Diamond Approach Silent Meditation Retreat with Eugene Cash and Tejo at Le Moulin, SW France

There are no longer in-person places available for this retreat. If you would like to be added to the waiting list then please email Kusi at diamondapproachretreats@gmail.com.

There are still places available to join this retreat online.

The retreat

This meditation retreat is an opportunity to immerse oneself in an extended period of silent meditation informed by the Diamond Approach®.

Without the usual distractions of daily life, this retreat will allow us to devote ourselves to practice and to invite direct contact with Being and Presence. A central principle of the Diamond Approach is that when we contact ourselves in a felt-sensed way, we open the door to direct experience of our reality as essential. The fundamental practices of the Diamond Approach are designed to facilitate the radical shift to an intimacy with the totality of our experience spanning personality and Essence. This retreat will support your connection to yourself and to these practices, integrating and deepening of the sensing, looking and listening practice and your meditation practice––developing concentration, awareness and presence in an on-going way.

Teaching fee

To confirm your booking, you first have to pay for the teaching fee (online/in-person) which is $600.

To buy your ticket, please click on BUY TICKETS in the blue box at the top right-hand side of the page.

For the Paypal option, it it still possible to pay without a Paypal account.

PLEASE DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PAYMENT

Moulin de Chaves - Accommodation plus Food

Once the teaching fee has been paid, the next step is to book and pay for your accommodation.

Accommodation will be at le Moulin de Chaves retreat centre SW France, situated, north of Bordeaux, quite close to Limoges and Bergerac train stations and airports.

Accommodation at le moulin is a mixture of shared rooms for 2 and 3 people, single rooms, single ensuite rooms, plus moulin tents for those hardy people! The shared and single rooms share bathrooms on each floor of the main building, and there is a outdoor bathroom block for those who are in the newly built cabins and for those who are camping.

There is a limit to how many single and single ensuite rooms we have, so preference will be given to those with health issues.

To book and pay for your accommodation and food at le moulin, bookings open on 20th January 2025.

However those who have health issues, and are unable to attend unless they have a single and or a single ensuite ground floor room, please contact Anna at le moulin ( moulindechaves@gmail.com ) as soon as you have paid the teaching fee.

Please note we only have a limited amount of those rooms, so it will have to be a first come basis.

Accommodation prices

To view photos of the rooms see: https://www.moulindechaves.org/gallery/

Meals

Le moulin provides 3 tasty mostly organic vegetarian meals including gluten and dairy-free options.

Staying at le moulin

To find out more details about your stay at le moulin, link here

Travel

To make the journey easier for all, we encourage people to share taxis from the major airports and train stations nearby le moulin, which will be smoother, easier and a cheaper option.

When you book your accommodation at le moulin you will receive a confirmation that will include a Google document for sharing travel arrangements. Use this document to get together and share your travel plans. Taxi numbers will be posted on the Google document that you can phone and book taxis well in advance.

Please note that le moulin cannot arrange your travel for you.

For more information for about how to get to the moulin click the link below:

https://www.moulindechaves.org/travel-information/

Online participation

Details on how to participate will be sent closer to the time.

Daily schedule

The schedule below is for both in-person and online participants.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ONLINE PARTICIPATION IS FOR EU/UK TIME ZONES ONLY.

The cancellation policy for the teaching fee

If a participant should cancel this event up to 2 months before the starting date, the teaching fee is refundable less a €100 administration fee. If cancelled up to 1 month before the event, 50% is refundable. If cancelled less than 1 month before the event, there is no refund.

If the organisers should cancel this event, it would return all monies paid by participants for teaching fees.

Participants may wish to take out an insurance to cover themselves in case of any eventuality.

The cancellation policy for le moulin

If a participant should cancel this event 2 months before the starting date, the accommodation fee is refundable less a €100 administration fee. If cancelled 1 month before the event, 50% is refundable. If cancelled less than 1 month before the event, there is no refund.

If the Moulin should cancel this event, it would return all monies paid by participants for Moulin accommodation.

Participants may wish to take out an insurance to cover themselves in case of any eventuality.

ABOUT THE TEACHERS

About Eugene

Eugene Cash is a Diamond Approach® teacher since 1993. He co-founded Diamond Approach San Francisco & Diamond Approach Los Angeles. He currently co-leads Diamond Heart 10 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Eugene is also a Buddhist teacher. He teachers at Spirit Rock Mediation Center and is the founding teacher (since 1993) of San Francisco Insight. He has practiced meditation for over 40 years. He is passionate about teaching awareness, inquiry and waking up in daily life.

About Tejo

Tejo Jourdan has been teaching the Diamond Approach since 2006 and has been a student of this work since 1990 he now teaches the Diamond Approach® in Germany and the United Kingdom. After several years in India he worked in California as a building contractor for 25 years he is passionate about meditation and the practice of Presence, and Inquiry in every day, ordinary life.

About Gail

Gail Aylward is director and co-founder of the Moulin de Chaves retreat centre in South-West France. She started practicing yoga in the early 1990s and sat her first silent meditation retreat in 1994 in India. Gail is a qualified Mindfulness, yoga and restorative yoga teacher, and teaches retreats emphasising a kind, gentle attention within both the meditation practices and yoga postures.

In 2005, Gail became a student of the Ridhwan school of the Diamond Approach of AH Almaas. Inspired and transformed by these teachings, she joined their 10 year teacher training program and was ordained as a teacher-minister in 2021.

Gail mentors students one to one, teaches retreats and assists in leading Diamond Approach groups.

About Deb

Christianity was the lens through which Deb Sylvan encountered the divine as a young child. She began contemplative practice in earnest as a teenager, longing for god and feeling the limitations of the religious context she was immersed in. The spiritual lens of her youth widened and drew her to silent meditation retreats in 2004 (both Christian and Buddhist). A fervent retreat practice then led her to the Diamond Approach, which broadened and grounded the experiences she was having on retreat, bringing them into her life. She began teaching meditation in 2016, and the Diamond Approach 2021. She is an Assistant Teacher for the US Diamond Approach Silent Retreat, the Wednesday Morning Meditation Class, and leads a Meditation and Inquiry group for parents. The combination of the Diamond Path with meditation and silent retreats is where her heart finds its home. Her geographical home is with her husband and two children in Oakland, California.

If you have any questions or queries about the retreat please contact Kusi at diamondapproachretreats@gmail.com