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This silent retreat was GORGEOUS. And I mean gorgeous, luxurious, and delightful to the senses. Hosted in an incredible location, there...
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Matthew Skinta
Aug 16, 20232 min read
returning to this moment
The 8-day silent retreat in July 2023 was my second through Maitri Retreats – I also attended in July 2022 with Hamid. This time, I had...
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ccoutrot
Aug 13, 20232 min read
a unique and profound experience
I have attended Hamid's retreats twice : last year for an 8d retreat in Portugal and this year for a 4d retreat in Bali. Trying to...
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Yessica Rodríguez
Jul 24, 20232 min read
what arises from silence
What arises from silence is GRATITUDE. I feel blessed and privileged to have experienced such an expansive feeling throughout the...
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sharongesthalter
May 10, 20234 min read
keep on Walking
This was to be my second meditation retreat with Hamid, and my first time ever in Bali. The excitement that comes with discovering a new...
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amferruzzi
Apr 13, 20232 min read
exactly what it needed to be
For a period of time, the March 2023 silent retreat in Bali was not going to happen for me. Due to passport issues, my partner and I got...
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Micah Manquen
Jan 19, 20236 min read
let me be
Hello dear reader! Please allow me to pass along some thoughts based on my attendance at the 8 day silent retreat in Monchique. As a 37...
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mdevilliers60
Jan 4, 20233 min read
non-thinking, going nowhere: a reckoning with mount agung
I arrive at The Yogi’s Garden in Payangan, Bali, with a small red suitcase. But I’m also carrying another burden, one that’s harder to...
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domgoodchildtvm
Aug 17, 20226 min read
reinvention through a return to my essence
Following a lot of great personal disappointments in my life and a general sense that my neurotic, ever-anxious, depressed mind was going...
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Emily Denny
Aug 16, 20223 min read
alone together in silence
Dreading heading straight into autumn and darkness again after what we in Norway call a “skipped summer”, I desperately searched the net...
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Phil
Jul 22, 20222 min read
extraordinary, profound, magical.
The following words can not do justice to what is mostly an experience of the heart for me. I feel like for a week I've vanished from...
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hoolsdelosrios
Jun 19, 20227 min read
so you're thinking about joining this silent retreat.........
This review is really aimed at people who are ‘Umming and Ahing’ as to whether a silent retreat is the right thing for them. I first...
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Leila Worth.
May 24, 20222 min read
is binn béal ina thost (irish saying) - silence is golden
A note from my diary on the retreat: A homecoming. Silence is a homecoming. The first day on the first sit Tears fell down my face I felt...
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carlzimmerling
May 6, 20224 min read
seven-day silent retreat in karuna
I shave my head and pack my suitcase. Tomorrow the retreat in Karuna begins. I hear a pigeon calling: "You see it". There is a saying in...
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jmcdekker
May 3, 20221 min read
concentration
A silent retreat is not an isolated event. There is a string of events, internal and external developments which prompt the call for...
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georgia morley
May 2, 20224 min read
a reflection from the april 2022 sesshin, monchique
I just finished my 5th retreat and what a profound experience it was. It was so healing. My thoughts were, as I had anticipated, quite...
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david217581
Jan 8, 202219 min read
a week of zen & holy silence
Linda & David from Art of Euphoria share an intimate glimpse into their first silent retreat experience, with daily personal input.
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jvandertoorn
Dec 18, 20212 min read
just sit and breath
By Jennifer van der Toorn - So, there I sat, Monday morning at 6AM on a meditation cushion in the temple of Karuna Centre in Portugal....
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hamid ebadi
May 1, 20212 min read
a radiance hidden in the heart of darkness
sesshin ends. last sit together. sitting with those here. sitting with those who left. with those who never came. with those who couldn’t...
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davidwim
Apr 28, 20216 min read
letting go of your treasure
Zazen makes you look at the stuff you don't want to see, the things you've been hiding from yourself, sometimes in plain sight. This is...
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