Silent Retreat Center in Assisi, Italy

08/09/2025

Dear Friends,
Highly time for an update!

Our previous Newsletter ended with the sentence "Today we have signed the preliminary contract and when all practical matters are settled we´ll move out of here in September."

Well... September is here but some of the mentioned "practical matters" had to do with the sale of our buyers´ house in Holland, and although they were pretty sure - that sadly didn´t happen. Our buyers are still interested but their selling process will take some time.
Therefore we are putting our house back on the market.

You´re very welcome to share this message with your network - we really wish to pass on our Center to some that continue our work with the same meditative approach as we had, that would be lovely!
(remember we plan to continue in 2026 our Individual Retreats when we have established new places in Assisi and Denmark. But more about those when we´re ready...)

Meanwhile the September Days here pass Silently,
no retreats, no packing, no doing,
needless to say we enjoy...

Wishing you all the same LoveForLife,
Mayadevi & Shintai

Here´s the link to the YouTube video tour which might be fun to watch for all of you, that have been here....
Below that video there´s the link to the detailed information about our Center.

https://youtu.be/NtVoWA9_gh8?si=5TYDB3_LEO8Ejq4M

18/08/2025

Silence is something which comes naturally when you are watching; when you are watching without motive, without any kind of demand; just to watch, and see the beauty of a single star in the sky, or to watch a single tree in a field, or to watch your wife or husband, or whatever you watch. To watch with a great silence and space. Then in that watching, in that alertness, then there is something which is beyond words, beyond all measure.⁠
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We use words to measure the immeasurable. So one must be aware also of the network of words, how words cheat us; how words mean so much - a Communist, to a capitalist, means something terrible; socialist, or some stranger. You follow? Words become extraordinarily important. But to be aware of those words and to weigh the words, to weigh, to live with the word 'silence', knowing that the word is not silence, but to live with that word and see the weight of that word, the content of the word, the beauty of that word. So one begins to realise, when thought is quietly watching, there is something beyond all imagination, doubt, seeking, and there is such a thing - at least for the speaker. But what the speaker says has no validity to another. Unless you listen, learn, watch, be totally free from all the anxieties of life, then only there is a religion which brings about a new, totally different culture.⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
Public Talk 4 Ojai, California, USA - 22 May 1983⁠
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24/06/2025

21/06/2025

SUMMER SOLSTICE NEWSLETTER
Dear Friends,
As announced in our previous newsletter, Big Changes!

We usually write that "Here Life goes Slow",
but the last months the pace has been speeding up!

After a lovely ten days individual retreat in March, both Mayadevi and I felt that we somehow were finished offering our retreats here at home.
Absolutely no negative feeling, maybe a little bit tired of all the physical tasks.
Mostly a strong feeling that something new wanted to happen.

Few days later our rational mind told us that our house without retreat guests was too big for just the both of us and we decided to sell in order to find a smaller place here around Assisi and another in Denmark in order to be closer to our sons´ families and our Danish friends.
We contacted the real estate agent from whom we bought our house exactly ten years ago, she came to take pictures & video and prepared all the documents.

Few days later she was contacted by a Dutch couple (62 & 65) that wanted to buy a Retreat Center in Umbria.
When she showed them the video (the house was not yet advertised on her website) they immediately fell in love with our place.
Shortly after they came for a four days individual retreat and decided to buy.
They will offer individual healing stays to their vast circle of Dutch clients.

Today (happy solstice!) we have signed the preliminary contract and when all practical matters are settled we´ll move out of here in September.

In 2026 we will start offering our retreats (one week in May and September) in Le Mandrie, an agriturismo of friends of ours near Assisi, a lovely place which will release us from all the practical tasks related to food and lodging and which will support us in what we are best at sharing with all of you: Doing Nothing, Just Being!

So big changes, yes!
Exciting, yes!
As all went very fast, smooth and organicaly, we are grateful to The Universe!

We´ll keep you updated - also about our future Silent Days in Denmark which we offered before we came here...

Meanwhile we´send YouAllOurLight&Love
Mayadevi & Shintai

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