Tools Required:
Participants need a reliable internet connection and access to Zoom, meditation cushion, or chair to sit upright.
How the Retreat Works:
The retreat consists of 5 live sessions, lasting 3 hours each, with interactive participation via Zoom. Sessions are recorded for later viewing, and self-paced exercises are also included.
Timing of Sessions / Daily Schedule and Time Zone:
Sessions are held Monday to Friday, from 12:00 - 15:00 GMT.
Retreat information
It’s time to take control of your mental health: overcome anxiety, depression, heal from past traumas, PTSD, grief, and isolation.
The modern world has become ever more fast-paced and complex, but the body still operates on the same rhythms and cycles as those of our ancestors. Yet lights turn night into day—it’s no wonder that balance is so difficult to achieve when life is pushed in so many unnatural ways. The modern lifestyle leaves many feeling depleted, and this energy-depleting way of life can lead to anxiety, fatigue, depression, a weakened immune system, and a host of serious physical and psychological ailments.
Instead of focusing on managing symptoms, immerse yourself in Melissa Antonis’ transformative online wellness five-day retreat. Retreats run Monday to Friday, 12.00–15.00 GMT, with a maximum group size of ten. Melissa hosts live online via a Zoom link.
Melissa has successfully hosted her own one-to-one 'Burnout’ retreats for the past five years in the mountains of Valencia, Spain—transforming many clients’ lives by providing them with the tools, care, and guidance to feel strong enough to continue on their own healing journey. After making the heart-wrenching decision to be closer to family, she now focuses her retreats online by hosting mental wellness retreats aboard her narrowboat in London, sharing her wealth of knowledge.
The workshops run Monday to Friday, 12.00–15.00 GMT via Zoom, for five days. Melissa encourages every client who wishes to join a 15-minute one-to-one preparation call.
Itinerary
- Intake preparation call
- Welcome
- The importance of breathwork – clients will learn five techniques
- Self-reflection physical, emotional, and spiritual journaling exercise
- The five elemental energies
- Qigong
- Twelve pathways of energy – the meridians, and the meridian clock
- Pressure points for vitality and healing
- Six healing sounds
- Self-healing seated practice
- Five animal qigong
- Inner smile meditation
- Journaling exercise: dissolving stagnation and blockages
Medical Qigong is created as a combination of body movements, stretching, and Qi practice that opens energy pathways, removes blockages, cleanses bodily toxins, promotes circulation, enhances immune function and metabolism, and promotes healing that leads to longevity and deeper spiritual connection.
Discover the life-changing tools that will reset your mind and transform you physically—leaving you feeling spiritually energized. This is a period of self-reflection and self-discovery to enhance your qi within and provide the fuel to take you where you want to go in life.
Schedule
Day 1
- Welcome – introduction
- The spiritual realms of existence
- Electromagnetic field
- Prenatal Qi and original Qi
- The three dantians
- The importance of a daily breathwork practice
- Lay down practise, three-part breathing practice
- Water intake
Day 2
- Full body breathing followed by a meditation
- Self-reflection journaling exercise – physical, emotional, spiritual
- The five elemental energies
- The tree of life – central nervous system
- Energy systems
- Introduction to Qi Gong and healing sounds
Day 3
- Full body breathing and chakra meditation
- Introduction to breath holds
- Qi Gong practise for healing with healing sounds
- Meridian pathways
Day 4
- Daily breathwork for depression, sorrow, sadness, grief, anxiety
- Qi Gong practice with introduction to the lung meridian and healing sound
- Pressure points for depression and increased energy
Day 5
- Daily breathwork for depression, sorrow, sadness, grief, anxiety with breath holds
- Qi Gong practice – five animal
- Pressure points for healing
- The inner smile meditation
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change.