3 Day Somatic Mindfulness Workshop

Somatic Mindfulness Workshop

A 3 Night Immersive with Trauma Sensitive Practices

with Kate Duncan and Lisa Brown

Corindi Beach, NSW

This 3 Day intensive workshop integrates trauma-sensitive practices with scientific insights from Western Psychology, and the transformative, evidence-based Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Mindful Self-Compassion programs.

Develop valuable and life changing practices for managing stress, depression, anxiety, illness, insomnia, chronic pain, trauma, and grief.

Lisa and Kate adapted the MBSR program as Mindfulness based Trauma Recovery and Prevention program for Frontline Workers (MB-tr) which over four years has consistently shown significant reductions in symptoms of PTSD, Depression and Anxiety as well as increases in interception and subjective wellbeing.

Who can participate?

This retreat is open to anyone interested in developing trauma sensitive mindfulness and yoga practices to integrate in daily life. This retreat is suitable for everyone, including therapists and people working in health, education and frontline workers for trauma recovery or prevention.

About the Venue

Our retreat is located at the Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural centre in Corindi Beach. This venue is nestled on the stunning Mid North Coast of New South Wales in the northern lowlands of Gumbaynggirr Country, the ancestral lands of Mirlagalgi people and the Garby elders. 

Yarrawarra is a place of learning, sharing and celebration set in peaceful surroundings. It is simple dorm style accomodation with shared bathrooms, set in a space where everyone is invited to slow down, reconnect to the land.

All-inclusive Retreat Prices:

You can secure your place right now with a $500 deposit. 

• Early Bird - Twin Share Room with shared bath - $ 995

• Early Bird - Single Room with shared bath - $ 1195

• Twin Share room with shared bath - $1095

• Single Room with shared bath - $1295

Medicare rebates or Work Cover Insurance might be able to be organised for this retreat.

Remainder can be paid in instalments if required. Please contact Lisa to organise your payment plan 0400491477 or lisa@mindful-wellbeing.com 

PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS MAY BE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

3 Night Retreat Inclusions:    

• 3 nights simple and beautiful accommodation at Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre

• Nourishing vegetarian cuisine, 3 meals per day and snacks

• Daily instruction in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation Practices 

• Twice daily gentle Mindful Movement (Trauma Sensitive Yoga)

• Individual Meetings with Kate and Lisa

Enquiries: phone: Lisa - 0400491477 or Kate - 0475771918
Email: Kate@kateduncanyoga.com or  lisa@mindful-wellbeing.com

Lisa Brown is a Registered Psychologist, Yoga Teacher, Certified Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Teacher (Brown University, USA), Mindful Self-Compassion Facilitator and Insight Dharma Teacher. She is dedicated to helping people connect with their innate capacity for healing and wellbeing through practices which integrate ancient wisdom and modern psychology for trauma recovery.

As an Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Lisa taught mindfulness and retreats for post-graduate students and has a deep interest in the conjunction of western science, Buddhadharma and earth-based wisdom traditions in health, healing and trauma recovery. Lisa has 20 years experience as a psychologist and currently works in private practice in Coffs Harbour NSW. She has experience working with the NSW Sexual Assault Service, Child Protection, Family Therapy, Aboriginal Health and Diabetes. Her training as a Yoga Teacher provides an integration of somatic healing practices with mindfulness and wellbeing to support trauma recovery. For more information about Lisa, please see www.mindfulnesspsychologywellbeing.com

Kate Duncan  is an Insight Dharma Teacher, a Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction teacher, and an E-RYT 500 Yoga Instructor. Kate facilitates silent meditation retreats, women’s retreats and leads mindfulness-based trauma recovery programs for frontline workers. She has been a practitioner of meditation for 15 years and has sat (and facilitated) over 40 retreats in the Western Insight tradition of up to 30 days in length.

As a former Firefighter Paramedic and Intensive Care Paramedic, Kate deeply understands the stress, anxiety, burn out and post traumatic stress that can accompany a frontline workers life. She is most interested in exploring how frontline workers can return to a place of safety, ease and wellbeing in the world, regardless of what they have experienced.  As a guest lecturer of Mindfulness to Paramedic students at Flinders University, she also enjoys teaching about trauma prevention. 

Kate has been deeply influenced by the role of mindfulness of the body, yoga and breath in her own recovery journey and is deeply passionate about sharing these body based practices.

You can find out more about Kate at her website www.KateDuncanYoga.com