retreat
offers you the direct experience of liberation
March
27th/April 3rd, in Australia, with Avikal
June 12th/19th, in Italy, with Avikal and Karuna
September 6th/13th, in India, with Avilkal
Meditation Retreat means you are
taking space to explore
and come to know your Being. If you want to find inner peace
and are interested in developing your spiritual awareness of
yourself and the world you live in, then these 8 days in Satori
Retreat offer you a radical meditation technique and process
that will take you on an amazing journey of self discovery.
You may come to know for the first time in your life and with
absolute certainty who you are and why you are here.
the ultimate radical zen retreat
Satori is radical inquiry. It is going in the heart and in the belly
to see and feel what is in the way of being myself. What is
my true nature? How do I lose myself or feel that there isn’t
all of me here, now? What is this restlessness that pushes
me to do and do? What is this longing for being more real,
truer, complete? What am I doing here?
Self-inquiry means to open and unsettle the mechanism
that destroys the present by repeating the past. Self-inquiry
means being so present in the here/now that I can have a
direct experience of myself and reality, fresh and alive,
free of the filters of conditioning.
The aim of this retreat is having this direct experience of
being, an experience of awakening.
Satori is not therapy - yet is highly therapeutic - and
doesn’t have the goal of finding temporary solutions to daily
problems - but finds them. Satori aims to dissolve the feeling
of separation with life which is the only cause of problems.
An intense, honest, open and compassionate inquiry using
existential questions: “Who am I? Who is in? What is Life?
What is Love?” and others. Each one of these questions is a
path that can take you from the confusion of the personality
to the peak of clarity.
quotes
Satori is like lightning – you can see a glimpse
of the whole…then it disappears. But you will not be the same
again. It isnot final enlightenment, but a great step towards it… You
have had a glimpse, now you can search for more of it. Now you have tasted
it, now Buddhas will become meaningful.
osho – and the flowers showered
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though
in fact we are reality. We think that that there is something hiding
reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How
ridiculous! A day will dawn when you laugh at all your past efforts.
That which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now.
ramana maharshi
what
people say
I found a reference point inside which
I’d never had before;
a place of home, of knowing in the middle of disaster that
there is something else. After so many years, the light went
on and never really went off again - something I was waiting
for after years working in therapy. This meditation retreat
gave the feeling that IT IS POSSIBLE !
therese miller, primal therapist
In Satori I am reminded of what really gives my life meaning
and depth. Being guided by the Koans [Life Questions] is
like pulling all the curtains back that are blocking the way
for me to really look inside. As a Medical Doctor busy with
the problems of other people, in the beginning it is always
a bit of a struggle for me to turn my focus inwards and
face whatever is there. Just as in real life, moving through
all the blissful ups and the depressing downs, at one point
the balance of not being identified with the ups or with the
downs unfolds like an inexpressible relaxation.
berthold wehner md.
I hope this message finds you well. I have been waiting for
the right time to write to you and thank you personally for the
Satori retreat and I guess now is that time. Now is the only
time really...
You are an amazing man to put so much time into this
incredible teaching. I have had my eyes opened further by
you and by the process of Satori. I have particularly been
impressed with the words and teachings of Osho as I was
not really familiar with them before Satori. He is just so
beautiful.
I thought I wanted to say a number of things to you, but
they all seem irrelevant. Just stories, all unimportant. Being
reminded to call on my koan has been invaluable and I know
it will continue to be so in the future. I am so grateful for
my koan. I LOVE it. “What is Life?” It immediately connects
me to the joy and beauty of Life in this moment, and there
is a connection to the intense feelings I had during the last
couple of days of Satori when via this koan I felt I reached a
place of presence and consiousness that I had not achieved
before....
With much gratitude...
stevie
I AM sitting here in loves house.
I asked and I have received the only gift I have ever longed
for,
Love In My Heart
Peace In My Mind
And
Every Reason To Live
The most precious gift, the only real gift I could ever receive.
The work you share is divine and your CD brings joy to my
heart and tears to my eyes.
After life times of searching I have finally been blessed and I
am eternally grateful.
Thank you with all of the love that is pouring from my being
in this moment.
