Healthy Boomer Lifestyles

A Seven-Day Retreat in the Rainforests of Costa Rica

Healthy Living and Balance, a leading edge coaching and personal development company, announces the Consciously Living Your Life: Women’s Empowerment Retreat, held in Costa Rica,
March 5 – 11, 2010, exclusively for women.

The retreat promises participants an opportunity to relax, renew, and reinvent their life in the lush, natural surroundings of Costa Rica. At the conclusion of this seven-day retreat, participants will be able to:
• Gain clarify about your life’s path and how to let go of your past
• Use intention, energy, and meditation to change their lives
• Remove obstacles and eliminate hidden beliefs and behaviors that sabotage success
• Rewrite their life plan to include their passion and purpose

Retreat leader Joyce Dillon, RN, MN says, “There are 37 million midlife women like me out there, and we’re all at an important crossroads in our lives. We’re all looking for the best, most rewarding way to live the rest of our lives, and we want to make smart meaningful choices for self-fulfillment, spiritual connection, healthy living, meaningful career, and empowering relationships.”

Dillon is a midlife expert, author, certified life and mind-body coach, energy practitioner and CEO of Healthy Living and Balance. www.Healthylivingandbalance.com

Women tend to take on the responsibilities of generations – of our children, our parents, and ourselves. To fulfill these ambitious, even selfless goals, we need to remain vital and healthy, free in spirit, and masters at reinventing meaning and purpose in our lives.”

For the past 15 years, Joyce Dillon has helped men and women awaken to healthier, more balanced, and spiritually connected lives. Her latest effort – the Consciously Living Your Life: Women’s Empowerment Retreat – is an intimate, experiential retreat that helps women understand their powerful transitions, and how to navigate through the challenges of this spiritual, physical and emotional time of life.

Dillon says, “You are on the threshold of becoming the person you were born to be. A more authentic, deeply-living, real human being, and you are being challenged to decide how you will live the rest of your life.”

Dillon combines a Masters Degree in Mental Health Nursing, nursing consultation, and education with twenty years’ clinical experience and extensive training in coaching, mind-body medicine, meditation, energy medicine, and transformational teaching. Joyce is the author of the forthcoming book “Transformational Change at Midlife”.

She sees the Women’s Empowerment Retreat as an opportunity for women to celebrate life; gently return to deep inner power; reach their potentials; and to return energized, clear and eager to live the life they desire.

Find out more about the Women’s Empowerment Retreat at http://www.lifeempowermentretreats.comor www.Healthylivingandbalance.com or call Joyce at 404-881-1322.

Costa Rica deemed happiest place on Earth

Recently, the second annual Happy Planet Index (HPI) named Costa Rica the happiest place on earth. Instead of using indicators like the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the HPI looks at three areas to arrive at its conclusions:

1. Life expectancy
2. Happiness (how satisfied with their lot the citizenry says they are)
3. Ecological footprint

Being a fan of Costa Rica, is doesn’t surprise me that it scored so well, but what I find interesting is that 9 of the top 10 positions were snagged by Latin American or Caribbean countries. Here are the top three:

1. Costa Rica

2. Dominican Republic

3. Jamaica

In thinking about why that part of the world scored so well, I’m wondering if the area has been able to approach first world standards in terms of health—with enviable infant mortality rates, life spans, and health care—while remaining “third world” in terms of values: favoring family over work, pleasure over duty, and environmental sustainability over destroying the land in the name of profit.

I’ve often heard it said that you can’t have economic growth without environmental degradation and an erosion of values, leaving a populace with disposable income but also a disposable culture, rootless and anxious. What I like about the results of the latest Happy Planet Index is that it suggests that developing countries might be able to pick and chose from the smorgasbord of development, sampling the good stuff (improved health, better environmental protections), while leaving the unappealing dishes untouched.

As far as how other countries did, sub-Saharan African countries didn’t fare well, the United States was number 114, China clocked in at number 20, and India at 35.

For more information on retreats in Costa Rica go to www.lifeempowermentretreats.com or e-mail jjdillon@mindspring.com

Create a New Level of Consciousness

The Living Life to the Fullest Empowerment Retreat: Costa Rica,
August 7-13, 2009

 

Create a New Level of Consciousness

The Truth about Change

From financial recovery to personal health, people all over the world are creating powerful new beginnings.  When you increase personal potential, you affect positive change. But real and lasting change is rare.

 

Build Lasting Change Now

The Living Life to the Fullest Empowerment Retreat is a transformative pathway that builds the firm foundation you need for lasting change. Your journey includes:

 

·   Clarifying what matters most to you

·   Designing your blueprint for change

·   Consciously creating the life you want

·   Releasing old patterns and beliefs

Renewing your body, mind and spirit

 

Reach Higher Consciousness Discovering, choosing and controlling your life direction sheds outdated thinking and stimu-lates a higher level of consciousness. That’s the foundation you need for lasting change.

Relax and Refocus

in Costa Rica

Reinvent yourself in the heart of the rainforest at the Sueno Azul Resort, located in a 2,000-acre private nature reserve in Costa Rica, at the convergence of the Sardinal and Puerto Viejo Rivers.

Joyce Dillon

Retreat leader Joyce Dillon, RN, MN, is a certified life, health, and wellness coach, mind-body practitioner, trans-formational teacher and energy healer with twenty-five years of clinical experience. As CEO of Healthy Living and Balance, she helps midlife entrepreneurs, small business owners, and professionals discover their life calling and create a practical "life map" to navigate life more successfully.

