Radical Oneness -
Mystical Wisdom from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra (VBT)
Weekend Retreat
With Suzanne Faith
May 31- June 2, 2024
Barcelona, Spain
Join Suzanne for a weekend immersion into the depths of your soul and the fabric of your humanity by exploring the practices within the Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra (VBT).
This text provides us with the HEART of Tantric Meditation. Some consider this text as a tantric manual, but not an intellectual manual. This text provides skills and tools to allow your consciousness to expand. The text has more than a dozen translations and has opened the hearts of countless meditation practitioners.
Rooted in philosophy and ancient sutras, this weekend immersion is for all levels of students and meditators, and anyone interested in deepening their spiritual life and learning. This weekend retreat will bring participants in direct relationship with the Sacred Divine through the practices, techniques, and theoretical framework explored in the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra (VBT)
The Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra (VBT) is a text of the Śaiva Tantrik tradition, also known as Tantric Shaivism or ‘Kashmīr Shaivism’ which arose in the middle of the ninth Century. What does Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra mean?
Vijnana means consciousness and insight, Bhairava means intensified awareness, and Tantra means to weave the spiritual with the physical. This text teaches us that every ordinary experience in our day-to-day reality within this physical world can provide a window into the infinite spaces of oneness and joy.
The teachings from the VBT provide us with the mystical wisdom to cultivate portals into expansion. These practices, when repeated over an extended period of time, initiate a radical medicine and profound awakening!
These teachings bring us closer to the voice of Spirit and guide us into savoring the beauty of life.
Learn to enjoy the insights and the sublime presence that lurk behind every sound and thought by exploring a set of diverse practices outlined in this divine scripture!
Experience Deep Healing
Initiate Profound Personal Transformation
Awaken to Inner Sacredness
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN
Quiet and cleanse your senses
Learn how to interact with your natural breath
Receive purification practices
Learn healthy lifestyle habits
Create and commit to a meditation ‘sadhana’ (practice)
Build focused concentration
Enhance your vitality
Shift to a life-affirming perspective
Experience the dissolution of emotional and psychological knots
Understand how to listen and open to receive Divine Love
The Program
Friday, June 7, 2024
4:00-7:30pm
* Opening Ceremony
* Introduction to VBT - history and philosophy
* Introduction to the Themes
* Exploration of body practices
* Practices on the senses, sound and mantra
Saturday June 8, 2024
9:00-10:00am
* Yoga Asana and Pranayama
* Brief Tea break
10:30-1:00pm
* Practices focusing on Heart Centre
* Practices focusing on Pleasure
* Contemplation and Group Exercises
1:00-2:30pm
* Lunch
2:30 - 6:00pm
* Practices on the Light and Dark
* Practices on intense emotions and sensations
* Practices on equanimity
* Contemplations and Group Exercises
Sunday, June 9, 2024
9:00-10:00am
* Yoga Asana and Pranayama
* Brief Tea break
10:30-1:30pm
* Practices on the Void
* Practices on the Nature of the Mind
* Practices on the Wonder and Magic of the Mystical
* Practices on Oneness
* Contemplations and Group Exercises
1:30-3:00pm
* Lunch and Goodbyes
Your Guide
Suzanne has spent over three decades deeply immersed in the teachings and methodologies of yoga, psychology, meditation, and spiritual contemplation. She is a passionate educator - a teacher's-teacher – and learner.
Suzanne Faith
Suzanne Faith is a longstanding meditation and hatha yoga teacher, mentor, and therapist. Suzanne’s teachings invite students to dissolve barriers and move through intelligent practices to restore and evolve on all levels. She is deeply passionate about exploring our internal capacities to heal and grow. Suzanne has spent over three decades deeply immersed in the teachings and methodologies of Yoga, psychology, meditation, contemplation, and energy healing. She is a lover of education and learning, and a teacher's teacher. Suzanne has worked therapeutically and as an educator in conventional medical and schools systems, integrative health clinics and privately in the areas of family and marriage, addiction, cancer, professional sports, and childhood development.
The Soul Farm
A traditional 18th century Catalan farmhouse, transformed into a beautiful
art-filled retreat and holiday home for 15 people.
An oasis-like estate surrounded by the Pènedes vineyards near Barcelona.
The Home
A unique and serene place that invites you to come home to yourself and connect with each other while on retreat. Inspiring art and cozy decor invite a feeling of warmth, while surrounded by the beautiful nature of the Penedes region..
