Creating an At-Home Retreat

A Sacred Space for Transformation

Please minimize any distractions this week. Eat lightly of high vibrational vegetarian food, if possible. Some may want to fast. Avoid alcohol and drugs that cloud or distort your perception or discernment. Stay focused. Listen several times to the teachings that move you and bring energy and light. Meditate for as many hours per day as comfortable and enjoyable. Attune relentlessly to the Core Self—with a silent mind and empowered serenity.

Intention
Schedule
Preparation
Morning Meditations

​Setting Your Intention

This retreat is a rare and precious opportunity for like-hearted seekers from all around the world to join together for satsangs (sacred gatherings of truth) and sadhana (spiritual practice). During this time, we invite you to cultivate the ambience of an ashram at home, to create your own spiritual refuge in which to eliminate all distractions and bring one-pointed clarity to the attainment of Self-realization.

Creating a Daily Schedule

Each day will be centered around two, 90-minute Live Broadcasts: Livestream Satsangs with Shunyamurti and Zoom Encounter Groups.
 
For the Livestream Satsangs with Shunyamurti, live participation is encouraged, as this will be the opportunity for online participants to post questions for Shunyamurti in real time. However, if you are unable to attend, the playback will be available under the Livestream Teachings tab immediately after the session ends.
 

Live Encounter Groups with Sat Yoga Senior Yogis and other online participants take place via Zoom and are an opportunity to share and reflect on the teachings and the retreat. Please check the daily schedule to join these classes at the designated times.

To take full advantage of this enriching and transformational program, we recommend that you create a personalized daily schedule for the week.  We highly encourage you to include early morning meditation, live participation in satsangs, time for reflection, light meals, and some movement or exercise. A sample Sat Yoga retreat schedule is given here as a reference, but please feel free to tailor it to your own time zone and practice.

Livestream Broadcasts

  • 11.15 am – 12.45 pm Costa Rica Time*
  • 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm Costa Rica Time

*Two of these sessions will be Live Encounter Groups via Zoom, an opportunity to share and reflect on the teachings and the retreat with Sat Yoga Senior Yogis and other online participants.

Sample Daily Schedule

  • 5:00am Morning Meditation
  • 6:15am Tea and Contemplation Time
  • 6:45am Hatha Yoga/Light Movement or Exercise
  • 7:30am Silent Breakfast
  • 11:15am Livestream Satsang with Shunyamurti
  • 1:00pm Lunch
  • 2:15pm Journaling and Relaxation
  • 4:30pm Pranayama/Breath Exercises
  • 5:30pm Livestream Satsang with Shunyamurti
  • 7:00pm Light Dinner
  • 8.30pm Rest

A Sacred Space At Home

To support the optimal parameters for this sacred journey, please consider the following preparatory pointers: 

  • Create an at-home meditation space that includes a comfortable cushion or chair and a candle to help lend a peaceful ambience to your home sanctuary.
  • Establish a daily schedule that includes morning meditation, live participation in satsangs, periods of silence, and time for contemplation. 
  • Be sure to keep the physical body well-treated with a healthy diet (preferably vegetarian or vegan) and movement practice suitable to your capacities. 
  • Keep a retreat journal/notebook and pen available for any reflections and questions that may arise.
  • Turn off your cell phone and remain offline as much as possible in between classes and meditations throughout the week. 
  • Maintain a high vibrational field minimizing external distractions.

Early Morning Meditation

The Ancient Practice of Yogis

As a sangha, we gather together daily at 4am for the sacred morning meditation sitting known as Amrit Vela (the hour of nectar) or Brahma Muhurat (the ambrosia hour). This gathering creates a purified and unified energy field, enabling stabilization in Presence and producing clarity of mind and an open heart for the day ahead. On occasion, Shunyamurti facilitates a meditation followed by a powerful invocation, teaching, and transmission of divine wisdom and love. During retreats, we delight in the ancient ashram ritual of serving morning chai post-meditation, drinking in the sweet nectar in silence while contemplating the rising of the sun and the new day ahead.

We are delighted to invite online participants to join the ashram community live via Zoom for our sacred morning meditation gatherings at 5am (Costa Rica time) during retreats. If this is not suitable to your schedule due to the time difference, you are encouraged to create your own early morning meditation routine in the peace and comfort of your at-home meditation space. If we are blessed with a special teaching from Shunyamurti during this time, we will upload the video to the Teachings section immediately afterward.

The Ancient Practice of Yogis

In this exquisite morning teaching, Shunyamurti imparts the true meaning of Amrit Vela (the hour of nectar), the majestic beauty of this early-morning ritual, and the wisdom behind this ancient practice of yogis.

Blessings for Liberation and
Transcendence during this retreat.

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

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One whose consciousness has merged with Brahman, the Absolute, and thus has been liberated from all desire, fear, attachment, and material frames of reference. Thus, a Brahmachari naturally lives a life of celibacy, simplicity, and inner solitude.

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Meditative meetings in which the highest teachings are shared. Shunyamurti also offers guidance during questions and answers to resolve the most difficult and delicate matters of the heart.

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Teleological:

Information, energy, or nonlinear change that occurs as the effect of events that take place in the future and alter the past, which is perceived in the present as non-ordinary phenomena, synchronicities, unpredictable emergent properties or other notable explicate arisings. The source of such forces may also lie beyond chronological time, in higher dimensions of the Real.

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The process of non-process:

Since awakening is instantaneous, along with the recognition that one was never really in the dream, but enjoying the creation of the dream, it must be understood that making awakening into a process can only be part of the dream, and has nothing to do with Awakening itself.

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The Real:

When we speak of the Real, unless otherwise qualified, we mean the Supreme Real. The Supreme Real does not appear. Appearance is not Real. All that appears is empty of true existence. There are no real things. All that is phenomenal is temporary, dependent, and reducible to a wave function of consciousness. The world does not exist independent of consciousness. There is no matter or material world. All is made of consciousness. Pure consciousness is Presence. It is no-thing, non-objective, not in space or time. All that appears in Presence, or to Presence, is an emanation of Presence, but is not different from That. This is one meaning of nonduality.

The Real is also a term used in Lacanian psychoanalysis. What Lacan means by the Real is that aspect of phenomenal appearance which is overwhelming, traumatic, or impossible. We would call that Real One. It is a relative Real, not Absolute. We add that there is a Real Two, which consists of divine love. Love is not an appearance, but it changes appearance, through recognition of its Source, into a divine manifestation, a projection of God’s sublimely beautiful Mind as infinite fractal holographic cosmos. Real Three is the unchanging Absolute, beyond all conception or image.

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Dharma and dharma:

When we use the term Dharma (capitalized), we refer to our dedication to living in accord with the timeless principles of impeccable integrity that keep us in harmony with Nature and our Supernatural Source.

When we use the term without capitalization, we refer to our acceptance of the community’s processes, protocols, and chain of command with the “Haji! Spirit” of going the “extra mile” and working overtime when necessary to make the impossible inevitable, as our unconditional act of surrender to Love.

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