Retreats - Testimonials

Retreat: Retreat January 3rd to 14th, 2023

The blessings are immeasurable for the spirit, mind, and body of those who participate.

These ten days of silence practicing ten hours a day of meditation integrates your being, making you recognize the identity of the divine being that you are.

On the physical aspect, you re-educate your eating habits, realizing that it is not necessary to eat more than twice a day, and you realize that body and mind function much better.

You learn that talking wastes a lot of precious energy, which you can direct in meditation, for example.

By meditating you learn to breathe better, organize your posture, think more clearly, and sleep with quality.

The spiritual fruits a priori is your encounter with the beautiful silence that exists in the Universe and inside you, which in fact is the same Unity, the One, God.

Recognizing the Divine Consciousness that you are, and knowing that you are part of the source of Love that is God, and in this source of Love, Compassion, Joy, Perseverance, Generosity, the waters of the divine virtues bathe you, cleanse you, and feed you in a full and endless way.

It is important to register the quality and lovingness of the devotional work of Master Sriman Narayana and all the spiritual team of the City of Angels Ashram, here we received spiritual guidance, guidance on the ancient technique of Kriya meditation, a diet made with much love and I received the main thing that I came to seek SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE.

Gratitude ??

Retreat: Retreat January 3rd to 14th, 2023

Dear Ashram,

First of all I would like to thank you for the opportunity to be here, to be able to go through an intense process of purification, to finally quiet my mind a little and be able to listen to my soul's desires, to be received with so much love and care, to have learned a little more every day. What a blessing, what a good thing, my chest is full of gratitude and love.

When I found this retreat, or this retreat found me, I felt in my heart that it would be a moment of great change in my life. I was always looking for healing from the outside, as if in a magic trick, a potion would cure me. Slowly I began to understand that I have the power to heal myself, and here I was able to deepen my understanding of this, mainly by listening to the videos after the meditation practices. Sometimes I would leave the meditations with a doubt, and as soon as we went to the dining hall to watch the Satsang, there I found answers to many of my questions and doubts.

It has been a while since I threw everything away and have been following my heart, I reached a point where many things were taken from me, I lost all my money. And now I am living in the middle of the bush in Bahia, without any perspective or knowing what to do. And my parents with a big house right in front of the beach with lots of comfort and luxury asking me to come back home. I understood that if everything was taken away from me, it was because I asked God, I begged God to take away this emptiness inside my chest, tired of covering this hole with a rug. I asked Him to really fill me up.

Today I leave here more sure of myself, more confident, with more mental clarity. I will continue to follow my heart, no matter how many obstacles and temptations appear in front of me, I will resist.

From the bottom of my heart thank you so much for so much. The food is wonderful too, made with much love, food that nourishes the soul.

With love,

Nayara

Retreat: May 1st to 12th, 2023

Firm in the Father's hand, the journey begins.
The gate is narrow and so is the path.
Focus, concentration, persistence and resistance.

Pains, sweats, visions and tears.
Time runs slow and silence reigns.
Blooming orange angels move sometimes
And they are also the example of the stillness.

Life vibrates in sounds and colors outside.
And penetrates the interior in synchronicities.
And then the food arrives.
Good for the physical, good for the soul.

The beautiful, the sublime, the sacred, the light.
The ugly, the abyssal, the profane, the darkness.

When crossing the zenith the serene storm.
Shipwrecked in a boat I see the beach.
Everything is new, unexplored, unrecognizable.
The senses investigate such reality.

Reunions...
Buried memories bloom.
They surprise, amaze and dazzle.
Simple words are unable to describe.
And then poetry becomes necessary.

And the experience ends and the world returns.
Soft landing, return to dense life.
Nothing is the same anymore, nothing impacts.
I became an operating angel in light and darkness.

Retreat: Retreat January 3rd to 14th, 2023

It was a unique experience. Throughout the battle with myself, life situations were arising, resolving, dissolving. The Satsangs brought important points of attention for the next steps of the journey. Today I better understand the importance of meditation and have more clarity about the meaning of the spiritual journey.