Silent Retreat in Victoria, BC
August 11 – 20, 2025

Drawn to silence for accessing the greater wisdom through deep listening, shifting perspective, and unselfing.

Where: Cedar Song Centre in Victoria  https://sacredweaving.org
(Nature is the clearest bringer of silence—with its larger rhythms and external hum).

Cost: $ 1750  ($ 1600 tent sleeping)
Included: Accommodation & meals

Structured daily program: yoga, yoga nidra, meditation, creativity  (painting, poetry, flower arranging), journaling, attention practices, chores and free time for reading, resting, hiking, swimming.

Your facilitators:

Helga Beer, longtime facilitating yoga classes, teaching the principles of Morita & Naikan Therapies, leading Systemic/Family Constellation circles and training new facilitators in the art of Constellation work. She loves flower arranging, philosophy, grandmothering, and movies.  www.helgabeeryoga.com

Trudy Boyle, author of the book, Ikigai and Illness, has been studying, writing, and teaching the principles of Morita, Naikan and Ikigai Ryoho – Living Well with Illness, for over three decades. She now serves a broad digital community through weekly webinars, residential programs and her weekly blog. She loves poetry, nature, grandmothering, and each birthday. www.livingwellwithillness.com

Time spent in silence returns to us what we need a hundred fold as it is the ground of the spirit; being at peace with the daily fabric of existence. I have come away richer, stronger, clearer and happier, experiencing the fullness in all parts of life.

 “ Silence is fullness” – Peter Zumthor
“ Silence is a zero”  – Yasuhisa Toyota
“ Silence is a vacation in the true richness of life”  – Poppy Szkiler

 

To register and for more information contact Helga Beer:
250.370.0464
hbeer@highspeedplus.com