Spirit Fire

Meditation Retreats, Private Group Retreats, and Education in Conscious Living

407 West Leyden Road
Leyden, MA 01337

Phone: 413.624.3955
www.spiritfire.com

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Spirit Fire is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational and retreat center. Spirit Fire can be rented for your groups purposes of increasing consciousness in the world. We also offer individuals and groups tools for self awareness leading to the discovery of one's spiritual purpose. Through the variety of programs that Spirit Fire offers and the sacred retreat space, you will be empowered to connect with your inner self. We invite you and your group to experience the peace and beauty of the Spirit Fire Meditative Retreat Center and we look forward to meeting you.

HEART-BREATH-AWAKENESS RETREATS

Meditation changes lives. Learning to meditate is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves. And deepening an established practice frees us into openness/emptiness and peaceful abiding.

Heart-Breath-Awakeness is the meditative practice taught at Spirit Fire. The beauty of this meditation is that it is not associated with any specific spiritual tradition. In this way, the Buddha-nature, the Christed consciousness, the Beloved within and All Around, awakens from inside, breath by breath, heart beat by heart beat. The practice is rooted in an exploration of one's depth and spiritual wholism, using the inspiration of the Heart — the wise ever-present source of compassion and power within us, the Breath — our relation with all that is inside and out, and Raja Yoga and Tantric Buddhist components.

Training in meditation brings the openness and Presence of the heart and the rhythm and simplicity of the breath into the life and mind. These, with discipline and effort, lead to Awakeness, to seeing things more clearly. This practice opens us to a deep unshakeable loving-understanding of how things are, what can be changed, how to do so, and thus bring goodness into the world. This practice is razor sharp. It develops the ultimate clarity that is possible for all minds. It cuts through personal patterns of illusion and leads one to awareness. This discipline is meant to bring one to the core of Being and Non-Being. Therefore it requires the determination of the practitioner to be willing to see the complete Self. Breath and heart peel away the outside layers of self-image and leave one naked to wholeness. There lies release. This technique begins with guided meditation, giving the practitioner the tools of the practice. The guidance is minimal, however, so as not to interfere with simplicity and insight.

I - Five-day and weekend retreats

Five-day retreats offer an immersion in a meditative environment and establish us in the practice. This begins to open us to all that is possible. Five day retreats begin with dinner on the Monday of arrival and end at 3pm on the Saturday of completion.

Weekend retreats are designed to focus on and deepen a particular aspect of the overall meditative training. Weekend retreats begin with dinner on the Friday of arrival and end at 3 pm on the Sunday of completion.

II - Nine-day retreats

As the meditative practice is established the deeper aspects and profound gifts of expanded consciousness become available to us. Participation in a Nine-day retreat and its training requires completion of four five-day and three weekend retreats.

III - 30-day retreats

Immersion in a 30-day meditative retreat is a significant commitment to Awakeness, and to what that brings into the world. Participation in a 30-day retreat requires previous completion of three nine-day retreats.

Connect with your inner self. Only a change in consciousness can change the world.

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