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Dear Readers - its been a long time - this last year has been about changing my design career direction looking forward to new vistas and horizons - and the most exciting thing I have created is a collaboration with Amanda Kitchen of Pura Vida Holistic Therapies and Yoga and Manira Palm Luxury Eco Villa in Marrakech, Morocco.
I enjoyed my own magical retreat at Manira Palm this July and met Amanda there and instantly made a new lifelong friend - we shortly thereafter decided to collaborate and this is the unique, private retreat we have created for October 10th through October 15th 2025. Manira Palm is a veritable Moroccan Shangri-la - it seems a place beyond time and when you create you can access the quantum realm where time is basically plastic and can vary with your vibration - so what better place to do that than somewhere that already appears to be in the dessert mirage of the quantum realm!
These pictures give a brief over view and below I detail both of our plans for the retreat:
Amanda and I are are truly hoping our fabulous and unique retreat will become a COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE - a sociological concept that describes a state of intense shared emotions and a wonderful sense of unity when people are engaged in sharing a feeling of energy and harmony when they are experiencing a shared purpose.
Patricia's Practice: Come relax and enjoy yourself by creating your very own
mandala with other like minded individuals in the magical atmosphere of Manira
Palm, Marrakech!
I believe that all artists and designers access the Quantum
Realm in order to create their best work. During this retreat I will help you
learn the basics of how I create my own mandalas - which for me are both a
meditative practice in their creation as well as a loci for meditation when
they are complete, and, as a long time meditator, I will also talk about how I
access what I believe is the Quantum Realm.
The Quantum realm or field or universe is an invisible field of energy beyond our experience
of 3D reality, it is vibrations and frequencies beyond our mundane senses which
connects everything in our known universe. Our 3D world is matter, the quantum
realm is energy – the energy that connects everything that is material and
physical as in quantum physics. You can access this realm by taking your mind
off our world of matter – off yourself, your environment, everything that you
know - and relax into the present moment – this tends to cause a dramatic
change in the way our brains function enabling us to access a realm where
everything is possible. When we randomly think of many things our brains are
incoherent – when we focus on the now, the present moment, on exactly what we
are doing right now, our brains become more coherent and more accessible to a
vibration where everything in the known universe is created.
This is the place you access when you are completely
consumed by the moment – it is the place I go to when my art envelopes me in
entirety – when I am so completely in the now nothing exists but my creation,
even time changes and hours can turn into minutes.
We will each originate a pencil outline design ready to
colour in, in colour pencil, so your experience will, in effect, be a
combination of Spirograph, kaleidoscope and Paint by Numbers. Creating
repetitive designs, which mandalas are by their very essence, and colouring in
are both well documented as calming activities. Of course you will take your
design(s) home to continue to colour in when you'd like some quiet time to
relax and meditate, and you'll have acquired the skills to create new mandalas
in the future.
Our wellness and creative practices are symbiotic and complementary and through Amanda will help you enter a realm open to creative possibilities after which we have out first design session on the first day and each subsequent day we will design, create, enjoy, chat, connect and be meditative in our creative endeavours and I will be available most of the time during our exclusive stay at Manira Palm to be able to continue our creative pursuits, you'll even be able if you chose to make appointments with me to have individual sessions.
MATERIALS PROVIDED: I will provide special circular
paper, tracing paper, colour pencils, compasses, erasers and protractors - if
you have art supplies you'd like to bring please feel free to bring them.
Prior to the workshop think about some motifs you'd like to
use in your mandala from perhaps your business logo to a favourite flower or a
symbol like an eternal knot. I'll bring print outs of some motifs to use also.
No prior design experience is necessary! No drawing
skills are required.
I love to meditate - I usually do guided meditations or listen to sound healing audio whilst I work creating my own mandalas, and my work is a meditation in and of itself. Meditation has helped me improve my life in so very many ways.
