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Hello everyone! Today I am writing to you ~~ from the past ~~ ðŸ‘ŧ🕰ïļ, because for the past three days (starting Thursday evening) I will have been on a solo meditation retreat at home. As such, I've written most of this newsletter in advance so that when I finish up on Sunday afternoon, I won't have to worry about writing a whole newsletter from scratch late in the day.

Let's stay on this topic while we're here then, shall we? And I'll tell you a little bit more about meditation retreats in general.

<aside> ☝ This will be a fun little exercise in perspective, because I'm going to try to write from the perspective of Sunday-Saxon, as though I've finished up the three-day retreat already, and not as though I will be starting pretty soon. That'll be less confusing for everyone (except me! ðŸĪŠ) including any potential future readers.

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OK so we'll break this down like so:

  1. What is a meditation retreat;
  2. What a retreat schedule looks like;
  3. Recommendations.

What is a meditation retreat

In short, a meditation retreat is all about immersing yourself in an environment optimally conducive to meditation. This generally means the place in which the retreat is taking place:

How do you spend your time?

I'll share some example schedules in a moment, but first here's a rough break-down of how you might expect to spend your days on retreat: