HIKING MOUNTAIN RETREAT

July, 3-17  &/or July,17-31 2010

 

2 or 4 weeks natural hiking wilderness meditation retreat in Western Europe's last wilderness:

the Pyrenees Mountains. Rediscovering effortless natural mindfulness.

hiking mountain meditation retreat in the Pyrenees

deep personal growth, down to earth spirituality and healing, life review.

 

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Mountain Meditation in the Pyrenees

rediscovering natural effortless mindfulness

 

natural meditation retreat hiking the Spanish Pyrenees mountains :

back to wilderness and solitude mountain retreat

discovering the healing of natural effortless mindfulness, awareness and mountain meditation

spiritual fasting for personal growth, health, transformation and uprightness,

rediscover or explore and deepen natural inborn awareness, meditation, spirituality and self healing,

live evaluation

experience the benefits of living 2 (or 4) weeks as an hermit, 

the luxury of being really out for 2 or 4 weeks, unjoinable by phone or mail.

Mountain hiking meditation retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees

spiritual hiking retreat is holidays for body and soul.

 

2 or 4 weeks fasting and walking mountain retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees mountains

Private mountain retreat other period? Ask. contact

 

Health retreat a hiking mountain retreat is holidays for personal growth, body and soul.

Combining the essence of christian and buddist  meditation,

rediscovering the natural inborn meditation and healing process, life review.

 

Spiritual hiking mountain retreat : in your rucksack only those things you realy need. 

A one person tent,  only the necessary food.

You'l come back a lot fitter as wel!

 

Meditaton in the mountains is spirituality for all, back to natural effortless mondfulness, contemplation ascetism and mystics
Mountain retrait and meditation in the spanish Pyrenees: a 2 or 4 weeks retreat in the mids of nature
Living as an ermit meditating in the mountains

 

 

During the year personal retreat or sabatical leave

is possible

in our house

in Miglos

or with Richard

in the Ardennes

contact.

Mountain meditation and retreat: Healing transformation trough fasting, guided meditation hiking mountain retreat with spiritual fasting for personal growth health and  critical reflexion, contemplation and hiking the pyrenees mountains as a simple path to spirituality moral integrity and enlightment

PYRENEES MOUNTAINS MEDITATION

HKING mountain retreat

effortless mindfulness

 

hiking meditation retreat = natural wellness holidays for body and soul,

the luxury of being out and not joinable,

hiking the Pyrenees mountains, wilderness retreat,life review.

 

(re) Discovering spirituality, contemplation, fasting, meditation

personal and spiritual growth through health mountain meditation retreat 

in beautiful and wild silent nature

contemplation and no guru no mysticism meditation.

Rediscover meditation the natural way:

the natural meditation techniques and effortless mindfulness

you knew as a child

while fasting for personal growth and a better health.

 

hiking the Pyrenees mountains,

the natural border between France and Spain

 far off the beaten paths.

 

Meditation retreat and hiking mountain retreat is real holidays:

personal growth towards more responsibility in love an friendship leads in a most natural way to spirituality and meditation.

Hiking mountain retreat with rucksack and tent to the most lovely hidden lakes of the Spanish Pyrenees also offers an adventurous experience of Western Europe's last wilderness.

Hiking Mountain retreat

for personal growth, effortless mindfulness and spirituality

 

Rediscovering the value of silence and a most simple way of living

during a 2-weeks health retreat for spiritual healing and transformation.

Trekking and just being there:

hiking, walking, contemplation, awareness, natural effortless mindfulness

and your own critical reflection of how you live.

No guru no mysticism

but down to earth spirituality a natural meditation retreat.

 

Hiking mountain retreat : a simple natural path to deeper personal growth, better health and awareness in the midst of Western Europe's last wilderness ... .

 

Pyrenees Mountains:Life review, meditation spirituality and contemplation a no guru no mysticism mountain retreat.

meditation mountain retreat hiking the Pyrenees mountains :

  • back to wilderness retreat

  • discovering health mountain meditation retreat, spirituality and  healing in the Spanish Pyrenees

  • spiritual fasting for personal growth, health, transformation and uprightness,

  • rediscover or learn meditation, spirituality and self healing, live evaluation, effortless mindful awareness

  • experience the benefits of living 2 weeks as an hermit

  • Mountain hiking meditation retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees

  • spiritual hiking retreat is holidays for body and soul.

No guru no mysticism retreat.

Health and meditation mountain retreats are  hiking meditation retreats for those in search of a simple natural way to more integrity and body-mind integration.

