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special retreats:
Addiction retreat
Such as alcohol, smoking and other drugs, sugar, coffee, sex, computer games, work etc.
Come to pure nature, join the focused disciplined life and liberate yourself from bondage of past. We will help you to stay free of your substance or habit. Your problem or weakness will become ours. Together we can overcome anything…
One chopstick is easy to break… try it with many.
Surrender and self control, the power of will and hug of friends, this will ensure you that you are in charge of your life, therefore you are able to make any changes…
Dark cave retreat
Water & Fire - Darkness and Light
All spiritual traditions have used Dark retreat techniques in the pursuit of enlightenment. Like the hollowing bones, caves contain the earliest information of life and the power essence stored inside the Mother Earth.
The Tao says: “When you go into dark and it becomes total, the darkness soon turns into light.” Darkness changes the sensory sensibilities of the body/brain. The idea of the dark retreat is not only to create a setting in which you have no visual stimuli, so that the senses relax, but you also sufficiently relax your body and your mind so that the deeper aspects of your core awareness can arise. That's when these truths, along with lights and visions, can become evident. Loosing contact with external world turns the senses inward, opens the gate of intuition. Perception becomes sharp and clear. Conscious awareness expands into subconscious level. Self reflection and self surrender. Out of the beautiful creation and bonds of Prakriti/Maya.
What do you do when you're on a dark retreat?
Generally, people start out by sleeping a lot because it's dark, and that's an important part of the process -- just relaxing. When you're not sleeping you can be meditating . The rest of the time you spend time relaxing and reflecting. Initially, doing any intense physical exercise is discouraged so that the body doesn't get too active. You want everything to settle down.
What's the main thing people can learn from a dark retreat?
You can learn what it means to be profoundly relaxed. We often think of relaxation as going unconscious. And this is a way how to be relaxed and completely alert, with a clarity of presence. The other thing is that you discover very quickly how your mind works. So it becomes a way to see those patterns and experience the real possibility of moving beyond them by wholeheartedly participating in what's going on in our lives. Meeting our own self, usually for the first time…We can not take any responsibility for what you will experience.
The experience of each person depends on their stage of spiritual development a maturity. We can provide a retreat cave and service for you. Bring you high nutritional food, if you are not fasting, take care of your feces, read for you from the scriptures, consult your experience and give darshan.
You will be closed in the cave in absolute darkness for as long as you have announced, earlier escape needs to be avoided for protection of your mind and senses. You will be removed in the night.
Fasting retreat
Fasting is the single greatest natural healing therapy. It is nature’s ancient, universal "remedy" for many problems of body and mind.
Our mind becomes clearer, sharper and more efficient--a greater clarity of consciousness. By using this fasting-enhanced clarity, our journey into the human interior can reward us with many essential correctives to the extreme materialism of our external culture and its dominant sciences. Also, just as our own inner-mind becomes clearer, our own extrasensory instinct becomes keener. Thus, we find ourselves more in tune with the gentle voice of Nature and its Natural Laws. And so, the increase in energy prolonged fasting confers is our own reward for getting back in touch with these so-called Laws of Nature.
Fasting is preventing and positively influencing chronic degenerative diseases, these include arterioscleroses, hypertension and heart disease, allergies, diabetes, and cancer. Physiologically, refraining from eating minimizes the work done by the digestive organs, including the stomach, intestines, pancreas, gallbladder, and liver. Most important here is that our liver, our body’s large production and metabolic factory, can spend more time during fasting cleaning up and creating its many new substances for our use. Breakdown of stored or circulating chemicals is the basic process of detoxification. The blood and lymph also have the opportunity to be cleaned of toxins as all the eliminative functions are enhanced with fasting. Each cell has the opportunity to catch up on its work; with fewer new demands, it can repair itself and dump its waste for the garbage pickup.. Many patients with mental illness, from anxiety to schizophrenia, may be helped by fasting. The purpose of fasting in this case, however, is not to cure these problems but to help understand the relationship of foods, chemicals, or drugs to the mental difficulties.
Most people cannot break out of the conditioned pattern of eating three meals daily. Eating is a habit, an addiction.
