Silent Arunachala Yoga Retreat with Mansoor

Silent Yoga Retreat with Mansoor at Nannagaru Ashram, Tiruvannamalai, South India 

Tuesday 30th December 2014 - Tuesday 6th January 2015 

This Retreat offers the opportunity for yoga students to recognize awareness, to enter more deliberately into their Yoga and Meditation practice, and to sharpen the capacity to understand Indian philosophy through the study of selected sacred texts. 

Mansoor and Clarissa

Previous Retreat Group

We will be observing Silence, whenever possible, for the full period of the Retreat. This will help the whole group to go deeper into the Yoga and Meditation practices, and will enable one to understand the subtler aspects of the scriptures we will be studying. 

 

Lunch at Ashram

The Retreat is being held at Nannagaru Ashram looking onto Arunachala, the holy mountain at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu. Over centuries many sages and saints have been drawn to this area and most famous is Ramana Maharishi whose ashram is also close by. We are very fortunate to be able to hold a Retreat in this sacred space. 

Yoga on Roof

Roof facing Arunachala Darshan

Arunachala Darshan

Mansoor has been teaching Yoga internationally for the last 20 years and is able to share and communicate his understanding in a remarkable and revealing way, creating a bridge between all the different traditions, East and West, ancient and modern and expose the underlying ever-present Truth. 

Clarissa is assisting with the retreat please contact her clarissa@mandalayoga.ch or for further information please see:

http://www.mandalayoga.ch/en/retreats.html 

Mahashivaratri Retreat 2014

Torsten Brugge and Padma Woolf have been bringing pilgrim groups from Europe to Tiruvannamalai over the course of the last 10 years. For each of their visits, the venue for their Retreat is the peace-filled Sri Nannagaru Ashram. 

In 2014 the Brugge—Woolf Retreat was scheduled for February 22nd – March 8th and for the first time during their regular Arunachala Pilgrimage, their group was at Arunachala during the sacred time of Mahashivaratri (February 28, 2014). 

As well as their usual programme of satsang, guided meditations, talks and meetings, during their 2014 Retreat there was also a special programme in connection with the Mahashivaratri Festival which included an escorted group giripradakshina of Arunachala late in the evening of February 28. I hope to soon be posting photographs, narratives and reports from participants of the Brugge—Woolf 2014 Arunachala Retreat. 

“Torsten and Padma offer self-enquiry in the tradition of Sri Ramana Maharshi and in the lineage of Sri Poonjaji, Gangaji and Eli Jaxon-Bear. The focus of the retreat will be to make Sri Ramana Maharshi’s profound self-enquiry and the silent power of Arunachala accessible to participants. Torsten and Padma offer daily Satsang-meetings on the roof-terrace of Sri Nannagaru Ashram. The group will also visit different abodes of Sri Ramana Maharshi on the mountain for silent meditation. 

In their dialogues with participants Torsten and Padma support spiritual seekers through traditional as well as modern approaches of self-enquiry to awaken to the inner freedom of our true nature and ground ourselves in that. To that end they also make their experience in Enneagram-work, Buddhist meditation, transpersonal psychology and other approaches available. 

The main transmission, however, consists in the message of Sri Ramana Maharshi: ‘We already are the formless, silent Awareness before, during and after all transient appearances. When we rediscover that, our limited sense of I dissolves and the natural bliss of our true nature shines forth.’” 

To watch a video of Torsten and Padma’s response to the question, “Sri Ramana Maharshi said that Self-enquiry is the most direct route to realising the Self. What do you say about Self-enquiry? How to conduct Self-enquiry? Go to this video link here. 

The next Torsten Brugge and Padma Woolf Arunachala Retreat will last for 2 weeks and start on March 1, 2015 and be held at the venue of Sri Nannagaru Ashram. For more information you can get in touch direct at the email link top left of this page.