Aligned to Enlighten Silent Retreat
October 13-16, 2022
ALIGNED to ENLIGHTEN
intimate 3-day silent meditation retreat
with Aaron Knowles Dias
Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center
Craryville, NY
We follow a simple daily rhythm in a beautiful natural setting, with Aaron's guidance and the inspiring company of other meditators.
We spend the majority of the 4 days in sacred silence, which has profoundly healing effects on the mind, the nervous system and the energetic body.
Each day I'll host 3 silent meditations, 1 guided meditation, 1 yoga class and a talk inspired by our themes. Participants influence the content by submitting their reflections and questions in writing. Erin Berte and Fenia Weiller offer silent, 1-on-1 reiki sessions.
This is my last retreat for 2022.
::: FRIENDS DISCOUNT:::
If you sign up with a friend, each of you can take $50 off of the retreat price when you register
Option to schedule a private session with me instead of taking the $50 discount. Valued at $130. See forevermarvel.com/coaching for more info about that option.
The meditation center at Pumpkin Hollow, with gardens on one side, waterfall on the other.
ALL INCLUSIVE
$780 for shared room
$1,020 for private room or cabin
Aaron's personal retreat guidance from beginning to end.
3 nourishing vegetarian meals per day.
3 nights stay at the beautiful, 130-acre Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center, reserved for just our group the whole weekend.
Reiki sessions with Erin Berte and Fenia Weiller.
TO PAY
TOTAL DUE
$1,020 for your own personal room or cabin.
$780 for room or cabin shared with 1-2 other participants. (I will work with your requests about rooms and roommates.)
::: PAYMENT METHODS :::
Electronic Transfer:
Venmo @aaron-dias
Zelle or CashApp to 917.399.0654 or aaron@forevermarvel.com.
Check:
Write out to “Aaron Dias.” Ask me for my mailing address.
Credit card:
I have to pass on a 6% processing fee. 3% goes to your credit card company, 3% goes to my processing company, Stripe. Message me if you want this option and I will send you a link for paying by credit card.
REFUND POLICY
I can't offer refunds this close to retreat. I ask that you find a replacement. Thank you!
Aaron’s yoga classes meet you however your human body arrives. For lots of free pre-recorded yoga classes with her, go to: https://www.nowherevillage.org/topics/1559558
ALIGNED to ENLIGHTEN
In guided meditations and yoga sessions I will offer intuitive maps and simple techniques to help you live within your human body in a more consciously aligned way–-while sitting, standing and moving.
Through short lectures I will offer a few simple but profound non-dualist principles to help you have personal insights about ENLIGHTENMENT. This is the ultimate goal of yogis, sages and spiritual seekers–but what is it, really?
The talks go along with inquiry prompts I offer for your own contemplation, journaling or creative processing.
Why should we care about enlightenment? How is it relevant to me personally? How might the quality of my alignment be a major key to experiencing enlightenment for myself?
I have found that direct experiences of “enlightenment” can begin with bodily awareness. From witnessing the nature of the body, we experience real instances of stability, ease, insightfulness, flow, clarity and/or peace.
I have found that these experiences come easiest while we are at Pumpkin Hollow, immersed in our practice of silent retreat. There we allow all our human parts to fall into their most natural alignment. And enlightenment follows, naturally, on its own.
Our wonderful group from the July 2022 retreat. Six of theses folks were first-timers, others have been practicing yoga and meditation with me for more than a decade.
WORDS of PAST PARTICIPANTS
It is my great joy and honor to lead these silent meditation/yoga retreats. I have hosted 1-3 per year since 2016.
Many participants return year after year, building their own relationships with each other, with Pumpkin Hollow, and the practices we share. And every time we gratefully and warmly welcome a few newcomers into our retreat!
Here is feedback from participants in the Summer 2022 Retreat, some of them have known me for years, some of them just met me during retreat.
It’s just everything I need. Hard to explain. So healing. Uncannily on point. It’s good medicine.
- Candice B.
I feel like I have begun again and I feel grateful to you and this retreat.
- Becky S.
This is one of my favorite gifts that I give to myself. This is just a beautiful space with the perfect food and atmosphere for healing and recharging! Aaron creates a safe and nurturing environment to allow us to just be with whatever we need to be with. I benefited from taking time to feel emotions that needed to be felt. I am feeling emotionally and physically recharged.
- Judie C.
The retreat was just amazing for me and I am still feeling the serene benefits of the experience. It was perfect for me. Thank you. I felt at ease and supported by the group, they felt like friends right away.
- Richard R.
The silent retreat with Aaron is a peaceful and calming experience and realignment of mind, body and soul. Funny how when the voice stops the rest of your body calms down.
- Kim H.
It was beautiful in every way. You’ll discover something or make a bit of an inner shift that will make it easier to be--less hard to walk fully in the world as it is right now. There is something about your inner world that you’ll actually take time with.
- Pam F.
Go and you'll know.
- Fenia W.
To learn more about me go to the aaron page on this site. To learn more about the wider community that gathers for these retreats, check out nowherevillage.org. Always feel free to contact me directly at aaron@forevermarvel.com.
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