Retreats
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A Retreat with Unmani is an opportunity to truly find what you have been searching for, once and for all. Wake up to who You really are and then together we can explore the vulnerability and innocence which is beyond all description.
This longer period of time allows for a deeper inquiry and more intimate dialogue. We can get to the heart of the matter and see what is beyond all the words and concepts.
 Although this retreat is intensive, there is an amazing lightness and openness that is often felt throughout a Retreat in Not-Knowing with Unmani. A longer retreat allows one the time to explore the vulnerability and innocence which is beyond all description. A retreat combines a relaxing holiday with a retreat environment. There is often an element of social interaction and community life, so that the participant can see how that which is realised in the meeting sessions is playfully integrated with daily life.
Click here to see photos of past retreats with Unmani.
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Retreat in Turkey
Friday 24th September - Friday 1st October, 2010
click here to book your place and here to download the pdf flyer for the retreat.
Local Area
The retreat will be held at Hotel Faralya in Faralya, a rural community of 500 people dispersed along several kilometres of quiet mountainside and forest. Here the western escarpment of the Toros range plunges directly into the sea, creating an area of Homeric beauty. Olive, citrus, carob trees and pinewoods surround the area. Much of the forest is protected as a nature reserve.
This is the Teke Peninsula, an awe-inspiring region steeped in the mysteries of ancient history, and known as Lycia (the land of light). Described by Homer, the Lycians were independent seafaring warriors, who settled here around 1400 BC. The most distinctive archeological features are the unusual rock-cut tombs, copies in stone of their houses and temples.
These are prominent in the local port town of Fethiye (ancient Telmessos) and at Pinara, a nearby ruined city. The Lycian Way is a recently designated long-distance walk that passes through Faralya, linking Ölüdeniz to Antalya via hundreds of kilometres of mountain paths.
The seashore is known as the Turquoise Coast, referring to the beautiful blue waters. Its most outstanding feature is a huge beach that protects a sandy lagoon called Ölüdeniz. This lagoon contains a rare enzyme thought to have healing properties. Belcekiz, the small resort near Ölüdeniz, with beach cafes and restaurants, is about 25 minutes by local bus from Faralya.
Faralya Hotel
Set in the mountains, away from towns and resorts and cooled by the shade of pine  and olive trees, The Faralya affords magnificent views of the Aegean coast.
In the afternoon free-time you can relax on a sun lounger by the swimming pool and soak up the sun, walk in the mountains or to a secluded beach, or take the local bus to the ‘blue lagoon’ Ölüdeniz (about 20 minutes drive).
Food
The food at the retreat will be simple village-style Turkish vegetarian, using many local organic ingredients.
Accommodation
All rooms have ensuite shower, washbasin and western style toilet. Most rooms have air conditioning and some rooms have balconies with sea views.
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A TYPICAL DAY:
8am: Optional Yoga session
9am: Breakfast
10am: Session with Unmani
11.30am: Teabreak
12pm: Session with Unmani
1.30pm: Lunch and freetime to
relax, sit by the pool, go for a walk, to the beach, socialise or be alone.
7pm: Dinner
8pm Session with Unmani / other group activities
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Cost:
Shared Room: £480
Single Room: £610
The rooms with airconditioning and sea views will be offered to those who book first.
click here to book your place>
To pay by cheque or bank transfer please email for information.
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Cancellation Policy
After filling out a booking form, you will be sent a payment request. Once you have paid for your place on the retreat, your place will be reserved especially for you. You will then be included in numbers calculated for accomodation, meals and any other preparation and organisation for the retreat.
If you have to cancel for any reason, please email as early as possible so that your place can be made available for someone else. Your payment includes a non-refundable deposit of £50. If you cancel earlier than one month prior to the date of the retreat, you will receive your full payment minus the £50 deposit. If you cancel earlier than 2 weeks prior to the date of the retreat, you will receive half of your payment minus the £50 deposit. Please be aware: any later than that, there are no refunds.
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One Day Retreats
 Whole Days provide an extended amount of time and space in which to further explore and inquire into the nature of who You really are. A Whole day typically runs around five hours, and most often includes a tea break and lunch break. Depending on the location, lunch is sometimes provided. Click here for the next scheduled One Day Retreat.
Weekend Retreats
Weekend Retreats with Unmani run about two to three days. This longer period of time allows for a deeper inquiry and more intimate dialogue. We can get to the heart of the matter and explore what is beyond all the words and concepts.
