“Attune to your natural state”
7 Day Vegan Nâm Silence Meditation Retreat in Amonines, Wallonia
Asharum Amonines, Rue de Dochamps 7, Amonines, Érezée, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
Belgium Meditation Retreat
Do you often feel tired or bored, depressed or stressed? You cannot see the meaning of life any longer? Do you need to overcome a trauma or a loss? Do you think that the whole world is against you or that nobody understands you? Or do you just want a change and a different direction in your life? Maybe it is time to take a Nâm retreat of silence.
Meet the instructors
Irma
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Highlights
- 5 days of complete silence
- 5 meditation sessions daily
- Retreat text as an instrument to guide you through the age-old Quest of Life
- 6 nights accommodation
- Daily meals
- Online meeting with Yoginâm and personal guidance
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
5 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Dutch
Group size: 4-8 participants
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
15:00
Check-out Time:
11:00
Facilities
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lounge
- Meditation garden
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Library
- Medical assistance
- Wireless internet
Your room will be simple and comfortable. You need to leave your rooms clean afterward. In addition to your own room, you can also stay in the cozy living room, the bright conservatory, or in the intimate Arabic room where the hiking maps and leaflets can also be found. A dining room with a refrigerator, a simple kitchenette (no cooking facilities), and coffee and tea are at your disposal, the tea is ready on your arrival.
The meditation room is used for the daily meditation rhythm of the house and can be used in between for personal meditation, yoga practice, or such. Around the house, there is a large garden with various seating arrangements. If you wish, you can also help with chores in and around the house. The location is accessible both by car and by public transport, you will receive more practical information when booking. There is private parking.
Program
During a Nâm retreat of silence, you observe total silence and avoid wordless communication as much as possible. People often search for relief from stress by taking time off or by doing something else like going on a vacation. However, as soon as they are back in regular life, everything is as before. But the problem is not about what you do but how you do it. Your retreat will start at 5:00 p.m. on the day of arrival (check-in is possible from 3:00 p.m.) and end at 11:00 a.m. on the day of departure.
The Nâm retreat
You merely need to remember what you are by transcendental nature. This means you have to get rid of what you are not or rather you should get rid of illusions about yourselves. These illusions are very deep-rooted. For most people, illusions are what they consider as real, while what is real is usually considered idle dreams, or fake. This silent retreat will help you to focus and attune, it is a powerful way to unwind, relax, and find your essence.
Why a Nâm retreat of silence?
In order to deal differently with regular life situations, you need to reprogram the so-called 'habitual programs of perception', which are like apps that you create by the way you live. Subsequently, these apps determine how you access your world, in other words: how you relate to living. These apps are unconscious and you cannot reprogram them without changing the way you think.
Meditation
Meditation is not self-analysis, it is not concentration, it is not exploring your feelings; it is losing the illusion of what you are as a separate entity living in a world. It is the opening of Awareness of what you are, as a living human being. Meditation within the context of LivingNâm is about creating a space in which the wholeness embracing can demonstrate as being the essence of each instant of living. This is the transformation of the task of living. At birth, you enter a state of ignorance in order to transform this ignorance into wisdom by means of the living that you do. Meditation is living in attunement.
Silence
It is essential to reserve periods of the day to remain silent and allow life, through you, to take care of itself. In the same way that dreaming is essential in ‘arranging’ the impressions of living, sitting in silence is an advanced way of lifting transformation to a different level. The Nâm retreat is an optimal method for making this ‘doing nothing’ as productive as possible. That what it is productive for depends entirely on the intent with which you use it.
A transcendental psychology
A Nâm retreat of silence is based on transcendental psychology that is rooted in primordial wisdom and based on what you are as an experiencing human sense of being and how you can most beneficially relate to the larger whole of which you are an integral part.
Purpose and instruments of the Nâm retreat of silence
Just suddenly being silent generally leads to a racing mind. Calming such a mind just by silence would require much longer than the relatively short time available for a retreat. Therefore, during a Nâm retreat of silence, you receive instruments that act as a catalyst and speed up the necessary inner alchemy of reprogramming. The aim of this alchemy is to enlighten your daily life and guide it, from within, towards progressing degrees of unconditional well-being in living and ultimately in post-living.
Well-being is the potential of all living. Next to inner instruments that you use individually, five times a day the participants in a Nâm retreat of silence gather for meditation or recitation. Such traditional instruments are very suitable for reprogramming. The habitual programs of perception are unconscious; you cannot know them and you cannot manage them directly.
They appear only in the way in which you deal with regular life situations. With the mindfulness reprogramming that is activated by taking a Nâm retreat of silence, you will gradually deal with life in a different way; a way that feels better and that may eventually become your natural state of unconditional well-being.
For everyone who is seriously involved in a spiritual quest
Regular retreats are very important for everybody who is seriously involved in a spiritual quest. The philosophy behind LivingNâm is transcendental psychology. It is not religious or spiritual in a sectarian way. Therefore anybody, regardless of religion, spirituality, secularism, or ideology can equally benefit from Nâm retreat of silence.
Daily schedule
- 09:00 Breakfast
- 10:00 First attunement meditation with HarpMood
- 11:30 Second attunement meditation
- 13:30 Third attunement meditation
- 14:00 Lunch
- 15:30 Fourth attunement meditation with recitation
- 17:30 HarpMood
- 19:00 Supper
Instructors
Irma ten Brink
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In her life and her work, Irma is inspired by the mystic and founder of LivingNâm, Yoginâm. She feels very privileged to live in his home, Asharum Amonines. Here they live a modern spiritual way of life in a small community. With her task to facilitate and manage this retreat center, she has the opportunity to create a surrounding for everyone who wants to discover what she has discovered and again and again, is discovering on deeper levels of being. She feels blessed to be able to share such a beautiful way of living. Irma is also a nurse, a hypnotherapist and trained in the shamanic ways.
Location
The Asharum is situated in the Ardennes of Belgium, close to the village of Erezée in the province of Luxembourg. Yoginâm chose this place as a spiritual center because of its surrounding beauty and the tranquility of the area, where life is still lived at a quiet pace. The house itself is situated on the leylines of Wéris; an area where many megalithic structures are the vibrant remnants of an ancient spiritual past.
Features
General
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Lounge
- Meditation garden
Services
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Medical assistance
Food
During your stay, a small staff takes care of the meals three times a day. The kitchen is vegan and all meals are prepared with care and attention. Tea, coffee, and fruit will also be provided. All meals and drinks are included in the price.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegan
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- 5 meditations a day
- Complete silence for 5 days
- 1 (virtual) meeting with Yoginâm
- Personal guidance when needed
- 6 nights accommodation
- 3 healthy vegan meals a day
- Tea, coffee, and fruits
- 1 retreat text as an instrument
- A small group of participants
- A staff who takes care of all daily needs with attention and care
What's not included
- Flights
- Transport
- Bed linen and towels (for rent - 14 EUR per person)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
BRU
Brussels Airport (Zaventem Airport)
103 km
Transfer not provided
CRL
Brussels South Charleroi Airport
81 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by airplane
You can book your flight to arrive at Brussels Airport (BRU) or Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL). Airport transfers are not included but feel free to send an inquiry to Nâm Foundation for more information on how to get to the venue.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
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