AYUR YOGA ECO ASHRAM IN MYSORE
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My interest to know who am I started early with my studies, and I graduated bachelor diplomas in neuroscience and chemistry.
I started to meditate from the age of 21 in India with Vipassana. The thirst for freedom continued throughout my life. I studied and practised Buddhism, Hatha yoga, Tantra yoga, Vedanta and the esotericism of the west.
When I became aware of the existence of dark rooms meditation from the Tibetan tradition, I fell in love, and it all made sense.
I wanted to recreate being in the womb of the Mother building an earthbag dome to sit long periods in the dark. I was blessed; it all happened and still happens.
I am fortunate to offer this opportunity for hundreds of practitioners. I am willing to share my experience with you and support you when needed.
My vision is to give a chance for who has the call to meet themselves in emptiness.
I felt a deep calling to practice with one of my senses dramatically reduced.
According to the sutras of Patanjali, pratyahara or withdrawal of the senses is one of the eight steps to enter states of meditation naturally.
What does that mean in term of experience?
Consciousness starts to turn into itself, to go back to its source.
Attention then follows the movement within. When it happens, it can not be missed. Being in the dark day after day accentuate it and becomes undeniable support for any actual practices.
This retreat is open to beginners and for the experienced meditator who wants an introduction to Dark Retreat.
This retreat is an excellent introduction to meditation and self-inquiry. It’s designed to give you the tools to practice daily or sustain a retreat.
The idea is to give you also the skills and confidence to sit a 3 days retreat in complete darkness in the earth domes with or without prior experience in meditation.
Once you have completed the group retreat, you can book one of the domes on your own time. You will also have the possibility to receive a daily check-in and support during your solo retreat.
It contains step by step guided practices with lectures on the essence of meditation. We will touch on different models from various traditions:
* You will learn and practice the self-inquiry method from the non-dualistic classic approach of Advaita Vedanta. It will be the base to explore within.
* Posture, breath. Understanding the dynamic.
* Concentration and open awareness. Learn to differentiate and to feel when they come into play.
* Third eye practices.
* Basic pranayama, the science of yogic breathing.
This retreat is open for people who have already completed the level 1, introduction, 3 days retreat and at least 3 days solo meditation retreat in darkness.
This retreat is open for experienced meditators with enough credential and who have done at least one 3 days dark retreat.
Once you have been in a 3 days dark retreat and you feel about going back for a longer time, something ignites within.
Whatever the motivation that was there before the first retreat, it's now different. You have acquired a first "know how" to be by yourself, to be in the dark as energy and subtle bodies.
In your mind, the motivation might be the same, but your being has changed.
You know more what to expect in a way, but also you don’t know what could happen, the only thing you know for sure is that you will dive deeper.
The pull to dive-in is there.
So much freedom comes to commit and at the same time not knowing anything and relying only on wanting to go all the way.
The mind draw pictures on what has been easy the first time and what resistances you have encountered. You will be working on the obstacles that you already faced.
The idea is to feel ready and confident to sit long silent solo retreats in complete darkness or full light.
You will cultivate the necessary stability to identify the mental patterns and move beyond your story.
We will fuel the motivations that push us to sit alone and the involvement it requires.
As in level 1, the retreat contains step by step guided practices with lectures on the essence of meditation, and models from various traditions:
* What is Mind? Psychological aspects. Seeing mind patterns. Integrating shadows. Individuality to humanness.
* What is Me? The simplicity of truth. Direct seeing. Recognition and confirmation.
* Desires and aversions. Bliss and pain. Stillness and movement.
* Opening the Dhamma eye.
* Third eye practices
* Heart practices
* Experiencing and discerning energy-mind connections.
* Experiencing and recognizing the heart-mind relationship.
* Sourcing and embodying the natural state.
