Breath of Life

3-Day Meditation Retreat with Aaron Dias

July 22-25, 2021 at Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center

Silent meditation retreat is the deepest, most healing and insight-filled practice I know. Every single time that I come out of retreat I return to my everyday life fueled by new depths of wisdom and new heights of love.

• Much of the benefit comes from stepping away from the hustle of your daily life and living more simply, quietly and slowly in a beautiful natural environment.

• The multiple meditation and yoga sessions, woven through with key guidance and inspiring wisdom from Aaron makes the retreat experience even more effective.

• Teachings for this retreat will be about:

  • the simple ways that Nature calls us home to truth every moment

  • how we can live a more harmonious, purposeful heart-centered life

  • how personal suffering can help us realign with health, truth, purpose and love

  • how to fall back in love with life by honoring the ever-present guru of the Breath

• Gathering together in-person with a community of fellow life-lovers and truth-seekers fills this time with connection, meaning and support.

This may be the last retreat I hold for a long while, as I'm stepping away from teaching and going back to school in the Fall.

Aaron always structures retreats and workshops that are thoughtfully tailored to the moment in time, what's going on in the world, and even the specific attendees. Her intuition, wisdom, and inspiration helped me achieve deep introspection and significant growth during this special weekend. I am much changed for the better since I first started working with her a few years ago. Aaron's abilities as a spiritual healer are unsurpassed.

-Jenny Hobbs, Lawyer

Aaron has the ability to create a comfortable, nurturing and healing space for each participant. Everyone's needs were met or exceeded be they spiritual, emotional or physical. The retreat allowed for intense working sessions as well as enough free time to integrate and relax in the natural setting. Social time was fun and felt both authentic and refreshing.

- Sharon Burns-Leader, Owner Bread Alone Bakery

ITINERARY

THURSDAY  7/22

4-6:30pm Check-in

6:30pm Dinner + Pumpkin Hollow Orientation

7-9pm Opening Circle + Stepping into Silence

FRIDAY 7/23

7am Coffee, tea and OJ available

7:30am Sunrise Stillness

8am Breakfast 

10am Short Talk + Guided Movement

12pm Day Stillness

12:30pm Lunch

4pm Sunset Stillness

4:30pm Free Movement

6:30pm Dinner

8pm Talk + Group Inquiry

9pm Night Stillness

SATURDAY 7/24

7am Coffee, tea and OJ available

7:30am Sunrise Stillness

8am Breakfast 

10am Short Talk + Guided Movement

12pm Day Stillness

12:30pm Lunch

4pm Sunset Stillness

4:30pm Free Movement

6:30pm Dinner

8pm Talk + Group Inquiry

9pm Night Stillness

SUNDAY 7/25

7am Coffee, tea and OJ available

7:30am Sunrise Meditation

8am Breakfast

9am-10am Elements Ceremony + Hero's Walk

10am-12pm Closing Circle + Emerging from Silence

12:30-2pm Lunch + Packing Out

SILENCE

Everyone will go into silence at the end of our opening circle and not come out until Sunday morning. Aaron will speak a couple times per day in order to guide exercises and give information. But all of us will spend the majority of the 4 days in sacred silence, which has profoundly healing effects on your mind, nervous system and energetic body.

OFF GRID

This is most powerful if you really disconnect. Set an automatic vacation responder on your email and prepare your loved ones for not hearing from you for a few days. 

TRAVEL

Once you sign up I'll send more info about travel and ways to connect to other attendees, so that you can coordinate travel with other participants. There are always ride shares organized from NYC, and usually cab shares organized from the train station in Hudson, NY

ITINERARY NOTES

Talk: A concise and engaging talk about the art of meditation, connecting it practically to the practices that you’re doing throughout the retreat.

The 12pm "Day Stillness" will be guided by Aaron. As will meditations in the opening and closing ceremonies. All others are held in silence.

Free Movement is a time when you can come and do a self-guided movement practice in the company of Aaron and other retreat participants. You are also welcome to use that time to do your journaling or artistic practice in the shared space (“movement” of your hands and your creative energy) or simply go off on your own adventure.

Group Inquiry is a time where Aaron will address your write-in questions or comments. If you want something addressed in that evening’s Group Inquiry, you must submit your written request by the 4pm “Sunset Stillness” session.