Overcoming Death
A 5-day Transformational Meditation Retreat with Shunyamurti
September 19 - 23, 2020
Meditation Retreat Details:
A Shunyamurti Retreat includes:
- Length of Program: 5 days / 4 nights
- Accommodations: Our charming cabins (bhavans) surrounded by nature
- Meals: Three delicious vegan and gluten-free meals a day with ingredients from our organic garden
- Meditations: Three daily meditation sittings
- Classes: Daily satsangs, guided meditations and Questions & Answers sessions with Shunyamurti offering the opportunity to ask questions and receive guidance throughout this retreat. Healing arts and creative expression classes
- Asanas: Sunrise yoga and pranayama practice
- Time to reflect: Enjoy walks and contemplation in the beautiful natural setting of the ashram
- Ashram Tour: Visit our developing food forests and organic green houses
- Contribution: From $845. Local rates for Costa Rican residents also available. Learn more below
A sacred ashram retreat
Whether you are an experienced yogi, or simply discovering the gift of meditation, this retreat will inspire and empower you to move forward with greater clarity and purpose.
A five-day retreat with Shunyamurti is an authentic rite of passage. The retreat will include essential teachings on the subjects of yoga, meditation, and spiritual development. Enjoy the pristine natural setting of the Sat Yoga Ashram, as well as delicious and healthful vegetarian meals.
Shunyamurti offers a transfusion of empowering knowledge that will enable you to overcome self-defeating tendencies, bring clarity, renew your life energy, and inspire your freedom and creative power.
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About Shunyamurti
Shunyamurti is an adept healer, he is the founder and spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute and Ashram.
Many years of meditation practice and training in numerous forms of yoga, including apprenticeship with Baba Hari Dass, ten years of vowed association with a Brahmachari ashram in India, and a special resonance with Sri Ramana Maharshi have been supplemented by the intensive study of Western metaphysics, various forms of psychoanalysis and Jungian dreamwork, as well as Taoism, Kabbalah, and mystical Christianity.
Retreat Theme
At some point, we must all encounter the death of our body. We will certainly have to face the death of loved ones. We may even become witness to the death of our planet, or at least of its current biological life forms. How can we be liberated from the fear of death, the anxiety of annihilation? What issues make up this anxiety? Is there a way to live free of all angst, all dread, and still enjoy life to the fullest? Can we feel in our nerves the blissful power of the infinite beauty of Being and of Becoming?
This retreat is about overcoming not only the fear of death, but the illusion that there is such a thing as death. We only fear death because we have not yet become fully alive. Ultimately Death is the secret source of our security and peace, our link with Eternal Life. Socrates defined philosophy as learning to die while alive. The ancient sat yogis defined the culminating state of meditation, samadhi, as realizing Mahakal, the Great Death, the Death of Death.
Let us come to take refuge with the Supreme Power that alone can free us of the fear of both life and death, pain and suffering. Let us experience the reality of the unity of Emptiness and Fullness. Let us fuse the perception of temporality and eternity, of samsara and nirvana. This is the Buddha Nature. This is Christ Consciousness. This is your Self.
Namaste,
Shunyamurti
Related Teaching
Yoga is the Overcoming of Death
Contribution
Your contribution includes 4 nights accommodations in one of our delightful cabins, all meals, and activities during your stay.
$995
Shared Room /
Shared Bathroom
$1250
Private Room /
Shared Bathroom
$1500
Private Room /
Shared Bathroom
~ Costa Rican residents please inquire for the local rate
New Costa Rican Sales Tax
Our visit coordinator will inform you of the final price + tax.
Scholarships
The Sat Yoga Scholarship Fund was created to offer retreat and program scholarships to a wider community of serious seekers looking for a sacred space to heal and grow spiritually, who may be in need of financial assistance. We ask your support to enable us to welcome more people who yearn for Self-realization. Please consider donating to the scholarship fund so we can provide the needed assistance in our environment of wisdom and love. If you wish to join us, but have limited financial resources, please visit our Scholarship Fund page.
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Extend your stay
A 2 or 4-Night Retreat Extension Program
A transformational retreat led by Shunyamurti can ignite an intense and profound spiritual awakening. To maximize the effectiveness of this process for those who want to become stabilized in liberated Awareness, we offer a flexible Extension Program, specifically designed to enable you to integrate the insights received during the retreat and continue cultivating your meditation practice. During this additional stay, you will be nourished and safely contained in the serene and powerful energy field of the ashram community.
The daily schedule will include offerings of the following kind: small group classes, meditation sittings with the sangha, karma yoga, asana classes, additional teachings and satsangs with Shunyamurti, and optional individual sessions.
Contribution:
$270 2-night Program ($135/night)
$490 4-night Program ($122/night)
The contribution includes your stay in a private room with a shared bathroom plus all meals and activities. For a private room with a private bathroom, the contribution rate is $405 for 2-nights and $735 for 4-nights.
If you would like to sign up for this Retreat Extension Program, please let Amrita know when you fill out the form. If you would like to stay at the ashram longer than 4-nights, please visit our Personal Retreat page.
