Our hearts are filled with love and gratitude for the amazing courage showed by all our April participants. Each release benefits us all, as we walk each other home. Thank you to everyone that came to the April retreat and welcome to the Shangriballa family.

Hello everyone, due to multiple requests and us closing our April retreat this morning we will perspone Step 7 to nextweek.

We are excited to announce a 10-Step program to our Shangriballa community. Are you tired of constantly searching for inner peace, only to feel like you’re continually fighting your own mind or body? Maybe you've tried meditation, but you still feel like there's a separate "you" inside, stressed, anxious, and trying to keep it all together. You're ready to move beyond basic coping and address the fundamental source of that struggle. The best part? This entire 10-Step journey is entirely FREE for the Shangriballa community! This is our gift to help you experience a seamless, effortless life directly. That's precisely what this program, led by Patrick Boulan and Lisa Silva, is designed for. Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced meditator, this journey is your next essential step. Introducing: The 10-Step Journey into Pure Awareness This isn't another course on fixing yourself. It’s an experiential inquiry into the simple, liberating truth of Non-Duality—the realisation of not-two. Over 10 steps, we’ll dismantle the core illusions that create suffering, using your own direct experience as the guide. Each session includes a core conceptual teaching, immediately followed by a custom-guided meditation designed to create an expansive and profound experience for all levels. **The Secret to True Freedom** Step 1 focuses on the course's foundation, introducing basic non-dual teaching and meditation practices. It will include our anchor-setting program, which will serve as a foundation for the rest of the course. We are establishing your Unchanging Container (Step 2)—the spacious awareness that is already whole and peaceful. Everything else happens in this space. Then, we systematically lighten the grip of your deepest identifications: - You'll Bypass the Mind: We’ll spend a crucial week at The Doorway of the Senses (Step 3), tuning into raw, unlabelled input. You see the world vividly, free from the mind’s usual commentary. - You'll Drop the Story: We’ll examine The Narrative of Self (Step 7) and identify the subtle, constant thought that creates the "me." When the I-thought stops, you discover the vast, silent dimension of your being. - You'll Dissolve the Body: A massive shift happens in The Myth of the Body (Step 8), where we stop seeing the body as a fixed object and realise it's just a dynamic flow of pure, shifting sensation. When you stop identifying with the body, the pain and limitation instantly become less personal.

« The precious tree of nondual mind spreads through the universe; it bears compassion flower and fruit, though there is no “other” and no “doer of good.” » —Tilopa

Wow. First time I follow the track from thought, to story, to imprint in the nervous system/body. As usual I was running on the traidmill and listening to Patrick. Despite his suggestion, I could not let a thought occupy the field and kick me out of a near to blissful state I thought I was experiencing (my favorite story). Then a guy talked real loud nearby, and that upset me. A story started where I had to admonish the culprit, but at that very moment Patrick gave us the suggestion to accompany the story and its somatic effects. That's when I identified that the story, the pain it generates were not mine, but just another brick in the wall.