🌿 Awaken the Heart: Reignite Energy and Inner Joy

A day to pause, breathe, and rediscover the strength already within you.

Sunday 21 September 2025 
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Lam Rim Buddhist Centre, Penrhos

As summer slips into autumn, nature begins her gentle turning inward. The days soften, light shifts, and we too may feel the subtle pull to slow down. But for many of us, this change in season brings more than falling leaves — it brings tiredness, heaviness, or a creeping low mood we can’t quite shake.

Awaken the Heart is a one-day retreat designed to help you meet that shift with strength, gentleness and renewed vitality. Through grounded, heart-focused practices, you’ll be supported to reconnect to your energy, uplift your spirits, and feel more emotionally balanced as the season changes.
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This isn’t about forcing a smile or pretending to feel good. It’s about remembering the joy that still lives underneath the fatigue or fog — and creating space for it to rise.

🍁 You’ll experience:​

• Heart-centered Dru Yoga to gently release stagnant energy and open the body
  
• Breathwork to calm the mind and lift your energy naturally
  
• Guided meditation to restore inner connection and emotional steadiness
  
• Yoga Nidra (deep rest) to nourish your nervous system and help you reset
  

All of this takes place in the peaceful sanctuary of the Lam Rim Buddhist Centre, a nurturing retreat space surrounded by trees, gardens, and stillness — the perfect place to turn inward and reconnect.

🌿 This Day is For You If:​

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• You feel emotionally drained and want to reconnect with yourself
  
• You’ve been giving out to others and long for inner renewal
  
• You want a grounded, compassionate space to feel supported
  
• You’re curious to feel more joy, energy, or inner warmth again
  

✨ This retreat will help you:

• Reignite a sense of purpose and lightness as autumn begins
  
• Shake off sluggishness and reconnect with natural vitality
  
• Feel more emotionally stable and resilient through seasonal change
  
• Restore inner warmth when you feel flat, stuck, or disconnected
  
• Remember the joy of simply being — without pressure or expectation
  

🌿 What You'll Leave With

• A sense of emotional lightness and mental clarity
• Techniques you can use at home to stay calm and centred
• A deep rest that lingers long after the day is over
• A feeling of being connected — to yourself, and to peace​​​

​❤️ Gentle, Grounded, and Real

This retreat is open to everyone — no flexibility, fitness, or experience required. Whether you’ve been feeling low, stretched thin, or just in need of a boost, this is a safe space to land. You’ll be guided with warmth, presence, and compassion.
We don’t believe in pushing through — we believe in pausing, softening, and meeting ourselves where we are. Sometimes, just one intentional day can shift everything.

​✨ What’s Included:

• 5 hours of guided Dru Yoga, breathwork, meditation and deep rest
  
• A nourishing plant-based lunch (vegan/vegetarian)
  
• Time to rest, reflect, or walk the tree-lined prayer path
  
• Tea, biscuits, and quiet connection with like-minded souls
  

  📍 Practical Details​

Date: Sunday 21 September 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm (arrive from 9.30am)
Cost: £88

Venue: Lam Rim Buddhist Centre
Pentwyn Manor, Penrhos, Raglan, Usk, NP15 2LE
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(Easy access from Abergavenny, Monmouth, and Chepstow)

BY CAR - Lam Rim is within easy reach from main motorway routes.
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Location: Lam Rim Buddhist Centre, Pentwyn Manor, Penrhos, Raglan Monmouthshire. NP15 2LE

​Directions to the Centre:

• a) From the A449 travelling from either Monmouth or Newport directions, take the A40 exit towards Abergavenny.
  • Get in the right hand lane to cross over the dual carriageway signed towards Mitchel Troy and Dingestow.
• b) From Abergavenny take the A40 towards Raglan / Monmouth. Take the slip road off towards Mitchel Troy and Dingestow.

Then for a or b :

• Almost immediately take the left fork towards Tregare.
• At the T Junction turn right where there is sign (small white post) for Lam Rim (your Sat Nav may suggest left at this point but please ignore it!). 
• Take the almost immediate next left, (notice the cream cottage on the right and turn left almost opposite this and before the red cottage which you will see ahead of you).   
• Follow this winding lane (bearing left at the green triangle) and then turn left at the sign post for Penrhos. 
• At the crossroads in the lane, Lam Rim Buddhist Centre is straight in front of you.   You will see the yellow and red notice board at the gate entrance.

🕊 About Your Guides​

We are Kari van Eden and Michael Cordel, Dru Yoga and Meditation teachers rooted in simplicity, nature, and the belief that true energy and joy come from within — not from striving.
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We know how depleting modern life can be, especially as the seasons shift. Our work is about creating safe, accessible spaces for people to return to themselves and gently rediscover what makes them feel alive again.

💬 Questions? Bookings?

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 07792 861108
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Let this be your reset button for the season ahead.
A day to breathe, reconnect, and awaken the light within you.
You don’t have to feel joyful to begin — just willing to show up.

💛 No Experience Needed — Just Bring Yourself

All practices are guided and beginner-friendly. You don’t need to be flexible, spiritual, or experienced — just open to pausing, breathing, and being supported.

🗓️ Book Your Place Today

Give yourself the gift of calm. Places are limited to ensure personal attention.​
👉 Reserve your space now and begin your return to stillness.

TESTIMONIALS....

​📍 A Place That Helps You Breathe Again

Lam Rim Buddhist Centre is more than a venue — it’s a peaceful haven, wrapped in trees, birdsong and quiet. The years of meditation and devotion held here create an atmosphere that gently invites you inward. From the first moment you arrive, something in you will begin to soften.

Answers To COMMON QUESTIONS
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​🌿 What You’ll Take Home With You 

A clearer mind and a calmer heart Simple, grounding practices to use anytime you feel overwhelmed A deep, nourishing rest that stays with you long after the retreat ends A renewed sense of connection — to your body, your breath, and your inner calm.

​💛 You’re Welcome Exactly As You Are

 No need to have done yoga or meditation before — everything is guided, gentle and fully accessible. You won’t be asked to push, perform or keep up. Just come as you are, and we’ll support you to move, rest and reconnect in a way that feels right for you.