Tag Archives: Retreats

Deepening Reflective Practices: Insights from Barre and Manresa Retreats

Retreats are a great way to deepen one’s reflective practices. The fourth retreat at Manresa in the past two years, made me remember the yesteryears and the previous Buddhist Guided retreat in Barre-Massachusetts on Mindfulness of Death (Feb 2024).  Barre … Continue reading

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Labyrinths

  In the Middle Ages as today, pilgrimages in the form of maps, manuscripts, and pavement labyrinths engendered an experience of embodied pilgrimage for those who could not travel physically to far away sites and shrines. The Maps of 12-steps … Continue reading

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Retreats –What is the use of writing these down?

Retreats are a change of pace to re-think and re-visit the same things once more. While other persons on the trip made themselves busy with trying to catch up with the one-other-site to see I took some time off to … Continue reading

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