5pm for welcome meeting and settling in

Final day: depart by 11am

The retreat will move into silence each evening from 9pm – 9/9.30am and on one full day in each retreat.