Monday 25th September 2023
Check into the day and collect your Harvest goody bag.
Athena’s Gong Bath is a sound meditation based on an integrated practice that combines a shamanic ceremonial setting with an Eastern emphasis on breathing exercises and visualisation. Specific musical instruments played during the meditation allow participants to use sound as a therapeutic tool to disconnect from discursive thinking and delve into a transcendental state. The goal is to enable participants to disengage their undesirable habitual patterns and to empower positive cognitive change. The experience ranges from calming, balancing, deep healing, and grounding to soul journeying, awakening and enlightening.
Settle your mind and body into this morning's meditation with Stephanie. We will take half an hour to clear our thoughts and allow us to have clarity and focus for the day ahead.
Dr. Gabor Maté will gently guide you to create space for contemplation, relax into what is and reconnect to a deeper part of you. You will learn to dig beneath the surface to understand your hidden core beliefs and unconscious stories that might be holding you back.
Enjoy a nutritious lunch prepared by KOKO's talented in-house chefs and take the opportunity to connect with your fellow attendees.
In this interactive session, Stephanie will guide you to digest and process the day's learnings and give you space to consider how to integrate them into your lives.
Our day's program concludes here, but guests are welcome to join in Battens for some refreshments with your fellow attendees.
RENOWNED ADDICTION EXPERT, SPEAKER & AUTHOR
Dr. Gabor Maté
An internationally renowned speaker and physician, Gabor is highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma and childhood development. An award-winning and international bestselling author of four books published in thirty languages, Gabor has also been awarded the Order of Canada - the country's highest civilian distinction for his ground-breaking work in medicine.
Meditation guide
Stephanie Canavesio
With a multitude of mastered healing modalities, Stephanie has developed a unique approach to her guidance and teachings, through compassionate inquiry and meditative practices, called Presence Embodied. Stephanie connects you to the present moment to restore you to your truest expression and the practice of consciousness.
Sound meditation facilitator
The Gong Girl
Athena is one of London’s leading Gong Masters. She has an extraordinary depth of experience looking after and guiding students to a place of focus, mental clarity and calm via Meditation and Yoga. Her work is widely acclaimed and her students include executives of Fortune 500 companies, Private Equity and Hedge Funds. She has particular insight into the mindset of people who have high levels of demands on themselves professionally and personally. In an increasingly complex and pressured world, Athena is ept at providing pragmatic advice to students in finding their seat in the eye of the storm, discovering and drawing on their unlimited potential and living their very best life.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY MOVEMENT TEACHER, PERSONAL COACH
Andreas Economou
Andreas grew up in the multicultural island of Cyprus and later travelled to England to study Sport Science. After seven years experience working as a personal coach, Andreas moved to South East Asia where he explored more traditional body/mind practices such as Yoga, Tai Chi and Qi Gong. He then spent 18 months in Bali and India, delving even deeper into the body/mind connection.