98: Everything you need to know about wellness retreats
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About the Episode
What is the Royal Glow Meditation Retreat?
Many people discover wellness retreats at a time in their lives where they are ready for change from the familiar. As you may know, I am hosting The Royal Glow Meditation Retreat in the tropical Sarasota, Florida coming this fall! This episode is for you if you’ve never been to a retreat before and you’re curious or if you’d like a deeper dive into what you can expect when you attend one. I believe it’s essential for anyone to go into retreat once in a while. It’s important to give yourself the space to pause everything that you have been doing and to be able to view your current life from a higher perspective; not keep repeating the same patterns as if we are machines. Wellness retreats are like a breath of fresh air to the mind.
In today’s episode, I cover:
1:09- Introduction to Royal Glow Meditation Retreat in Sarasota, Florida & everything you need to know about retreats
1:23- What is a retreat? How are they different than events or conferences?
How many people we are allowing at Royal Glow Meditation Retreat?
What does the process to book a retreat look like?
2:55 - Why would someone attend a retreat?
3:57 - An Attention Crisis; what problems do attending a retreat solve?
5:50 - Why do we have a hard time changing habits in our normal environments?
6:40 - What can happen when we don’t pay attention to our own well-being?
7:30 - How are retreats different vacations?
8:18 - What makes a retreat so powerful?
How does going to a retreat help someone to look at your current problems differently?
12:00 - What kinds of opportunities happen at the retreat?
12: 38- What are the different kinds of retreats?
13: 50 - What can you expect at the Royal Glow Meditation Retreat?
The environment and the location
The like-minded company attending
The facilitation of the retreat for a well/being experience
20:45 - How does a retreat help one to deepen the relationship with themselves?
22:00 - How does the transformation happen?
The Body (how to relieve tension in the body and transform our emotions through meditation)
How do you teach the body to feel more relaxed?
23:00 - The mind body connection
25:00-How to destress the body?
26:00- THE BRAIN. How do we teach the brain to be present?
26:30 THE BREATH. What are the 5 breathing techniques? How does the breath allow us to access the unconscious patterns in the body?
Why is the body so afraid of being present?
32:99 - MOVEMENT
What is qi gong? What are dynamic yoga exercises?
35:00 - THE MIND
I used technology as an example of how it can mold our brain.
“We are training our brains how to participate with reality by what we are feeding it on daily basis.”
Sandy Vo
39:00- THE LOGISTICS; THE FOOD
40:00 - THE AGENDA
43:00 - What if I’m a beginner?
46:00- Should I attend with a friend or my partner
46:30- What kinds of meditations will you learn? Will you be sitting down the entire time?
47:00- What makes Royal Glow different?
47:52- If I have a religious background, will this impact my belief system?
49:00- What if I feel nervous?
50:00- Why the investment for retreats are higher
51:00- The packages we offer at Royal Glow
The Standard Package
The Royal Package
54:00- What are a few of the results Royal Glow attendees experienced since last year?
Resources mentioned in the podcast:
Meditation Studies and Benefits:
https://americanmeditation.org/clinical-studies/
Increasing gray matter in the brain
Book Your Spot at the Retreat:
Visit www.sandyvo.com/royalglowretreat
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