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San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas is one of the few places in Mexico where you can do a genuinely immersive yoga teacher training away from the resort circuit, in a highland environment that asks something of you before the training even begins. When most people imagine a yoga teacher training in Mexico, they imagine somewhere warm. White sand, probably. Open-walled studios facing the ocean. A taco stand that stays open late. San Cristóbal de las Casas is none of those thin

Left to right: A Student with Kyle and Sasha Most people who search for a Vipassana retreat are not really searching for Vipassana. I can't tell you how many people write to us asking about vipassana retreats, basically using the word Vipassana as a substitute for the word meditation. They are searching for a serious meditation experience, and Vipassana is simply the name they know. It is the most recognised entry point into formal silent retreat practice in the secular world

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