Devon Retreat, October 2023
Discover Who You Really Really Are, and Open to the Fullness of Life.
Maximum of 10 participants
12 – 19 October 2023, Eden Rise.
Join Jim in the beautiful Devonshire countryside for a life-changing 7-day retreat.
Through meditations, sense-based exercises, live music & intimate dialogues you will:
* Deeply explore your firsthand, uninterpreted experience, to reveal the true safety that is always already here.
* Discover how that wondrous realisation can lead to lasting transformation.
* Feel empowered to fully shine your unique qualities into life.
Is this retreat for me?
With all the current uncertainty around politics, economics, climate change, artificial intelligence and global pandemics, maybe you’ve notice a deep longing for real safety and security?
Perhaps you’ve been trying to satisfy this longing, to fix the ‘problem’, but whatever you acquire or achieve, the satisfaction is only ever temporary before you find yourself longing again?
Or maybe you’ve already had some recognition of your true nature, but still find yourself caught in limiting patterns, still longing to fully express—to truly come alive?
If any of this sounds familiar, then keep on reading . . .
What happens on a retreat with Jim?
- Through meditations, sense-based exercises, live music, silent connecting & intimate dialogues, you will be guided towards experiencing yourself and the world in a whole new and wondrous way.
- From that ‘place’ of clarity and openness, you will begin to see the deeply held beliefs, fear-based patterns and physical clenches that keep you bound up in life.
- In discovering how to meet those uncomfortable feelings and beliefs from the loving openness of your true nature, those frozen blockages can begin to thaw, enabling your essential qualities—of sensitivity, tenderness, playfulness, courage, compassion, strength, power, etc.—to naturally flow.
- In the atmosphere of absolute acceptance and support that Jim offers, there is the chance to play with operating spontaneously, in-tuitively, with Being-in-action—with living freedom.
- Ultimately it all adds up to a celebration of life with openhearted sharing, music, singing, silence, tears and laughter.
- No previous knowledge is required, just a willingness to openly and honestly explore your immediate, first-hand experience, to courageously question all your beliefs and assumptions, and to feel into your human fragility and whatever fears may arise.
Important Note:
- If the above description of this event sounds potentially overwhelming or destabilizing for you, if you have mental illness or significant emotional challenges that you feel may be exacerbated by this type of transformational environment, or if you are not sure that you can be self-directed in taking care of your needs during the event, then I advise you not to enroll.
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Schedule
8:30am – Breakfast
9:30am – Gentle body warm up (optional)
10 to 11:30am – Session 1
11:30am to 12noon – Tea & Biscuit break
12noon to 1pm – Session 2
1pm – Lunch then free time
4:30 to 6:30pm – Session 3
7:00pm – Dinner
The first 2 days will be held in silence (not in the sessions).
Each evening there is a chance to sit around the fire (weather permitting!) which often results in impromptu sing-alongs.
There is also a sauna on-site which we can arrange to use throughout the week.
On Saturday there will be no afternoon meeting but instead an optional trip to the beach, with swimming in the sea (also optional!)
On Sunday eve there will be a chance for willing participants to play music, dance, sing, tell stories, poems, or whatever they wish to offer to the group in an optional impromptu cabaret.
About Jim
Jim Eaton graduated in Maths from Oxford University, then tried a number of vocations, including working as a singer-songwriter, an actor, and a school teacher in inner city London. Despite achieving success, he couldn’t shift a profound sense of lack and longing. What followed was an intense spiritual search that culminated in directly realising the wholeness of being—the home he’d been longing for.
Since 2011 Jim has been leading workshops and retreats internationally, guiding others to that same realisation, and to the subsequent empowerment and life transformation it can offer.
Full retreat details
Venue:
Eden Rise is managed by the Network of Wellbeing charity, and consists of two beautiful 200 year old converted barns, situated in the lovely Devonshire countryside two miles west of Totnes.
Full Address: Eden Rise, Sandwell Barns, Harberton, Totnes TQ9 7LJ. Map
Description:
The retreat will begin with dinner at 6:30pm on Tuesday 18th April. You are welcome to arrive from 5pm that day, although no food will be served until dinner. The retreat ends after breakfast on Tuesday 25th April. The first 2 days will be held in silence (not in sessions).
Accommodation:
There are two types of accommodation:
Shared Rooms, that include single ‘pods’ (one large room partitioned into 4 private spaces), twin rooms and triples; as well as a limited number of Single Rooms.
If you would like to share a room with someone specific (e.g. a partner), then please let us know in the ‘order notes’ section at checkout, otherwise shared rooms are allocated according to gender.
All guests will be given a full linen set each (sheets, duvet cover, two pillowcases and towel) although you are of course welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
Food:
3 delicious, healthy meals are included each day; using home-grown and where possible organic and always locally-sourced ingredients, to prepare nutritious vegetarian dishes.
Transport:
Train: Travel to Totnes mainline station, which is 3 miles from the venue.
Flights: Nearest airports are Exeter Airport (33 miles), and Bristol Airport (96 miles).
Transfers: Please inform us (dora@jimeaton.org) of your arrival time at Totnes train station if you would like us to coordinate taxi transfers to the venue.
Contact:
Integration:
There will also be two group integration sessions, that will be held on Zoom the following two weeks of the retreat, to support integrating all that we’ve discovered into everyday living. The day/time for each session will be arranged by the group.
Cancellations:
£100 non-refundable deposit to confirm your booking.
Remaining balance due by 17th August 2023 (8 weeks before).
75% of balance refunded if cancelled before 24th August 2023 (7 weeks before)
50% of balance refunded if cancelled before 31st August 2023 (6 weeks before)
25% of balance refunded if cancelled before 7th September 2023 (5 weeks before)
No refund if cancelled after 14th September 2023 (4 weeks before)
Cost:
There are two parts to the payment:
1. For Food & Accommodation/Venue costs
Own Campervan – £360
Camping (tent can be provided) – £360
Shared room – £420
Single room – £520
2. Donation to Jim for meetings and support
I offer my work as a gift. This means I rely on donations to support not only myself and my family, but also those that would be unable to attend if I were to charge a fixed fee. Thank you for helping to prove that the gift model of business can really work!
Suggested donation for 7-day retreat £300 (or between £200 and £400)
Register Your Place
- Pay £100 non-refundable deposit to reserve your place.
- We will then contact you for the remaining balance, plus donation to Jim, which are due by 17th August 2023.
The number of participants to the retreat is limited, so make sure you book in time. Your place will be reserved after payment of the deposit has been received. Feel free to write to Dora if you have any questions (dora@jimeaton.org).
