Quiet Mind, Open Heart: Grace and Possibility
Brooke Binstock, Marissa Knox and Kelly Lindsey
September 21–26, 2021
Kelly Lindsey
Brooke Binstock
Marissa Knox
Come home to yourself. Say YES to a spacious retreat designed to nurture your body, heart, and mind. Connect with your heartfelt knowing through embodied practices inspired by sacred wisdom traditions. Our practice will be centered around cultivating grace and possibility through remembering, nourishing, and resting in what is most important. The daily schedule will include guided meditation, yoga, bodywork, and time in nature, while being held in community. You will leave this retreat feeling open, inspired, and ready to move through the world with gratitude, connection, and trust in your wholeness.
Schedule
7:30 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Meditation, Contemplation, and Yoga
12:30 pm – Lunch
2:00 pm – Guided Hike, Stupa Visit, Individual Sessions, Rest
6:30 pm – Dinner
8:00 pm – Meditation, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra
Bodywork
These offerings will be available for an additional fee. You may sign up during the retreat.
Therapeutic Massage and Body Wisdom Sessions with Brooke
60 minute therapeutic massage -$125
90 minute therapeutic massage -$150
Body Wisdom Session- The body and mind are intricately connected. In this 2 hour session, get to know yourself more deeply. Experience an array of body-centered modalities steeped in self-compassion. Carry these tools with you into your everyday life so that you may embody a greater state of calm. – $250
Presenters
(from left) Brooke Binstock, Marissa Knox, Kelly Lindsey
Brooke Binstock
Brooke Binstock is a Licensed Social Worker, writer, massage therapist, and founder of Open Circle Healing, a wellness initiative rooted in body based self-care practices. Through her work, she is dedicated to cultivating a nonjudgmental approach to being human. Her teaching style is warm, grounded, compassionate, intuitive and body-centered. She encourages her clients and students to come home to themselves in a gentle, spacious and loving way.
Marissa Knox
Marissa C. Knox, PhD is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, researcher, and writer focused on supporting others to cultivate resilience, live with integrity, and embody compassionate wisdom. She is the author of g.r.a.c.e. and possibility, a book of poetry, contemplations, and self-reflective writing practices. In Marissa’s teaching and writing, she invites you to nurture a deeper connection to your wholeness, nature, and the miracle, mystery, and magic available in every moment.
Kelly Lindsey
Kelly Lindsey is a mother, meditation teacher, and somatic psychotherapist. She has been a meditation practitioner for more than 20 years and offers online meditation classes and workshops through Mind Oasis, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting a compassionate global community and making meditation practice accessible to practitioners worldwide.