Register now www.lifeempowermentretreats.com

SEVEN DAYS THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

A Week of Deep Personal Transformation to Empower Women in
Midlife to Find and Live an Authentic Life

Join Joyce Dillon, RN, MN, Coach and Transformational Teacher

SEVEN DAYS THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
August 7-13, 2009, Central Valley, Costa Rica

Are you at a crossroads in your life and struggling to make a
change in your career, relationship, health or deepen your
spiritual connection?

This experiential, hands-on retreat will help you navigate the
challenges you are experiencing in your journey. Our world is
experiencing turbulent times as we all shift our level of
consciousness. You are on the threshold of becoming the person
you were born to be, a more authentic, deeply living, real human
being.

You are being challenged to decide how you will live!

We would like to extend a special invitation for you to be part
of an exclusive group of women who have the opportunity to work
closely with Joyce and a group of powerful midlife women in this
life changing experience.

Special VIP registration discount offer of $1,997.00. This is
$400 off the regular rate. (Your )You must make a deposit before
May 31, 2009 to get the discounted rate.

Space is limited and we recommend you (your) reserve your space
now.

Go to www.Lifeempowermentretreats.com for trip details or call
404-881-1322.

I look forward to seeing you in Costa Rica!

Now's the time to change your life!

 

Hi, I'm Joyce Dillon, RN, MN, founder of Healthy Living and Balance a coaching and personal development company and your leader for our Living Life To the Fullest Empowerment Retreat in Costa Rica, August 7-13, 2009.

For the past 20 years both nationally and abroad, I have been helping midlife men and women  who are experiencing major midlife change to discover how to transform their lives by helping them find their life purpose and how to identify their core belief patterns, and thoughts that are blocking their path to success.

If you are at a crossroads in your life and need to make a life change in your career, relationship, health  or spirit - we want to hear from you! Tell us your story and why you should join us for a week with a life and transformational coach in a small group setting - all in the magnificent beauty and surroundings of Costa Rica!

Now's our time to live life to the fullest … Click here to tell us your story and you  could join us in Costa Rica! Hurry, contest ends on 4/30/09. To learn more about
the trip go to www.lifeempowermentretreats.com or call 404-881-1322.

I hope to see you in Costa Rica in August….

HEALTHY LIVING BOOMER EXPERT TO HOST COSTA RICA RETREAT

Baby Boomers are blowing the lid off the concept of what it’s like to grow old. With so many professional and personal opportunities to explore and expand, Boomer women are reshaping what “middle age” looks and feels like. For many, “50” feels more like the Indy 500. But somewhere, at some point, before they blow an engine, women have to get off the fast track to refuel, refocus, and then get back on course.

Joyce Dillon, R.N., M.N., owner of Healthy Living and Balance and a Boomer expert, is like the “crew captain” who ensures you’re properly tuned up, balanced and fueled to stay ahead of the game.

“Baby Boomer women, in particular, are making major transitions in their careers, relationships, health concerns, and lifestyles – and they have no intention to slow down and grow old. Fifty is the new fifty, so these women keep packing on the responsibilities – and the adventures – with aplomb,” Dillon says. “Yet few have the kinds of support they need to make transitions with clarity and joy rather than stress.”

She offers women that much-needed support and the benefit of her lifelong transformative teaching experience as host of The Awaken to Life Empowerment Retreat, November 7th-November 14th, 2008 at the El Cafetal Inn, in Atenas, Costa Rica.

The package includes all retreat activities, accommodations for seven days and seven nights at El Cafetal Inn, admission to all afternoon activities, all breakfasts and three dinners at El Cafetal Inn, and transportation to and from the airport and retreat activities.

Dillon adds, “Women have claimed a high degree of power and, along with its advantages, we find our days and nights packed with responsibilities. Few women can find the time and privacy to go within and reconnect to what’s truly meaningful for them. The Awaken to Life Empowerment Retreat is designed especially for such women, to help them relax, refocus, rejuvenate and recommit to the incredible life path that is possible for all of us with just a little help,” she says.

Though relaxing, the retreat promises a challenging and supportive program, including structured group activities on clarifying what you want for your life, preparing for the changes you seek, sharing your meaningful life stories, awakening your inner awareness, and creating a blueprint for the next steps in your life.

Retreat participant, Pam Cook, says, “The best part for me was becoming part of a group of women that accepted, listened and supported me to live my authentic life.”

“The advantages of our retreat over a local workshop are immense,” says Dillon, “starting with the essential element of separating from day-to-day responsibilities long enough, and getting the right kinds of support and coaching, to go deeply within, truly relax, and reconnect with what really matters.”

Dillon, a master’s prepared nurse, certified life and wellness coach, and transformative educator, brings twenty-five years of clinical experience and extensive training in mind-body medicine, meditation, energy medicine and transformational work. She dedicates her life to helping individuals and groups live a more empowered, healthy and conscious life. She has worked with individuals and organizations, including such major organizations as Kellogg, Subaru, Protein Technology, and The Carter Presidential Center.

Founded in 1998 by Dillon, the company Healthy Living and Balance: A Center for Conscious Living, offers a full-range of preventive, wellness and life enhancement programs, and courses and private sessions that promote health, healing and inner balance. The Healthy Living and Balance wellness approach is based on holistic, mind-body principles of change that combine the wisdom of ancient traditions with western contemporary medical approaches to address the totality of a person’s body, mind and spirit. For more information about The Awaken to Life Empowerment Retreat, visit: www.lifeempowermentretreats.com or call Joyce Dillon, 404-881-1322.

For more information about the company, visit: www.healthylivingandbalance.com.