5-Day Silent Meditation Retreat: Awakening Love Within
Embracing Wholeness—A Journey into Love, Compassion, and Non-Duality
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Offered in France and Mexico
Reveal Your Heart’s True Nature Through Love and Compassion
Imagine a space where every breath, each movement, is an act of Love. This 5-day silent meditation retreat embodies that vision. You’ll engage in powerful practices that awaken you experientially to the essence of Universal Love and Compassion. Dedicated to deepening your understanding of Love as the fundamental core of existence, this silent retreat guides you on a Heart-centered journey into Self-Inquiry.
With Love as the guiding force, you’ll participate in meditations designed to expand your awareness, practice Hatha Yoga to celebrate your body as a divine temple, and listen to lectures that delve into the roles of Love and Compassion in spiritual awakening. This meditation retreat draws upon the enlightening teachings of non-duality and the wisdom of sages like Ramana Maharshi, among other compassionate insights from mystics across various traditions.
These five days of silent meditation will give you the tools to integrate Love and Compassion into every aspect of your being, nurturing yourself and inviting profound shifts in your consciousness. Join us and experience practices that awaken you to the core of your being, Hridaya—the “Spiritual Heart.”
A Heart-Opening Journey
In this retreat, you’ll experience the gradual unfolding of Love and Compassion through seven stages:
1. Awareness
Begin by acknowledging the state of your soul. Ask yourself, “Is my heart open or closed?” We can’t transform what we fail to recognize.
2. Awakening to Love
Through meditation, discover the inner source of Love and learn how Compassion opens your heart, fostering more meaningful connections with yourself and others.
3. Understanding Limitations
As Self-awareness deepens, pierce through the illusions of your personal narratives. This shift helps you identify and release vasanas, the “unconscious tendencies” underlying your conditioned behavior.
4. Sublimating Fear and Doubt
Learn to transform fear, doubt, and disconnection into Self-love, Compassion, and Freedom. As your heart opens, Love flows more freely.
5. Surrendering to the Divine Will of the Heart
Explore the subtle distinction between doubts and the intimate whisper of the Heart. By discerning this, you’ll begin to trust iccha, your “innermost guidance.”
6. Living from the Heart
Marvel at the liberating joy of living authentically from the Heart while implementing practical methods for embodying Love and Compassion.
7. Integrating into Daily Life
Discover practices that bring greater ease, presence, and trust into your daily life. Integrate your heart’s openness into all aspects of your being.
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You’ll Experience:
- Guided meditation practices that broaden your awareness and your capacity for Love and Compassion—essential spiritual values
- Practical techniques to nurture an open heart in everyday situations
- The profound effects of Hridaya Hatha Yoga and Heart-centered meditation
- Personal transformation via directed Self-Inquiry and reflective practices
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
Content
Each Day of the Retreat Includes:
- 4 meditation sessions
- Hridaya Hatha Yoga
- Practical advice for greater ease, presence, and trust in daily life
- Inspiring lectures that awaken you to the essence of Universal Love and Compassion
- A Q&A session (with written questions)
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(beginning in shorter segments)
(beginning in shorter segments)
(beginning in shorter segments)
(beginning in shorter segments)
The evening session may end later, depending on the length of the Q&A.
Schedule subject to change.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We do a silent meditation retreat especially when we feel an intense calling towards the depths of our being. Or, we do a retreat when we feel the need to stop our ordinary activities for a while in order to objectify the nature of our impulses and see the reasons behind our decisions and actions with more clarity and detachment.
In this way, we purify our subconscious mind and start to more clearly see what is false in our lives. We also get closer to the real meaning of existence.
Even though there may be difficult times during retreat, we have the feeling that we are going deeper down a path of truthfulness, clarity, love, and detachment from old patterns.
Often, this process may appear completely new to us. To follow its call, we feel the need for discipline and dedication.
In a silent retreat, it is much easier to free ourselves from the countless distractions of daily life. The mind becomes calmer, and we rediscover the beauty of simplicity, of nature, of pure presence. The retreat offers us the space and time to stop and meet ourselves in a deeper way.
Silence and solitude open us to the Stillness that is our Real Nature. The genuine touch of Stillness brings regeneration, clarity, strength, rest, and trust.
Stillness exists beyond the layers of words, thoughts, and emotions. Stillness is the ocean in which all sounds and movements appear as waves. Sound and silence, movement and immobility are inseparable in the embrace of awareness and Stillness. Thoughts depend on the Stillness of pure awareness, exactly as waves depend on the ocean.
Through the power of time, everything returns to Stillness. Being settled in this center—Stillness—brings significance, vigor, and enthusiasm to any aspect of life. When we lose our connection with Stillness, we become inefficient and weak.
When agitation ceases in our being, we can know this directly, in an intimate and obvious way. Through Hridaya Meditation, the awareness of the difference between thinking and just Being emerges in a natural way.
