Retreats are becoming more popular as our World becomes increasingly hectic and busy. Practice of self-awareness and silence and refrain from any actions that are harmful to yourself or anyone else.

Observation of your breath and your mind, practice of meditation and then move into mental purification. 

The need and desire to retreat, even in the midst of the demands of life, because of the demands of life is not a denial of your duty to your family and those you serve, it is a way you honor and refine your ability to serve.

By joining in, tuning into the deep Self, recalibrating with joy and intention, you bring your authentic Self out of hibernation and into the light of your family, community and the World.

A retreat is both a return to Self and an abandonment of Self.

You will understand and meet the Self, the source of delusion and of attachment to pleasure and you release her into the ocean of unity finding an experience deeper than pleasure, beyond Self and beyond impermanent attachment.

You will find the soul you contracted to journey with and together with you, lift the veils of anxiety, sadness and greed, so that you can flow into divine connection with all the World.

Retreats take you beyond a vacation into a space where you can initiate yourself into a deeper absorption with the truth. This absorption with the divine happens in retreat so much more easily than in life.

Retreats are like medicine for the social Self.

How can you find and experience an expansive joy with others. How can you savor this opportunity. How can you nurture your body so it can carry on the work of the spirit, the work of your soul.

Hold back and fight among the stars
We could be the lucky ones
If we could only levitate
Fly low dear, dance beneath the trees
If only we had oxygen
Then we’d begin to breathe

And we can watch
While the beauty takes its toll
And we can stop
While the world retreats

Lie low dear
Fix yourself a life
We could be the wealthy ones
If we could only emigrate
These walls get closer by the night
Everything gets delicate
And everything in flight

And we can watch
While the beauty takes its toll
And we can stop
While the world retreats