Down to earth spirituality and
meditation, fasting and backpacking from lake to lake.
Retreat into solitude and
stillness, rediscover and enjoy natural innate meditation and
equilibration process.
Only for you if spirituality is
not an hobby but your way of life.
2 weeks: July,13-27
or
Juli,27 - August,10
4 weeks intensive :
July,13 - August,10 2013
(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 the natural way. Hiking mountain retreat,
live review
and wilderness meditation in the Pyrenees. Deep personal growth, down to earth spirituality,
conscience and healing.
Mountain Meditation
Retreat in the
Pyrenees
rediscovering effortless awareness
and
effortless mindfulness :
natural
innate stillness meditation
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, life review, integration and healing processes.
Spiritual fasting = just the food you really need,
backpacking = the movement and physical effort you
really need for good health and condition, in your
rucksack only what you really need, superfluous fat
becoming lean muscles and stamina.
That's all you
need for personal growth towards more health, transformation and
uprightness. That's all you need to rediscover or explore and
deepen natural inborn awareness, meditation, spirituality, self
healing and more significant way of life.
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. Discovering 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
Rediscovering
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
only for you if spirituality is not your hobby but your way of
live
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 innate 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 innate 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.
Holidays for body and Soul :
Rediscovering
the value of silence and a most simple way of living
during a
2-weeks
health retreat for spiritual healing and transformation.
and your own
critical reflection of how you live, your justice and your love.
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.
Rediscovering innate natural
meditation
mountain retreat hiking
the Pyrenees mountains :
* back to wilderness retreat & meditation
trekking * discovering
health mountain meditation retreat, spirituality and healing
in
the Spanish Pyrenees, * spiritual
fasting for
personal growth, health, transformation and uprightness, * rediscover
or learn
natural innate meditation, spirituality and self healing, live evaluation,
*effortless mindful awareness : experiencing the benefits of
retreating 2 or 4 weeks as an hermit, * mountain
hiking spiritual experience in the Spanish Pyrenees, offers
holidays and renewal for your body and soul.
No
guru no mysticism retreat and meditation trekking.
Health and meditation
mountain retreats are hiking meditation retreats into solitude
and wilderness for those in search of a simple natural way to more
integrity, body-mind integration, justice and love as a way of life.
Hiking
meditation retreat combines
hiking, fasting and natural meditation: the most simple way to deep
personal and spiritual awareness and growth. Mountain retreat offers a natural way of implementing physical
fitness (hiking and fasting) and the experience of silence and
solitude in the midst of beautiful wild mountains. Hiking and
camping into solitude high up in the Pyrenees mountains invites you to your
natural
innate down to earth
spirituality and life review. It's mountain holidays as well:
you discover western Europe's last wilderness, the Pyrenees
mountains, on the border between France and Spain. Holidays
integrating your 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
your 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 to allow it to occur.
Meditation high up in he Pyrenees 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 to integrate your body and soul.
Hiking mountain retreat is as well a physical
as a spiritual adventure = personal growth on its deepest human level :
spirituality.
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 in your social environment.
The straighter way to happiness is trusting
it.
Because the places we retreat to are
unspoiled 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 ascetics:
This
2 (or 4 more intensive) 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 deepen 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 occur. Stillness is the essence
of meditation. Natural meditation only needs
stillness 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 behavior.
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
enjoying wild nature, we spend
about
two-thirds of the time being on our own.
Living individual
mountain retreat 2 (or even more radical 4) weeks as an hermit, (re)discovering and exploring
your
effortless awareness and mindfulness and its inborn energetic healing
processes, allowing them to occur. This 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
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.
2 to 3 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 pleasurable 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.
An ascetic 2 or 4 ( = more radical) weeks hiking mountain retreat :
Meditation trekking retreat high up in the mountains is
holidays and
fitness training for your body, mind and
soul.
Natural health retreat
into the mountains, living as an hermit is known since
the beginning of mankind by those who live close to nature.
A yearly mountain retreat is grounded in real life,
your life. It's an opportunity to review your way of living from your own
deepest perspective.
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, meditation and
experiencing nature and weather as they are,
as when you are alone into bare reality 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, nature's wildness and weather 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 hiking,
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
(especially if you chose to retreat 4 weeks) 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. It 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 are crucial to sane personal growth,
meditation and spirituality : they enable you
to bodily feel the worth of what you're doing or thinking.
Meditation trekking improves your sensitivity and
empathy.
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 behavior 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
trekking 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.
2 weeks or even more radical 4 weeks of mountain retreat are 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 skills 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, 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 really 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 behavior into question.
You also get a grasp of the "soul" of the
mountains and why
they help you to contact your deeper self.
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Free meditation trekking and healing process counseling
to deepen your experience of personal growth, mountain
meditation retreat and natural spirituality:
Counseling (one session every retreat days period) 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 counseling 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.
Nature 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, justice, 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 sense full live we
are going to live. This is a very personal question and the very reason
of our human existential solitude.
This
counseling is no ersatz for psychotherapy. What Richard offers is
moral and existential counseling towards more personal spirituality
grounded in your body and real live.
Meditation
process counseling 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 yourself to be unjoinable(of course you can leave Richards phonenumber in
case of an emergency),
to
respect the others silence and retreat and for security reasons not to
leave your tents surroundings the days.
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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 University (France), he's been trained in Gestalt by Laura
PERLS, has been working with Karlfried Count
Durkheim and Christian Zen
masters (Wiliam Johnston) 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 doing nothing,
just simply being. You need the necessary condition 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
(over BMI 23) or any injury,
knee, feet 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 humor - 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 the more radical and deep 4 weeks 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).
HIKING MOUNTAIN RETREAT in the PYRENEES
: Down to earth spirituality and
meditation, fasting and backpacking from lake to lake. Retreat into solitude and
stillness, rediscover and enjoy natural innate meditation and
equilibration process.
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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.
