Escape from the city, and from the humdrum and stresses of everyday life…
Sometimes we all need to escape from the din of city living, step outside of our everyday selves and reassess the way we live, to help us gain new and different perspective on our lives.
Our Weekend ‘Shabbaton’ Urban Guru Retreat is the perfect time and place to do this as it’s entirely dedicated to your personal spiritual growth and development. It is an ideal chance to breathe and focus on becoming more relaxed, spiritualy centred and balanced. It is an opportunity to reassess your life, discover your souls path, and a chance to focus on cultivating your own happiness, inner joy and peace of mind. So when you do return to your life you can begin to live it on a higher plane, were you can be more focussed, calm, and alive.
Urban Guru Retreats, usually take place over a weekend (or Shabbaton) Friday – Sunday, in a converted farm near Buxton in the Peak Park UK. They are very laid back and relaxing, the weekend is a mixture of lectures and workshops, focusing on wide variety of themes.
This included workshops in various forms of Kabbalistic meditation, from the early Merkvah school – to modern day forms of Hassidic consciousness expanding techniques.
The themes of the lectures vary – and they can focus on that weeks Torah reading – although not always so. We try to keep some semblance of a traditional Shabath from Friday to Saturday night although we are not dogmatic about it.
As participants are asked to refrain from using there mobile phones throughout their time at the retreat etc…There are group activities and ‘prayer’ workshops, as well as one on one learning and mentoring.
All the activities are completely voluntary… if someone doesn’t wish to participate and even just spend the entire weekend in their room that’s fine – if that is what they need to do.
The food is Kosher* and Vegetarian and were possible locally produced and/or organic. It is generally for small groups with a maximum of 12 people.
