“The moon and the sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
― Matsuo BashÅ
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This story starts with a Heart Circle. It was the end of our weekend retreat and we had all gathered in a circle, to share our experiences of the wonderful weekend retreat we enjoyed during the last three days. It was Irina's turn. Irina, a lifelong clairvoyant as she introduced herself, who had as colorful a personality as her garments and always had interesting stories to share, from past life incarnations to mysteries of Tibetan bowls to auras & body chakras said that this circle wasn’t meeting for the first time, the meeting was not incidental, and she was in a way right. Every time I go to meditation retreats I see my fellow travellers travelling through time, and this time it was, again, a unique experience. After dwelling on the idea to host a primordial voice retreat camp with our dear friend Lada for almost a year, we finally decided to gather friends on the 20th of June and go amidst the serene Catskills mountains of New York for a weekend retreat.
Upon arrival at the Xenia Resort in Hunter, NY the beauty of the place amazed us. But it wasn’t just the serenity and the calm energy of the mountains: the resort had a beautiful river by their back door, and the whole atmosphere was enchanted by bird songs, and a big lawn hugged by huge green trees for us to meditate under. It was the first Primordial Voice retreat ever upstate NY, and I was happy that Lada was kind enough to give me a chance to share my master Osho’s dynamic meditation technique every morning during the camp.
Our retreat had around 20 participants and many have already been practicing Yoga or some form of meditation for a couple of years. It was very tough to introduce Osho meditations into their knowledge system that seemed pretty much saturated with preconceived notion of what meditation is. The first day was hard. It’s very easy to recite 5 stages of dynamic meditation and play an hour long music but it’s also painful when you see people not following steps or not opening up because their mind would constantly question why the need for the chaotic meditation. So I had to take a difficult way and to talk for almost an hour - first on meditation, then on dynamic meditation stages. Certainly I would have been heavily judged and condemned by a regular Osho disciple for talking so long, but the reality was that the talk was needed, for them to trust the technique, to give their totality to it, to console the questioning mind and set it aside for an entire hour.
The first day of dynamic was a success: many had unexpected emotional releases, some found new silent space within themselves and some were amazed that the same Osho dynamic meditation they were explained and had practiced some time in the past was different: this time it gave them the experience of an inner change that never happened before.
During our free time we hiked around the beautiful mountain and the Hudson river. It was amazing to see an old Ukrainian church. Nestled amidst the mountains, the church was different from usual churches; I felt an urge to go in and chant ‘aum’, remembering how Osho was explaining the hidden mysteries of temples and churches in his book “Hidden Mysteries” and how they reverberate the sound and were built for the purpose of meditation.
We also hiked up the trails to have a view of the rolling Catskills Mountains. Some friends decided to sit by the Hudson river, sunbathing in total relaxation, and some decided to pamper their bodies in the sauna of Xenia Resort where we stayed.
Many of us who never met Osho in his physical body always feel the absence of his physical presence. There is a sense of completeness and feeling of gratefulness whenever we get to see and meet people who have imbibed his energy and meditated
in his presence. I have met many Osho disciples who have been meditating for many years, listened to and read Osho their whole life and have decided to spread Osho’s message to the whole world. Each disciple has a different taste, different flavor and we get to see a different aspect of Osho’s teachings through them. Rarely we come across someone who has never known Osho or his teachings and would be teaching what he taught his whole life. It was amazing to find those teachings in Lada's Primordial Voice practice.
It was indeed a beautiful evening, the sun was still up slowly on his way to hide behind the mountains, and the birds were enjoying their singing flying from one tree to another, those tall huge trees that surrounded us.
in his presence. I have met many Osho disciples who have been meditating for many years, listened to and read Osho their whole life and have decided to spread Osho’s message to the whole world. Each disciple has a different taste, different flavor and we get to see a different aspect of Osho’s teachings through them. Rarely we come across someone who has never known Osho or his teachings and would be teaching what he taught his whole life. It was amazing to find those teachings in Lada's Primordial Voice practice.It was indeed a beautiful evening, the sun was still up slowly on his way to hide behind the mountains, and the birds were enjoying their singing flying from one tree to another, those tall huge trees that surrounded us.
