Planning a Short Meditation Retreat? Why Balance Matters - Clear Sky Meditation Center

 What we learned from people coming here to do meditation retreats
People often come here for a few days or a week to do a meditation retreat in a cabin.

Over time, we heard many of them say how they struggled to simply meditate all day, suddenly. And it’s not surprising.

Often, retreatants book meditation time weeks or months ahead, knowing that otherwise it won’t happen – their busy work or family life would just keep going. This is also why they arrive straight off the highway of life, their minds and nervous systems still going at 120 km/h.

With this, even though we encourage everyone to have a meal with us before they go into silent retreat, it’s still a shock to be in silence and in “deep retreat” mode, barely 24 hours since leaving home. To Know more visit online @ https://www.clearskycenter.org/planning-a-meditation-retreat-why-balance-matters/


 

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