4 Day: Be Healthy Through Meditation, Wellness Retreat in Mallorca
Bonsol Resort, Paseo de Illetas, 30. Calviá. Mallorca
Wellness and Meditation Retreat in Mallorca/Spain
The vacation that gets you the recharge and the improvement of your health you need, but also the skills to maintain both when you get back home. The retreat is taking place for 4 days (3 nights) in a place of abundance: picturesque, plenty of sun and sea including a beautiful little cove and excellent food. So-called "beginners" are welcome, as well as people who already have experience with meditation. This retreat includes a meditation program that gets you the deep, regenerative relaxation you need right now. The teachings and experiences that will help you integrate simple meditation techniques into your life when you get back home.
The language of instruction will be English and/or German.
Meet the instructors
Dr. Nidal Moughrabi & Radha Alina Ionescu
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Highlights
- A program of meditations and joy, designed to help you relax
- Learn "OSHO® Active Meditations” to help care for the body
- Inclusion of short techniques of relaxation (“Awareness Techniques”)
- Learn easy techniques to integrate into your daily life when you get back home
- Experience certain meditations for several days in a row, so that you can feel the effects
- 3 nights accommodation in Hotel Bon Sol (Illetas, Mallorca)
- Breakfast and dinner are provided (2 restaurants)
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
4 days with instruction in German
The organizer also speaks: English
Group size: 3-10 participants
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
14:00
Check-out Time:
12:00
Facilities
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Dining area
- Garden
- Wireless internet
Sunshine for the body, peace for the spirit, and warmth for the heart
In Illetas, only 8 km from central Palma, the clifftop BonSol nestles amid palms and pines trees, its Moorish tower lofting from luxuriant gardens, dominating the picturesque Palma Bay. The main building abounds in lounges and welcoming cozy corners, whose antique furniture, velvets, beautiful classic paintings, and precious porcelains which were carefully selected to create the atmosphere of a medieval castle.
Whereas the 8000m2 gardens in the beach area resemble that of an enchanted oasis rich in palm trees, pine trees, and an overall breathtakingly beautiful ensemble of plants, flowers, and swimming pools that recall wild lakes with cascades… offering a scenic landscape where privacy reigns. The gardens have taken the BonSol more than 30 years to build, and to reach the level of luxuriance they enjoy today.
Modern comfort meets classic charm
Not two of the spacious bedrooms and suites are alike, each has its own charm, individual in decor and disposition, offering partial or full sea view, with a private bathroom, balcony or terrace, TV, WI-FI, minibar, telephone, air conditioning, central heating, and overall warmth and beauty.
Program
As a doctor in Intensive Care, your retreat leader Dr. Nidal Moughrabi remembers many stressful periods when he was dreaming of a vacation and, at the same time, knowing deep inside that “a vacation won’t cut it”. The stress had already gone too deep, but on one hand, it would undoubtedly regain hold of him on his return, on the other.
Today he hears similar stories from his clients, from different fields of work: corporations, bankers, entrepreneurs, and medicine.
Even if they enjoy their profession a lot, they feel it has been slowly eating at their energy reservoirs: They don’t recover from the peaks of stress as quickly as they used to.
They don’t find it easy to do the activities that used to recharge them (like walks in nature, short getaways from the city, hobbies).
Their sleep or eating patterns might start getting disturbed or their body starts showing other signals.
Irritation shows up more than before and gets in the way of their work and personal life.
They don’t enjoy the work as much as they used to.
His own experience in a highly demanding job and then working with people in similar positions has shown me that there are three main causes for this situation:
1) At some point, you are too wired up to be able to relax
Your mind’s wheels get spinning so much during the work day, it becomes impossible to stop them at the end of it, even if we want to. Your “monkey mind” tries to solve problems and keeps us worried. Sometimes, you even go on vacation and cannot truly unwind, or it takes you its whole duration to finally be able to calm down.
You simply use your mind too much.
Fortunately, meditation has the ability to cut through the noise of our thoughts and take us into true silence, giving your mind the rest it really needs for it to recharge.
2) Stress makes you lose your healthy habits, which in turn makes the stress bigger
Often, in times of pressure, you start skipping meals or overeat, feel too tired to move your body or, when you do, you push it, you start binging TV series to fall asleep and then you don’t get enough sleep.
All this erodes your ability to navigate stress. Without your healthy habits, you are more vulnerable to worrying, getting stuck, tensing up around everyday problems.
By spending too much time in your head, you are getting more and more disconnected from your body. And then you get disconnected from your natural cycles of rest-activity or hunger-satiety.
The antidote to this is moving and growing the awareness of your body, which can definitely be achieved through special techniques of (“active”) meditation.
3) You walk in the same beaten tracks of thinking
You’d think that so much thinking is good for problem solving. But deep inside you all know that it’s not.
All this thinking does is to cement our usual lines of thought, making it difficult to find innovative, quicker or less expensive solutions to our work or life challenges.
That is why, in stress, many feel stuck.
Just silencing the mind (even if for a short time) will help you change the perspective on any problem at hand. Furthermore, there are certain meditation techniques that help you specifically become more creative, more open to possibilities, more inclusive of other perspectives.
