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Walking and Writing in Spirit

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Writing Retreat Acapulco Bam-Buddha

This is a Writing Retreat focused on evoking the pearls of wisdom learnt through our own personal Spiritual Journey through life, hardships, adversity, blessings, triumphs and experince. 

We will observe what happens within us as we try to define the undefinable, bringing forth the jewels of understanding that we have earned through the years, and most importantly keeping our heart open despite our, perhaps still open, wounds...

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YUgen

An awareness of the Universe that triggers
emotional responses too deep and powerful for words

 

“Yūgen is an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics. The exact translation of the word depends on the context. Yūgen is not an allusion to another world. It is about this world, this experience…

“To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds…” –Zeami Motokiyo

Japanese aesthetic ideals are most heavily influenced by Japanese Buddhism. In the Buddhist tradition, all things are considered as either evolving from or dissolving into nothingness. This “nothingness” is not empty space. It is rather a space of potentiality.

If the seas represent potential then each thing is like a wave arising from it and returning to it. There are no permanent waves. There are no perfect waves. At no point is a wave complete, even at its peak. Nature is seen as a dynamic whole that is to be admired and appreciated

 

 

 

 

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Itinerary

 

 

Sunday 2nd February 2025:

16:00: Arrival (setting up rooms)

 

17:30 - 19:00: Welcoming Circle by the Sea in one of the Outdoor Spaces

First Writing Activity

Sharing Circle

 

19:00:  Welcome Dinner

 

20:30 - 21:30:    Writing sharing moment for contemplation before bedtime

 

Monday 3rd February 2025

07:00 -08:00:  Walk on the beach

Morning Prayer - Absorb and Get inspired. Write what comes to you.

 

08:30 - 09:30: Breakfast

 

9:45 -12:00:  Talking Circle, Little Activity (group Massage Circle),  Writing Activity, Sharing Circle.
 

12:00 - 14:00  - Free Time

14:00  - 16:30 -   LUNCH : 

 

16:30  - 17:00 - Preparation for temazcal : Write what we no longer want in our lives (and what of this is OURS to let go of)

18:00 - temazcal 

 

20:00 : Sharing and Dinner

 

Tuesday 4th February 2025

 

07:00 -08:00:  Walk on the beach

Morning Prayer - Absorb and Get inspired. Write what comes to you.

 

08:30 - 09:30: Breakfast

9:45 -11:45:  Talking Circle, Little Activity (Moving Body), Writing Activity (Silver Lining)

 Sharing Circle.

 

11:30 - 14:00  - Free Time

14:00  - 16:00 -   LUNCH : 

16:00 - 17:00 - Free time

 

17:00  - 19:00 - Cacao, Prayers:  Silver Lining in our Lives  : Closing Ritual 

19;00 - Dinner

 

Wednesday 5th February 2025

 

07:00 - 08.00 :Walk on the beach for the Early Birds. 

Morning Prayer - Absorb and Get inspired. Write what comes to you 

 

8.30 - 9.30 Breakfast

10.30 - 12:00 - Closing Ceremony.