God Bless Your Glorious and Precious Heart.
daisy
autobiography in five chapters
I walk down the street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in
I am lost … I am hopeless
It isn’t my fault
It takes forever to find a way out
I walk down the same street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I pretend I don’t see it
I fall in again
I can’t believe I’m in the same place
But it isn’t my fault
It still takes a long time to get out
I walk down the same street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I see it is there
I still fall in … it’s a habit
My eyes are open
I know where I am
It is my fault
I get out immediately
I walk down the same street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I walk around it
I walk down another street
by portia nelson
about
avikal costantino
Avikal is a spiritual teacher and a renowned international
speaker and facilitator of Personality Types/ Enneagram Work, Super Ego/Inner
Judge, Essence Work, Martial Arts, and Conflict Management and Resolution.
He has been leading groups for over 20 years and has trained extensively
in diverse modalities. His passion and commitment to Truth is evident and
accessible throughout his teachings. His style is accessible and down-to-earth
as well as fresh, extremely direct and effective. Avikal has a strong yet
gentle male presence that is extremely grounded in the here and now.
Avikal is the author of: “Freedom to be yourself.
Mastering the Inner Judge.” IBI Publications, Sydney 2007.
For more info visit: www.integralbeing.com
karuna
cinelli
Karuna is a Professional Holistic Counsellor who
lives in Verona and has been teaching yoga and meditation for more than
twenty years. She offers individual and couple sessions with a specific
focus on conflicts related to the activity of the Inner Judge as well as
Energy Harmony, Reiki and Prana sessions.
Karuna facilitates the Awareness
Intensive and Satori retreats and workshops on Presence, Centring,
Reiki and Inner Judge.
A nourishing environment deep in nature – fresh air, walks
and beautiful healthy food – A Real Retreat! Physical dynamic meditations used to both detox the physical and emotional body.
CLEANSE – Body mind and spirit
TIME OUT – A New way to be
LOVE – The ultimate connection, your authentic self
LIBERATION – Drop suffering, open to truth
The absolute recognition and rest from who you are not, the
Ego. And the experience of simply YOU!
Daily contemplation assignments that are designed and
structured to supportively take you to the next step in your
inner understanding and help deepen your process – this is
not a passive Vipassana style retreat!
The exquisite journey of connection – with yourself, Existence and your fellow seekers at Satori Retreat.
The process is highly structured with a definite focus on you
getting to know you. It will reveal how you abandon yourself
with each person you are with – how your authentic self is compromised as you adapt to get love, approval, recognition, your own way – to be desired, wanted, needed, liked etc. There is no other process that illuminates so vividly
the ‘games’ we continually play and therefore illuminates the
way for real liberation.
retreat
centres
gunnebah retreat – nobbys creek, new south
wales, australia
Situated in the fresh country air of the picturesque Mt
Warning Caldera, delicious wholesome cuisine and nature’s
filtered rain water. The energy is a healing meditation in
itself. gunnebah retreat centre
the campus - sommacampagna (Verona), italy
On the hills just outside Verona, in the middle
of ancient wineyeards, an old villa renovated and with great athmosphere,
an intimate and serene space and, of course beautiful food. the
campus sommacampagna
osho nisarga - dharamsala region, india
Wake up at the feet of the Hymalayas in a meditation centre built with
love and sense of beauty. Breathe the silence and bathe in Osho's presence. osho
nisarga
what is my next step?
Contact one of our coordinators for your information
pack and if you have any question about the retreat
Satori in Australia
contact Jayana, email info@satori-retreat.com
mob. +61447000369
Satori in Italy
contact Karuna, email karuna@integralbeing.com mob.+393487041071
Satori in India
contact Jayana, email info@satori-retreat.com
mob. +61447000369 (if you live in Australia, Asia and Americas)
contact Karuna, email karuna@integralbeing.com mob.+393487041071
(if you live in Europe, Africa and the Middle East)
about jayana
mcmahon
Jayana has worked with people since 1998. Initially
trained in Kinesiology, Biofeedback Clearing, Emotional Stress Release
and Massage, she later studied Facial Harmony at the Kinesiology Institute
in Germany. She is also a qualified Trainer, adding to this dimension
Bush Survival and Self Defense with S.A.T.S. (Special Abilities Training
School) in Queensland. Jayana has staffed on Satori Zen residential retreats
with founder of Integral Being Institute, Avikal Costantino, for the
past 6 years. She facilitates workshops on the Superego (Inner Judge),
as well as individual sessions of self-enquiry. Jayana brings a rich
life history and warm approachable manner to her articulation of the
deeper issues of our personality and spirit. Trained to lead the Awareness
Intensive -Who is in? retreat.
