{"id":6132,"date":"2025-08-03T18:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=6132"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:22:51","slug":"mindfulness-mini-retreat","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/event\/mindfulness-mini-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness Mini-retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How practising Mindfulness can help to cope with stress, anxiety, depression and live a better quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>with Vera Hey<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The only time and place where it is possible to be happy is now.&#8221; ~ Dalai Lama<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Modern culture is all about achievement and &#8220;not missing out&#8221;, which often results in stress, anxiety and even depression. Getting the impression from social media that everyone is succeeding, while you are feeling overwhelmed. It can easily become too much! Can mindfulness practice and meditation help?<\/p>\n<h2>Schedule:<\/h2>\n<div dir=\"auto\">10:30 &#8211; 11:30 Talk<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">11:30 &#8211; 12:00 Tea<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">12:00 &#8211; 13:00: Meditation and an exercise addressing challenging emotions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<h2><strong>About the facilitator:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5053 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2019\/01\/35416436_201520640678460_3341423082421092352_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2019\/01\/35416436_201520640678460_3341423082421092352_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2019\/01\/35416436_201520640678460_3341423082421092352_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2019\/01\/35416436_201520640678460_3341423082421092352_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/files\/2019\/01\/35416436_201520640678460_3341423082421092352_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Vera Hey has an Honours degree in Psychology and has been working in the field for the past fifteen years. She has was a student of Rob Nairn from 2008, and during this time she attended most of the trainings offered by him and attended a number of retreats including ten day silent retreats. She also completed a four year mindfulness facilitators training program which ran under the supervision of Rob Nairn, as well as a mindfulness facilitators training course, offered by Rob in 2018.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How practising Mindfulness can help to cope with stress, anxiety, depression and live a better quality of life. with Vera Hey &#8220;The only time and place where it is possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5162,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[38,13,14,31,32],"tribe_events_cat":[11,12],"class_list":["post-6132","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ksdj-temple","tag-meditation","tag-mindfulness","tag-mini-retreat","tag-workshop","tribe_events_cat-meditation","tribe_events_cat-mindfulness","cat_meditation","cat_mindfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6138,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6132\/revisions\/6138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagyu.org.za\/johannesburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}