At-Home Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreat
Explore the Peace Within
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Experience an Online Meditation Retreat
The At-Home Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreat offers a unique opportunity to step into Stillness—right where you are. From the comfort of your own home, you’re invited to gently turn inward, release the pull of everyday distractions, and open to the truth of the Heart.
This retreat is a space to slow down, listen deeply, and explore the wonderment-question: “Who am I?” Through practical meditation techniques and teachings from a range of spiritual traditions, you’ll be supported in cultivating inner clarity, presence, and love.
No matter your background or prior meditation experience, this retreat is an ideal way to connect with yourself on a more profound level. We invite you to join us, from wherever you are, and give yourself the gift of sacred silence.
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Practical Details
- The retreat is streamed via Zoom.
- To maintain the proper atmosphere, we ask that you follow the full schedule and observe all the Retreat Guidelines, including silence, sexual abstinence, and no use of electronic devices (except to access the retreat).
- A Retreat Coordinator will be available to support you during the retreat, and the Retreat Leader will answer questions related to the practice during nightly Q&A sessions.
- There will be an orientation session the day before the retreat starts. This session will give you a chance to meet our team and ask clarifying questions.
- We will share a set of short introductory videos to watch prior to the orientation.
“It was amazing to do the retreat in the comfort of your own home. For me, it brought a much more immediate sense of resting in my being than when sitting in a hall... At home, from the very beginning, I was able to create the conditions needed to sink into rest and meditation right away.”
“There is nothing better than turning off your phone and computer, and covering your mirror, to get a real look inside yourself. A silent retreat is the best gift you can give yourself. Consider it a gift to your whole family and future generations.”
“The At-Home Retreat awakened something profound, deep inside me. The experience has started a journey that will last a lifetime.”
“I thoroughly recommend taking part in this retreat even if you are new to meditation and yoga. I was surprised by how connected I felt to the community and the teacher, even doing this course online. It is an eye-opening and heartwarming experience that can change your life.”
“After my 3-day online retreat, I feel my daily thinking is new and more peaceful, and I feel a longing to learn, overcoming thoughts of depression or hopelessness. I feel huge forgiveness and patience with myself and others.”
Hridaya Meditation teaches us, silently, a new kind of instinct: how to synchronize the mind, psyche, and body with the Silent Center, the core of our being. And this echoes in the rest of life…
-Sahajananda
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Frequently Asked Questions
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
Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreats are 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 morning 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.
The great Jnana Yogi Nisargadatta Maharaj speaks about the naturalness and simplicity of meditation, which is essentially a Self-awareness.
“Q: … there must be a way for all to tread—with no conditions attached.
M: There is such a way, open to all, on every level, in every walk of life. Everybody is aware of himself. The deepening and broadening of Self-awareness is the royal way. Call it mindfulness, or witnessing, or just attention — it is for all. None is unripe for it and none can fail.”
There is an orientation session 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.
If you originally joined the Retreat for just 3 days, you are welcome to extend your participation if a 10-Day Retreat is running concurrently. Please send a note to the At-Home Retreat Coordinator by the afternoon of day 3 to ensure proper arrangements are made.
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
Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreats are 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 morning 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.
The great Jnana Yogi Nisargadatta Maharaj speaks about the naturalness and simplicity of meditation, which is essentially a Self-awareness.
“Q: … there must be a way for all to tread—with no conditions attached.
M: There is such a way, open to all, on every level, in every walk of life. Everybody is aware of himself. The deepening and broadening of Self-awareness is the royal way. Call it mindfulness, or witnessing, or just attention — it is for all. None is unripe for it and none can fail.”
There is an orientation session 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.
If you originally joined the Retreat for just 3 days, you are welcome to extend your participation if a 10-Day Retreat is running concurrently. Please send a note to the At-Home Retreat Coordinator by the afternoon of day 3 to ensure proper arrangements are made.
Hridaya means “Spiritual Heart” and refers to the very essence of your being.
Whatever you call it, it’s that which calls you to look within.
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