Retreats - Testimonials

Retreat: retreat from 1 to 12 August 2022

Gratitude to everyone who seriously and committed led this Meditation and Silence retreat. Because without this essential factor of surrender, this beautiful work that they were able to offer us would not be possible.
The speeches were very important. My chips dropped...many insights appeared...many flashes came...
New corporal manifestation has been doing and realizing that is the way!
I could have woken up earlier.
But everything has its timeeee.
In this path of the Seeker of True there is no time and place. Time is now and we do it.
Gratitude to the room I stayed in that made it possible to sleep with the stars shining through the open curtains.
Gratitude to the singing of the birds that served as inspiration...
Gratitude to the sound of water falling somewhere nearby, a mine or a waterfall that allowed us to have fresh water.
Gratitude to this beautiful nature!
To the green all around that attended me when in contact.
Gratitude to all the warm food served on cold days and from the fresh garden.
Gratitude to this blessed place that in the middle of the mountains gives us great strength to continue.
Gratitude to the friends who participated.
Much light to all.

Retreat: retreat from 1 to 12 August 2022

I discovered the ashram through instagram and saw the opportunity to do the 10-day silent retreat. The whole attendance from the beginning gave me a lot of confidence and when I arrived I already felt the seriousness of the work that would be done. The staff was very well prepared, the dining rooms and dormitories are cozy and the food is delicious.
I leave today with my heart a little stronger, the pain of meditation (of the position) is for strengthening, no one had ever explained this to me. And persistence is the important word in the process.
Fear was present and I discovered that it is a guidance, this didn't make it go away but I started a relationship with it. Fear was present and I discovered that it is an orientation, this didn't make it go away but I started a relationship with it. I felt fear, I felt like leaving, the challenge was very big, the process was very difficult, there was pain, there was doubt, but the guidance, the satsangs at night always had the message that I needed to hear in my process.
Sriman Narayana is a master and showed me what I needed to see. I am aware of my emptiness and I know it will be filled with the experience of continuing to practice.
I came looking for freedom for my life and I realized that True Freedom is offered to me.

Retreat: retreat from 1 to 12 August 2022

My experience at the Ashram was revealing as well as challenging. The routine was a difficulty for me, in relation to schedules and practices.  The posture, the technique and the stillness are situations that I couldn't reach but I could see where they live inside me (or almost).
Being here was being in me all the time, mind tries to escape with all incentives no matter how little they exist here.
I realized the mechanism of my mind, how it works and some of the places it inhabits. I realized I’m anxious, how the mind is addicted to issues and situations that I create and would like it to be, I feel pleasure in being in the midst of illusion, it’s as if it removes me from the place of pain and prevents me from feeling it and getting in touch with it, I learned that pain shouldn’t be avoided.
I feel grateful that this place came to me and that I had the opportunity to have this experience. I intend to come back more often.

 

Retreat: retreat from october 31 to november 11, 2022

 

I arrived without many expectations about what I would find, only many about what I was looking for. The absence of speech, for me, was not difficult, since I have always been a quiet person. The problem was when the constant silence of speech met with the constant chatter of the mind, which screamed and threw stones at the lining, like a parakeet, along with this, maintaining body awareness was no easy task.

The mind, which I thought before was a companion for adventures, proved to be extremely controlling, I felt it wanting to usurp my life, it was desperate, but at least I had the opportunity to look at it and know that I am not it.

Did I find what I was looking for? Of course not! One walks the path, and I am just at the beginning of mine.

Being here, in the City of Angels Ashram, brought me a North, a guideline full of truth and hope about which path I came to coexist. The work is luminous, intense, very committed and is an act of giving.

I am very grateful for the opportunity of this retreat in this sacred place, I felt very safe and welcomed.

God bless!