ABOUT FINNSKOGEN RETREAT
Bodil Skadberg
Founder and owner of Finnskogen Retreat.
CEO, facilitator, supervisor, Enneagram coach,
yoga instructor, meditation teacher, gestalt therapist in training
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SOME COLLABORATORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Ani Könchog Lhamo
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Ani is an ordained nun from the Tibetan-Buddhist tradition and educated psychologist. She has extensive experience from meditation and silent retreats both in Norway and abroad.
Marit Moan
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Marit Moan has - in addition to being a psychologist specialist, practiced meditation within Eastern psychology (Tibetan Buddhism) since 1999, and has formal certification as a mindfulness instructor and meditation facilitator from 2013. Her approach is emotion-focused and close to experience.
She has a particular focus on strengthening the capacity for self-compassion, self-acceptance and self-care.
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More about Marit Moan and her practice:
Roos van der Laan
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Roos works as a coach, certified mindfulness instructor and mentor, resident in the Netherlands. She has a background as a dramatherapist and has worked with groups and 1:1 on personal development and awareness. Nature is a great source of inspiration in her work and personal life. It is the place where we remember who we really are and how we can achieve deep inner silence. “I help people reconnect with their hearts and live from that core”
Roos runs her own practice in Amersfoort:
Cecilia Csiki
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Cecilia practices and teaches yoga with an intention of genuineness and humility, and invites softness and play into the class.
She has an education in Hatha yoga and "Yoga as therapy". Cecilia is concerned about making yoga simple, safe and accessible to people, with the starting point they have.
Her background as a nurse has taught her the importance of self-love and self-care, and has given her a deeper understanding of the holistic for human beings.
Caroline Hargreaves (Ináya)
Ecotherapist, yoga teacher and artist with background in diplomacy and peace processes. She is the woman behind Norwegian Sage, a portal for awareness of wholeness, nature and regenerative being. Caroline is a meditation teacher at this summer's personal retreat, and she also holds her own courses and retreats with a focus on deep contact with inner and outer nature. More about Caroline:
Tarjei Tvedten
Frivillig 2023
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF
FINNSKOGEN RETREAT
Bodil Skadberg
Finnskogen Retreat is the result of a vision that have
inspired and driven me for several years.
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Behind me, I have many years of experience in social work and
management. In the extension of ambitions and great responsibility,
I gradually experienced a more hectic everyday life, high demands
and time pressure, a large amount of work and increased
expectations from others and myself. Slowly, life changed from
being exciting and rewarding to be characterized by stress.
The quality of life was gone and every day was difficult.
Finally I quit my job and began to search for a new way
to cure my chaotic mind.
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A long-term stay at a mindfulness retreat in Chiang Rai, Thailand,
became the turning point for me. Meditation and silence in a healing
community made me slowly aware of my own thinking patterns, and
eventually I learned to let go of these and create new, positive ways
to talk to myself.
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We can consider crises as gifts and opportunities, an offer, a proposal for change. We suddenly face some major choices, and can find out more about who we really are behind roles and facades. We can cope with some established habits, physical or mental, and become more authentic and genuine. Deep inside the crises there are treasures - unknown possibilities that we had not seen without adversity. View of something new.
My own crises have proved to be invaluable opportunities for me and I want to share what I have learned.
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In addition to education and wide experience in management, leadership, special education, social education and organic farming, I am a trained yoga and mindfulness instructor and have studied and practiced various meditation techniques since 2009. I teach people with stress-related difficulties, depression and anxiety disorders, and I guide individuals in crises, people looking for deeper meaning, and other types of mental challenges. Read more about life coaching here.
To me, meditation is an important source of insight and inner peace, balance and wisdom. Meditation makes my life richer and more nuanced, and I am more aware of diversity, in me and around me. Meditation practice also makes it easier to understand myself and others, and have compassion and love for all living. It gives me a greater ability to be present in what I do, and in what I am.
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My goal for creating a place for retreats is to give other people the opportunity to come together in a safe and supportive community and practice meditation, silence, yoga and other healing activities. In this way we can cultivate inner growth. We can get to know our vulnerability, our courage and our strength. We can find insight and wisdom, develop trust and patience, and experience love and fellowship.