Longer Retreats
Although these retreats are very intensive, there is an amazing lightness and openness that is often felt throughout a Retreat in Not-Knowing with Unmani. A longer retreat allows one the time to explore the vulnerability and innocence which is beyond all description. Retreats with Unmani extend to four days or a week and are often in beautiful locations, combining a relaxing holiday with a retreat environment. There is often an element of social interaction and community life, so that the participant can playfully integrate what is realised in the meeting sessions with daily life.
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Retreat Participants' Testimonials
"Dear Unmani
I just wanted to write a few words about the retreat in Portugal. This was such a brilliant week a kind of mixture of deep and important sessions with you and a lovely holiday in the sun. I really liked the fact that we had sessions in the morning, then the afternoon free and then activities again in the evening. That was a good mixture of socialising and solitude.
The meetings in not knowing changed something inside of me, I clearly saw that there was no "me" at times. There is something very special about coming and sitting with you and just feeling absolute simplicity and not knowing. Of course doubts come back, but something has changed. I loved what you said about being one's own authority, that is so important.
Also lovely was meeting everyone and spending time with people. It is something that I have always found a double edged sword, I want it, I am uneasy. The good thing about the retreat was that people voiced how they felt and were vulnerable, that somehow helped.
I would love to come on the retreat again next year. I would recommend a retreat with you to anyone, absolutely
with much love
B x"
"Your eyes are a mirror to my soul. I've no way to express my gratitude, except to say, that everything I do, I do it for You. Excellent retreat Unmani!" D.D
"I keep being filled with wonder and delight at what is happening. In just little things, its very sweet, very touching. Its being loved, its being tenderly shown beauty, in the smallest and most trivial of things. Then there are occasional moments where the habitual me like a ghost comes back, but it just passes. Its quite interesting being able to experience such things first hand. 've never heard anyone describe an habitual me returning like that.
It makes me wonder what the difference is. What it is that has changed. It seems that I don't take what I think so seriously any more. Its a bit like the party analogy you used on the retreat. When the thoughts are not welcomed or greeted or paid any attention they lose their power.
It's so interesting that its not possible to explain it. Or even to really satisfactorily describe it to even myself. Knowing its not taking the thoughts so seriously cannot in itself do it and is not in itself it. There is some kind of accompanying energetic shift. Like a young bird suddenly learning to fly for the first time. Normally one is totally trapped in the domain of thought/emotion. Then the shift occurs and the thoughts/emotions still happen but there is no entrapment. The spell is somehow broken. Its such a sweet mystery.
Thank You again for helping me wake from the dream and have such magic as this really happen." R.L
"Thank you so so much for such a wonderful weekend! ! ! It was a great bunch of people to be on a retreat with, the setting was absolutely perfect for the event and your pointing/message was so clear and loud! "I" have come away with so much in so many different ways - I'm not sure things will be the same again after it. Already my wife has noticed a real difference in me and is taken a keen interest to find out more about it all. I can now see that the books were OK for an intellectual appreciation of what non-duality etc was about but, for me, a retreat and the experience was absolutely necessary for recognition to arise." S.C
"Thought I'd leave it a couple of days to see how the dust settled. Its settling pretty nicely... I really enjoyed it too.
Now, its like watching a flower unfold. There is curiosity and a childlike almost excitement about seeing how things are. Its like when I used to float in the mornings before going to work and come out of the tank and it would be the same but there would be a newness, a freshness, an immediacy of the experience that would touch me. Except now since the retreat, there is no me to be touched and still the touching goes on. And now the touching does not fade out with the passing of the day. I'm coming home at last to nowhere. Thank you. " R.L
"Dear Sweeeeet Unmani,
Looking directly into the eyes, that is if I allow the wave of initial unease, embarrassment almost the horror of love to be and pass.
Resting, resting or is it free falling? bliss? nothingness? floating?
And all the people on retreat that I never met before seem familiar, as if we have met somewhere before, ALL of them.
And out of retreat going for a walk with someone I have met for the first time that dares to look directly, openly into the eyes, and she seems familiar as well!!
Of course, it's the same, the same nothingness that is all. How can it not feel familiar if it's all me?
And then that experience gets clouded and that's OK too.
Sweet Friend. how lovely and wonderful to have met you!" N.G
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