The turn of a new year is always a great time to connect with yourself and set intentions to steer yourself in the direction aligned with your dreams. It’s the theme of our next Mountain Mindfulness Retreat in Candler, N.C. on January 4!
But this year also holds a little extra motivation to set powerful intentions. In numerology, 2025 is a 9 year, which symbolizes closing out a major cycle in your life.
If you’re not familiar with numerology and the significance of each year’s number, here’s a quick explanation. To get the year number, add all the digits of the year together (2+0+2+5=9) and if you get a double-digit number, you add the remaining digits together to get a single number. With this formula, years go in 9-year cycles. The 9 year, like the one we are entering, is the final year of this cycle. So it’s all about wrapping up the major transitions that have been happening since 2017 started this current cycle.
(There are lots of resources online to understand the numerology of years, including this one that adds your personal year to the mix to dig deeper into what 2025 holds.)
You might still be trying to get a handle on what transpired in 2024, which is understandable. We are in the finishing stages of an 8 year, a year of transformation and action, which brought a lot of movement but you may not yet know exactly where it’s sending you. You are not alone in feeling that. 2025 brings the hope of answering those questions, which is why starting it off mindfully is such a great idea.
Our retreat will help you:
- Reflect on 2024 specifically, on what you learned and maybe unlearned, tapping into your inner guide to the upheavals of this year.
- Reflect on the whole 9-year cycle since 2017, the hurdles that turned out to be springboards, the pain that turned into wisdom, the forward momentum it delivers you now.
- Connect to your own deep inner knowing about the past, present and future
- Use the sound created for the Yin yoga class and Sound Healing by Allie Mandikos to calm the mental chatter that often blocks your connection to the guidance within
- Use Andrew Kirsch’s hypnosis regression to connect even deeper, to your subconscious mind.
- Use the meditation techniques I teach to create your own meditation practice, a “home” to return to throughout the year. We will work with some mantras, which have a powerful effect on focusing your energy
- Leave behind the energies of the past, clear space for the great adventures ahead.
For me personally, this 9-year cycle has been so transformative and is what delivers me here now. In the last 9 year, 2016, I uprooted my life and career and moved to Asheville after 14 years in New York City, where I had reached the pinnacle of my journalism career at the New York Times only to become a yoga teacher and walk away when my intuition pointed me to a new life. Now, having learned so many mindfulness tools in both yoga and meditation to make my next 9-year cycle so much more conscious, I am eager to share them with anyone ready to learn.
I hope you will join us at the cabin in Candler to do this work together. Read more, see our full schedule and sign up!
