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Namaste Retreat’s casual atmosphere provides the perfect alternative to motel stays. Two or more associates may have exclusive use of the west wing, including two bedrooms, two baths, kitchen, living room, meeting room, access to deck, covered porch, salt water pool, and hot tub. More bedrooms available for larger groups.
The intimate, peaceful setting
is ideal for team building,
increasing creativity,
energizing, and focusing on new
ways to explore and solve
problems. Namaste Retreat has a
list of life coaches, body
workers, artists, and other
facilitators to help you
personalize your retreat for the
entire body, mind, spirit
experience. Please check the
customized retreat page.
"Offsite strategic-planning
retreats typically are able to
accomplish more than meetings
held on site," said Merianne
Liteman, a strategy consultant
based in Arlington, Va., and the
co-author of
Retreats That Work:
Everything You Need to Know
About Planning and Leading Great Offsites.
Going offsite is the key to
developing an effective plan.
Attending a retreat wrenches the
busy entrepreneur away from the
day-to-day office grind, and
allows him or her to focus on
the future.
When co-workers meet away from
the office, "magic often
happens," Liteman said. "They
interact in session without
being distracted from thinking
deeply and strategically. They
eat lunch and dinner together.
They take walks between sessions
or before breakfast. They start
the next morning with fresh
ideas, triggered by something
they heard the day before, or
perhaps the evening before over
a beer with colleagues."
Successful offsites build
employee loyalty and
camaraderie. It’s a great way to
align and design common vision
and commitment as well as
improve relationships,
behaviors, attitudes and
perceptions.
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Meeting Room |
Living Room |
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Serve yourself breakfast from a variety of choices
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Catering available for lunch-n-learn or dinner
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Choose from practitioners on customized page to enhance your meetings or simply make your stay more relaxing
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Wireless
Internet
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Rates begin at $60 per person per night, based on number of nights and number of guests.
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Coral Room |
Star Room
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Amenities
I like the idea of interactive
experiences such as labyrinths and
reflexology paths and Zen gardens.
Interacting with these ancient paths in
our modern times can bring peace and
calm to the body, mind, and soul. Below
find more information on each.
Zen Garden
A
garden style unique to Japan, which
appeared in the Muromachi period
(1392-1568). Using neither ponds nor
streams, it makes symbolic
representations of natural landscapes
using stone arrangements, white sand,
moss and pruned trees.
Zen gardening helps clear the mind of
the chaos associated with everyday life.
The rocks represent mountains and the
sand represents water. The patterns you
create by raking the sand around the
rocks will provide you with serenity.
A recent suggestion by Gert van Tonder
of Kyoto University and Michael Lyons,
of Ritsumeikan University, is that the
rocks form the subliminal image of a
tree. This image cannot be consciously
perceived when looking at them; the
researchers claim the subconscious mind
is able to see a subtle association
between the rocks. They believe this is
responsible for the calming effect of
the garden and is also made to have a
quiet place for meditation, however
their comments are speculation and not
supported by Japanese traditions.
Labyrinth
The
labyrinth is a maze-like walking
path, a sacred space, to think, gather
your thoughts, ask for courage, etc. It
is a place to look inward but to also
survey progress and movement. It is a
symbolic ritual that involves walking.
Due to this walking as part of the
ritual, Dr. Artress calls this a "body
prayer." The labyrinth is not a maze, as
mazes usually have more than one path,
and the labyrinth is one path, winding
around. You cannot get "lost" in the
labyrinth. It has one path, that leads
to the center, and back out. The general
idea is to quiet your mind, and use the
walking inwards toward the middle to
think about releasing and letting go of
things that are in the way of your
health, progress, success, etc. Then
when you reach the center, you meditate
and pray and stay as long as you want,
absorbing energy and gathering strength
and peace. Then you take the path out,
becoming empowered to make changes, yet
this is also the path you took in, which
is symbolic. You start to have a sense
of growth as you come to the labyrinth
with different issues, different things
you walk in and out with.
Labyrinths have supposedly existed for
at least 3500 years, and they come in
both square and circular patterns. Most
have one path in and out, which winds
around towards the center.
Ancient/historical labyrinths have been
found throughout North Africa, Europe,
India and Indonesia, the American
Southwest
Reflexology Path
Reflexology paths exist all over Asia,
among other places; in China, Singapore,
Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, and in the
U.S., as well. Apparently in China,
people walk on the cobblestone streets
in a similar way to the way reflexology
paths are functioning. Current
reflexology paths in China are made of
thousands of stones, in patterns ranging
an entire block, laid out to walk on for
healing. Some say the stones drive
toxins out of your system, improve
circulation, and bring peace of mind.
These paths are similar to a good foot
massage and can feel like the bottom of
a riverbed.
In 2004,
Bastyr
Naturopathic University in Seattle,
installed the first public reflexology
path in the U.S. The University says
using the reflexology path is
preventative medicine, and they label
the path the "Walk of Health." You can
make your own reflexology paths in your
backyard, at a local park, or even by
just using different textured mats in
your house! Read more about how to make
your own reflexology path at
http://www.reflexology-research.com/howtoreflexpath.htm
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