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Spakoina is an experience of deep intervention, where mindfulness meets psychotherapy. It explores the way our experiences are filtered through sensation, how the body encodes and holds them, and how we translate this into language, patterns, and metaphor. Rooted in Buddhist meditation and Theravāda principles, it teaches us to recognize our state of being and open pathways to alternate dimensions of awareness.
Spakoina is a space of coming to the now, a return to simple being. It rests on the understanding that experience does not need to be improved or edited or explained. There is no method to master and no skill to perfect. Attention moves and eases from thought into sensation, from interpretation into contact. Participants slow down and sit with the body as it is, without commentary or correction. In this slowing, presence reveals itself. Breathing, touch, movement, and ease are felt directly as part of a living field. This retreat invites mindfulness as embodiment, the art of witnessing without effort. In watching, choice appears naturally. Stillness and movement are both welcomed as expressions of life. Meditation here is intimate and ordinary, woven into the ongoing flow of living. You sit, you sense, you notice. Nothing is added. Nothing is edited. Nothing is removed. Awareness becomes the ground from which clarity grows. Meditation brings intelligence that is alive and expanding, not borrowed or rehearsed. Sensitivity deepens, and life becomes richer in texture. This path does not ask for self-denial or hardness. When meditation is alive, it flowers as joy, warmth, and aliveness. The body is no longer something to control. It is met as a living intelligence. Self is felt moment to moment, open, responsive, and fully present.
In this space, interconnectedness is not a concept but a felt experience, how the body, mind, and environment shape and reflect one another. Each moment of stillness reveals the subtle ways we hold onto past imprints, the unconscious patterns that shape our thoughts and actions. By tuning into the senses, one learns to navigate both inner and outer worlds with greater depth and presence. The workshop invites participants to move beyond intellectual understanding into direct perception, where silence, sensation, and awareness become tools for transformation. What emerges is not just clarity, but a renewed way of being, rooted, open, and fully alive.
Silence reveals more
Embodied Understanding
Cultivates felt sense, enabling genuine attunement to another’s subjective reality.
Noble Silence
Holding Space
Remains present without filling silence with explanation or commentary
Non-Identification
Witnessing Patterns
Observes relational dynamics without enactment or defensive movement
Included in this program are the following concepts
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Holon & Interconnectedness
The concept of a holon teaches that every part of our being is both complete in itself and an integral part of the greater whole. Embracing this interconnectedness guides us from ego-centeredness to collective consciousness, enriching our spiritual journey and deepening our connections with others and the universe.
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Gateway to Inner and Outer Worlds
The five sense organs—nose, eyes, ears, tongue, and skin—are gateways to true knowledge, connecting us to the outer world and our inner purpose. They interact with the five master elements (Space, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth), translating subtle energies into perceivable forms through the mind, linking our consciousness with the external world.
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Reconnecting With Sensory Experience
To truly connect with ourselves and meditate effectively, we need to reconnect with our sensory experiences and our somatic mind. This connection enhances our awareness and presence in the moment.
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Silence & Empathy
True silence is a rich, positive state filled with divine music, fragrance & light, fostering inner peace & self-connection. Embracing the present moment & emotional awareness creates a nurturing environment, helping us stay grounded & fully engaged with the world outside.
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Pausing
A mindful pause between trigger and reaction creates awareness, allowing for mindful choices, emotional safety, and a deeper connection to one's true intentions and responses, fostering resilience, clarity, emotional balance, and a more conscious, intentional way of engaging with life
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Emotional Regulation & Mental Clarity
Regaining awareness of our senses helps regulate emotions and achieve mental clarity. This sensory mindfulness reduces stress and promotes well-being, enabling us to respond to life's challenges with calm and composure.
Immerse in Noble Silence
Spakoina immerses participants in nearly 14 hours of noble silence each day. Free from external distractions, the mind settles, revealing deeper layers of consciousness. Through structured meditation and reflection, silence shifts from discomfort to liberation, creating a foundation for deeper presence and lasting transformation beyond the retreat.
Access Enmeshments
Enmeshments are the unseen forces that keep us entangled in patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. These internal knots, formed through past experiences. Through meditation and somatic awareness, participants observe where they are unconsciously bound, allowing these constraints to loosen naturally, enabling individuals to navigate relationships, work, and life with greater clarity and authentic self-expression.
Restore Access to Resources
Under daily noise and emotional weight, our deepest resources, clarity, resilience, and intuition, become buried. Spakoina restores access to these by stripping away distractions and reconnecting participants to their innate wisdom. Recorded sessions offer continuous reinforcement, making inner stillness an accessible tool beyond the retreat.
Whats New :
Awareness through movement, a practice rooted in neuroplasticity, where the focus is not on stretching or perfecting, but on noticing how you move. Through guided micro-movements, rest, and curiosity, you’ll allow your nervous system to reset, supporting balance, coordination, and emotional integration. (trauma-informed healing).
Awareness through Movement is a gentle, intelligence-led practice that invites you to notice how you move rather than trying to stretch, fix, or perform. The work is slow, precise, and guided. Small movements are paired with pauses, attention, and curiosity, allowing the nervous system to soften and reorganise at its own pace.
Instead of pushing the body, we listen to it. Through micro-movements and rest, patterns of holding begin to release, coordination improves, and a sense of internal balance returns. This approach is trauma-informed and respects your boundaries, your timing, and your capacity. Nothing is forced. Everything is invited.
People often describe leaving a session feeling lighter, more upright, and more at home in their body. Shoulders drop without effort. Breathing deepens. Awareness sharpens.
Meditation meets movement here, supported by curiosity. Together, they create the conditions for a deep nervous system reset, supporting pain relief, flexibility, balance, coordination, and emotional integration.
Spakoina is a coming home.
A return to the body, to sensation, feeling, and expression, to urges and desires as they arise. This does not imply enactment. What matters is attention, breath, and presence brought gently to these movements of the psyche. To the hurt, the thoughts, the inner narratives, and the causal stories we carry about what is, how it is, and why it is.
Spakoina is a ritual, and it is a community. A sangha, in the Buddhist sense. When my teacher was asked what is the difference that creates the difference, she smiled and said, “It is the practice of the practices.” Spakoina is 'that' practice. It is holding. It is being. It is saranam gacchami.
Spakoina unfolds through a range of practices, each held with care and intention. At the heart of the work is a steady orientation toward being here, in the body, in contact with life, and in relationship as it is lived. The question it keeps close is simple and curious, how to participate fully in the world with authenticity and alignment, without abandoning oneself, and without retreating from the mythic dimensions of meaning that shape us. At times this happens in stillness, where attention steadies and experience becomes clearer. At other moments it takes form through movement, breath, or sensory engagement, allowing the body to re-enter the present. There are also practices rooted in dialogue and shared presence. These are not spiritual displays or methods of escape. They are ways of learning how to remain in connection with others, with empathy and care, while preserving one’s own centre.
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Mission
Spakoina grounds contemplative practice in lived experience, drawing from mindfulness, psychotherapy and contemplative traditions to help individuals and practitioners sense the body’s quieting, stabilise presence, deepen empathy and inhabit daily life with reflective care.
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