No phones, no books, no eye contact, no speaking. The most quietly difficult thing on this list — and the only one that changes you on the way out.
Ten days at Igatpuri, the centre S. N. Goenka established in the 1970s and the largest of its kind. No talking, no reading, no writing, no phone, no eye contact — and something close to ten hours of sitting a day.
There is no fee. Courses run on donations from people who have already completed one, and that is a deliberate part of the method rather than a quirk of the accounting. It is difficult in ways that are hard to convey beforehand and hard to regret afterwards.
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A coastal Konkan retreat for the recovery week after.
Stay with us — Long-stay rates across the network — your home, our staff, your time.
The last and best one. Choose any Iraava home. Stay seven nights. Eat with the family. Read the book you have carried for a year. Watch one season turn into the next.
