Coming Back to Center: A Yoga Practice at Sharanam
Finding My Center Yoga has always invited me into moments of self-realization, but this time felt different. I’ve practiced yoga for four years now, and considering my age, I know that’s actually a long time. Yet after these classes at Sharanam, I realized something surprising: maybe I had never truly practiced yoga before. The mistake I didn’t know I was making I caught myself constantly trying to reach […]
Beyond Productivity: Why Your Brain Resists Change
We live in a world that constantly teaches us how to be more productive, yet rarely teaches us how to recover so we can continue creating, building, and growing. And thanks to smartphones, we’re surrounded by countless success stories, morning routines, advices to achieving even more. Maybe that’s why; how we relate to our journey […]
The Healing Power of Spaciousness | Meditation & Nature Retreats
Since living in the Alt Empordà, with its wide landscapes, I often visit my favourite dolmen, looking out over vineyards, small lakes and cork oaks. I also walk through the open fields stretching from the Albera mountains towards the sea. Our retreat home offers something increasingly rare: space. Space to breathe. To feel peace, stillness, […]
Frequently Asked Questions-Sharanam Retreats
Frequently Asked Questions What does an individual retreat mean at Sharanam? Your stay is tailored specifically to you. With only three to four guests hosted at a time, each person has a private room and follows a personal program shaped around their current needs,ranging from psychological guidance, somatic therapy, and life coaching to quiet days […]
Why psychological guidance in a retreat setting?
Many people are used to therapy happening inside a single room, once a week, often while life continues moving at the same demanding pace around them. A retreat setting creates something different. There is space.Space to slow down.Space to observe yourself more honestly.Space to step out of the rhythms and circumstances that may have been […]
Why Catalonia is the perfect place for a yoga retreat ?
Something about Catalonia awakens a deep connection to nature and yourself. Discover why Sharanam Retreats is the perfect place to restore and reconnect.
War and Peace Within | Thich Nhat Hanh
How do we deal with the shock of war, with witnessing violence, with a feeling of powerlessness? How do we balance ourselves when we feel involved? How do we reject violence without the language of hate and filtered information? These questions are important to me, to us, to all of us who have to support […]
Stay Tuned In
May we all find the way from outer to inner focus. May we all allow ourselves time for shock digestion and then settle…integrate. May we all find inner health and peace. There is so much information to digest. We reach out and share love with our dear ones and take care of those in need, […]
What is yoga?
Essentially in the tradition, once we attach the word “yoga” to anything, it indicates that it is a complete path by itself. If it is a complete path by itself, how should it be approached? If it was just a simple practice or an exercise, you could approach it one way. If it was an art […]