Centered & Grounded: Gentle Yoga and Meditation
Settle into a day of mindful movement and quiet awareness, designed to support ease, balance, and connection with the body.
This gentle daylong workshop weaves together accessible yoga and guided meditation to help you slow down, release tension, and cultivate embodied presence.
Practices will include gentle yoga suitable for a wide range of bodies, simple breath awareness, seated and walking meditation, and loving-kindness practices. Movements are offered with care and flexibility, inviting you to listen closely to your own body and meet each moment with kindness and curiosity.
This workshop is well suited for those seeking a restorative and grounding retreat. Participants with or without prior experience in yoga or meditation are welcome. No emphasis is placed on physical achievement; instead, the focus is on comfort, awareness, and cultivating a steady, compassionate presence through both movement and stillness.
To participate fully in gentle yoga involves the physical ability to get down and up off a yoga mat.
Tim Burnett is Mindfulness Northwest's founder and a Senior Teacher. He brings his extensive teaching in Mindful Self-Compassion, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and his work as a Buddhist teacher to the table along with his own journey towards knowing his emotions and learning how to be kinder to himself.
Guest teacher Raizelah Bayen is a certified yoga teacher and massage therapist, with over 20 years of teaching experience in self-care and wellness workshops. Raizelah is the owner and director of Open Pathways Institute for Integrative Massage Therapy. As a yoga teacher and bodyworker, Raizelah is passionate about teaching embodiment as a path to self-knowledge, kindness, and presence.
Incredibly knowledgeable & awake & kind teacher, instant results, great to have class/community support.
About One Day Retreats
Our One Day Retreats are an immersion into silent, continuous, teacher-led practice. During this day of practice, we'll ask you to be as quiet as possible and let go of entertainments and distractions for the day.
One Day Retreats are included in our 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindful Self-Compassion courses and offered for stand-alone sign up in the Retreats section of our website.
Everyone with some experience of mindfulness and meditation is welcome to try a One Day Retreat. It can be a powerful and important way to explore mindfulness and compassion more deeply. If you are totally new to meditation, this day may be a challenge; however, all are welcome. For some, "jumping in" is a great way to start.
Whether online or in-person, you will be guided in a sequence of meditation and mindfulness practices including: sitting meditation, the body scan, walking meditation (indoors and out!), gentle mindful yoga, and contemplative practices like the loving-kindness meditation.
In-Person Retreats:
A great virtue of in-person retreats is the possibilities that emerge from taking a quiet day totally away from your usual routine and environment. Plus we've found some lovely sites to host our retreats. Be sure to bring your lunch, a blanket, and yoga mat and/or meditation cushion if you have one. We are able to bring some extra yoga / meditation gear to share, and all of our retreat sites have comfortable chairs for sitting.
Online Retreats:
Online retreats are rich opportunity to integrate sustained mindfulness practice into your "regular" life at home. We do recommend having a conversation with the occupants of your home. While it's not reasonable to expect roommates, spouses, or children to be totally silent for a day because you'll be on retreat, sometimes a simple shift in routine to help you have a quieter, more protected space is possible.
SCHEDULE
Saturday August 8, 2026
9:00 am - 4:00 pm PT
TEACHERS
COST
$150 - $230 (or $38 – $58/month)
- Sliding scale: Choose what’s right for you.
- Payment plan option: 4-months, no-interest.
- Limited scholarships available: No need to apply; just choose a scholarship tuition during registration.
A well-balanced day of meditation and movement. It helped me slow down and decreased my reactivity to my life. If you want to slow down and get in touch with your inner needs, this is for you.
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