RetreatFlierFall 2016 - Rebecca Eldridge.com

Simply Be Meditation Retreat, with Rebecca Eldridge
Ben Thacker-Gwaltney, RYT 200: Retreat coordinator and yoga instructor
Time to meditate and rest at a Blue Ridge Mountain retreat center. Meditation sessions offered
throughout the retreat, with a fireside meditation Saturday night. Yoga each morning. Noble silence will
be practiced much of the retreat. All adults interested in a time and space to slow down and simply be
are welcome. No meditation experience necessary. Limited to 30 adults.
See the Events tab at www.rebeccaeldridge.com for more information
WHERE
Serenity Ridge Retreat Center
554 Drumheller Lane
Shipman, VA 22971 (30 miles south of Charlottesville)
WHEN
Thurs, Nov 10 − Sun, Nov 13, 2016
COST
By Oct 12: $560
After Oct 12: $600
Includes private room with shared bath down the hall and all meals: dinner Thurs; breakfast, lunch, & dinner Fri and Sat; breakfast & lunch Sunday
NOTE: If you’d like to share a room (2 twin beds), please email me with the 2 names
of those who will be sharing (price remains the same for shared room).
Rebecca Eldridge is one of a limited number of
mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teachers
worldwide to receive full teacher certification through the
Center for Mindfulness at University of Massachusetts
Medical School. She has taught mindfulness to cancer
survivors, people in chronic pain, medical and mental
health professionals, lay ministers, monastics, and online to
people throughout the US and beyond. Rebecca is also a
with her teacher, Pema Chödrön
founding board member of the Integrative Medicine
Community of Coastal Virginia (IMCCV). Her own
meditation practice is guided by her teacher, Pema Chödrön, and she has been featured giving
meditation instruction in two online courses taught by Pema Chödrön: Making Friends with Yourself
and How to Live with Compassion and Courage. Before beginning her work in mindfulness, she taught
literature and creative writing and worked as an information developer in the tech field.
Ben Thacker-Gwaltney received his 200 hour YTT certificate in 2014
from Body Balance Yoga Studio. He also builds boats with Tidewater
Small Craft and manages a database for the non-profit, Virginia
Organizing. Ben holds a degree in Religious Studies from the College of
William & Mary as well as a Master of Divinity from Emory University.
He studied meditation under Mark Oberman at the former Joshua Tree
center in Charlottesville. He leads meditation groups in Williamsburg and
is the coordinator for the Williamsburg Buddhist Meditation Meetup. In
yoga practice, Ben teaches gentle and intermediate yoga classes, and he
regularly leads class series focusing on Yoga for Arthritis.