The Art of Living

Are you ready to step into a space of deep rest, renewal, and transformation?

This special one-day training event is designed to help you reconnect with yourself, release stress, and embrace a new way of experiencing happiness. Rooted in profound teachings on mindfulness, meditation, and personal growth, this event brings together The Positive Habit Community for a truly enriching experience.

Through a carefully curated blend of teachings, meditation, hypnotherapy, qi gong and an immersive sound bath, you’ll be guided to explore timeless wisdom in a way that is both practical and deeply restorative. 

In a world that moves at an increasingly fast pace, it’s easy to get lost in the chaos.

Do you feel that you have too many responsibilities and not enough time? Are you coping with a life challenge? Does your mind race incessantly, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and unable to access inner peace?

If so, you are not alone – many of our clients wish there was a switch in their brain that they could just TURN OFF. Learning how to slow your mind helps you to access that switch.

The Details

When: Sunday, May 18th from 10 am – 4.30 pm (9.30 am – Meet & Greet & Registration).

Where: The Avon, Blessington Lakes, Co.Wicklow. 

Price:  Early Bird Discount until 31st March:

Double Ticket €249 €190

Single Ticket €149 €125

Includes delicious, nutritious lunch & tea/coffee/biscuits

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What’s Included?

Each element is thoughtfully curated to provide both practical insights and a deeply restorative experience:

R Cultivate mindfulness, heartfulness and inner peace through guided meditation practices.
R Teaching – gain insights from timeless wisdom that can be applied to daily life (for more see below).
R Qi Gong – harness and balance your energy through gentle movement and breathwork.
R Walking meditation, where every step becomes a journey towards self-awareness.
R Healthy lunch served in the Library Room (included with your ticket).
R Enchanting lakeside intention-setting ceremony.
R Deeply relaxing soundbath to balance your energy.
R Hypnotherapy – access deeper layers of the subconscious to promote healing and personal growth.
R Those who attend the course will have the option to be credited with 5 CPD points.

Teaching Content

The day will weave in insights inspired by teachings such as:

✨ Emptiness – The Wonder of Interbeing: Discover how you are deeply connected to all of life, not separate from it.
✨ Signlessness – A Cloud Never Dies: Learn to let go of rigid ideas and embrace the ever-changing flow of life.
✨ Aimlessness – Resting in the Present: Experience the peace of being fully present, rather than chasing an ideal future.
✨ Impermanence – Now Is the Time: Understand change as a natural part of life and learn to move with it, not against it.
✨ Non-Craving – You Have Enough: Shift from seeking happiness outside yourself to discovering it within.
✨ Letting Go – Transformation & Healing: Release attachments and past wounds to create space for joy.
✨ Nirvana Is Now: True happiness is not a distant goal—it is found in this very moment.

This retreat is more than just a learning experience; it is a space for deep rest and reflection. There will be plenty of time to pause, breathe, and integrate what you learn.  

Why Attend?

✔️ Take a break from the busyness of life and immerse yourself in a day of self-care.
✔️ Learn practical techniques to cultivate inner peace, resilience, and joy.
✔️ Experience the profound healing power of meditation, hypnotherapy, and sound therapy.
✔️ Connect with a like-minded community on a shared journey of growth.
✔️ Leave feeling refreshed, inspired, and empowered to bring these teachings into daily life.
✔️ Those who attend the course will have the option to be credited with 5 CPD points.

This is your invitation to pause, reflect, and embrace a new way of happiness.

Spaces are limited – reserve your place today. Book Early and Save!

Our annual week-long retreat, Light Up 2025 which is held in Crete is a deeper dive into the themes explored in the one-day Art of Living event. It enables total transformation. There are only 4 spaces left which will book out! More info and bookings here.

Our Team on the Day

Ciaran is the Co-Director of The Positive Habit. He has trained in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Stress Reduction Course (MBSR) and completed Eckhart Tolle’s five-month ‘Teacher of Presence’ training. He has been meditating and practising mindfulness for more than 12 years. He has led both sitting and walking meditations on our retreats. He brings a calm and present awareness to every event. Ciaran is a certified sound bath practitioner.

When he is not meditating Ciaran is engaged on the customer service, planning, IT, accounts and administration of The Positive Habit.

Stuart has led Tai Chi at two of our previous events and is a firm favourite. He is a qualified fitness instructor and personal trainer as well as chief Tai Chi instructor with Tai Chi Your Way. He began his in Tai Chi journey at the age of 19 under the guidance of Master Charles Thackaberry.  He worked his way through the forms to advanced long form, weapons forms and martial application training .

He has trained in the birthplace of Tai Chi – Chenziagou, China with Grand Master Chen Xiao Wang and Master Chen Zichang. His path has also led him to India where he has been initiated into Kriya Yoga by his Indian Gurudeva Swami Sadhadananda Giri.

Stuart teaches regular daytime and evening Tai Chi classes in the Dublin 12 area including Kimmage , Walkinstown and Perrystown as well as teaching in many special needs and drug rehabilitation programmes.

He is also available for individual instruction in Tai chi Chuan or Qi Gong.

The Avon is situated only 30kms outside of Dublin on the lakeshore of the Blessington Lake, right at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains in West County Wicklow.

Please use this plus code to get directions using Google Maps 5F68+JH Blessington, County Wicklow