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Give yourself the gift of silence by learning how to still your mind and experience the eternal NOW, revealing your true essence through Self-Enquiry, exploring the fundamental question, “Who am I?”, discovering the beauty of opening to cosmic consciousness. In this retreat, you will have the chance to go beyond the mental and emotional levels to experience the truth of the Spiritual Heart. You will be inspired to love from the expansive space of your real nature, transcending the ego’s blockages, the mind’s stories, and the tumult of the emotions. You will experience meditation as a celebration of the freedom and bliss of the self and gain a profound understanding of the meaning of life.
Lodging at our center.
This program aims to create an experience resembling a solitary retreat, as in a cave, in order to provide the opportunity to reach deep states of consciousness, kindle intense aspiration for the divine, and arrive at the highly focused interiorization that enables the opening of the heart.
During this retreat, you will be skillfully guided to a penetrating understanding in which the search for meaning ends in surrender to the domain of revelation. No previous meditation or yoga experience is necessary as this retreat is designed for beginners and advanced meditators alike.
The atmosphere will be one of agape and strong spiritual support. During the retreat, you will learn methods for meditation encompassing, but not limited to, the unity of consciousness and Advaita Vedanta (non-duality). This leads to the self-discovery of the spiritual heart.
The system of meditation will focus on the self-inquiry method developed by Ramana Maharshi, as well as other complementary meditations and prayers. They aim to inform you about the practical and theoretical aspects of this methodology, allowing ample opportunities to directly put it into practice. In doing so, they hope that you will understand the underlying principles and value the purpose of meditation. Thus, reaping immediate benefits and coming to love meditation as an essential part of your life. An orientation session is held at 5 p.m. on the day prior to the retreat.
During this session, the retreat rules and special guidelines will be explained and a forum will be provided for any questions. In addition to administrative details, the orientation session will feature a lecture that explores some of the definitions and esoteric aspects of the retreat methods and will end with a meditation practice.
Attendance to the orientation session is mandatory for all participants. The meeting may last up to three hours, so please plan accordingly. This retreat includes guided meditation, lectures, and practical methods such as:
The retreat begins at 7 a.m. on the day after arrival and ends at approximately 9 p.m. on the evening before departure. Check-in is available from 2 p.m. on the day of arrival. They ask that you arrive by 5 p.m. to get settled into your accommodations prior to the orientation session at 5 p.m. Checkout is at 10 a.m. on the day of departure.
Antoaneta Maria Gotea was born in July 1972, in Bucharest, Romania. The memories from her early age about her father practicing complicated physical exercises (known in yoga as uddiyana bandha) and unusual breathing (pranayama) synergistically connected with her mother’s teachings about the existence of subtle bodies and reincarnation and this blossomed later in a genuine spiritual aspiration. Her search for an authentic spiritual path led her at the age of 21 to a yoga course while she was a student at Politechnical University in Bucharest. She studied Raja Yoga and Mahavidya Yoga.
Sahajananda, the main founder of Hridaya Yoga, is a meditation and hatha yoga teacher with over 30 years of experience. His message conveys the non-dual tantric teachings. An engineer in electronics by education, Sahajananda started practicing yoga and meditation in 1981, the year in which yoga was banned in Communist Romania. This fact only brought him more depth, determination, and spiritual aspiration. In 2012, Sahajananda was instrumental in creating the headquarters of Hridaya Yoga in Mazunte, Mexico. In 2018, the project expanded and Hridaya Yoga France was founded.
Valentina arrived at Hridaya Yoga Mexico in 2012 and fell in love with the encompassing vision and teachings of the Heart. She completed the HTTC in 2014, benefiting from the transmission of the teachings and presence of Sahajananda. Inspired by the depth of the Heart, Vale teaches Hatha Yoga classes, 3- and 10-Day Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreats, and yoga and meditation workshops in Europe, Asia, and America. Valentina regularly dedicates time to her personal practice with lengthy periods of solitude and dark room retreats.
Originally from Spain, Luna teaches with the certainty that life can be lived from the Heart, in full openness, and with a loving desire for all sentient beings to reveal their real nature, to come into the fullness of who they truly are. As she continues on the path, she welcomes the constant invitation to verify the certainty of the teachings through direct experience, emphasizing that the ultimate authority is the Heart. She continually finds the inspiration to live in a witnessing embrace of All That Is, in which a deeper Freedom and Naturalness arise spontaneously.
Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport
55 km
Transfer not provided
Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS). The airport is located 55 kilometers from our retreat center. From the airport, please take RhoneExpress tram to Lyon Part-Dieu train station (29 minutes). From there, take a train to Chamelet, or a train/bus combination to Chambost-Allières via Lozanne (approximately 1 hour). We will provide a pick-up service (3 EUR) from either Chamelet or Chambost-Allières. We'll be happy to provide more detailed information on request.
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