PLEASE BRING A NOTEBOOK AND PEN :)
Each attendee will also receive an A4 colour copy of one
of my mandalas :)
Amanda's practices: At beautiful Manira Palm I will be offering an array of healing practices including yin yoga, meditation, sound healing, themed cacao ceremonies, pranayama (breathwork), chanting, fire ceremony, yoga nidra and more. These experiences are designed to restore balance, clear energy blockages, and enhance your overall well-being—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. You’ll leave equipped with the tools to navigate life with greater ease, grace, and patience.
Amanda practices Holistic Therapies which in essence means a completely natural and non-invasive form of treatment, suitable for all ages, which aims to treat the underlying causes of your symptoms naturally. Holistic Therapy gently but effectively works to restore and maintain the body’s natural balance to encourage the body’s own self healing and can also be used alongside conventional medicine.
Amanda can help you heal self-limiting beliefs, recharge your
soul, release trapped emotions, recognize and honour your true needs, and fully
embrace your personal power. Are you ready to step into your power, reclaim
your sovereignty, and radiate your light out into the world?
There are currently only 9 places available!
Both Amanda and I are very passionate about living our lives as free from manmade toxins as possible - a really hard thing to do in our modern world - between us we have a wealth of accrued knowledge about how we have done this individually and this is what we will share with you in our Detox Workshop.
Current itinerary for the retreat bearing in mind this will not be a rigid timetable but very much a ago with the flow, fluid outline which can change both according to people's needs or how the group is interacting - each and every day Patricia will be available to sit and create with, ask questions, have a private session with - again this will be very much go with the flow but also it enables you to work on your mandala designs when the time is right for you!
10th October – Arrival and settling in
Dinner – 18:00 to 19:30
20:00 to 21:00 – Introductions/opening
ceremony - Amanda
11th October
07:15 – Herbal Tea or coffee
07:30 – 09:00 – Energising Vinyasa flow
yoga (suitable for all abilities) - Amanda
09:30 – 13:00 – Breakfast
11:00 – 12:30 –
Pranayama/Chanting/Meditation/Relaxation
Afternoon – free time
14:00 - 17:00 Mandala workshop establishing the basics of our own mandalas
Dinner 18:00 to 19:30
Kirtan – 20:00 – 21:00 - Amanda
12th October
07:15 – Herbal Tea or coffee
07.30 – 08.30 – Hatha Yoga - Amanda
09.00 – 10:00 - Breakfast
10:30 – 13:30 – Themed Cacao Ceremony to
include candle lighting, smudging, grounding meditation and mudra, oracle three
card story, journalling, spirit dance - Amanda
Afternoon – free time
Dinner 18:00 to 19:30
20:00 – 21:00 Pranayama/Trataka - Amanda
13th October
07:15 – Herbal Tea, or coffee
07:30 -08:30 – Morning meditation - Amanda
09:00 – 10:00 – Breakfast
10:30 – 13:30 – Mandala Making Workshop –
Patricia Shea
Afternoon – free time
Dinner – 18:00 to 19:30
20:00 – 21:00 – Fire Ceremony – Amanda
14th October
07:15 – herbal tea, tea or coffee
07:30 – 08:30 – Morning
meditation/chanting/pranayama - Amanda
09:00 – 10:00 – Breakfast
10:30 – 13:30 – Workshop – How to Survive
in a Toxic World
Afternoon – free time
Dinner – 18:00 to 19:30
20:00 – 21:00 – Restorative/Yin yoga with
essential oils and sound healing - Amanda
15th October
07:15 herbal tea, tea or coffee
07:30 – 08:30 – Closing Ceremony
09:00 – 10:00 – Breakfast
Leave :)
We would love to meet you in Marrakech - love and light - Amanda and Patricia xx
Please message Patricia at pbashea at gmail dot com or Amanda at amanda at puravidaholistics dot co dot uk with questions or to book your spot at our magical retreat.
