🌙 REST Retreat — Find Rest. Return Renewed.

A 6-module journey to reset your body, breath, and mind.

Led by Harshad Jeff Thomlinson — drawing from 40+ years of teaching, practice, and healing wisdom.

✨ Why the REST Retreat?

Over the years, students have called these practices their “go-to reset button.”
The REST Retreat is a greatest hits collection of Jeff’s trusted tools for grounding, release, and renewal.

It’s designed for anyone who needs to:

• Slow down, tune out from the world, and tune in to the Self.

• Reconnect with their own body and breath, and start the healing they long for.

• Feel supported by community and the gentle challenge with compassion of Jeff and the program itself.

And you won’t do it alone — weekly live check-ins are included.

📖 What’s Inside

Each module combines guided practices, reflection prompts, and support tools to help you pause and reset.

Module 1: Arriving

• Welcome + orientation

• Breath awareness reset

• Reflection: Where am I arriving from?

Module 2: Grounding

• Supportive core + neutral posture practice

• Guided body scan

• Chitta Grounding document

• Reflection: What grounds me?

Module 3: Releasing

• Gentle stretches + tension release

• Guided breathwork: lengthened exhale

• Reflection: What can I let go of right now?

Module 4: Resting

• Yoga Nidra: “a hammock for the nervous system”

• Optional quiet music track

• Reflection: How do I allow rest?

Module 5: Remembering

• Signature meditations from Jeff’s teaching archive

• Student-loved “greatest hits” practices

• Reflection: What do I already know that helps me heal?

Module 6: Reconnecting (through AAR)

• Assess: stop and listen inwardly

• Adapt: Trinity practice (Brahma–Vishnu–Shiva / Father–Son–Spirit)

• Relate: journaling + sharing intentions

• Reflection: What am I returning to?

👥 Weekly Community Sessions

• A gentle check-in, guided practice, and closing circle.

• Drop-in style — no pressure to attend every week.

• Anchored in the AAR method: Assess, Adapt, Relate.

🎁 Bonus

Your REST Retreat purchase includes 1-month of AAR Membership (Library access) — all recordings, FreeBack tools, the Back Row Vault, and weekly gatherings.

Need more time? Ask, and you’ll get 2 months free.

💳 Pricing

• REST Retreat (One-Time Payment): $XXX

• Includes 6 modules, weekly live sessions, and 1 month of AAR Membership.

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A) REST Retreat — Module Pages (paste-ready)

Module 1 — Arriving

Goal: orient, downshift, arrive in the body.
Sections (Squarespace blocks):

1. Intro (Text Block):

   Welcome — you made it. This first session is about arriving as you are. No fixing, just noticing.

2. Practice (Video/Audio Block): Breath Awareness Reset (8–12 min).

3. Micro-Practice (Text Block):

   • Sit/stand tall; breathe 4–4–6 (inhale 4, pause 4, exhale 6) for 3 minutes.

4. Journal (Markdown/Text):

   • Where am I arriving from?

   • What sensations are most present?

5. Next Step (Button): “Go to Grounding (Module 2)”

Assets to add: orientation video (2–3 min), breath reset (audio), journal PDF (optional).

Module 2 — Grounding

Goal: stability via posture + attention.
Sections:

1. Intro:

   Grounding is contact + direction. We’ll set neutral posture and let the floor hold us.

2. Practice (Video): Supportive Core + Neutral Posture (add video like “Peter” demo).

3. Guided Body Scan (Audio): 10–12 min.

4. Download (File Block): Chitta Grounding PDF.

5. Journal:

   • What grounds me right now?

   • Where does stability show up in daily life?

6. Next Step (Button): “Go to Releasing (Module 3)”

Assets: posture video, body scan audio, Chitta PDF.

Module 3 — Releasing (moved earlier)

Goal: reduce tension; lengthen the exhale.
Sections:

1. Intro:

   Releasing is subtraction. Less gripping, more space.

2. Practice (Video): Gentle stretch/tension release (12–15 min).

3. Breathwork (Audio): Exhale-lengthening (6–10 min).

4. Journal:

   • What can I let go of right now?

   • After releasing, what feels different?

5. Next Step: “Go to Resting (Module 4)”

Assets: release sequence video, exhale audio.

Module 4 — Resting (moved later)

Goal: deep parasympathetic reset.
Sections:

1. Intro:

   Rest isn’t a reward — it’s a practice.

2. Practice (Audio): Yoga Nidra (20–30 min).

3. Optional (Audio): Quiet instrumental track.

4. Journal:

   • How do I allow rest?

   • What made rest easier today?

5. Next Step: “Go to Remembering (Module 5)”

Assets: nidra audio, optional music track.

Module 5 — Remembering

Goal: reconnect with what already works.
Sections:

1. Intro:

   Remembering is recognition — tools that have helped before often help again.

2. Practice (Audio/Video): Signature meditation(s) from your archive.

3. Greatest Hits (List + Links): 2–4 student-loved practices.

4. Journal:

   • What do I already know that helps me heal?

   • Which “old friend” practice will I repeat this week?

5. Next Step: “Go to Reconnecting (Module 6)”

Assets: selected meditations, links to classics.

Module 6 — Reconnecting (through AAR)

Goal: carry it forward with Assess–Adapt–Relate.
Sections:

1. Intro:

   AAR is your map: Assess (listen), Adapt (practice), Relate (share).

2. Teach (Text/Short Video):

   • Assess: 2-minute stillness check.

   • Adapt: Trinity practice (Brahma–Vishnu–Shiva / Father–Son–Spirit).

   • Relate: write intentions; share with one trusted person.

3. Guided Practice (Audio/Video): AAR walkthrough (10–12 min).

4. Journal:

   • What am I returning to after retreating?

   • Which one intention will I make public?

5. Button: “Access your AAR Library for one month (included)”

Assets: AAR teach clip, AAR guided track.

Weekly Optional Community (AAR-Based)

Copy block (paste on each module page footer):

Join the weekly drop-in: check-in → guided practice → closing circle. Bring your Assess notes, get support for Adapt, and make Relate real with gentle accountability.

Link/Button: “See weekly schedule + Zoom link” (to Library > Weekly Gatherings)