3 Days of Grounding: Art and Meditation Retreat Santa Cruz Mountains

Are you ready to hit the reset button and create some zen? Let’s create and celebrate gratitude by coming together as a community for this exciting retreat!

This stunning venue, Land of Medicine Buddha, rests within the redwoods, and is only minutes away from the Pacific Ocean, making it an energetic hot spot, and the perfect place to reflect, retreat and create.

Experience a weekend of harmony and bliss amongst the magical redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Soquel, California. Enjoy daily movement & meditation, feast on delicious vegetarian meals, stay in lovely accommodations, and explore the surrounding forests. Land of Medicine Buddha is a sacred, tranquil place with temples, statues, and hidden gems throughout the grounds.  The energy of this land is very special and powerful. Guests continue to return year after year to the serenity of this place.

Host Karen Adamski of ShamaMama.com will provide you with soothing and restorative meditation and sound healing.  Special guest Tom Walsh will guide you through Qigong movements. Karen will also be guiding you through how to paint your own personal and powerful Buddha.  Yep…you get to create a Buddha at the Land Of Medicine Buddha!  Plus, there will drumming amongst the redwoods….not to be missed!

Seacliff State Beach and Brighton State Beach are just about 15 minutes away by car. Visit the Pacific on one of your breaks.  Or, simply explore the acres of magical land were you will be staying.

Schedule is subject to minor changes.

Friday

Arrival – 4:00pm (Rooms are not ready until closer to 4pm, but aim to get here early. You can enjoy tea and cookies or explore the grounds. Give yourself PLENTY of time for Friday traffic.)

Land of Medicine Buddha Welcome – 5:45pm

Dinner – 6:00pm

Welcoming and Group Meditation- 7:15pm

Saturday

Breakfast – 8:00am

Guided Qigong with Tom Walsh– 9:00-10:00am

Buddha Painting – 10:00am – 11:30am

Free Time

Lunch – 12:30pm

Free Time

Buddha Painting – 3:30pm – 5:30pm

Dinner – 6:00pm

Drumming Circle- 7:15pm

Sunday

Breakfast – 8:00am

Meditation & Sound Bath 9:30-10:15am

Out of Room- 11:00am

Farewell Circle – 11:30am

Lunch – 12:30pm

Depart after lunch….feel free to get in one more hike before you leave

Karen Adamski is a shamanic practitioner, Certified Crystal Healer, Certified Creatively Fit Coach, artist, and teacher.  After leaving a 27 year HR management career in the Silicon Valley, Karen chose to purposely transform her ‘career’ into what it is today…pretty much the complete opposite of corporate America.   Today, Karen works with clients from all over the world to bring them healing in the form of vibrational medicine, meditation, art, nature, color, kindness and much more.  By bringing community together, Karen loves to teach others how easy it is bring balance & beauty into their lives.  Karen’s passion for living life as her true self, gives her the ability to easily connect with people, as well as all other living things.  By sharing with others to break out of molds, and to walk in beauty on their own paths, Karen has helped hundreds of people understand the ease and simplicity of grounding and healing with vibration and energy.  With all of her passions pulled together into one place, Karen has created a sacred space on the internet:  www.ShamaMama.com this is a place YOU are ALWAYS WELCOME!

Some of the services Karen offers are:  Crystal Healing, Shamanic Energy Work, Journey Meditation, Dowsing, Power Animal Retrieval Soul Retrieval, Home/Office Blessings & Clearings, Paranormal Investigation, Art Therapy, HeART & Mind Balance, Creatively Fit Coaching, Painting & Meditation Workshops,  Sound Bathes and more.

Yoga mat

Painting clothes

Toiletries

Water bottle

Drum or percussion tool (if you have one)

Comfortable shoes for walking and hiking

Bathing suit for the pool and/0r sauna

Weather appropriate clothing – plan to  layer

Eye pillow (optional)