Silent meditation retreat

Zen is ever-growing project conceptually focused on peace, tranquility, quietness and selflessness. Photographs are combination of spontaneus moments caught on camera druing my travels, walks, quests and commissioned work.

We talk to the owners of silent meditation retreat The Hermitage about the methods for and benefits of awakening to a more peaceful reality by going beyond the mind, in silence and meditation.

I had decided to do the course on a whim, figuring that it would be a slightly weird and interesting experience. I didn't really know what to expect but it was something along the lines of hippies hugging trees (and each other), woo-sah, peace and love and all that jazz. This is what I discovered.

While there most certainly are incredibly great Silent Retreat options ready to book in beautiful faraway lands, sometimes you just simply don’t have the time…

Lakota advocate and water protector Debra White Plume (Wioweya Najin Wina), upon being introduced to the history of municipal subjugation in the United States during a Democracy School hosted by residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, remarked that “municipalities are the white man’s reservations. The only difference is, we know we’re on reservations.”

I can feel my writing student’s collective eye roll as I write this; “Show don’t’ tell, do a run through for passive writing. Mind your ‘ing and ly’ words. Where’s the smell, there are no smells in…

I wanted to do a silent retreat for a long time. This is a day by day diary of my experience at a silent meditation retreat.

I spent five days in silence with 15 strangers practicing mindfulness meditation; here's what happened.

What exactly do you do in a 10 day vipassana in Thailand? Here's an hour by hour breakdown of what happens during the daily schedule of a meditation retreat