Down to earth spirituality and
meditation, (half-) fasting and nackbacking from lake to lake
retreat into solitude and rest
to rediscover and enjoy natural innate meditation and
equilibration processes.
2012 : July,14-28,
July,28-August,11 and August
11-25
(other dates are possible as a private trekking,
just ask) 2 or 4 weeks natural hiking
wilderness meditation retreat in Western Europe's last wilderness: the Pyrenees Mountains.
Rediscovering effortless
natural mindfulness and innate meditation process. Hiking mountain retreat
and wilderness meditation in the Pyrenees. Deep personal growth,
down to earth spirituality and healing, life review.
Nature
experience and
meditation
retreat hiking the Spanish Pyrenees mountains : back to wilderness
and solitude mountain retreat rediscovering the
healing of retreat into solitude and farniente simply being,
allowing it to occur natural effortless mindfulness,
natural effortless awareness innate
meditation, integration and healing processes.
Spiritual fasting = just the food you really,
backpacking = the movement and physical effort you
really need for good health and condition, in your
rucksack only what you really need, superfuous fat
becoming lean muscles and stamina.
That's all you
need for personal growth, health, transformation and
uprightness. That's all you need to rediscover or explore and
deepen natural inborn awareness, meditation, spirituality and self
healing,
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. descovering and
experiencing the beauty and the wild of spanish
high Pyrenees Mountains Holidays for body and soul. 2 or 4 weeks
fasting and meditation
trekking mountain
retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees
Redescovering
the
essence of spirituality beyond religion, schools, masters or sects,rediscovering
your natural inborn
down to earth spirituality and
allowing it is "enlightment".
Pyrenees Hiking Mountain Retreat Meditation trekking for personal growth, effortlessmindfulness and spirituality
Reviewing all those offers
about meditation technique
offered by a multitude of religions, spiritual schools,
masters and sects one could almost forget that
meditation is an inate equilibration process.
Meditation sets on naturally.
The only thing to do is to retreat into
solitude and farniente.
You cannot make meditation happen.
There is nothing to do, no effort at all.
You simply allow it to occur.
Hiking meditation retreat =
natural wellness holidays for body and soul,
the luxury of being out and not
joinable,
no cell phone, no laptop or notebook, no mp3,
no reading, writing or other distractions,
just simply being.
Hiking the Pyrenees mountains
meditation trekking,
retreat into solitude
in the wilderness just being.
Natural inate meditation sets on, natural
life review.
personal and spiritual growth
through health mountain meditation retreat
in beautiful and wild silent
nature
just being,
no thing to do,
allowing meditation to occur,
no technique, no special
attitude, no guru.
Rediscover retreat and 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.
retreat 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.
Rediscovering
the value of silence and a most simple way of living
during a
2-weeks
health retreat for spiritual healing and transformation.
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 ... .
No
guru no mysticism retreat and meditation trekking.
Rediscovering innate natural
meditation
mountain retreat hiking
the Pyrenees mountains :
* back to wilderness
retreatmeditation
trekking * discovering
health mountain meditation retreat, spirituality * and healing
in
the Spanish Pyreneesspiritual
fasting for
personal growth, health, transformation and uprightness,
*
rediscover
or learn
meditation, spirituality and self healing,
live evaluation,
*
effortless mindful awareness
: experiencing
the benefits of
living 2 weeks as an hermit
*
Mountain
hiking meditation
retreat in the Spanish Pyreneesspiritual
hiking retreat is
holidays for body and soul.
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 natural way of implementing physical
fitness (hiking and fasting) and the experience of silence in the
midst of the mountains. Hiking meditation retreat invites you to your natural
innate down to earth
spirituality. It's holidays as well: you discover western Europe's last
wilderness, the Pyrenees mountains, on the border between France and
Spain. Holidays for body and soul.
A
hiking mountain retreat meditation trekking improves your natural
inborn process of balance
between contact and withdrawal, contemplation and activity. This allows
more awareness, empathy and conscience.
Hiking and spiritual fasting during mountain retreat deepen
the innate 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 way of live, your basic
attitude (spirit) and how it affects your happiness.
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.
meditation trekking, 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. There is nothing to do. You just allow it to occur.
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 natural innate 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
an innate organismic 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.
This is not an intellectual problem solved by
reflection.
It's an innate process of ongoing sensomotor
coordination of your organism inyour social environment.
