Awaken your spirit, relax
your body and focus your mind
Escape from Stress at a
Spiritual Retreat
by Alma De La Cruz
Spiritual Retreat
What is a spiritual retreat?
Basically, a spiritual retreat is a moment that is spent apart from
our ordinary life, to leave the noise and distractions of the city
and focus on our soul...a time of rest and reflection.
Commonly, when someone
refers to a spiritual retreat, a physical place to settle down comes
in our mind and people from all over the world go there for one
purpose: to attain full spiritual awakening, to relax and return to
an awareness of the spiritual life.
Spiritual retreats goal is,
primarily, to place an opportunity for spiritual people and new
spiritual seekers where they can interact with a guru or spiritual
teacher in a space containing strong energies. Nevertheless, each
spiritual retreat is aim at a specific objective which can depend on
the deity, spiritual technique, place, and faith. But the unifying
thought on this matter is that anyone regardless of one's faith or
spiritual background can get together with similar and different
ones to learn and explore teachings and spiritual awakening from
sources abroad.
In a small scale, a
spiritual retreat just expects that the spiritual seeker will be
committed to making positive change. Most of the experiences lived
by most people helped them to open up to new feelings about their
relationship with God and reconnect with God through their
connections with the people on the spiritual retreat. One is open to
different spiritual approaches in prayer and life; one is more
conscious of what a spiritual person is.
Some spiritual retreats or
getaways touting in the internet are:
Tassajara Zen Mountain
Center, (415) 865-1895,
www.sfzc.org/smcindex.htm America\'s oldest Zen Buddhist
monastery. This spiritual retreat is located in the Santa Lucia
Mountains, where guests feast on Tassajara\'s famous vegetarian
cuisine and soak in the hot springs.
Shenoa Springs Retreat
Center, (707) 895-3156,
www.shenoasprings.com. This beautiful 160-acre spiritual retreat
sits at the headwaters of the Navarro River in the Anderson Valley
off Highway 128 near Boonville. Daily workshops include yoga, tai
chi, and meditation, this last one is conducted by a resident Zen
priest.
Huntsville Trappist
Monastery, (801) 745-3784,
www.xmission.com/~hta. The Trappist-Cistercian monastery in
north of Salt Lake City is a famous spiritual retreat for the honey
the monks make to support themselves.
The Expanding Light at
Ananda, (800) 346-3530,
www.expandinglight.org. This spiritual retreat or community
offers yoga and meditation classes and unstructured retreats.
Sedona Sacred Journeys,
(928) 274.2427,
www.sedonasacredjourneys.com Sedona, a valued land in Arizona,
is the vortex of new age thoughts, custom spiritual retreats, Sedona
weddings, and alternative healing. Some of the spiritual retreats in
Sedona include deep tissue massage therapy, reiki and energy work,
hypnotherapy, aromatherapy, psychic readings, spiritual counseling,
spiritual tours and retreats.
Assisi East West Retreat
Center, +39 349 499 1293,
www.sacredtravel.org Buddhist monks, Christians, Hari Krishna
devotees, Jews whirling dervishes and Native Americans have come and
practiced their special devotion here.
Blue Mountain Center of
Meditation Retreats, (800) 475 2369, learn to meditate within your
own tradition and lifestyle. This spiritual retreat has branches in
USA, The Netherlands, Japan, and United Kingdom.
Present Moment Conscious
Living Retreat, 612 916 5229, tropical yoga, meditation, Qi gong and
bodywork located on the Pacific Riviera.
Tai Chi & Qi Gong in
Paradise, 1-800-266-5803, this Costa Rican spiritual retreat relaxes
alumni with Qi Gong, Tai Chi & Yoga in a tropical beach setting.
Heaven Sent Direct, 01793
825565, this spiritual retreat is located in England teaching
mediumship and spiritual growth through meditation workshops to
conquer your soul and spirituality.
Lake Isle Retreats, 0044 28
67742776, totally a spiritual retreat centre and temple situated on
a beautiful, wooded lake-isle in a nature reserve in the beautiful
Ireland
A Tuscan Sabbatical, 617
227-6244, Tuscany spiritual retreat sets the stage for reflecting on
the soul, passion, personal and professional development,
creativity, meditation, silence prayer joy, and balance.
Body Being & Heart Travel
Retreat, 514 527-7425, a spiritual retreat in sacred India embodied
with temples, ashrams, beaches, and simple ashram living; sacred
music and dance of India plus early morning movement & meditation
sessions.
About the author: Alma De
la Cruz, a staff mystic employed by
http://www.psychicrealm.com, has a profound personal history
where she has unabashedly delved deep into the heart of occult
mysteries for an extensive period of her life. Her name literally
means “Soul of the Cross” in Spanish. Currently she is working
publishing a manuscript that delves into the mysteries of Hispanic
new age beliefs incorporating
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