Mindful Walking: Appreciation of Each Step

Due to the Covid19 Pandemic, this retreat is being offered online from 9:30am-12:30pm. Once registered, you'll receive an email with a ZOOM meeting id link.

Mindful Walking is a practice of lifting, placing, shifting, and noticing; perhaps looking at walking as a whole and unique experience. With this practice, we learn to bring the focal attention to the feet. Walking very slowly with deliberate intention, we pick up one foot, place it in front of the other, noticing the shifting weight, then bringing the same attention to the other foot. Like a child learning to walk, we take each step as if it was our first.

Mindful Walking is experiential learning. As we practice, how grateful we feel and how appreciative of our feet we become. By paying attention to the act of walking, we become mindful that our feet support and carry us day in and day out, from here to there, up and down stairs, and all the while we seldom give thought to the miracle they perform. Experience a new joy in everyday walking.

Mindfulness means being present in each moment, exactly the way it is, without judging the experience but rather investigating it with curiosity. In this online retreat,we will gain appreciation for body movement and our feet.

Bringing attention to these practices helps us slow down and become filled with gratitude for the action we are doing rather than the emotional experience.  These practices are just some of many ways to bring Mindfulness into our daily lives and it’s more important to practice embodying them rather than just “doing” them.  During this retreat, you will learn to notice when  you are living on auto pilot and when you’re really living in the moment. You will discover the difference in living fully and uncover what is hindering “real life experiences”. 

This retreat will be offered at a reduced length and fee.  Length: 3 hours, Fee: $20