A yoga and meditation retreat combines a daily yoga practice with periods of seated meditation. Ours leans heavily towards the meditation. Cave of the Heart Retreats runs silent Hridaya meditation retreats at Karuna Retreat Center in Monchique, in the Algarve, Portugal, with an hour and a half of Hridaya Hatha Yoga each day and around five and a half hours of sitting meditation split into shorter segments. We are not a yoga holiday with meditation added. We are a silent medit

A silent meditation retreat can be sat over three, five or ten days. The ten-day is the original Hridaya programme and it is designed as a complete whole. Most people coming for the first time choose three days. At Cave of the Heart Retreats we run all three lengths at Karuna Retreat Center in Monchique, in the Algarve, Portugal. This guide is written to help you choose honestly rather than to move you towards one of them. The retreat leaders have spent several hundred days i

A silent retreat is a period of days spent in shared silence and structured meditation, with speech, phones and reading set aside, so that attention can turn inward. No previous meditation experience is needed to attend one. At Cave of the Heart Retreats we hold 3-day, 5-day and 10-day Hridaya silent meditation retreats at Karuna Retreat Center in Monchique, in the Algarve, Portugal, and beginners are welcome at every one of them. This guide is not written to reassure you. It

A silent meditation retreat is a period of shared noble silence and structured meditation practice, usually lasting several days, in which speech, phones, and ordinary social habits are set aside so that we can honour a deeper dimension of our being. At Cave of the Heart Retreats, guided by Ricky, Juliana and other retreat leaders, we hold 3-day, 5-day, and 10-day Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreats at Karuna Retreat Center in the Algarve, Portugal. If you are reading this bef

Noble silence, or Mauna, is more than not talking. The four levels of silence in the yogic tradition, why retreats set aside phones and eye contact, and what is always still possible to do.