Ian Daishi Koebner has practiced Zen for over 20 years and is a Hōshi (dharma holder) at the Village Zendo, White Plum Asanga, in New York City where he grew up. At Melt he will offera zazenkai, a half-day retreat, with ample periods of meditation, a Dharma talk, and time for reflection.

The purpose of zazenkai is to devote an extended period of time to meditation. Unless something compelling calls you away,please commit to the entire retreat. 
Participation is open to all. Instruction will be in English.Practitioners and students of various traditions are welcome to join at whatever level of commitment they wish. People of different cultures, colors, abilities, ages, identifications, and beliefs who can practice within the guidelines for meditation and harmonious practice are welcome. 
Give yourself to the opportunity to slow down, to step away from your habitual ways of being, and appreciate your life as it presents itself moment to moment.

 A bit about Ian:
Ian lives in The Hague with his family. He is the past Director of Integrative Pain Management at the University of California, Davis and currently consults internationally on projects examining the public health potential of the arts. 

*Melt does not have meditation cushions, so participants must bring their own. Please feel free to sit on whatever will best support your practice – meditation cushions or benches, as well as folding chairs are all perfectly acceptable. 

Cost:
The suggested fee is €25. Please consider any contribution you can afford if this is too much for you at this time. Your participation will be much appreciated. U can pay cash or with card at the studio.

 For more information on the retreat email ikoebner@fas.harvard.edu

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With her Shamanic upbringing, Sofie facillitates this women’s circle and invites you to look deep into yourself with kindness and self-love. Every day of the month we are influenced by our cycle. In this mind & life workshop I’d like to show you how you can adjust to it and how you can make it’s fases work for you.I believe that our cycle is not only part of a beautiful reproduction system, but it can also help us to live more in connection to our authentic self.

on donation base (original price €30,-)

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Harmony is our natural state, although it is far from a regular occurrence in our busy lives.

Miquel de Boer.

In this workshop you will be guided back to this natural harmonious state of being by learning:Breathing techniques to calm down a busy mind, techniques to focus your thoughts and attention, the relationship between thoughts and energy, how to generate heart-brain coherence and visualization techniques to energize yourself.

€30,-

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RICHARD KWAKERNAAK

With Core Consciousness Meditations, you will practice experiencing and enjoying a level of true core health and well-being. You will learn how to calmly and in a structured way observe your subjective experience in the present moment. This provides you step by step with more control over your mind and more conscious awareness of choice points, leading to identifying opportunities to pay attention to what is going on in your life in more alignment with what most deeply matters to you. 

Core Consciousness Meditations help you explore how to override certain negative tendencies and how to tap into the hidden power of everyday experiences to enhance resilience and promote personal as well as professional well-being. It aims to achieve this by strengthening your mind and enriching your relationships.

Core Consciousness Meditations were inspired by wisdom traditions as much as by modern day science and its practical applications, such as for instance Rick Hanson's Positive Neuroplasticity Training and Daniel J. Siegel's InterPersonal NeuroBiology, both giving an idea of how the mind and social interactions shape the neural connections of the brain.

€40,-

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Immersing yourself in cold water has some distinct health benefits: it improves your circulation, deepen your sleep, spike your energy levels, and reduce inflammation in your body.
After a guided Breathwork session u will step into the ice cold water of 4C without hesitation.
U will train urself to stay from 1 minute to a couple of minutes under water

donation based (original price €49,-) u can donate when ure at the studio with pin or cash.

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YIN YOGA AND THE HEART ELEMENT

Open your Heart and mobilize your Qi - open your mind and soul to Heart’s energy and self-healing powers!

In this workshop we will use our inner Qi, our vital energy, to open our Hearts, calm our minds and maximise our yoga practice. We will perform Heart opening Yoga asanas, learn an accessible meditation, perform some Chinese medicine interventions and work with hot stones. 

"The heart is the official functioning as ruler, the origin of the spirit's brilliance ... it houses one's magic power".

In Chinese medicine Heart embodies the element of Fire, the ultimate form of Yang energy, which blazes, spreads and warms, bringing about transformation. By focusing on our Heart and combining the Yin Yoga asanas with Chinese medicine techniques, we will be able to stimulate the circulation of the Heart’s vital energy, improve our wellbeing and bring about joy, the emotion of the Heart.

The Yin Yoga asanas in this workshop will focus on opening the chest and Heart region, meaning they will also be extremely beneficial for the back, and especially upper back and shoulder regions.

The workshop is open and accessible for all levels, including for persons without experience in yoga practice. Options will be given for beginners and people with pain or limitations.

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yoga nidra is like meditation, but yet it’s not.

The goal is to move into a deep state of conscious awareness sleep, which is a deeper state of relaxation with awareness. This state involves moving from consciousness while awake to dreaming and then to not-dreaming while remaining awake-going past the unconscious to the conscious. In this deeper relaxation, the pineal gland is activated and that releases the hormone melatonin. Melatonin is a powerful antioxidant. It can also help manage immune function, blood pressure, cortisol levels and induce restful sleep.

€20,-

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workshop yin yoga and intuitive eating

tickets: 35,- (non members 45,-)

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In this workshop you will be introduced to intuitive eating. Intuitive eating teaches you to (re)trust the wisdom of your own body, letting go of any rules and limiting beliefs you might have around food. It helps you to recognize sensations of hunger and fullness and to honour them, so that you will eat enough but not too much. It helps you determine what foods your body wants and needs, so that you can support your physical health and feel good. Bringing more awareness to your eating experience will also help you enjoy food more, ending any cravings you might have for “forbidden foods” and the guilt that comes with it.

There are so many different diet plans and even more opinions about what the perfect diet is. But healthy nutrition is not the same for everyone: our needs change over time and they differ per person. In the end, it’s not the so-called experts, but your own body that is the most reliable source of information about when, what and how much you should eat. Do you want to cultivate a healthy and satisfying relationship with food? Nourishing yourself from a place of love and compassion, and finding more joy and satisfaction in eating? Then I’d like to invite you to join this workshop and start your own intuitive eating journey.

We start the workshop with yin yoga, to really connect to our bodies. From that state of awareness and presence with yourself, we will do different practices from intuitive eating. So you will not just learn more about what intuitive eating is, but also immediately experience the effects in your body.

The workshop is taught by Mirjam van de Kamp from Meyin. She studied Nutrition & Health at the Wageningen University and is a certified intuitive eating counselor. Besides that she works as a yin yoga teacher. She has experience with yoga therapy for digestive issues and

mindfulness as well.