Key ingredients of this retreat
For all the above reasons, the main goal is to offer you:
- A way to silence the mind,
- helping you reconnect with your body and
- a change of perspective.
So the key ingredients of both courses are:
1) A vacation in Hotel Bon Sol (Mallorca) – a place of abundance, with very kind personnel, picturesque access to the sea, beautiful pools, lavish nature and delicious food, which will give you the opportunity to enjoy the sun and water at a time when they are not easily accessible in Middle Europe (May and Oct).
2) A program of meditations, designed to help you drop fast yet profoundly in the relaxation you are longing for. At the same time, it is a buffet of meditations you get to experiment and take home with you.
3) Within that, a big weight of “OSHO® Active Meditations”, which are meditation techniques which involve movement (shaking the body, dancing, running on the spot) that will help you regain your awareness of and care for the body.
4) Inclusion of short techniques of relaxation (“Awareness Techniques”), that can take you as little as a few minutes to do, so that you can easily integrate them in your daily life when you get back home.
5) The opportunity to experience certain meditations for several days in a row, so that you can feel the cumulative effect and feel confident that you are able and is beneficial for you to continue the practice in your everyday life.
In the October retreat “From the Body to the Heart”, you will refresh on how to silence the mind. And you will learn in addition, how to change your perspective, by bringing more understanding of yourself and others into your life. Accepting imperfections, appreciating talents, and making peace with what you cannot change help you to have more energy for what you can change.
Who is the retreat for?
- As you got an idea by now, this program is designed for busy people, with highly rewarding, but otherwise stressful jobs who find it difficult to relax and navigate stressful times.
- So-called "beginners" are welcome, as well as people who already have experience with meditation.
This retreat is not for you
- If you are looking for a vacation of exploring places – this is an exploration, but an inner one.
- If you want to become a certified expert in meditation – there will be a diverse buffet of meditations that caters for a diversity of needs, but an expertise in meditation requires more.
Benefits of participation
- A deep relaxation that will reach several layers: body, mind, and soul.
- A reconnection with your body’s natural rhythm, which will make it easier to return to your healthy habits of eating, moving, resting.
- An understanding of how meditation works, so that you can create your own meditation practice to support you in your life back home.
- A simply relaxed time in a beautiful, colorful South European location.
Sample day
This is the approximate timetable. Minor adjustments are possible.
- Thursday: 17:00 - 22:00
- Friday/Saturday: 07:30 - 22:00
- Sunday: 07:30 - 14:00
- There will be long breaks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (each of them 90-120 minutes) PLUS coffee breaks in the morning and the afternoon (each of them 30 minutes) at the pool bar.
Instructors
Dr. Nidal Moughrabi
4 Certificates
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Nidal is an expert for medical hypnosis, NLP and meditation, bringing together 20 years of experience as a medical doctor and almost 20 years of experience with hypnosis and meditation. He supports people to heal and maintain their mind and body through self-awareness and the power of the subconscious. - “I strongly believe that all answers to the challenges in life are stored inside each of us.”
Radha Alina Ionescu
2 Certificates
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Radha is a Conscious Love Coach who supports people learn how to create relationships of deep connection and intimacy. She has discovered through her own life difficulties, study and a lot of experimentation that, while love is natural, relating takes some learning. - “Life is too precious to spend it in lukewarm relationships”.
Location
Food
Drinks during the course
Drinks are included in the course breaks
Drinking water is available during the whole course and is included
Drinks for dinner are not included in the course fee
Breakfast (included)
Both, the winter-garden restaurant and the beach restaurant offer full English buffet breakfast.
Lunch (not included, usually not necessary)
Winter-Garden restaurant: Lunch buffet or snacks
Course breaks (included)
Pool bar: Fruits and beverages (no alcohol) in the morning and the afternoon.
Dinner (included)
Beach restaurant and the castle-like restaurant in the main building:
You can find a menu sample of the beach restaurant in the picture gallery. The castle-like restaurant offers a classic evening menu including traditional local, international, and vegetarian dishes.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Soda
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Pescatarian
- Seafood
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
Before and after the course, there is the opportunity for individual sessions with the facilitators on-site; if you are interested in this, please make the reservation early enough. This is not included in the course fee.
Spa treatments
Spa treatments are available, please contact the hotel.
What's included
- Participation during all 4 days
- 3 nights at Hotel BonSol - Single occupancy (Thursday, Friday and Saturday)
- Eco-tax for 3 nights
- Half board: breakfast buffet and dinner
- Fruits and beverages (no alcohol) during the course breaks (morning and afternoon, Friday/Saturday and Sunday morning)
What's not included
- Please contact the hotel for additional nights
- Lunch (buffet or snacks) available
- Drinks for dinner
- Flight
- Transfer to the hotel
- Tip at the hotel
- Travel and course insurance (highly recommended)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
PMI
Palma de Mallorca Airport
12 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI). Airport transfer is not included. From the airport, you can either take a taxi to the hotel (approx. 35 EUR) or the bus (line no. 1, then change in Palma to no. 4).
The course starts on Thursday at 5 p.m. and ends on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 15% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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