Retreats - Testimonials

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: participated in the retreat from 01 to 12 September 2022

It was the biggest experience and gift that I could give to myself.

It brought me a lot of self-confidence because from the first day to the last is a very big spiritual war.

And as I had never done even one full hour meditation, it was very hard at the beginning.

And what made the real difference was surrendering myself totally to the teachings of Sriman Narayana. Body and soul.

Every day when I thought of giving up at the end of the day, the teachings that were passed corresponded exactly on top of all the experiences I had gone through during the day, and this renewed me and gave me total strength to continue one more day. And that's how 10 days went. Actually 12 lol

I really didn't expect that it would be such a huge immersion inside me. I could really understand a lot of things. And one of them was to be able to totally disentangle myself from my thoughts.

It was totally perfect.

I appreciate the total responsibility and seriousness that all of you have with the work.

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

How to put in words the transformation I went through on this retreat? Even with so much self-knowledge and practice of the presence state for more than four years, I realized in this retreat all the restlessness in my mind, my identifications with the unreal.
There was a lot of cleaning work, both emotionally and in dreams. I gained a lot of strength and discipline, as well as greater maturity. I was able to remove identification with thoughts and free myself from old beliefs. And I accessed a deep silence that helped me to know myself better and surrender to the Eternal Now. Gratitude.