Our meditation workshops show you step by step how to integrate a deep awareness of pure being with the joy of living fully in the world, fully expressing your uniqueness with others. Pleasure and desire are to be celebrated not avoided.

At the centre of all things there is universal energy and intelligence. The entire universe is made up of layers beginning in the unmanifest oneness of absolute pure being, pure consciousness. Through the mystery of creation, layer upon layer of substance from the most subtle layers of energy and intelligence to the full appearance of matter; air and water, the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, and human beings come into being, are maintained, and dissolve in an eternal cycle: the manifest universe of infinite diversity.

For many of us today, the integrated wholeness of life has been greatly diminished. We get by from week to week in busy and stressful jobs, we raise our families and manage our affairs and often it seems like a struggle with brief interludes of respite when we get away for a brief vacation. Then it’s back to work – back to the daily slog!

Guanock Retreat Centre is a place where people can come to gain that much needed respite. To reconnect with and reintegrate the wholeness of ourselves. As we reconnect with nature and beauty we reconnect with life itself. Through meditation practice we can begin to recognise the truth of our existence; the truth of all existence. We begin the process of living from that place of oneness within. We rebalance our minds and our emotions. We find inner peace and our hearts begin to open. We rediscover simple joy and the happiness to be found in everyday things. Gradually, we rediscover our unique purpose. We find the courage to speak our truth. In truth, we have always known our own unique contribution to life. It just got forgotten for a while.

Our programs are equally applicable for those just embarking on the discovery of meditation as it is for those advanced practitioners seeking to go to the deepest depths of spiritual awakening.

For centuries the secrets of spiritual awakening and the deepest spiritual truths were for only the privileged few, spending their lives in the seclusion of ashrams, monasteries and high mountain caves. But in this age that is no longer the case. Now the deepest spiritual practice is to be engaged with in the midst of a fully lived life. Our belief and our vision is that a fully fulfilled life has two aspects: an inner life where we dive to the depths of the transcendental field, to the route of all existence; and an outer life, in the world, in action, living joyfully and fully expressing our uniqueness. By the coming together of these two worlds we reach the ultimate goal of unity.