Upcoming Events
Bloom Within: Nurture Your Inner Growth Day Retreat
Bloom Within is designed to help you reconnect with your innermost self and uncover the potential that resides within you. By deepening your self-awareness, you'll develop the mindset to grow and thrive, regardless of the external circumstances. In this one-day retreat, you'll experience expert-led practices such as mindful movement, breathwork, meditation, sound healing, and reflective journaling—all thoughtfully crafted to centre you, heighten your awareness, and restore clarity, focus, and balance in your life.
By turning inward and embracing a growth mindset, we can rise beyond our inner walls and flourish in ways we once thought impossible, illuminating our lives. Walk away feeling renewed, grounded, and ready to share your unique light with the world.
Limited slots are available. Sign up before October 12 to enjoy the early bird rate.
Program Schedule
Step into a day of awakening and renewal, where you'll be gently guided to honour the light and strength within you, reconnect with your inner potential and embrace the quiet beauty of personal growth. In a peaceful, nurturing space, allow yourself to bloom fully—radiant, grounded, and inspired.
9.00 am - 9.30 am
Welcome and Introduction: Planting the Seeds of Growth
Hosted by Wendy, Yoga Seeds
Wendy will give a warm welcome and introduce the retreat leaders and the day’s journey. You’ll be introduced to mindful silence, which will create fertile ground for your growth—just like a sunflower beginning its blossoming journey.
9.30 am - 10.30 am
Awakening with Sunrise Flow: Mindful Sun Salutations
Led by Yoga Seeds
Embrace the energy of a sunflower turning towards the sun in this Sun Salutations session. Connect breath with mindful movements to bring a heightened focus and awareness needed to nurture your inner growth. While cultivating clarity and focus, this mindful flow leaves you grounded, refreshed, and rooted.
10.30 am - 12.00 pm
Rooted in Strength: Mindfulness Body Scan & Breath Awareness
Led by Centre for Mindfulness
Like a sunflower deepening its roots, this body scan and breathwork session helps you tune into physical and emotional states. With non-judgmental awareness, you can connect with tension, relaxation, or even areas with discomfort, reflect on your strengths, and gain clarity on the unique qualities that nourish your inner resilience.
12.00 pm - 1.00 pm
Nourishing Your Growth: Mindful Eating Experience
Led by Centre for Mindfulness
Experience the art of mindful eating during a silent, plant-based lunch. Just as the sunflower absorbs nutrients from the soil, you'll be guided to savour each bite—fostering a deeper connection to your body’s natural rhythms and nourishment.
1.00 pm - 2.30 pm
Resilience in Bloom: The 4 S's of Self-Resilience
Led by Sound to Ground
In this creative and introspective session, you'll explore the 4 S's of Self-Resilience: Stress, Self-awareness, Self-care, and Social support. Like the sunflower thriving despite harsh conditions, identify your stress triggers using the Gingerbreadman Body Scan and create a realistic personalised self-care plan, empowering you to grow and flourish with enhanced mental resilience and balance in your everyday life.
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Steps of Growth: Mindful Walking Meditation
Led by Centre for Mindfulness
In this walking meditation, connect with each step, feeling the earth beneath you. Like the sunflower grounding, this practice allows you to become fully present and attuned to your sensations, cultivating your awareness of both your internal and external experiences.
3.30 pm – 3.45 pm
Tea Break: Refreshing Your Bloom
Take a short break to refresh and reflect, nourishing your inner growth.
3.45 pm – 5.15 pm
Harmony in Bloom: Yin Yoga & Sound Bath
Led by Yoga Seeds + Sound to Ground
Rest deeply in this Yin Yoga and sound bath session. Like a sunflower absorbing nourishment, it helps you release tension and find stability and inner calm through gentle restorative poses and healing sound vibrations that ground you. Experience deep relaxation, emotional release and a renewed sense of peace.
5.15 pm - 6.00 pm
Embracing Your Inner Sunflower & Flourish: Closing Circle & Reflections
Led by Centre for Mindfulness, Yoga Seeds + Sound to Ground
In a safe and supportive space, reflect on your growth through silent journaling and meditation. You’ll be guided through setting realistic intentions to help you flourish beyond the retreat, like a sunflower blossoming from deep roots.
Fees
Early Bird Rate: $590 (Ends 12 October 2024)
Standard Rate: $660
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All participants are to follow-up with submission of the Online Indemnity Form
Ancient Singing Bowl Introduction & Self Healing with One Singing Bowl Workshop
Introduction Workshop
Explore the history of the ancient healing art of Ancient singing bowls and the science of sound in this introductory workshop and learn to listen and play them in an artful manner.
You will get to feel the deep and calming vibrations and understand the therapeutic effects of sound healing through your own experience.
Self Healing with One Singing Bowl Workshop
Discover the ancient art of employing the sacred singing bowl for healing, gaining essential self-healing techniques, including the applications into meditation using just one bowl.
This workshop lays the groundwork for basic sound therapy techniques and Tibetan singing bowl use, and it also serves as the introductory module for Shima Healing’s Tibetan Singing Bowl Foundation Course.
WORKSHOP DATES: 5th May 2024 or 26th May 2024
Price: $600 per pax
Limited spaces of 4 pax. Sessions are conducted privately in small groups to ensure a high quality learning and safe sharing environment.
Note:
Singing bowl sets will be provided for practice and be available for purchase after workshop.
If you already own a singing bowl, feel free to bring yours along!
Space Clearing with Tingsha Bell Workshop
Declutter the “energetic” dust and density from spaces in your home and offices, or within your mind and heart. Learn how to use the Tingsha Bell for physical space clearing and clear emotional blockages. You will get to feel the crisp, clarity of vibrations and understand the therapeutic effects of using the Tingsha through your own experience.
WORKSHOP DATES: 5th May 2024 or 26th May 2024
Price: $160 per pax
Limited spaces of 8 pax. Sessions are conducted privately in small groups to ensure a high quality learning and safe sharing environment.
Note:
Tingshas will be provided and be available for purchase after workshop. If you already own a tingsha, feel free to bring yours along!
A Tapestry of Sacred Music
Sound to Silence with Ancient Singing Bowls
Sound To Ground (Singapore)
Experience a meditative 30-minute sound journey, guided by Sound To Ground founder and healing arts practitioner, Amanda Ling. Immerse yourself in the mystical tones of ancient singing bowls, and find solace in both the resonant sounds and the profound silence that follows each note. Allow the rich, harmonic overtones to gently lift and ground your spirit, guiding you towards a state of clarity, calmness, and inner peace.
Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Date
13th April 2024
Time
7.20pm-7.50pm
Duration: 30 min
Sound To Ground
Amanda Ling, founder of Sound To Ground, a creative wellness brand, has over two decades of experience as an established musician, DJ, educator, yoga teacher, sound healer, and decluttering consultant. She combines the creative arts with wellness through heart-centred and reflective approaches, drawing on ancient wisdom and practices for modern applications.
A senior apprentice at Shima Healing Institute with Akiko Igarashi, she has deepened her mastery of sound healing, and her commitment to sharing authentic healing is evident in her work. She leads enriching sound healing experiences, curates bespoke soundscapes for various settings, and facilitates workshops for a diverse range of audiences, including corporate sectors, music and wellness festivals and retreats. Amanda holds an MA in Arts Pedagogy and Practice from LASALLE (2021), awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London, reflecting her dedication to harmonising the creative arts with healing practices.