***Please note the times posted in this listing are Eastern US Time and the program is offered in California, in PST Timezone.***

This guided weekend contemplative retreat will focus on the meditation practices of mindful eating and living. When we eat mindfully we involve all the senses by engaging our body and our mind. We utilize color, texture, smell, taste, and sound to nurture our experience. We learn to pay attention to what our body really needs and why. To support cultivating our awareness, we will quiet the mind and open the heart through sitting meditation, gentle yoga, walking meditation and nature awareness practices. Through these practices of deepening our inner awareness of the body, mind and heart we will experience wisdom and compassion, which is our true nature. We can experience food as pleasure and nourishment while finding our right relationship to amount and quality in each moment. Mindful eating can nudge us beyond what we're craving so that we wake up to why we're craving it. Selected practices from MIndfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) will be included. Guidance is also provided in preparing, cooking and eating your own meals with mindfulness and loving kindness in the gourmet kitchen stocked with high quality staples This retreat is open to anyone wanting to deepen their practice, both beginners and for those with more experience in mindfulness meditation and mindful eating.

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Andrea Lieberstein, MPH, RDN, RYT is a mindfulness-based registered dietitian nutritionist, mindful eating (MB-EAT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor and coach, trainer, and registered yoga instructor has specialized in helping people transform their lives for over 20 years. She leads mindfulness meditation and mindful eating trainings and retreats at retreat centers across the country and internationally. Her individual coaching sessions are accessible to anyone through phone or a virtual office. She utilizes Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), MBSR, and other mindfulness-based and mindful eating practices in her private practice working with individuals on a wide range of disordered eating, weight management, body image and stress related issues and health concerns.

She trains health professionals and the public in Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness (MB-EAT) at Omega Institute, Kripalu Yoga and Health Center, and Esalen Institute with the program's founder, Jean Kristeller, and trains health professionals online in the MB-EAT program. Andrea is also a guest teacher at meditation retreat centers such as Spirit Rock Meditation Center and Vajrapani Institute.

andrea@mindfuleatingtraining.com