Seeding Calm
A 3-Day Mindfulness Retreat for Students, Faculty & Campus Communities
For students, faculty, and staff navigating academic pressure, life transitions, and the search for balance and clarity.
Retreat Insights
Being a student today is more than just managing classes and exams—it’s balancing your future, your relationships, your self-doubt, and everything in between.
From academic deadlines to family expectations, from social pressure to personal struggles—it’s easy to lose yourself in the noise.
If you’ve ever felt like your mind is constantly racing, your emotions feel out of control, or the future feels overwhelming—this retreat is for you.
What is Seeding Calm?
Seeding Calm isn’t about learning to relax for a few minutes—it’s about training your awareness so you can guide your mind, instead of being pulled in every direction.
When your awareness is untrained, it constantly drags in worries about the future, regrets from the past, and the pressure to live up to expectations.
This retreat teaches you how to take back control—not by avoiding stress, but by learning to meet it calmly, with clarity and strength.
Because calm isn’t something you chase—it’s what naturally rises when you stop disturbing yourself.
Why This Matters for Students
- Academic pressure and exams triggering anxiety and sleepless nights
- Social comparison and fear of judgment leaving you disconnected from yourself
- Uncertainty about the future adding constant mental weight
- Personal struggles and relationship stress taking a toll on your inner peace
Why This Matters for Students
Who This Retreat is For?
Students & Leaders
Faculty and Professors
Counseling and Wellness Center Staff
⭐ Designed for faculty and professors, a dedicated retreat offers tools for stress reduction, time management, and creating a calm, balanced environment in both teaching and personal life.
Retreat Flow – 3 Days of Seeding Calm
Day 1 – Understanding the Nature of Mind & Emotions
- What is awareness and how does it shape your reality?
- You’ll go deep into the mechanics of emotions — from the first flicker of awareness, to the sensations that flood your body, to the exact moment when your mind decides to trigger anxiety, fear, or overwhelm. You’ll see it happening in real-time, and that’s where the shift begins.
- The CIRCLE Technique — Sitender’s proven framework to break reactive cycles and preserve the flow of universal energy within you.
Guided Awareness Practice:
- Where is your power flowing right now? Who owns it?
- You’ll learn to see exactly where your awareness wanders — and how to bring every ounce of it back under your control.
- Because awareness isn’t just attention — it’s your raw life force.
Day 2 – Mastering the Art of Response
Calm isn’t the absence of chaos — it’s the power to choose your response.
Vipassana-Inspired Practice:
- You’ll observe the rise and fall of sensations, seeing the cravings and aversions that fuel every storm inside you. You’ll learn to witness without reacting, breaking the cycle before it breaks you.
- Emotional Clearing: Releasing the stuck emotions from past experiences.
Breath Training: Using the breath to calm the nervous system in real time.
Group Reflection (Optional): What am I still carrying that no longer serves me?
Day 3 – Designing Your Calm Practice for Life
- Integrating awareness into daily life — how to seed calm in every moment, not just when meditating.
- Creating your personalized “Calm Ritual” — a daily practice to anchor yourself before the day takes over.
- Witnessing Your Patterns — learning to spot triggers before they hijack your calm.
- Closing Ceremony: Writing your personal manifesto for calm and clarity.
- And when you meet the calmer you — the you that no storm can shake — you’ll realize calm was never the goal.
The goal is to live wide awake — and celebrate life as the festival it was always meant to be.
Not someday. Every living moment.
What You’ll Walk Away With?
- A practical, personalized daily calm practice you can return to anytime life overwhelms you.
- Deep understanding of how your mind, emotions, and awareness interact — and how to control the process.
- Tools to respond instead of react — preserving your energy for what truly matters.
- Techniques to manage anxiety, fear, and emotional storms without getting lost in them.
- A deeper sense of who you are when you’re not drowning in noise and chaos.
- A new relationship with yourself — one built on awareness, not avoidance.
- Build an unshakable relationship with yourself — filling the void left by broken relationships, betrayals, divorces, and the ache of abandonment.
Techniques Integrated into the 3 Days
- CIRCLE Technique – To interrupt overthinking and reactive loops
- Energy Flow Mapping – To spot where your power leaks throughout the day
- Awareness Leak Audit – To identify energy drains hiding in your daily routine
- Vipassana-Inspired Observation – To witness emotions and triggers without reacting
- Breath Awareness & Control – To instantly reset your nervous system
- Emotional Clearing – To release stuck energy from past experiences
- Conscious Attention Training – To focus your energy where it serves you best
This isn’t about temporary calm. It’s about learning to stand rooted in your own power—even when life gets loud.
If you’re ready to find your calm—and keep it—this retreat is for you.
These retreats are part of The Belonging Project, Movement Phase 1, where we are collaborating with universities and corporates to bring healing, mindfulness, and well-being to students, leaders, and employees. Our goals are to impact 10,000 lives through 12 retreats and 13 workshops, all working towards the creation of 10,000 “Solace Spaces” for a global movement of healing and connection.
Learn more about the Solace Space here.
Retreat Dates & Location
Location:
Delhi, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Orange County
Dates:
Phase 1- March 17- June 29th 2025
Investment
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Harmonious Relationship with Self
A deep sense of wholeness and fulfillment, rooted in alignment with their true purpose and potential
Effortless Navigation of Life
The ability to approach challenges with ease, trust in their inner compass, and find belonging in their true self.
Impact Stories
MAMTHA BANSAL
RIA KUMARAN