We sat in a big circle and Lada started her Primordial Voice practice with the words, “All our emotions are energy”, and soon along the hour long practice I found myself using sound to hit the energy centers, have spontaneous body shaking, and finally releasing the emotions through cathartic shaking and sound...it was beautiful to find a friend who through her own journey of meditation found what my Master Osho was teaching his whole life.
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Lada’s technique used the primordial sound to release the tensions in the body and mind to help the energy descend to the heart. It was a blessing for me as it prepared everyone in the camp for the jump into dynamic meditation the next morning. The evening culminated with a beautiful night meditation in silence with the deeply penetrating sound of the tremendous gong.
When we were coming back to the city on Sunday afternoon, I was driving, looking constantly into the back mirror at the mountains going further and further away, and the memories of who I was started coming back.
Suddenly I remembered I just graduated, the
graduation ceremony was a day prior to our journey to the Mountains, and for many of my friends it was ‘the moment’ of their lives, and then I remembered there was a soccer whim in my entire Facebook friends feed, and I wondered: it was so different up there, with no internet, with trees, with birds, with the river and with people and their hearts, some open, some closed but all gathered together to meditate and share their energies. The weekend was an experiment, and we all knew that soon we would all go back to our everyday lives, usual stressors of life and constant friction of energy to deal and solve them, but we were ready to experiment and see if we can open up to new space within us, silent and loving space which we can carry back home.
As I look back at the beautiful retreat, I feel like expressing my heartfelt thanks to Alex who had dedicated his life to learning the quantum healing & understanding the energy channels and gave us a taste of Su-jok therapy, our hosts at Xenia Resort who catered to all our needs, gave us healthy vegetarian meals and a space for our meditation practices.......
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Lada’s technique used the primordial sound to release the tensions in the body and mind to help the energy descend to the heart. It was a blessing for me as it prepared everyone in the camp for the jump into dynamic meditation the next morning. The evening culminated with a beautiful night meditation in silence with the deeply penetrating sound of the tremendous gong. When we were coming back to the city on Sunday afternoon, I was driving, looking constantly into the back mirror at the mountains going further and further away, and the memories of who I was started coming back.
graduation ceremony was a day prior to our journey to the Mountains, and for many of my friends it was ‘the moment’ of their lives, and then I remembered there was a soccer whim in my entire Facebook friends feed, and I wondered: it was so different up there, with no internet, with trees, with birds, with the river and with people and their hearts, some open, some closed but all gathered together to meditate and share their energies. The weekend was an experiment, and we all knew that soon we would all go back to our everyday lives, usual stressors of life and constant friction of energy to deal and solve them, but we were ready to experiment and see if we can open up to new space within us, silent and loving space which we can carry back home.
As I look back at the beautiful retreat, I feel like expressing my heartfelt thanks to Alex who had dedicated his life to learning the quantum healing & understanding the energy channels and gave us a taste of Su-jok therapy, our hosts at Xenia Resort who catered to all our needs, gave us healthy vegetarian meals and a space for our meditation practices.......
....to Lada who shared her beautiful technique of Primordial Voice and to all the beautiful fellow pilgrims of love and peace who dedicated their time and made commitment to come to the camp to open their hearts to a new dimension, new journey in their life, and to the yoga teachers Yogi Anna and Laxmi who dedicated their time to help us learn new yoga postures and balance the energy flow.
I have heard, it is the disciple who is desperately seeking and running around but it is finally the Master who finds the disciple, and not the other way around. The amazing experiences that were happening to the friends in that field where we practiced Dynamic meditation and Primordial Voice had nothing to do with us, the energy was coming from beyond, and when I was running around jumping with the drum beat, running, chanting the mantra ”hoo” pushing everyone to take the leap beyond their limits, I felt my master around, his presence was blissful, satisfying and soothing, always in my heart. And I am very happy that he touched many people's hearts in this camp, many tasted his meditations and are ready to take a leap into a new journey in their life!!
A short video from the Osho Dynamic session on day 2 of the retreat!!
