Silent Retreat

We embark on our wonderful journey with a 3-day silent retreat and meditation. Each participant comes from a different place with a different past. The group is going to meet, to know each other from Silence, in Silence.

The first contact with the people you are going to travel and share life with for 15 or more days will be from presence, from being. Without having to prove anything or hide anything, without having to pretend anything. Natural, spontaneous, innocent, pure, without past, without words, just as you are in this moment of life. What emerges is beautiful.

During these 3 days especially, and then throughout the journey, we practice different meditation techniques to help the mind calm down, to train the mind to stop telling stories and to open up to recognizing what life is presenting, to live what is, what you are in this moment of life.

After these 3 days of meditation and silence, the mind is more prepared to open up to the new, to this spectacular nature and to these people who believe in the liberation of suffering and in the path of compassion. To live the moment without judgments or conclusions. Open to receive what is being. And it is amazing how cohesive the group is after a few days of silence.

What matters least is what you do, what you dedicate yourself to, your story. What matters is the real, what you are now. And the group shares from here. In my experience, the group shares in Love and good vibes. It's very beautiful: a mind in stillness and openness brings peace, clarity, and harmony.

 

Meditation techniques

We practice Vipassana meditation, sitting in silence, active meditations, dance-release, and dedicate space to investigate, to question the beliefs that interpret and filter reality, to question "who am I," "who am I referring to when I say I," "is this thought telling me the truth," "what is a thought."

No one tells you the answers to those questions. I simply guide your mind to silence and to question from stillness, you discover yourself, you recognize yourself, you experience the Real. Being in Presence in this moment of life is a moment-to-moment practice.

It's not something that can be learned or grasped. It's something "to experience," like life itself. Techniques can be learned that help the mind to be calm and silent. We can learn techniques that help the body to release, to relax. And living the present moment with a clear, open, and present mind, in totality Here-Now, is experiential, it cannot be learned, it can only be experienced, it can only be lived.

Observing how we experience reality when we don't define it, when we don't impose the past, the knowledge between me and the natural flow of life.

Some of you may have never experienced being silent for a few days and you may think it's very difficult. That is not my experience. The first time I was in a silent retreat, after a few days, my mind and body were so relaxed that I didn't want to go back to the normality of talking all the time.

Silence gives us the opportunity to see how our mind works and to begin to be free from the thought process. A clean and calm mind immediately generates a heart that radiates Unconditional Love. Joy and Inner Peace.

I have many years of experience guiding people in meditation. Everyone will receive support and guidance during these days and we will have a daily sharing with questions and answers. My way is not rigid at all, it's more about "simply being"... Helping the body and mind to release with dynamic meditations, with dance, and to be calm and observant with sitting in silence.

Silence and meditation will help our mind to be in stillness and openness. And a still mind is needed to recognize your true nature, who you really are. Instead of telling the story of what is happening, it's about living what is, consciously and in totality Here-Now.