Hiking meditation retreat combines hiking, fasting and natural meditation a most simple way to deep personal growth. It offers a more natural way of implementing physical fitness (hiking and fasting) and the experience of  silence in the midst of the mountains. Hiking meditation retreat invites naturally to spirituality. It's holidays as well: you discover western Europe's last wilderness, the Pyrenees mountains, on the border between France and Spain.

A hiking mountain retreat improves your natural inborn process of balance between contact and withdrawal, contemplation and activity. This allows more awareness, empathy and conscience.

Hiking meditation retreat to (re)discover natural meditation and natural inborn spirituality. It combines hiking and spiritual fasting during mountain retreat deepens the process of personal growth and spirituality: it implements awake reflection and more vivid dreams reintegrating them into a bodily felt ethic reflection on the sense of your live, your calling and how you live up to it.

No ideology is needed: hiking mountain retreat and spiritual fasting and meditation retreat invite to deeper personal growth: a thorough personal evaluation of yourself and what you're making of your live. More ... on this hiking mountain retreat

 

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Hiking and trekking links to the Pyrenees mountains and other mountain regions

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   Pyrenees mountains guide service     

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Live review is the base of moral and spirual development. You can learn it during our mountain retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees mountains.

Hiking mountain retreat:

meditation, contemplation, spirituality, live review.

 

Wilderness retreat offers a natural way to combine both physical exercise in search for more fitness and health with turning into and rediscovering natural healing processes. You rediscover inborn natural effortless awareness and mindfulness.

Meditation high up in he mountains, retreat surrounded by nature restores ongoing contact with your own bodily felt moral awareness (conscience).

Meditation retreat while hiking the Pyrenees integrates personal growth, health retreat, spiritual fasting, meditation and healing.

You rediscover, experience and deepen non technical ways of meditation in the Pyrenees mountains, .

Hiking mountain retreat is as well a physical as a spiritual adventure = personal growth on its deepest level.

Physical, mental and spiritual health are grounded in a personal search for integrity accepting the social context you live in.

The whole problem is how to integrate your own bodily felt experience and how others are experiencing you, into a responsible social live.

 Because the places we retreat to are unspoilt jewels of nature, number of participants for this meditation retreat are limited to 12 . A normally good physical condition is necessary.  

 

Health mountain retreat, natural awareness and mindfulness :

This 2 weeks hiking mountain retreat walks up to the most beautiful nature and secluded corners of the Spanish Pyrenees mountains discovering the benefits of fasting for awareness, mindfulness and healing.

You organize to be unjoinable (no phone), no mp3 player etc. In your rucksack only what you really need.

This combination offers a most natural fitness training. You eat less than you burn, the physical exercise strengthens your body and brings it back into better shape.

There is plenty of time to sleep, rest and dream, feel and contemplate what comes up.

Hiking mountain retreat is the most natural way of turning into, meditation and spirituality.

 

Deep personal growth, healing and spirituality, meditation in the mountains :

 

After 2 days of hiking we spread out for mountain retreat each on his or her own. Each  us camps in meditation retreat about maximum 1km apart.

Time for vipassana, Buddhist, Christian meditation or just naturally turning into, contemplating what comes up, rediscovering natural effortless mindfulness.

What comes up are unfinished businesses inviting you to the personal and spiritual growth your own conscience knows you need.

No ideology is needed. But to really work through unfinished business you need to be able to critically evaluate your own behaviour.

Becoming aware of what you think is the disturbing other, in fact invites you to transcend your limitations. Your habitual ways of limiting your reliability, empathy, care, responsibility, organizational skills ... . 

Genuine care for others, friendship, love and social commitment  lay beyond egocentric hedonism and utilitarism.

During this meditation retreat, while camping and discovering wild nature, we spend about two-thirds of the time being on our own.

Living individual mountain retreat as an hermit, (re)discovering and exploring our effortless awareness and mindfulness and its inborn energetic healing processes.

Effortless mindfulness in the Pyrenees mountains: hiking and healing discovering the deeper side of your self: personal growth and spirituality

You set up our tent in some scenic spot near a beautiful lake or river overlooking to the horizon and retreat.

Time for just being there, eat just the necessary minimum, relax and contemplate what comes up , what you remember.

Permit your inborn healing process to reflect it in the perspective of your own conscience.

Time too to rediscover your body, its needs and desires, its ability to sense live energy and turn in to it.

Becoming aware of how your life style helps, improves or hampers your personal, relational and spiritual growth.

