Spring Silent Retreat in Lady Smith, Quebec and online
From May 15, 6 pm, to May 18, at 3 pm, 2025
Theme: Silence and Rejuvenation
4 days of rest, reprogramming and recharging
Return home refreshed with a clear mind and with new insights to direct your life. !
This 4-day silent retreat treats your inner desire to be well, to reconnect with your inner power and let go of the obsolete.
Retreats with Berdhanya include periods of Satsang (oral teachings), meditation, seva (service) meditation, breathontology sessions, ayurveda massages (not included in the price), and yoga.
Online students are suggested to open a sacred space for their retreat with no interruptions.
Seekers from all walks of life and experience levels (including beginners) are welcome!
Berdhanya had facilitated
silent retreats
3 times a year for 25 years!
Silence is to descend from the chatting of the mind to the stillness of the heart.
Silent retreats have been used in the yogi tradition for thousands of years to enter into the world within. Restricted stimulation of the senses, silence, diet, ayurveda, meditation, yoga, contemplation and self-inquiry sustains our deepest desire to know the self, reconnect and balance mind, body and soul. Retreats are a quality time to expand, heal and build inner connections.
The course Practical Awakening is advisable to take as a foundation for this program.
Register for this retreat
Invest in yourself
Cost for a retreat at the lake $500.00, includes food and accommodation
A $ 100.00 non-refundable deposit is needed to reserve your spot.
Cost for Online participation: Cd $ 450.00
Benefits of this program
- Inner reconnection.
- Purification of mind, chakras and subtle anatomy.
- Community building
- Deep resting and regeneration.
- Improve meditation practice.
- Gain inner clarity.
- Quality inner time.
- Personal expansion.
- Exposure to Vedic teachings, Ayurveda and yoga.
- Rebust your digestion and give a break to your system.
Reserve your body work
Bodywork with a certified practitioner
One hour bodywork: 100.00 Cd. ( Ayurvedic treatment, or what your body needs).
Ayurvedic Head massage: 50.00 Cd. 1/2 hour.
Ayurveda and Massage therapy
Contact Sebastian to reserve your body work during the retreat or another time.
Tel: 613 8675957
Considerations Before your retreat
Learn the details
To make your retreat deeper, please read these details carefully.
Where to go in Quebéc.
Our private family cottage is located in the pristine Thorn Lake in Ladysmith, Quebec. The exact address is 18 Cosgrove St., Ladysmith, Quebec. If this is your first time in the center, we will send you directions. Please let us know where you will be coming from.
Zoom link
Please use this link for all session of the retreat.
Berdhanya is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Om silence retreat.
Time: May 15, 2025 07:00 PM Bogota
Every day, until May 18, 2025, 4 occurrence(s)
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.
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Accomodations at the cottage
This is a residential retreat, your accomodations and food are included in your price. Notice however our facilities accommodate a small group.
Your reservation is confirmed after a non-refundable payment of $ 100.00 US for your retreat. Make your payment here
https://berdhanya.teachable.com/p/individual-payment/
Agenda of the retreat
6 pm registration and orientation
6:30 pm to 8 pm session
Friday and Saturday
8:00 am breakfast
9:00 am to 12 pm am session
1:00 pm lunch
2:00 pm body work, or nap
2:30 pm seva
4:00 pm to 6 pm session
6:00 pm dinner
7:00 pm body work or free time
8:00 pm end of the day program
Sunday
8:00 am breakfast
9:00 am to 12:00 pm session
1:00 pm lunch
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm session
3:00 pm end of the retreat
What to bring
- Either online or at our facilities, we recommend you open the space with the following items.
- Meditation kit (cushion, shawl, Yoga mat and a large blanket). The retreat involves several sittings a day in meditation, so bring what you think you need to make you comfortable. If you are not used to sitting in meditation, seats are available.
- yoga mats and cushions.
- Comfortable clothes.
- Your water bottle. We have a beautiful and bountiful amount of spring water. We encourage you during the retreat to drink plenty of water. We serve tea during the day.
- old clothes to work in the garden, garden gloves.
Food
The diet of silence retreat follows the ayurvedic principles—our diet focuses on purification and simplicity. We consider your ayurvedic dosha for balance and the rest of your digestive system.
During the retreat, we will be doing a mono-diet of kachari. Learn here what a mono-diet is.http://thebookoftaste.blogspot.ca/2011/11/monodiet-therapy.html.
If you have sensitivity to ghee, please let us know. Bring your own oil.
We will supply 3 meals daily on Friday and Saturday: Sunday, one meal.
For your breakfast at home, we suggest you cook your kicharee at home or prepare a light breakfast of your preference. Find the recipe here. http://thebookoftaste.blogspot.ca/2011/09/living-cooking-kicharee-foods-of-gods.html.
Use the week before the retreat to start eating light.
Post retreat care
The retreat finishes Sunday at 3 pm. Please schedule time for you to rest in the containment of your own home.
Avoid heavy food.
” What a pleasurable weekend ! I feel totally revitalized and refreshed after my short time here. Retreat can be a bit intimidating at times- leaving the comfort of home for a break in a total silence, knowing that I have to see parts of myself that I did not want to see…..but the serenity and rest are incomparable, better that the best of spas.”
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