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.
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 ... .
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
