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April 26, 2009
The Beautiful Life Retreat Part 1
Having arrived back from the Beautiful Life Retreat on friday I thought I might share some of my journey with the beautiful readers of this blog.
I arrived at Abbey House in Glastonbury on Monday, The Retreat House is a wonderful building surrounded by beautiful gardens which back onto the Glastonbury Abbey Ruins.
Having been to Abbey House before I relax and settle quickly, My Room is painted light green, with two little beds one for me and one for my case, a small writing table and chair, there are two small comfy chairs and a tiny round table infront of the window which has a view of the Abbey ruins.
The Beautiful life Retreat is held by Simon's book of the same name, during the week there are 10 hour long structured meetings which consist of words, silence and meditations, there are also morning and eveing meditations in the chapel, on Wednesday eveing there is a short get together where Simon introduces the Enneagram to anyone who is interested, on Thursday afernoon there is a 5 hour silence, a retreat within a retreat, all these things are entirely optional and there is plenty of time around these structured events to walk to the Glastonbury Torr, explore the ruins, use the art room, practice a caberet act for Thursday eveing or go for walk around the town. Glastonbury itself holds an intresting mix of people but all the locals seem very friendly.
Back to my personal retreat on Monday night I recorded in my journal
"Knock, Knock"
"Who's there"
"It's your wake up call"
"You took your time"
"Me.....I've never stopped knocking,
But you have just began to listen"
Interesting events are about to unfold......
Posted by Shelliz at April 26, 2009 03:19 PM