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Choose what you like & Adjust to fit perfectly
Wherever one is on the awakening path, the perfect retreat for one is not the best refuge for someone else. So we have created a retreat structure that can be freely chosen and adjusted for perfecting one's own custom container. When you register for one of our retreats, we ask you to fill out a questionaire for us to get an idea about how you would benefit from our custom retreats the most.
All our retreats are designed to be fully inclusive, yet adjustable to one's personal comfort. Decide how many days, what places to visit and what activities to engage in. Create a plan about what and how to eat. Should you select Total Silence or occasional Dharma Talks, Satsangs, and what kind of teachings from which teachers and lineage is all up to you. At registering you will be given a questionare to select and adjust the various aspects of your custom retreat. There are so many places and so many things to do around the Big Island that it is truly only up to your imagination what you can create.
1. TRANSPORTATION
The Buddha Retreat in most cases begins with our hosts meeting you at the airport or another previously discussed place of pick up. We will transfer you in a calm, cool and pleasant atmosphere in VIP style. Our 45 minute ride is aiming for the Volcano, and her cloud-kissed altitude of 2400 feet. Your nights will be guaranteed to be comfortably cool in the midst of the tropical island. While we ride, cool drinks and snacks will free your mind to enjoy the scenery.
ALL INCLUSIVE
2. ACcOMODATION & hosts
Upon arrival, you will settle in one of the Eco Cabins and prepare for Orientation and Intention Setting Dharma Talk (or Satsang if that is a more familiar term). The container of this retreat is Quiet and preferably silence if not too difficult. The Cabins are all off-grid but very comfortable, clean and well equipped with comfortable beds and hot showers. There are basics for making tea, coffee and perhaps even scrambled eggs if one is having food emergency. The hosts are hip, down to Earth folks with a humble and mindful attitude.
3. locations - PROGRAMS - practices
First and foremost, our programs are highly customized to the small groups of 2-8 people. Every day, (when weather permits) we are going on a Journey, to immerse ourself into one or more of the Big Island's natural treasures. We will meditate in gently swaying hammocks on the coast by crushing waves, have Dharma Talks next to magnificent waterfalls or lava craters. Our teachers and materials to contemplate are carefully selected and procured for the specific group in question.​​
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We tremendously respect traditional Silent Retreats, but here we respectfully break with traditional practices and structures, and introduce comfort, playfullness and contemporary techniques. Instead of long and boring meditation, we fly giant bubbles or kites in silence, arrange natural mandalas or balance rocks at the beach. In other words, calming the mind, meditating in silence can also be fun and playful.
Taking refuge in the Buddha is taking refuge in form, beauty, practice, interaction, building our personal retreat out of form is to interact with others, creating structure and working toward tangible progress. Before leaving the world of form and entering the formless Dharma retreat, we lastly celebrate form in its magnificent totality.
4. FOOD
You guessed it. We are not strict about food here. According to how we have previously discussed, you can customize your dietary objectives as you like, in harmony with the rest of the group. You may decide to participate in a strict, healthy vegetarian diet, or maybe even interested in some kind of fasting. Others would gladly participate in a good home made pizza (veggie or not), perhaps a traditional Goulash cooked over open fire in a cauldron. Either way, we will work with you and your group to maximize the value and minimize the trauma that some other retreat programs impose.
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