Overview

The meditation practices are easy, but it is difficult to practice meditation. It takes fortitude and a willingness to respond to the whispered longings of one’s soul. Our habits of distracting ourselves from what is most important in life run deep and powerfully. Self-exploration and transformation present thus difficult challenges, an adventure that will interest only those individuals, who wish to taste and explore new ways of knowing and being in the form of their own moment-to-moment experience.

Retreats can never be substitutes for heeding the moment-to-moment call of mindfulness in the middle of life’s fray. But they can strengthen our commitment and provide powerful experiences that sustain our practice in ordinary times of daily mindlessness and stress. They are an invitation to venture on this journey in the company of a group of fellow practitioners, who are also looking for new ways of knowing and being. These new ways of knowing and being can make a huge difference in one's life as a leader, an innovator, a creator, a person embedded in the warp and woof of personal, family, and professional life.

People are often concerned about the time meditation practice takes out of their lives, let alone the time a retreat takes out of a busy schedule and work commitments. But experience shows repeatedly, that when we do not take the time to practice, to take care of ourselves in deep ways, to tend to the goose that lays the golden eggs, we will sooner or later be forced to take time to be sick and address the damage done from years of neglect. Through practice, or taking a retreat and surrendering to time, we discover that it is not time we take out of our lives, but in fact time we take into our lives, that can enrich the rest of our days and moments.

Retreats afford the opportunity to explore the power of mindfulness - moment-to-moment, non-judgmental attention - for expanding our capacity to see, to learn, and to grow, both as individuals and as professionals. They include periods of guided instruction in a number of meditation practices, periods of silent exploration, and periods of collective inquiry and dialogue, all aimed at cultivating deep, penetrating awareness and insight, and the creativity that flows from it.

Retreats balance meditation practice on one hand, and conceptual processing through discussion and dialogue on the other. Different retreats feature different relative weighting of the time spent in meditation and conceptualization, depending on the scope and structure of the retreat.

Times, dates, location and cost – top of page

We organize these retreats based on demand. Please call to be registered on our list of interested participants.  

4-7 day residential retreat – top of page