 

3 to 4 days later, we hike further to the following scenic spot and our next mountain retreat. 

Hiking mountain retreat and fasting meditation retreat to the most isolated lovely wild spots of the Pyrenees mountains is a natural way to go into and find back to those deeper parts of your self.

You rediscover your own conscience and those natural effortless ways of meditation, awareness and mindfulness you knew as a child. 

This is the essence of spirituality, healing and energy awareness. All you need is to be handsome without fear and respectful for each others retreat.

 

Meditation contemplation spirituality: hiking mountain retreat in the Pyrenees implements body awareness and sexuality and helps you integrate them  into your spirituality.

Mystics is not mysticism :

 

Meditation high up in the mountains is holidays for body and soul.

Natural health retreat into the mountains, mountain retreat living as an hermit is known since the beginning of mankind by those who live close to nature. 

Mountain retreat is grounded in real life, your life.

Spirituality here is real, down to earth through your senses in touch as well with reality as with the unknowable:

hiking mountain retreat in the wilderness, needs fitness, some outdoors skills and real autonomy.

If you don't have them yet, you should be willing to learn.

Be prepared for this and for what might confront you in fasting and meditation,

as when you are alone things come up that you might normally avoid or don't find time for in life's daily grind. 

Meditation retreat is simple it just needs your commitment to go into solitude and to open up to what comes up.

Allowing your own evaluation of your live and way of living

according to your moral standards.

 

Allowing natural effortless inborn mindfulness, integrating physical exercise, fasting, health retreat personal growth, spirituality and healing:

 

During hiking mountain retreat you rediscover the benefits of fasting, hiking and mere wondering and contemplation for deep personal growth, deepening your love and spirituality.

Through rediscovering, feeling live energy and exploring this bodily process you become aware of how your body and soul integrate, are one.

You may discover and become more aware of how your thinking implements or disturbs your bodily felt experience of what you're doing, perceive or are involved in.

It's a meditation retreat. A natural cleansing or catharsis is set in motion.

This fasting allows processing of as yet unprocessed experiences and finding solutions to yet unsolved problems.

You use your own critical moral reflection on what comes up.

Your conscience is the more profound part of your inner self that longs for more integer adjustment to the realities of your life.

Mountain retreat fasting is no zero calories fasting but a natural Ayurveda based fasting technique:

During meditation retreat and hiking days you eat a cup of muesli in the morning, eat rice or lentil soup at noon and night, drink herb tea.

You may prefer to ad 75% EPA-fishoil, vitamins and amino acids.

This fasting method restores optimal base/acid equilibrium in your body. This improves body strength, fitness and awareness as well as going into and natural effortless mindfulness.

 Calories intake is far below the calories you burn. Minimum 5kg of weight loss but with muscle building is a result.

More important is increase in body awareness and mindfulness thanks to this combination of  health fasting and hiking.

Retreat in the Pyrenees mountains time for redescovering body awareness and contemplation and personal growth to spirituality.

Body centeredness and awareness is crucial to sane personal growth, meditation and spirituality : it's enables you to bodily feel the worth of what you're doing or thinking.

It enables you to feel how the other is doing.

Life is experience and experience is bodily felt. This bodily awareness is awareness of the 'spirit' of what you're doing. That's an important, though not sufficient,  aspect of interpersonal, social and moral awareness, a necessary condition for spiritual awareness.

During hiking mountain meditation retreat spiritual awareness comes with dreaming.

Dreams evaluate your life, show which of your behaviour leads to more humanity and what to more conflict. Paying attention to your dreams, discerning the 'spirits' (=tendencies) at work is the royal path to spirituality. It integrates your nights and days to one life.

You become more aware, aware of what your participating in.

Dreaming more consciously and integrating dreaming and reflection is healing.

Last but not least, during hiking mountain retreat minimal healthy food combined with a natural physical exercise restores and improves your physical condition in a lasting way. It's grounding for as well body as soul.

Mountain retreat is a meditation retreat: a natural way to more grounded spirituality and natural effortless mindfulness.

 

No particular psychological, religious or spiritual ideology is needed for a hiking mountain retreat fruitful to the personal spiritual growth and healing you really need.

Such models may certainly be helpful. As long as they don't submit you, cut you from natural bodily needs and healing processes or social reality,

make yourself think that you "know", that you are on the "right" path. Or, keep you from accepting  that although live is eternal, yours once comes to an end.

And, experience this as an invitation to participate actively for a somewhat more humane world.

