Heartmind Retreat is a retreat on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll, Scotland. It is a place of simplicity, silence, and natural beauty; a hermitage set among hills and forest. The guide below contains everything you need to know about staying here.
After you have read the guide above, please read The Teacher, the Student and the Light.
I am not a guru, and I do not ask you to see me as one. I am a person doing my practice, humbly, in the same way as anyone else. When you come to Heartmind, you are not coming to a master. You are coming to a quiet place to look at your own life.
The essay explains how I understand the path. For some people who visit, I may act as the teacher. For some, the situation itself will be the teacher: the silence, the work, the weather, a conversation, a hard day. Some may miss it altogether. All of this is natural, and none of it is my doing. The light teaches in whatever way it needs to.
I live by what the essay says, and the same applies to everyone who comes. It will help you to understand the right relationship for entering retreat: open, honest and willing to be taught by whatever comes.
Listen to the audio, or read the essay online, or download the PDF below.
