What is a Retreat with Unmani?

Participating in a retreat with Unmani is an intensive opportunity to dive into the exploration of your true nature. Recognise who you really are and then see that whatever happens, happens in and as that. Know this for yourself rather than simply believing what others have told you or what you have read. Together we will investigate the reality of beliefs or concepts that you may have. We so often long for freedom from the prison of thought.Losing more and more constructs means that life begins to feel more and more open and more alive. There is no end to this unraveling of old mechanisms and patterns, but in resting in that that you really are, there is a knowing that you are never actually touched by anything that happens. This knowing provides the courage to really explore what you fear and hide from as well as opening up more possibility for joy and freedom.
	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.   Although these retreats are intensive, there is also an amazing lightness and openness that is often feltthroughout a Retreat with Unmani.  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. 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.
Play Recognising who you are is recognising the child-likeness that is your most natural and open state. We are all just like children, just playing at being serious, at being grown up. It is all just play really.  In retreats, although we explore reality through intimate dialogues in the meeting sessions, we also explore reality in other experimental, playful and creative ways.
This way you can see how you have taken yourself seriously. We all love to play, we are just scared. We are scared of revealing that silliness, or of letting our guards down in front of others. Usually in life it is not safe to do that. In a retreat by investigating the reality of who you really are, we create a safe environment to let it all go. By the end of the retreat we have made life-long friends with people who have supported and loved you through painful realisations and beautiful openings.

What people have said about Retreats with Unmani

"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

Read a recent article written about a 7 day retreat in Turkey 2010. 

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.