Resting in Awareness – 3 Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat
Taking time to rest and unplugging from our busy lives can allow us the space to more fully connect with our experience, see things differently, and to soften around the stressors and challenges we are facing.
Join Stephanie for this three-day residential retreat and immersion into mindfulness meditation. We will explore the benefits of cultivating and resting in awareness, learning new ways to relate to and care for ourselves with warmth and kindness.
Our time together will be guided with sitting meditation, body scan practice, gentle mindful movement/yin-style yoga and walking meditation. The Bethlehem Centre is situated on a beautiful lake with lovely gardens, peaceful trails through the forest and a mindful walking labyrinth.
This retreat is held primarily in silence and is device-free. This environment offers a rare and precious opportunity to turn inward, listen deeply, and to meet our moment-to- moment experience with more clarity, wisdom, and compassion.
Informative talks on the process of being on retreat, mindfulness, stress reactivity, and other topics will be presented by the instructor. Small and large group discussions will center around our experience together walking, sitting, and breathing in the quiet of the beautiful retreat site.
DATE: November 27-30, 2025
- check in: Th.Nov.27 (3-5pm / orientation 5:20pm / dinner 5:30pm)
- check out: Sun.Nov.30 at 1pm (after lunch)
LOCATION: Bethlehem Centre (Nanaimo)
REGISTRATION: Click here to register through the retreat centre
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Stephanie Curran is an acupuncturist, clinic owner, parent, and a long-time dedicated practitioner of meditation. She is a certified instructor of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, has completed a variety of training in trauma-informed facilitation, and has a special interest in working with people who have been touched by grief and loss. Stephanie has been leading mindfulness programming since 2010 and loves the intimacy and depth of connection that comes from cultivating awareness, kindness, and compassion in community together.
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