Retraite: 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