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What Really Happens During A 10-Day Yoga Retreat

Carolyn O'Donnell | Posted 05.15.2013 | Travel
Read More: Chinese New Year, Noble Silence, SN Goenka, Vipassana Meditation, Retreat, Malaysia, Aversion, Jean-Paul Sartre, Craving, Travel News
Carolyn O'Donnell

A 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat with Noble Silence, 4 a.m. starts and 10 hours of meditation daily was never going to be easy, but combining it with communal living and random explosions probably made it even harder.

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A Meditation Vacation

Carolyn O'Donnell | Posted 03.12.2013 | Travel
Read More: Meditation, India, Wat Ram Poeng, Penang, Vipassana, SN Goenka, Malaysia, Thailand, Why We Vacation, Travel News
Carolyn O'Donnell

A Vipassana course is travel of a very personal kind, as it is above all a journey with the self, which may or may not involve conventional travel. If you love travel of all types, you can, as I did, combine both.

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10 Ways Meditation Can Change Your Life

MeiMei Fox | Posted 07.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Jack Kornfield, Joshua Tree National Park, Vipassana, SN Goenka, Mindfulness, Mindful Eating, Noah Levine, Meditation, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Anne Lamott, Meditation Practice, Stephen Levine, Slidepollajax, Vipassana Meditation Retreat, Meditation Retreat, Meditation Retreats, Vipassana Meditation, 10 Days of Meditation, Video, Healthy Living News
MeiMei Fox

I'm just an ordinary person who couldn't sit still for an hour when she first signed up for a Vipassana retreat yet has benefitted tremendously from the simple and challenging practice.

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The Life Out Loud: Sometimes You Need To Shut Up

MeiMei Fox | Posted 08.03.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living, Meditate, Vipassana, Speech, Mindfulness, SN Goenka, Speaking, Web 2.0 Expo, Meditation, Talk, Silence, Enlightenment, Ignite, Healthy Living Spirit, Being in Silence, Healthy Living News
MeiMei Fox

Think meditation is only for those "spiritual types"? The kind of people who chant "Hare Krishna" as they dance about in their orange robes? So did I. Until I really tried it, that is.

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