Individual experiences with fasting depend on the condition of the body (also mind and attitude) therefore we can not take any responsibility for your experience. Detoxification might be intense and temporarily increase sickness or might be immediately helpful and uplifting.
1)Water fast 2)Dry fast 3)Juice fast- juices, herbs, sirups
A special fasting program includes asana, pranayama, meditation, mountain trekking, fresh air and sunshine, (colon, intestinal wash, ), massages, baths, work, brushing the skin, and more.
The duration of fasting should be announced in advance for further preparation and intensity of techniques.
extra costs for fasting retreat: decided when a special sirup fast is required
Overweight retreat
More than seven percent of Chinese adults are obese and more than 22 percent are overweight. That's according to the results of China's first national survey on diet, nutrition and disease. Obesity is a major cause of diabetes today. And the younger age of onset increases the risk of serious complications such as heart disease and blindness. Over-indulging them now means burdening both them and society in the future. But raising public awareness takes time
“According to Beijing's media, international experts in obesity recently predict that by the year 2010, one fifth of Chinese children will be overweight. Obesity is becoming the most serious epidemic of children in Beijing. Obesity rate of Beijing's children moved up five to seven fold in the past decade. Incomplete statistics show that obesity rates of children from infancy to six, from six to eight and from 11 to 12 were 3.4 percent, 15.4 percent and 20.8 percent respectively, at the end of the last century.
Based on experts' prediction, in the coming five years, the number of overweight children in the world will boost in a surprising rate, causing tremendous impact on public health and economic development.”
(China News Service March 10, 2006)
Our weight reducing, body and mind strengthening program includes:
Lectures about nutrition and life style. Trekking in surrounding mountains. Exercises of specially chosen asana. Heating pranayma techniques. Balanced healthy meals. Work, Meditation, massage, relaxation, music, art and fun.
Possibility of changing your nutrition for vegetarianism, veganism or raw food. Cleaning your body, blood and organs and intestines by various techniques. Fasting.
Silent Retreat
Silence is the practice of quieting every voice, including your own inner and outer voices.
Silence means being still so that we can hear the Voice that searches our hearts and minds. We must quiet our own hearts and mouths if are to be able to listen to the divine voice.
Silence also means excusing ourselves from the voices of others. The demands of the world around us do not easily go away. We hear countless requests and demands each day over the radio, on the television, and from the people around us. Each wants our time and attention and we are attached to it.
Silence is also necessary to free ourselves from our tendency to control. Silence frees us from the tyranny we hold over others with our words. When we are silent, it is much more difficult to manipulate and control the people and circumstances around us. Words are the weapons we lay down when we practice silence. We give up our insistence of being heard and obeyed. Silence forces us to surrender to the will of Another
We can provide space and support in your silence experience.
a) noble silence
Noble Silence means silence of body, speech, and mind. Any form of communication, whether by gestures, sign language, written notes, eye contact, touch etc., is not welcome.
b)silence of speech
silence in solitude
group silence
Vision quest
Are you confused? Do not know what and why? Need guidance? Choosing from more alternatives and want to be sure you choose the right one? Need help?
Surrender through vision quest to Great Spirit and receive the answer…
In this retreat, you will leave behind the demands of everyday life, explore your intuitive senses, learn to listen to your inner voice, and then be still and alone in nature, allowing transformative healing or vision to come through.
In the quiet and stillness, with focused intention, you will hear your inner voice and give expression to the primal self deep within that feeds your creative life and nurtures your soul.
In preparation time you will purify your body and mind through various techniques. You experience the heat of the sweat lodge and learn the technique for focusing your mind to enable the vision come…
Alone, into wilderness of mountains, you will follow the signs until you reach a ritual place. There you will stay in solitude in limited area of few meters usually fasting (dry or water fast) until the vision comes. Usually few days. Once the time is over the vision keeper would return to the Big lodge and we will listen carefully helping you to understand.
Through dreams and visions we receive power and the gift of "seeing ahead," of getting glimpses of the future. Visions are not imaginings; they are messages from the Supernaturals.
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