During hiking meditation retreat you rediscover the natural way to your  inborn spirituality. Fasting and hiking, the experience of silence and necessary autonomy deepen these experience of body awareness, natural contemplation, effortless awareness and mindfulness, meditation and spirituality. 

Doing so you may ad to more awareness and awakening, to real and deep personal growth that is as well bodily, personal as relational as spiritual.

Hiking and meditation Mountain retreat a way to effortless mindfulness in the Spanish Pyrenees Mountains. 2 weeks live review meditation and spirituality
Pyrenees mountains mountain retreat fasting and walking

Mountain meditation, hiking, personal growth, natural effortless mindfulness and transformation:

 

This meditation and hiking mountain retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees mountains is intended for those normally able to stand on their own feet.

Hiking meditation retreats are meant for 'adults' in the sense of minimal experience of social competence and existential autonomy: a career, lasting love relationship, family life, the education of good children and responsible adolescents and, last but not least, combining these.

That's why being at least 30 is  necessary.

For deep personal growth a fruitful meditation retreat and healing acceptance of your own self-critical judgment, openness and the ability to follow through to the end in any circumstances suffice. 

Mountain retreat means the luxury of being alone in the wilderness without phone, unjoinable far from your social 'obligations'(sic).

Be aware that this is adventure, no play : you're on your own far from the other participants 3/4 of time.

Mountains can be hazardous, weather bad, nights cold, solitude difficult. That's real mountain wilderness meditation retreat: demanding autonomy.

Respect of the others retreat in meditation, silence and solitude is of course a must.

This kind of health mountain retreat, a natural integration of fitness training, spirituality, personal growth, fasting and exercise is an exciting and special experience of awareness in which you allow your own conscience to call your own behaviour into question.

You also get a grasp of the "soul" of the mountains and why they help you to contact your deeper self. 

 

Free meditation and healing process counselling

to deepen your experience of personal growth, mountain meditation retreat and natural spirituality:

 

Counselling (one session every 4 days) may deepen your understanding of the ongoing moral and spiritual development process and awareness of life energy. 

If you're a novice in meditation, spiritual and moral development, meditation process counselling may help you to accept your inner deeper self critique.

Help you to let go with flow of what's coming up, whatever it is.

It evaluates yourself according to your way of dealing with multiple responsibilities  : your different live goals, your reliability, uprightness, openness to others and other ways of living, how you deal with and how you succeed combining bodily needs and pleasures, friendship, love, career, family, education and social commitments ... .

Hiking mountain retreat affords to remember and rediscover your calling, remember or evaluate the way you live up yourself to your values while being tolerant to others.

That's real personal growth: it opens you to what you can do for a better world, this awakening heals from egocentrism.

Mountain meditation retreat in the wildernes live review

The only thing, indeed, we can decide, is what kind of a sensefull live we are going to live. This is a very personal question and the very reason of our human existential solitude.

This counselling is no ersatz for psychotherapy. What Richard offers is moral and existential counselling towards more personal spirituality grounded in your body and real live. 

Meditation process counselling is not included in the program or in costs. It's no must at all and it is available for free.

 

This inner meditation retreat journey is expressly not for those who stand on their own feet only in their thoughts but become anxious as soon as they abandon there mobile phone and laptop,

are left to themselves for whole days and nights  camping in the wilderness living as an hermit (in total for two-thirds to three-quarters of the time) .

You commit your self to be unjoinable, to respect the others silence and retreat and for security reasons not to leave your tents surroundings the days you retreat.

 

Richard van Egdom transpersonal psychotherapy.

Mountain leader :

 

As all our hikes this one is a guided hike with Richard. Richard is a Fleming, fluent in Dutch (of course), English, German and French.

Richard studied family sociology and Organizational Development at Louvain University (KUL), Belgiums oldest university.

Richard is a qualified and experienced Mountain Leader. He knows the eastern half, and beyond, of the Pyrenees as the back of his hand, he lived here.

Richard is a lecturer on phenomenology of moral and spiritual development at School for Continuing Studies of Lille II Uniniversity (France),He's been trained in Gestalt by Laura PERLS, has been working with Karlfried Count Durkheim and Christian Zen masters on the integration in western monachism of eastern approaches to meditation.

He has been working for years as a training analyst in existential analysis throughout Europe and as private spiritual counselor.

 

Conditions : Health retreats and Hiking mountain retreat as well as spiritual fasting and meditation retreat need a good health and a better physical condition.

You need to be able to carry your max. 15kg rucksack uphill at a pace of 300m of height difference an hour, 5 hours a day.

