How to heal yourself and move on after the end of a close relationship. Whether you’ve recently experienced an emotional upset, break up, divorce, or you have been carrying the pain of old wounds for a long time, EX to Next will help you rediscover joy and return to wholeness.
At the core of our Human existence are relationships. They challenge us, they teach us – they help us grow. However sometimes they leave us damaged and hurt.
What we bring to a relationship and what we get out of it is largely influenced by our own circumstances. Our fast paced, high pressured environment impacts our ability to find love in relationships and takes a toll on them. Even when our search for love – ends in one relationship; we take the same burden and carry on to the next.
The story repeats itself- and we find ourselves hurt and in emotional pain. The pain takes on many forms like feeling of grief and loss, overwhelming stress and anxiety, depression, heart break and regret. This translates in anger, frustration inability to trust and worry about our future. We do our best to cope with the situation- with the tools that we have learnt in the past. We keep going on and taking part in life – without actually moving on from the inside or releasing the pain.Our education has not provided us with tools to heal ourselves. We try and hold it together, but our limiting beliefs cannot guide us through this difficult path. The pain on the inside manifest on the outside through obesity, chronic depression, chronic fatigue and many other emotional and physical disorders.
We close ourselves even more and question our own ability to love or be loved again. Our relationships and our view of the world changes and becomes narrow and conservative- so as to protect ourselves.
We need something more- we need to find a connection with our inner self. There are questions brewing inside- we are looking for answers. Why did this happen to me? What is the cause for this? Am I really to be blamed? How can I truly get over this feeling?
In this retreat we will enquire what is your relationship with another, however intimate or not, is it that you are hurt and wounded psychologically, and therefore, you bring about frustration, aggression and sometimes violence?
By understanding the law of karma you will learn how to forgive and forget, heal the wound and – most importantly – fill the newly opened space in your heart with strength, true fulfilment and love.
Rediscover the original love that you felt for yourself and others.
“As love is your origin and it cannot be destroyed, it can only be transformed. “ Ex to Next
It is only possible to stay at Ashram if you are taking one of our residential courses/retreats or are an established Buddhist practitioner doing your own formal Buddhist retreat of a minimum of 10 days duration.
Since Ashram is a semi-monastic meditation centre and not a guesthouse, we ask all of our retreatants and visitors to observe the following rules of discipline in order to maintain an atmosphere conducive to inner reflection and meditation:
Respect all life: do not intentionally kill any living being, even small insects.
Respect others’ property: do not steal or take anything not freely given.
Be honest and straightforward: do not lie or intentionally deceive others. This is easy when observing silence!
Be celibate: no sexual activity. This also includes no holding hands, hugging, massages and other physical displays of affection.
Be alert and mindful: avoid intoxicants such as alcohol, drugs and cigarettes (we encourage you to stop smoking while here, but if this is impossible, one can smoke at a designated place within the centre boundary).
Be considerate of others’ silence: keep silence in the appropriate areas and at all times during residential courses, especially in the Gompa and the dormitories. No singing or playing music and in general, maintain a quiet demeanor while on the property.
Be considerate of the monks and nuns: dress respectfully (please no shorts above the knee, tank-top shirts or tight and revealing clothing).
In order to keep the atmosphere conducive to inner reflection and spiritual pursuit and to minimise distractions during the course, students on our residential courses and retreats are asked to abide by our basic code of discipline listed below.
Please settle all outside communication before the course begins. Telling friends and family that you will be out of contact for the duration of the course and sticking by that decision significantly reduces distraction from investigation into the workings of your own mind! Likewise, please settle your travel arrangements etc before you come to here!
You are expected to observe silence (no talking at all) from the evening of the first day until the end of the course.
Do not leave here for the entire course.
Participants must attend all sessions of the course and come to sessions on time.
Please put all communication / entertainment devices (laptop / mobile phones /cameras / MP3/CD players) etc into our safe at check-in.
Please be gentle in your behaviour and sensitive to fellow group members.
“Gompa” is a Tibetan word which we use for Meditation Hall. Because a Gompa is the location of study, meditation and devotional practices, Buddhists consider them to be holy places. In this tradition, the following modes of behaviour are considered respectful in a Gompa and we ask you to follow them while here:
Do not point your feet towards the teachers, the altar or any holy object.
Do not put Dharma materials – prayer books, texts, Dharma books or notebooks with Dharma in them – on the floor, or sit or step over them.
Do not lie down or do any yoga exercises in the Gompa at any time.
No idle chit-chat in the Gompa (ie. You can ask the teacher questions during class, but do not talk with other students).
| Time | Schedule |
|---|---|
| 1:00pm | Check-in |
| 2:30pm | Welcome and Introduction Talk |
| 3:30 – 4:30pm | Teaching Session 1 |
| 5:00 – 6:00pm | Teaching Session 2 |
| 6pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 – 8:15pm | Guided Meditation |
| Time | Schedule |
|---|---|
| 6:45 – 7:30 am | Guided Meditation |
| 7:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:00am | Teaching Session 1 |
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:45am | Teaching Session 2 |
| 11:45am | Lunch |
| 2:00 – 3:00pm | Teaching Session 3 |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | Tea Break |
| 3:30 – 4:45pm | Teaching Session 4 |
| 4:45 – 5:15pm | Break |
| 5:15 – 6:00pm | Guided Meditation |
| 6:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 – 8:15pm | Guided Meditation |
| Time | Schedule |
|---|---|
| 6:45 – 7:30am | Guided Meditation |
| 7:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 9:45am | What comes next ? Talk |
| 10:00 am | Advice for further study/practice and Feedback session |
| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Picnic Lunch |
| 1:00 – 3:00pm | Check-Out |
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