July 2019
Come and enjoy the smorgasbord of riding options available at this wonderful Marico biking destination. Bring your mountain or gravel bike, or both. Tell us what you are looking for and we will design a route for you. Popular options include the Water Wonderland tour (see below), which includes a swim at the Marico Oog, [...]
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Retreat Overview On this retreat, we’ll be playing mindfulness and writing games, nurturing our sense of wonder and astonishment at our precious human life. How extraordinary to be alive at all! We’ll explore mindfulness as a creative practice, as a way of encouraging awareness, a way of being present. We’ll be doing workshops geared towards [...]
Find out moreSeptember 2019
Green Tara is a beloved meditation deity in the pantheon of Tibetan Buddhism. She symbolizes the compassion and action of all the Buddhas, and is able to swiftly liberate us from fears. She is usually depicted in traditional art with her right leg bent, ready to jump up to help all sentient beings. She has [...]
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It's time to shake off the winter, and replenish yourself during this Heritage Day yoga retreat. Join Steven Heyman and Lucy Draper-Clarke for a long weekend of yoga, mindfulness and outdoor adventure in the Groot Marico District. Our first session will begin after lunch on 21st September, and end after lunch on 24th September, but [...]
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When interacting with others, we often find ourselves triggered and then communicate in ways that hurt or harm - ourselves, the other, or the relationship between us. We have not learnt how to use mindful and authentic communication. “When you are busy judging people, you have no time to love them.” Marshall Rosenberg We will [...]
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Come and enjoy a weekend of relaxed birding in the beautiful Marico middleveld. Your Guide Lance is a Johannesburg based birder who is the incumbent Honorary President and former chairman of the Wits Bird Club. Lance often presents beginners bird courses and talks, and is an enthusiastic citizen scientist with a keen interest in butterflies [...]
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The idea of the Dharma encampment is to create an environment to inquire into and practice the way of truth or Dharma. The purpose to bring about qualitative change in our lives by bringing forth innate intelligence (prajna ) and compassion ( karuna). Without understanding ourselves , whatever we do will caught in the traps [...]
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Ethics and Heart in the 21st century We will explore the content of our lives and look at how we can make a difference through ethical living and with heart or love in a world fraught with conflict, fragmentation and raucous voices of extremism. Are there universal guideline which are cross cultural to which we [...]
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