The straighter way to happiness is strusting
it.
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 effortless awareness and mindfulness through
meditation trekking and simple ascetism:
This
2 weeks hiking mountain trekking retreat walks up to the most beautiful nature and secluded corners of the
Spanish Pyrenees mountains
discovering the benefits of farniente,
deceleration, fasting for awareness, mindfulness and healing.
You organize to be unjoinable (no phone, no
e-mail), no mp3
player, radio 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 retreat in the Pyrenees mountains
:
After 2 days of meditation trekking we
spread out for mountain retreat each on his or her own. Each
us camps in meditation retreat about maximum 1km
apart.
Time for just naturally effortless turning into,
contemplating what comes up, just being. There is nothing to do to rediscover natural innate mindfulness.
You simply allow it to occure. Stillness is the essence
of meditation. Natural meditation only needs stllness and
solitude : stopping to do, relax, just being.
No ideology is needed. To really work through unfinished
business you only 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, utilitarism and most certainly religious institutions,
submission to a master, school or sect.
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, allowing them to occur is 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 our meditation trekking
hikes 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.
A more ascetic live and mystics is not
mysticism :
Meditation trekking retreat high up in the mountains is
holidays and
fitness training for body, mind 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 meditation trekking and hiking
mountain retreat
you rediscover the benefits of
fasting, hiking and mere wondering and contemplation for deep personal
growth, deepening your love and spirituality.
This
natural healing process is called thinking with the heart. Through
rediscovering, feeling live energy
and exploring this bodily process you become aware of how your body, spirit (=
your basic attitude towards live) and what happens in your life 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 and loving 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 meditation trekking days you eat a cup
of muesli in the morning, eat rice, quinoa or 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 lean muscle building and more stamina are
the results.
More important is increase in body awareness and mindfulness
thanks to this combination of health fasting and hiking.
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.
Meditation trekking 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 meditation
trekkings 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.
Religions or spiritual teachings may
certainly be helpful. But only 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.
Life is an invitation to
participate actively according to your own possibilities, character,
talents and skils in working towards a 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.
Mountain meditation trekking, 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.
i
Free meditation trekking and healing process counseling
to deepen your experience of personal growth, mountain
meditation retreat and natural spirituality:
Counseling (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, meditation trekking,
spiritual and moral
development, meditation process counselling may help you to accept your
inner deeper self critique.
Help you to let go with the 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.
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(of course you can leave Richards phonenumber in
case of an immergency),
to
respect the others silence and retreat and for security reasons not to
leave your tents surroundings the days.
U
Mountain meditation trekking leader :
Richard is a lecturer on phenomenology
of moral and spiritual development and what is called 'Enlightment' 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 worked as a training analyst in
existential analysis throughout Europe and as private spiritual
counselor and phenomenology teacher.
Richard is also a qualified Mountain
Leader. His hobbies are Aikido and hiking.
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 retreat from MP3, cell phone, note-book, Ipads
and other reading, writing or other stuff that could interfere
with the necessary retreat into solitude an doning nothing,
just simply being and have the nescesary condition to 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,
knee, feeth or back problem, 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. You
commit yourself to respecting each others retreat on meditation retreat
days (2/3 -3/4 of the hiking mountain retreats time).
Helpfulness,
a sense of humour - even if bad weather lasts for several days - and
team spirit are a must.
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 retreat 4 weeks. (An awakening experience).
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).
If you want Richard to organize a similar private hiking
mountain retreat for yourself, your couple or group :
Basic cost :
75€ per day (1 participant) + 50€ a day
(2nd participant) + 30€ a day ( 3rd participant) + 20€ a day (4th and
next participants) + ( if wanted) 100€ each for meditation counseling) .
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.
spiritPathPeru:
organizes retreats and pilgrimages
that
are designed to
support each individual on their path of healing and spiritual growth.
These journeys are held in natural power places in the Peruvian Amazon
rainforest and Andes mountains. We offer 10 to 30 day retreats, and
together create a safe space for healing, detoxification, and
life-transforming experiences.
A
34 weeks online retreat for every day
live : A retreat designed for busy
people, done in the midst of our everyday lives. With a downloadable Audio
version. Begin at any time, learn to pray in the background of your
days and transform your everyday life. Online in four languages,
including Spanish, Japanese and Russian.
Spirituality
- Spirituality, inner personal beliefs, spiritual religions, and other
spiritual resources
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
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.