Dizziness, fear of heights, overweight or any injury, arthritis etc, that make walking or backpacking more difficult as normal are of course contra indications.

 Need of regular intake of any kind of medicine is a contra indication too unless written approval of your MD.

Vaccination against Tetanus is a life saving must.

Be aware that hiking mountain retreat can be hazardous and that you're on your own 2/3 to 3/4 of the time: you need prudence and a travel insurance including mountain research and rescue.

Age: minimum age is 30.

Helpfulness, a sense of humour - even if bad weather lasts for several days - and team spirit are a must.

You commit yourself to respecting each others retreat on meditation retreat days (2/3 -3/4 of the hiking mountain retreats time).

 

Itinerary: Starting and end point is Friends of the Pyrenees house (Le Castel, F-09400 Miglos, France).

Participants : 1 to maximum 12 (our non profit hikes and treks are never cancelled).

 

Cost: 450€. (= individual membership for a full year of our Friends of the Pyrenees non profit small is beautiful group.) + 300€ if you want to participate in both hikes and being high up for meditation 4 weeks.

Membership also includes free acces to the house for up to 10 weeks a year. Fees only serve to realize our goals.

 

Pratical information : How to get to the Pyrenees etc click here

You need a light weight 2 persons hiking tent (= 1 in comfort).

Some tents, rucksacks and sleeping bags are available and can be rented (2€ per overnight per item).

Feel free to contact Richard if you have more questions need more information or want to participate.

 

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Mountain meditation : mountain retreat in Europe

If you want Richard to organize a similar private hiking mountain retreat for you, your couple or group :

Basic cost : 250€ per day independant number of participants (Non members),

Members : deduce your membership fee from total amount. Membership conditions

Special conditions (150€ per day): June and  September contact Richard

Included : guiding,  single person  hiking tents, cookers, sleeping mats

Not included : other gear, food and travel costs.

When very very bad weather makes staying in huts necessary, the guide's costs (board and lodging) are yours, this is usual.

When needed : rucksacks and sleeping bags are available and can be hired (2€ per overnight each)

make sure to contact Richard in time (now!) to hear if he's still free for trekking or hiking in the Pyrenees the period you want. 

 

Pyrenees mountains : Information on hiking, self catering accommodation, Pyrenees mMountain retreat, trails and guide service.

self catering family and group accommodation Ariege Pyrenees: house of Friends of the Pyrenees Mountains

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friends of the Pyrenees a members run small is beautiful group of mountain lovers offer self catering and hiking in the Pyrenees

Learn Dutch courses according to Wall street journal this is the best method

Hiking and trekking links to the Pyrenees mountains and other mountain regions

practical information self catering accommodation in the Pyrenees Spanish Pyrenees hiking & trekking Pyrenees hiking mountain retreat

   Pyrenees mountains guide service     

 about us learn Dutch                    links
home contact subscription groups and family groups         refuge de Certascan Pyrenees family holidays hike Pyrenees long distance trails              legal info
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Impressum / legal info / copyright

This website is the international Pyrenees mountains information website of Vriendenkring Amitié Européenne asbl a Belgian small is beatifull non profit association.

Our other websites are:

www.pyrenees.be for more information in French. This website also contains a 2 weeks trail description, an alternative high route through the French and Andorran Pyrenees.

Similar information in Dutch about our Pyrenees house, family holidays, guided treks and extended information on our mountain retreat is on

www.pyrenees-pyreneeen.be

As you may guess we cannot earn the necessary money to run our organization, the house, our trekkings and hikes only through membership fees.

That's why since 2003 we joined in DialoguE, according to The Wall Street Journal one of the best European language schools, to provide high level crash courses Dutch for executive managers and the higher educated.

Richard our former senior benevolent is working full time as our employee now.

Richard has a background in Organizational Development, expertise in learning and personal development strategies (he teaches that topic at Continuing Studies of Lille II University).

He's fluent in English, German and French.

Richard loves teaching his mother tongue in an efficient one to one setting and is a real expert in client- and dialogue centered learning.

Richard commits himself fully in teaching you Dutch even starting from scratch in an amazing minimum time.

click here on this site.

A special website in German dedicated to this Dutch courses for the higher educated is www.sprachkursniederlaendisch.de

Same information to our French full immersion private Dutch courses can be found on www.apprendre-le-neerlandais.com

responsible editor :

Richard van Egdom                                  

office & contact : Lutiau 53, B-6500 Beaumont

Friends of the Pyrenees House : Le Castel, F-09400 Miglos

phone +32 60 456 497