7-Day Silent Meditation and Embodiment Retreat in Chiapas, Mexico

A Practice That Continues After You Leave
By the end of the retreat, you will have a clear, embodied understanding of how to practice on your own — a
simple 20-30 minute daily routine that requires no apps, no teachers, and no external support. Not a technique to
do for a while and then abandon. The kind of practice that quietly reshapes how you meet your experience, day by
day, over years. No fluff. Just deep work, in a powerful place.
Openness and Freedom From Contraction
Most of us carry the body's accumulated tension as a kind of background hum we've stopped noticing. Through
silence, somatic practices, emotional digestion, and body-based inquiry, we access a healing ground that
meditation alone often does not reach. You will leave more embodied, more open, and more present than when
you arrived — not because something has been added, but because something held has been allowed to release.
We suggest arriving one or two days early: we work with a gifted bodywork therapist who can help open the body and release
contractions before the retreat begins.
A Place of Power, Not a Random Location
The retreat centre sits in the pine-covered mountains of Chiapas, near San Cristóbal de las Casas — recognised
by local Mayan elders as a place of spiritual significance. When people arrive with sincere intention, the place itself
participates in the process.
What Silence Actually Creates
A silent retreat is not about suppressing thought. The silence creates conditions similar to a monastic environment
— temporarily removing social noise, devices, and sensory stimulation. What becomes available is a closer, less
mediated contact with what is already here. What people find, almost universally, is not emptiness — but a quality
of aliveness they had forgotten was there.

What Makes This Retreat Special
• Facilitators with decades of deep experience and extensive personal practice — not teachers who learned from
books, but practitioners who have lived what they teach, including extended periods of solitary and darkroom
retreat
• You walk away with a transformative daily practice — a clear, independent 20-30 minute routine that requires no
app, no teacher, and no subscription, and that continues to work long after you go home
• The land is recognised as sacred — acknowledged by local Mayan elders as a place of power and prayer
• Non-dual Shaivite Tantra as the living core — real philosophical depth, clearly presented, without pretension
• Embodied, not just contemplative — works where mind and body meet, in the contractions that insight alone
rarely reaches
• Genuinely small — maximum 15 participants, a structural commitment to attentiveness, not a marketing claim
• Suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners — 64 reviews at 4.86 consistently reflect this

Full Program
The practice is rooted in non-dual Shaivite Tantra, with Self-Inquiry, somatic embodiment, and contemplative yoga
as integrated supporting dimensions. The following reflects this hierarchy — Tantra is not one component among
equals but the philosophical ground everything else rests on.
Core Tantric Practice and Understanding
• Non-dual Shaivite Tantra — the philosophical and experiential core: how consciousness expresses itself through
the body, emotion, and the whole of experience
• Hridaya — the spiritual heart as a living centre of knowing, not a metaphor
• Energy body practices — central channel, essential bindu points, subtle body cultivation
• Emotional digestion practices — meeting and metabolising held material in the body, drawing on Tantric
understanding of the relationship between contraction and liberation
• Embodiment meditations — learning to inhabit experience rather than observe it from a distance
• Poetry — used as a vehicle for direct Tantric pointing, not decoration
Self-Inquiry (Ramana Maharshi tradition)
• Self-Inquiry practice — introduced as a living method for recognising awareness directly, not as an abstract
question or mental exercise
• Contemplation of impermanence — used as a direct aid to releasing what the ego clings to
Somatic and Embodiment Practices
• Somatic meditation — settling attention into the body and allowing awareness to open naturally
• Breath-based techniques for stilling and opening the mind
• Walking meditation in the pine forest
Contemplative Yoga
• Hridaya Hatha Yoga — meditative, somatic, and subtle body-oriented (not a fitness or alignment practice)
• Daily themed meditations oriented toward self-awareness
Daily Schedule
• 07:00–09:30 Morning Practice — yoga, breathwork, somatic and Tantric practices
• 09:30–11:00 Breakfast break
• 11:00–13:00 Teachings and practice
• 13:00–15:30 Lunch break (lunch served at 14:00)
• 15:30–16:30 Afternoon practice
• 16:45–18:00 Afternoon teachings and practice
• 18:00–19:00 Dinner
• 19:00–20:30 Evening teachings, Q&A;, and practice