What is Love?

Understanding (and Cultivating) the Most Powerful Force in the World

A 7-day Transformational Meditation Retreat with Shunyamurti

July 11 - 15, 2020

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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 vegetarian 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 $995. 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 seven-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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What is Love?

Understanding (and Cultivating) the Most Powerful Force in the World

In this extraordinary retreat, we will explore with Shunyamurti all the permutations of love and their consequences. Included in the teachings, the following topics will be covered:

  • Love as a historical variable as well as a constant;

  • Courtly love, arranged marriage, love as duty, love as individuation and separation;

  • Eros, Philia, Agape—the three classical levels of love;

  • The forms and enigmas of love that are current today;

  • Feminist and post-feminist theories of love, queer theories, non-binary theories, transgender love, the function of love in films, and whether life imitates the movies;

  • The causes and stages of romantic love;

  • Love and beauty;

  • Love and madness;

  • Love as a rite of passage;

  • Love in and for a spiritual community;

  • Love and sex;

  • Love and the gender conundrum;

  • Love and marriage, love and babies, love and money;

  • The perversions of love—from misogyny and male bashing to rape, prostitution, sado-masochism, masturbation, sport sex, open marriages, the ménage a trois, the don Juan, the dominatrix, the castrator, the sexual dysfunctions, sodomy, fetishism, bestiality, necrophilia, and pornography;

  • The relevance of psychoanalysis and other philosophies of love;

  • Why love fails and nowadays fails so often and so quickly;

  • Why partners often seek couples’ therapy—and why one partner will often reject that option—and why such therapy rarely helps;

  • Overcoming the trauma of lost or broken love;

  • Love as a morphogenetic field phenomenon;

  • The electromagnetic power of love;

  • Love vs. desire;

  • Love and Law;

  • Love of parents, siblings, children, extended family;

  • Love and friendship;

  • Love and charity, love and compassion;

  • Love as dispassion;

  • Tantric love;

  • Celibate couples’ love;

  • Celibate love of priest, monk, nun, or sannyasi;
  • Divine love;
  • Love and Grace;
  • Love Supreme;
  • The future of love—or the end of love;
  • Love and Death;
  • How to open your Heart to Supreme Love;
  • Love and Liberation.

Because of the deep, strong, and delicate feelings, memories, and insights this retreat will arouse, we recommend that participants remain for at least a week (and preferably a month) after the retreat to do individual processing of the issues that will have been brought to the surface.

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.

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Testimonials

“Really exciting for me is the fact that he (Shunyamurti) combines the Western psychoanalysis with the Eastern teachings. Although I wanted an ashram experience, and I am Indian, I didn’t feel that the ashram experience in India would be sufficient for me.”

Dipika Wishhart, India/Ibiza

“What you get here and what you learn is the thing that can change everything in your life in a permanent way, and that’s the key.  In this place, you can definitely find the answers that you are looking for.”

Mike Mcginnis, Costa Rica
“What you get here and what you learn is the thing that can change everything in your life in a permanent way, and that’s the key.  In this place, you can definitely find the answers that you are looking for.”

Mike Mcginnis, Costa Rica

Contribution

Your contribution includes 4 nights accommodations in one of our delightful cabins, all meals, and activities during your stay. 

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$995

Shared Room /
Shared Bathroom

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$1250

Private Room /
Shared Bathroom

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$1500

Private Room /
Shared Bathroom

~ Costa Rican residents please inquire for the local rate

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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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Brahmachari:

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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Satsang:

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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