🌿 Stillness Within: A Day to Soothe Stress & Anxiety

Calm your body, settle your thoughts, and rediscover deep rest

Sunday 13 July 2025

Lam Rim Buddhist Centre, Penrhos

✨ Let the Stillness Heal You. Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or simply unable to find a sense of peace?

Do you crave a day to simply breathe, rest, and reconnect with yourself?

Join us for a gently transformative retreat designed to help you release tension, ease anxiety, and rediscover calm through Dru Yoga, guided meditation, and the deeply restorative practice of Yoga Nidra.

This is not just a break from your daily life — it’s a doorway back to your inner peace.

In a world that moves too fast, it's easy to get caught in the tide of anxiety, stress, and sleepless nights. This day retreat offers a rare chance to press pause — to stop rushing, stop pushing, and simply be. It’s a space where your nervous system can exhale, your mind can soften, and your spirit can begin to rest.

Stillness Within is not about striving. It’s about remembering. Remembering how it feels to feel safe, grounded, and whole. Through a nourishing combination of Dru Yoga, Meditation, and Yoga Nidra, you’ll be gently guided to reconnect with the calm that already lives within you.

Whether you're brand new to yoga or already experienced, this retreat welcomes all levels. The practices are designed to be accessible, supportive and deeply effective, even for those navigating health conditions or long-standing fatigue.

🧘‍♀️ What You’ll Experience

Dru Yoga for Calm and Flow
Accessible for all levels, Dru Yoga uses soft, flowing movements, breathwork, and visualisation to gently unlock tension and restore natural balance.
Meditation Made Easy
Whether you’re a complete beginner or have meditated before, you’ll be guided through simple, effective techniques to quiet the mind and reduce inner restlessness.
Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep)
A powerful guided relaxation that brings deep rest to your nervous system — ideal for healing stress, insomnia, and emotional fatigue.

Breathwork to soothe your nervous system, improve focus, and restore clarity.

All this, held in the peaceful, healing environment of the Lam Rim Buddhist Centre — a Tibetan lineage sanctuary with decades of meditation embedded in its walls. Surrounded by beautiful gardens, a tranquil prayer path, and ancient trees, it’s a place where nature, quietude, and spiritual presence gently support your journey back to balance.

🌸 This Retreat is for You If:

You feel mentally or emotionally exhausted
Anxiety or tension is affecting your sleep or focus
You’re new to yoga or meditation and want a welcoming, non-judgmental space
You’re experienced and ready to go deeper into stillness
You simply need a day for you

🌼 This day retreat will help you:

Soothe your anxiety and feel calmer in your body and mind
Sleep more deeply and wake with a clearer head
Step back from overwhelm and feel emotionally grounded again
Reconnect to your breath as a source of stability and peace
Experience rest in a way that you may never have before

🌿 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

❤️ Accessible, Supportive & Genuinely Nourishing

You don’t need to be flexible, spiritual, or stress-free to come. You just need to be open to the possibility that healing doesn’t always require effort — sometimes it just needs space.

Our approach is gentle, grounded and deeply human. We offer a safe space where it’s okay to move slowly, lie down often, or take breaks when you need. We value connection — to yourself, to others, and to the land — more than performance or perfection.

✨ What’s Included:

5 hours of guided yoga, meditation, breathwork & Yoga Nidra
Quiet time to rest or enjoy the garden and trees
A light, delicious vegetarian/vegan lunch
Three tea & biscuit breaks with time to reflect or connect
Time on the tree-lined prayer path (weather permitting)

📍 Practical Details

Date: Sunday 13 July 2025
Time: 10am – 4pm (arrive from 9.30am)
Cost: £88

Venue: Lam Rim Buddhist Centre
Pentwyn Manor, Penrhos, Raglan, Usk, NP15 2LE

(Easy access from Abergavenny, Monmouth, and Chepstow)

BY CAR - Lam Rim is within easy reach from main motorway routes.

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 with a passion for helping people soften, heal, and come home to themselves. Between us, we bring decades of experience in holistic wellbeing, including breath coaching, hands-on healing, acupuncture and care work.

We live simply near the Wye Valley, with nature as our teacher and sanctuary. We know what it’s like to feel stretched thin — and how vital it is to have spaces like this to come back to yourself.

This is not a performance. It’s not about fixing. It’s about remembering who you are beneath the noise, and gently reawakening the peace that’s been there all along.

💬 Questions? Bookings?

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 07792 861108

Come and spend a day that will leave you feeling lighter, clearer and more deeply connected to yourself.
You don’t need to know how. You just need to come.

💛 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

🌿 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.