Orientation session

Week 1

Ritual Opening

Week 2

Consciousness is Everything - Part 1

week 3

Consciousness is everything - Part 2

week 4

Coming into form

week 5

Spanda, the five acts + purna

Practice session 1 (November) - Spanda, resonance breath, heart lotus meditation

week 6

The 5-layered self

week 7

5-element theory

week 8

The Energy Body

Practice session 2 (December) - Central channel, hum phat and uccara meditation

week 9

Reivew, homework and Uccara practice

Week 10 -

Homework review and new practice

Week 11

Includes energy practices: descending prana, vase breathing, left-right energy circuit.

Practice session 3 (January 2024)

Includes work with the pelvis and pelvic floor in asana, plus energy circuit meditation and lowering prana practice

week 12 -

includes pelvic floor and centre of pelvis work with introduction to bindus

week 13 -

Includes another practice of descending prana and a practice of nourishing the red bindu

week 14 -

Includes continued discussion of the pelvis / red bindu, mula bandha and introduces the blue bindu

week 15 -

Includes discussion of Uddhiyana Bandha and Jalandhara Bandha

Practice session 4 (February)

Includes work with diaphragms, bandhas and bindus.

week 16 -

Includes discussion of practice sesion 4 and energy leaks

week 17 -

Introduction to the mind and discussion ignorance and knowedge

Practice session 5 (March)

Includes work with bindus and bandhas and settling the mind

week 18 -

Includes disucssion of ignorance and wisdom. Introduces samskaras

week 19 -

Includes group discussion on practice and discusses free will

week 20 -

Includes discussion of the three malas

week 21 -

Includes discussion of malas (continued) and mode of perceiving

Practice Session 6 (April) -

Includes centre and circumference, building volume /capacity and deepening into the act of perceiving

week 22 -

Includes discussion from longer practice session and sutras for upcoming contemplation

week 23 -

Retreat preparation and meditation on Hamsa / Soham

week 24

Include discussion of effort, attention to the Source and sitting the mind into the emotion.

Wrap-up session

Discussion of retreat experience and outline of next steps.