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Most people picturing a meditation retreat in Mexico picture the coast. Tulum, maybe, or somewhere hot, with a pool and a view of the Caribbean. Clean, photogenic, expensive. San Cristóbal de las Casas is none of those things. It sits at 2,200 metres above sea level in the highlands of Chiapas, surrounded by pine forest and mountain valleys, in the same region where Tzotzil and Tzeltal Mayan communities have maintained their spiritual traditions without interruption for centu

A Group During A 10-day Silent Meditation Retreat The short answer is that it's truly impossible to say! For some people it can be the most beautiful, life affirming, healing and deeply reconnecting thing they will ever do. For others it can be highly uncomfortable and difficult on every level. Often it is a mix of both. Ten days sounds like a long time until about day four, when it starts to feel like it might not be long enough. Sometimes by day 7, it feel like the retreat

Somewhere around the third or fourth day of Noble Silence, your system will begin to settle and you may taste a release of tension in your body that you did not know was so tight. It is not dramatic. It is more like putting down a bag you had forgotten you were carrying. The particular tension of being observed, of managing how you come across, of monitoring the gap between what you feel and what you show, begins slowly to release. This is one of the first benefits of Noble S

We get a version of the same message most weeks. Someone has read about darkness retreats, feels pulled toward the idea, and wants to know if it is for them. It is almost never a simple question to answer. Not because darkness retreats are complicated to explain, but because the answer depends almost entirely on what the person is actually looking for. The message usually says something about wanting peace, or depth, or a reset. What it is really asking, underneath all of tha