Retreat Details:
You will receive materials that provide all the information you need to support you to create a true retreat experience during these 4 days.
These materials will include:
- Detailed instructions for setting up your retreat space.
- Information for using the video conferencing platform.
- Guidelines for making the best use of the virtual format.
This is a full virtual retreat conducted live with Jeff Carreira for 8-hours each day.
Each day will begin with meditation, followed by an hour of spiritual instruction and guidance that will create context for that day’s practice.
Each day will end with a 30-minute session when you can engage with Jeff about your experience of practice and ask any questions that come up for you.
The rest of the day will be spent in silent practice with a 90-minute lunch break.
- Meditation Session
- Teaching Session with Jeff
- Meditation Session
- Lunch Break
- Meditation Session
- Meditation Session
- Meditation Session
- Dialog and Q&A Session with Jeff
"We were able to only do three days of this event. But the impact for me was most profound. On our day 4, integration day an awareness of the Truth arose in me and left me totally flummoxed. Just what I have been working for, for so many years. I am truly a different person than the one who started the retreat last Friday. Profound gratitude to Jeff and the team."
~ W. Francis.
"The daily teaching, Q&A's and and meditation sessions were so powerful, they brought such calm and flow to me and in turn to my family. Jeff's teaching enabled me reach greater depth in my meditations as each day passed."
~ T. Bird.
"Jeff’s instructions and felt his passion to lead us into a available view of the world and ourselves. My life is so completely different. I’m looking out with Cosmic Eyes now... Wow So simple and so wonderful. Thank you."
~ N. Torrence.
"This retreat was a wonderful and profound experience of sinking into the depth of Being. Experiencing blissful happiness and liberation, just abiding there, without needing anything. Even in the face of challenges from outside, like a noisy neighourhood."
~ J. van den Bogaard.
"The retreat came at the perfect time in my life. It was the calm at the end of an internal and external storm that led to deep insights and deepening Awareness of my True Self. Jeff has an ability to transmit deep truths that find a home in soul."
~ M. Earlenbaugh.
"The retreat was eye opening and life-changing, giving me a new understanding of me as a soul, and deepening my relationship with it. Giving all day to meditation for a few days, rather than an hour a day for a prolonged period, has brought changes in me that are indescribable. I did not want it end!"
~ J. Aebi.
- …there are other people living in my house?
- …I will need to take care of my children?
- …I won’t be able to do all of the retreat?
- …I will need to do some work in the evenings?
Essentially, people want to know if this virtual retreat can be customized to fit their schedule and needs, and the answer is yes, it can be, and I want to explain a little more about how.
First of all let me explain how the retreat will work.
I will be online with you for 8 hours a day, from Thursday, June 8th - Sunday, June 11th, 2023.
I will start the day with teachings and instructions, I will end the day with a Q & A session, and in between we will meditate together.
Now to give a more detailed answer to the question above:
If you can devote yourself entirely to the virtual retreat from Thursday, June 8th - Sunday, June 11th, 2023, then I suggest you do. That means unplugging your phone, remaining in silence, and doing extra practice around the 8-hours with me. You will receive detailed instructions for how to best organize your time as the retreat draws nearer.
I realize that many of us just can’t devote that much time and attention, but you can still get tremendous benefit from the retreat while accommodating responsibilities and family.
Variation 1:
You can do just the 8 hours a day live with me for four days and take care of other responsibilities around that. You would stay in silence during the 8 hours with me, and speak as necessary outside of that.
Variation 2:
You can listen live to the teaching session and/or Q and A session with me, and do as much (or as little) meditation as you can in addition to that.
Variation 3:
You will get the recording of both the teaching session and Q and A session with me each day, so you can listen to them whenever it works for you, or do the entire retreat over again at your convenience.
Any variation of the retreat can be profound and even life-transforming, especially when you keep one critical guideline in mind - commit to the retreat you’re doing and don’t worry about it.
If you need to do work, or take care of children, or anything else while doing the retreat, just do it and don’t worry about it. Taking care of your responsibilities doesn’t have to have any negative impact on your retreat, as long as you don’t worry about it.
If there are things you need to do outside of the retreat, even if they involve talking, just do what you need to, as fully as you can, and then return to the retreat without giving it another thought. As long as you don’t make a problem out of it, these activities won’t mean a thing. In fact one of the great insights you could get from doing the retreat would be the realization that nothing can disturb your retreat if you don’t let it.
These thoughts should answer any questions you might have about accommodating this retreat to fit your schedule.