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Portugal: Shamballah Yoga Retreat. Imagine sitting in a stunning villa just off Sintra’s National Park coastline, eating a delicious breakfast ready for your forest therapy walk.
FIRST PERSON: In an age of constant digital noise, there’s little more countercultural than intentionally stepping into quiet spaces. But the ancient practice of silence and solitude is as ...
Young monk in meditation retreat, Yerpa, Tibet in 1993 A retreat can either be a time of solitude or a community experience. Some retreats are held in silence, and on others there may be a great deal of conversation, depending on the understanding and accepted practices of the host facility and/or the participant(s).
The community has been steeped in a form of Gestalt practice that pervades all aspects of daily life, including meeting structures, workplace practices, and individual language styles. [74] There is a preschool on site called the Gazebo, serving the children of staff, some program participants, and affiliated local residents.
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Ignatius identified the various motives that lead a person to choose one course of action over another as "spirits". [15] A major aim of the Exercises is the development of discernment (discretio), the ability to discern between good and evil spirits. A good spirit can bring love, joy, peace, but also desolation to reveal the evil in one's ...
The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". [11] [12] In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, [12] [13] before which the Greek word theoria was used for ...
A Vermont man is being called a “modern-day Rip Van Winkle” after spending 75 days in a silent retreat.