Hridaya Retreat The Hridaya Retreat, the Retreat for the Revelation of The Spiritual Heart is a unique 10-day meditative experience. It focuses on accessing our real and essential nature,
the Spiritual Heart, the supreme and divine Self, atman, through an artful integration of meditation and yoga techniques.
During Hridaya Retreat, we address broad aspects of the Spiritual Heart, from a variety of contemplative traditions. The participants will center in the Spiritual Heart and
will explore the many and deeper aspects of Love and its true relationship to Spirituality. This method is an integration of Advaita Vedanta , Sufism, Christian esoteric,
Tantra, Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen. The atmosphere will be one of love, inner peace and strong spiritual support.
The Hridaya Retreat is a spiritual retreat, created specifically to understand, in an intimate way, what meditation is and to feel the profound inner transformations, which it brings.
This retreat includes:
Methods of Self-centering to be used in everyday life
Poetry
The retreat for the Revelation of the Spiritual Heart creates the conditions of solitude, intimacy and peace in which advaita, the consciousness of Unity, is revealed.
Hridaya Teacher Training Course
By popular request, Claudiu Trandafir has begun to develop a Hridaya Meditation and Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Course (HTTC) to be introduced in 2011!
This course will be 12 weeks in length, held 28 February until 21 May, 2011, at the Agama Yoga campuses on Koh Phangan Island, Southern Thailand. The HTTC will be held six days per week, approximately six or seven class hours per day.
Testimonials
The Hridaya Yoga Retreat can be a unique life changing experience. Some of the students who completed the Hridaya Yoga Retreat program have warmly expressed appreciation for the uplifting experience of entering the Heart.
Please find here some of their heartfelt impressions which may give you an objective perspective regarding the Hridaya Yoga Retreat.
Yoga of the Spiritual Heart
In our times, the connection between our superior intuitive
intelligence and the Heart has mostly been forgotten. Even if
we generally accept the idea of the existence of a Spiritual Heart,
we tend to take it more symbolic.
The Yoga of the Spiritual Heart and the Retreat for the Revelation of
the Spiritual Heart start from the premise that traditional ideas about
the Spiritual Heart can and should be applied in a very concrete and
practical way. The Heart, seen as an organ of direct knowledge can
and should be trained constantly in order to increase its purity, capacity
to Love, to Witness, to Surrender.
In this way, the limits of individuality soften and fades away, and through the recognition of its fundamental attribute, as a gate toward infinity, the Supreme Self, atman, is revealed.
Hridaya - The Spiritual Heart
Hridaya, the Spiritual Heart is our essential and ultimate nature;
the ineffable dimension of our being. It is another name for the
Supreme Self, atman, as is named in yogic tradition. The Spiritual Heart is the supreme consciousness, the ultimate Subject of
Knowledge, the pure I. It is the witness consciousness, that intimate
observer of all our thoughts, mind, emotions, sensations, of the
whole inner and outer universe.
Claudiu Trandafir
Claudiu Trandafir is a meditation
teacher with over 25 years of experience in yoga,
Tantra and Advaita Vedanta. Through his spiritual practice,
he has been blessed with a penetrating insight into the nature
of being and existence. As such, he is sharing his experiential
and direct spiritual knowledge via highly efficient methods,
designed to allow us to transcend our daily existence and
bring us closer to the nature of Truth.
The Revelation of the Spiritual Heart retreat is one of the most
beloved ways to spend time delving into the mystery of one’s Self,
in silence, and in the depth of the Spiritual Heart where language
and symbols become superfluous.
Calendar
Please check this area to find out where Claudiu is
teaching next and what are the future scheduled worshops
and events. Here you can sign up and advance and express
your interest in specific events.
Workshops are being offered worldwide while
Claudiu travels. The various events could happen
spontaneously where Claudiu travels or by invitation
to specific location, and with a preset schedule. So keep
track of where Claudiu is teaching next by checking this website!
Last year Claudiu has offered a series of Revelation
of the Spiritual Heart retreats at Agama yoga school located
in Koh Pangan, Thailand and in Romania, at Kamala yoga school.
This year the program is continued giving the practitioners a chance to deepen
their experience by taking a few retreats consecutively.
May the Sacred Tremor of the Heart enlighten our lives!