Awakening to Self-Love : Half-Day Silent Meditation Retreat, Dunedin

Enjoy guided meditation practices that reaffirm your already OK nature and allow you to relax fully into life.

This is your time. Let go of any other agenda except your own wellbeing.

Learn to deeply trust your own experience and wake up to the inherent natural love.

Whether you have never meditated before, are a beginner or an experienced meditator, this retreat offers you everything you need to experience the benefits of the silent meditation retreat environment.

The retreat will comprise of guided meditations, walking meditation, meditation teachings and an opportunity for question and answers.

This retreat is tech-free and silent. There will be opportunities for questions, answers and group discussion.

"It fulfilled my needs. It was calming, informative and made people feel safe."

Heinke, Dunedin

"It was an exceptionally valuable experience. The pace of the morning was just right and the teaching was excellent. It was a very peaceful morning and a very gentle way to feeling good about yourself and your place in the world."

Liz Owen

"I enjoyed the relaxed but knowledgeable approach and the chance to meditate In a relaxed and supportive group."

Grant , Dunedin.

Your Meditation Teacher - Kovido Maddick

Kovido has over 40 years experience in mindfulness and meditation and spent 10 years training as a Buddhist Monk, in the Thai Forest Tradition, under Ajahn Sumedho.

He has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programmes since 1996. He is a certified teacher and coach with Mindfulness Works. He is also a co-facilitator of the Dunedin Men’s group and a Hakomi Graduate.

Although his training is primarily Buddhist he is very eclectic, drawing on the wisdom of many different traditions and contemporary teachers including Rumi, Osho, Ajahn Chah, Ram Dass, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Jeff Foster and Thich Naht Hanh. Probably his greatest teachers have been his two foster children, Mason and Savannah, who could take him from love, joy, delight to rage and frustration and despair on a daily basis.

For many many years, Kovido tried to get enlightened, improve himself, get better at meditation but constantly failed. Gradually his focus has changed to more self-acceptance, trusting his own intuition and being with life as it is on this wonder-full and mysterious journey as a human being.

Recently he walked the 800km Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route in Northern Spain, which has greatly affected his attitude to meditation practice and life.