Gay men’s meditation retreat

Do you need some time out from your busy life to attend to yourself? Perhaps you’re feeling tired, exhausted or on the edge of burning out.

If you’re in need of a weekend to recharge, check out the annual Gay Men’s Personal Development and Meditation Retreat, hosted by Peter East and Curt Mason in the beautiful Govinda Valley Retreat Centre on June 15.

Curt and Peter will provide you with a serene and spiritual atmosphere in a beautiful 30-acre property at the edge of the Royal National Park. The retreat will serve many purposes and fulfill many different needs.

The idea to offer annual retreats has emerged from facilitating short-term psychotherapy groups for gay men over the past four years. These groups have drawn a cross-section of men from different cultural backgrounds, age groups, areas of work and HIV statuses.

A recurring comment made during these programs has been about the unique experience of sharing time with a group of gay men in such an open, transparent way. One of the hopes of group work is that a universality of experience will become apparent and with this senses of isolation and difference, both imagined and real, dissolve.

When this environment of safety is established we can relax and allow aspects of ourselves that we may ordinarily keep hidden, places of some of our greatest struggles, to surface and be seen. We hide our ‘selves’ for so many different reasons but what is universal here is that when these things surface we change, again in a whole variety of ways.

Over these two days, Peter and Curt will draw on many different traditions that are found in various forms of healing and exploration of the human experience, from meditation to group therapy and discussion groups.

INFO: www.therapyspace.com.au/retreats/gay-men-personal-development-meditation-retreat