The single most important reason to come on retreat is to allow your mind and body to rest, repair and recover. The Byron Bay Renew Retreat 3-6 August is the ultimate in front end, preventative health care.
What we know is that there is an immediate relationship between adequate, good quality rest, and mental and physical health, including reproductive health.
Rest is the most effective thing we can do each day to reset the health of our brain and our body. Your emotional integrity falls apart when you’re not getting enough rest, but most people aren’t getting enough hours of good quality sleep on a daily basis.
The data is very powerful and robust that people when they are suffering from insomnia and are put into a meditation practice, the severity of the insomnia drops in a way that prescription medications can’t come close to. Meditation allows the mind and body to relax deeply, and release the stored stress and trauma held in the body that is the root cause of the sleeplessness, and poor quality sleep.
Why is this so important?
There is a very intimate association between your sleep health and your immune health. Sleeping less than 7 hours a night makes you almost three times more likely to become infected by the commune cold. Women sleeping 5 hours or less a night are more than 60% more likely to develop pneumonia.
Just one night of less than 4 hours sleep drops the anti cancer fighting cells, by 70%.
In the last 20 years we’ve not been able to find a single psychiatric condition in which sleep is normal.
What is sleep doing for our health? Sleep provides opportunity to increase immune factors, and increases the sensitivity and receptivity of your body to these immune factors. You wake up the next morning as a more robust immune individual. You restock the weaponry in your immune arsenal. Importantly if you’ve been having lots of late nights in your lifetime, or working shift work, the mind and body never actually catchup on this lack of rest, we accumulate sleep and rest debt, and this prints out in us in disorder and disease, unless we are actively prioritising deep rest through additional things like meditation and retreats.
I’m not sharing this to scare you. I’m sharing this to empower you.
Not sleeping well and not waking up feeling rested? Come on retreat and let’s give your mind a body a chance to renew, recharge your battery so you leave feeling amazing, and move through the accumulated layers to restore your sleep quality going forward!
Sleeping well? Waking up feeling amazing? Great! Let’s keep it that way! This is the most amazing place to come to retreat from. When we are able to do the work front end, before there is accumulation and ill health!
20 minutes of Vedic meditation is the equivalent of 3-4 hours of rest, 5 times deeper than the deepest point of sleep. Gift this time to yourself.
Come on retreat and feel what it feels like to feel deeply renewed!
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