If thoughts and activity are formative for the personality, Stillness is trans-formative in the sense that it reveals to us the uniqueness and beauty that it is, that we are.
“In silence, the lines of the mouth are like the closed wings of a butterfly. When the word starts moving, the wings open and the butterfly flies away. […]
Silence reveals itself in a thousand inexpressible forms: in the quiet of dawn, in the noiseless aspiration of trees towards the sky, in the stealthy descent of night, in the silent changing of the seasons, in the falling moonlight, trickling down into the night like a rain of silence, but above all in the silence of the inward soul,—all these forms of silence are nameless: all the clearer and surer is the word that arises out of and in contrast to the nameless silence.”
–Max Picard
“It is in the sanctuary of nature’s silent places, with mindful attention, that the true liberation of the heart can be obtained.”
–Buddha
This retreat is designed for everyone, from those who have never tried meditation to advanced meditators.
The daily schedule starts gently, with meditation sessions broken into short, one-hour (or less) segments, increasing to longer sessions by the end of the retreat. In addition to meditation sessions, each day’s schedule includes a Hatha Yoga class, lectures, and time for questions and answers (with written questions).
In meditation, there should be no effort or difficulty, because all that we have “to do” is to remain in the center of our being, and each time we observe that we are taken away by thoughts, sensations, emotions, etc. we simply come back, again and again and again, without reaction, frustration, or tension, but with serenity and patience.
An orientation session is held the day prior to the start of the retreat, in which we go over all guidelines. Retreat participants must attend; registration is not possible after this session. For more information, please read the Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreat Guidelines.
We do a silent meditation retreat especially when we feel an intense calling towards the depths of our being. Or, we do a retreat when we feel the need to stop our ordinary activities for a while in order to objectify the nature of our impulses and see the reasons behind our decisions and actions with more clarity and detachment.
In this way, we purify our subconscious mind and start to more clearly see what is false in our lives. We also get closer to the real meaning of existence.
Even though there may be difficult times during retreat, we have the feeling that we are going deeper down a path of truthfulness, clarity, love, and detachment from old patterns.
Often, this process may appear completely new to us. To follow its call, we feel the need for discipline and dedication.
In a silent retreat, it is much easier to free ourselves from the countless distractions of daily life. The mind becomes calmer, and we rediscover the beauty of simplicity, of nature, of pure presence. The retreat offers us the space and time to stop and meet ourselves in a deeper way.
Silence and solitude open us to the Stillness that is our Real Nature. The genuine touch of Stillness brings regeneration, clarity, strength, rest, and trust.
Stillness exists beyond the layers of words, thoughts, and emotions. Stillness is the ocean in which all sounds and movements appear as waves. Sound and silence, movement and immobility are inseparable in the embrace of awareness and Stillness. Thoughts depend on the Stillness of pure awareness, exactly as waves depend on the ocean.
Through the power of time, everything returns to Stillness. Being settled in this center—Stillness—brings significance, vigor, and enthusiasm to any aspect of life. When we lose our connection with Stillness, we become inefficient and weak.
When agitation ceases in our being, we can know this directly, in an intimate and obvious way. Through Hridaya Meditation, the awareness of the difference between thinking and just Being emerges in a natural way.
If thoughts and activity are formative for the personality, Stillness is trans-formative in the sense that it reveals to us the uniqueness and beauty that it is, that we are.
“In silence, the lines of the mouth are like the closed wings of a butterfly. When the word starts moving, the wings open and the butterfly flies away. […]
Silence reveals itself in a thousand inexpressible forms: in the quiet of dawn, in the noiseless aspiration of trees towards the sky, in the stealthy descent of night, in the silent changing of the seasons, in the falling moonlight, trickling down into the night like a rain of silence, but above all in the silence of the inward soul,—all these forms of silence are nameless: all the clearer and surer is the word that arises out of and in contrast to the nameless silence.”
–Max Picard
“It is in the sanctuary of nature’s silent places, with mindful attention, that the true liberation of the heart can be obtained.”
–Buddha
This retreat is designed for everyone, from those who have never tried meditation to advanced meditators.
The daily schedule starts gently, with meditation sessions broken into short, one-hour (or less) segments, increasing to longer sessions by the end of the retreat. In addition to meditation sessions, each day’s schedule includes a Hatha Yoga class, lectures, and time for questions and answers (with written questions).
In meditation, there should be no effort or difficulty, because all that we have “to do” is to remain in the center of our being, and each time we observe that we are taken away by thoughts, sensations, emotions, etc. we simply come back, again and again and again, without reaction, frustration, or tension, but with serenity and patience.
An orientation session is held the day prior to the start of the retreat, in which we go over all guidelines. Retreat participants must attend; registration is not possible after this session. For more information, please read the Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreat Guidelines.