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Retreat Spiritual
Spiritual Retreats for Women
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* a welcome by the organisers of the retreat of members of the community
* a run through of expected tasks, programs and facilities
* one is shown ones room when overnight stay is desired
* Introduction to fellow participants
* Communal meditation or prayer
* Communal lunch
* participation in offered programs, talks, walks in the countryside
* solitary meditation and prayer,or joining into group prayer and chanting etc
* joint dinner, then contemplative time or further offered program activities which depending on retreat can include talks by spiritual speakers, formal meditation, sacred dancing, spiritual awareness drumming sessions,group silence, communal chanting to name a few
* retire to sleeep to start the day anew
Retreats vary in their length and with longer stays for instance in monasteries, participation in the daily running of the community household is often expected ( ie gardening, basic caretaking)
One Woman Retreat at Home
* Often the desire is there yet the means to attend a retreat spiritual cannot be found easily.
An Alternative can be to create some time and "facilitate" a "One Woman Retreat" for yourself in your own home.
Here some suggestions for Ingredients and Ideas :
* Create a sacred space and a time for yourself to be solitary. This can be as little as a couple of hours, enough to recharge your inner spirit . This is especiaaly true for mothers who rarely get the opportunity for solitary contemplation, undisturbed
* if you have available outdoor space it might be an idea to retire into a quiet corner with a blanket, a few candles, and a CD-player with headphones in the summer time
A meditative CD Retreat Spiritual Teaching, Meditations, and Rituals to Celebrate Your Authentic Feminine Wisdom, Retreat spiritual accompanying voices that lead you along the path. I love this set of CDs for enjoying and nurturing my feminine spirituality
Retreat to the Wild Divine
Retreat Spiritual - A Modern Approach
* For computer-minded women there has been a brilliant new product "The Journey to Wild Divine"
developed which I simply love. It teaches you to art of meditative contemplation whilst staying in control of your bodily responses. This is not an easy task to achieve at all and I am constantly amazed how my mind wanders off, easily distracted by minute fragments of thought.
This program comes with finger attachements that monitor your responses through bio-signals - this is called bio-feedback. It's as closed to an personal interactive experience through a computer as you can get.
Imagine a screen on the computer depicting a meditation temple. You are in front of a gate and need to open that gate with your thoughts alone..
Your impulses are being measured and a complete state of calmness needs to be achieved before you can control the gate. You need to focus and project your minds calmness before you can proceed through the different meditative levels.
There are lots of different temples, sound sanctuarys and art visual rooms to explore and master . I love bein able to shut off from the daily noise and hustle to experience a wonderfully sensory envoronment that really creates mental enchantment. I can practive my meditation techniques even when the house is busy by popping on my headphones, shutting off the outside world for a little while and creating a little retreat for my soul.
Ohh amazing the posssiblilities with todays technology
The Wild Divine Demo
Retreat Spiritual - if you can find the time to either go on a retreat if your circumstances permit or create a retreat spiritual sanctuary in your own home, if only for a few minutes at a time you will be amazed at the feeling of rejuvernation.