Shunyo

Originating from London, Shunyo travelled to India in the seventies and her training in awareness beganwhilst living close to Osho for fourteen years, as part of his household.

She has been practicing Osho's meditations for over thirty-five years. And now shares her experience, facilitating meditation courses and groups for women, as she travels to many countries, conducting seminars, meditation trainings and retreats of Osho Neo Vipassana and Osho Zazen, which she leads also at the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune.

She also conducts trainings for people who would like to teach meditation to others. Music, dance and celebration are an important part of Shunyos's work, and this coupled with her intuitive heartfelt way of working, allows participants to touch very deep levels of peace and silence. Her book: "Diamond days with Osho" has been translated in eight languages.

Marco

Musician and seeker of the unknown, in 1979 becomes disciple of the enlightened Master Osho and since then has been experimenting with sounds and music applied to meditation. From 1995 he has been playing live for events and growth groups all over the world with Shunyo. He has composed many meditations CDs. These meditations are ancient tantric liberation techniques.

 

Practically

Where?
The Holistic Farmhouse Le Torracce is immersed in the peace of the countryside around Assisi, and in an isolated protected position, ideal for a retreat of silent meditation. Recently renovated, it is very modern, elegant and functional. The food is vegetarian and always delicious. The mditation hall large, bright and aesthetically well maintained.

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LE TORRACCE MEDITATION HALL




When?
You can arrive to Le Torracce in the late afternoon of March 7. You have then time to register and go to your room. We will have dinner together. After dinner we will have our first introductory sitting in the magnificent Meditation Hall.

Program

Arrival at Le Torracce on March 7 by the evening.

Registration at the reception and then dinner.

After dinner first introductory meeting.

On the morning of March 8 the retreat begins where we will be in silence all the time without relating to others. Each one gathered within himself and focused on his own meditation, guided by Shunyo for the whole day, she will give us all the instructions step by step.

The Osho Zazen includes seated sessions, alternated with awareness walks. Also included are some Active Osho Meditations important to balance out the much inactivity of the retreat. The retreat ends on March 12 after lunch.

 

Cost and booking

From the evening of March 7 to the afternoon of the 12, five full days of retreat cost 400 euros.
After filling in the registration form, you can proceed to pay the deposit as indicated on the form.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information you may require.

Reservations and cancellations: hurry up and book because places are really limited! And don't worry ... you will be refunded the amount paid in case of cancellation at any time (only 10 euros will be retained for secretarial fees).

To book for Zazen CLICK HERE

To the cost of participation you will have to add the cost of board and lodging at Le Torracce, which directly manages the booking of the room with full board. It is a very elegant and well-kept farmhouse. The rooms are bright and spacious. The food is delicious and vegetarian.

Contact them here: mobile: +39 075 9010 158 - e-mail: info@torracce.com

For more infos contact us with an email to info@oshoexperience.it or call. +39 0331 841952

Osho

“Let me explain to you what zazen is.
Zazen is a deep unoccupiedness, not doing anything outwardly, not doing anything inwardly. It is not even meditation because when you meditate you are making some sort of effort, you are trying to do something: chanting a mantra, remembering God, or even remembering yourself. But these efforts create ripples, these efforts create vibrations and your sitting becomes corrupted. Then your sitting is not innocent.

Zazen means: sit, and just sit, nothing else.
There is no doing on the part of the body, no doing on the part of the mind. It's a state of non-doing.
That does not mean that you are fast asleep, because sleep is a doing. That does not mean that you are dead, because if you are dead you cannot just sit.

That simply means that you are tremendously alive, intensely alive, a fire of being, but not moving anywhere, a reservoir of energy in a deep awaiting.

You are just waiting for something to happen, not even expecting, because expectation will again create a ripple of thought and the mind will start functioning. Everything is suspended. You breathe, and that's all that you do. But that is not a doing, because breathing goes on its own accord.

You have not to do anything but just sit silently.”

Osho from: Come Follow to You chp.19