Meditation Retreats
Retreats are a major part of practicing insight meditation. Many periods of sitting and walking together each day as a group builds up concentration, energy and continuity of mindfulness that allows us to open our hearts and see more clearly the true nature if the experience.
Meditation retreats are a way of taking space to explore and coming to know your Being. Knowing who you are and why you are. It helps you, together with other people like yourself, find inner peace and develop spiritual awareness. It is a radical meditation technique that will take you on an amazing journey of self discovery.
There are a lot of meditation retreats centers that different groups or institutes are offering, you may want to find your place among one of them:
Meditation Retreats Offered by Awareness Intensive Institute
This meditation retreats institute offers “Who is In?” and “Satori”, a three day and seven day workshops, where your basic needs will be completely supported and taken care within a safe environment created by facilitators and staff. It’s more on focusing your energy and attention in “experiencing directly” through your all Being and not only from your mind; who is in, who you are, what is love, what is freedom and find answers to these questions you carry in your life.
Their meditation technique used is “Self –Inquiry and Communication”, where you come to know yourself and to investigate your experience in the moment. Whatever you find you communicate, thereby discovering the mystery of your personality at your own pace and witnessing the movement of your unconscious while communicating to a partner. It’s unloading the mind and moving deeper.
Who is in? – three day meditation retreats
With the tool of the modern Zen Koan “Who is in?”, this meditation retreats technique goes inside to experience directly who we really are, beyond masks and layers of personality. The question “Who am I?” is a relevant question for every human being, it is an existential question and will never be outdated. If we want to become individuals, letting go of all that we are not and claiming who we are is a way of achieving it. The structure of this process is designed to help focus all your energy inwards, reaching the core of our Being, which is peace, joy, and love the center of all.
Satori: a glimpse of enlightenment – a seven day retreats
What is my true nature? This meditation retreat “Satori” aims to having the direct experience of being, an experience of awakening, and an experience of no-mind. Satori is not a therapy but is highly therapeutic, and does not have the goal of finding temporary solutions to daily problems but finds them. It’s an intense, honest, open and compassionate inquiry using the existential questions such as “Who am I? Who is in? What is life? What is Love?” and others, which is a path that can take a person from the confusion of the personality to the peak of clarity.
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