mini retreats
Sound, Stillness & integration mini retreats
These monthly mini-retreats offer a longer, more spacious container for the kind of sound meditation practice you may already be familiar with. It’s an opportunity to slow down, settle, and explore awareness in a supported, embodied way.
Each session unfolds as a 2-hour experiential journey, gently weaving together sound, meditation, simple movement, and time for integration. Rather than offering teachings or explanations, the practices themselves invite insight and understanding through direct experience.
This work is not oriented toward fixing, healing, or achieving particular states.
It is an invitation for you to notice what is already present, and to allow your experience to unfold without effort.
An Integrated Approach
These mini-retreats bring together sound-supported rest, movement, and meditation as a single, continuous process.
Sound, movement, and stillness are not treated as separate practices, but as complementary ways of supporting awareness to settle into the body, the breath, and the wider field of experience. Each element prepares the ground for the next, allowing the nervous system to soften and attention to become more receptive.
The intention is not to guide you towards a particular outcome, but to create conditions where presence, clarity, and regulation can arise naturally.
sound meditation
Sound meditation uses sound as a support for awareness, rather than as something to focus on or be immersed in.
Instruments such as Himalayan and crystal singing bowls, chimes, drums, and subtle percussive textures are offered slowly and with care, with silence woven throughout. Sound is not used to lead attention, but to accompany it, inviting listening without effort.
Over time, awareness is encouraged to include breath, bodily sensation, thoughts, emotions, and the space in which they arise, all held within the same field of experience.
Sound remains secondary to awareness.
the role of sound-supported rest
Periods of sound-supported rest are included to allow your body and nervous system to settle before deeper meditative exploration.
Rather than functioning as a stand-alone sound bath, these periods help you to arrive, soften tension, and release some of the effort that often accompanies meditation. This makes it easier to remain present and embodied during movement and meditation without strain or over-efforting.
Resting here is not an end in itself, but part of a gradual inward turning.
why movement is included
Gentle, intuitive movement is included as a way of reconnecting awareness with the body, particularly after periods of rest or stillness.
Movement is slow, optional, and internally guided. There is no emphasis on form, alignment, or performance. Instead, attention is invited toward sensation, weight, breath, and internal movement.
This supports integration, helps prevent dissociation or drowsiness, and allows awareness to remain embodied as the practice continues.
how this differs from standard sound baths
These mini-retreats are not just sound baths or sound healing sessions.
Sound is not continuous, immersive, or used with a healing agenda. There is no energetic work being offered, and no expectation of release, catharsis, or transformation.
Instead, sound appears alongside silence, movement, breath, and awareness, supporting a meditative exploration where participants remain connected to their own inner experience throughout.
The emphasis is on noticing rather than receiving.
the shape of a session
Each mini-retreat follows a familiar, gentle arc, with subtle variations depending on the monthly theme:
All elements are invitational. You are welcome to lie down, sit, move, or step back at any point.
monthly themes
Each month explores a different aspect of embodied awareness, while maintaining a consistent structure that allows the body and nervous system to settle over time.
reset & root
An exploration of grounding and support. Attention is drawn towards contact, weight, and stability, supporting regulation and a sense of being held.
arrive & allow
An invitation to soften effort and meet experience as it is. This theme explores allowing sensations, thoughts, and emotions to arise without needing to change or resolve them.
breathe & be
Breath becomes the primary point of contact for awareness. Sound and silence support attention to rest with the natural rhythm of breathing.
sense & settle
A somatic exploration of sensation and embodiment. Awareness is guided toward direct felt experience as a foundation for presence and safety.
open & rest
Sound gradually gives way to silence, inviting awareness to rest in stillness and spaciousness without effort or direction.
integrate & ground
A gathering of experience. Attention is drawn towards coherence and continuity—supporting the integration of practice into daily life.
who these mini retreats are for…
No prior experience with meditation or sound is required.
a monthly rhythm
Each mini-retreat stands alone, while also forming part of a monthly rhythm of practice. You are welcome to attend occasionally or return regularly, allowing familiarity and depth to develop over time.