Dear Friends,
We hope you will be able to join us this year at our annual monastic led retreat at the beautiful Jesuit Retreat Center in Applegate, CA from Friday, May 16 to Sunday, May 18. The retreat is located about 45 minutes from Sacramento in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Registration for both the weekend and day option will close on May 1.
The purpose of a Self-Realization Fellowship retreat is to provide spiritual seekers with an opportunity to withdraw from their usual environment and routine activities in a beautiful natural setting where God’s presence can be more easily experienced.
They are conducted in silence to facilitate inner communion. Silence helps retreatants stay internalized – ready to receive and feel.
Bro. Vidurananda and Br. Preston are leading the retreat this year. The program is structured, and it includes periods of minister-led group meditation and inspirational talks. Some of the talks, called satsangas, are in a question and answer format where the ministers answer spiritual questions previously submitted in writing by retreat attendees.
Group meditations include periods of devotional chanting alternating with periods of silence where retreatants practice meditation techniques (Hong Sau, the Aum Technique, and Kriya) taught in the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons. The practice of these techniques is followed by sitting in the silence and devotion.
The program also includes group practice of the Energization Exercises. These are a series of exercises, performed standing, where you tense and relax all of the body parts. The exercises are done as a preparation for meditation.
Register here:
https://www.sacramentocenter.org/retreat-register
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