a Foundational Meditation Retreat with Susan Mickel
Friday, October 10 - Friday, October 17 - 2025
Opening to Pure Awareness
This retreat is an entry level retreat that is open to everyone. We will begin with concentration/mental stabilization, emphasizing embodied awareness as a foundation. By settling the mind in this way, we prepare for meditations that explore how the mind constructs our world, including our sense of self, phenomena, and time. Having some experience of these ‘emptiness’ meditations, we move naturally into meditations emphasizing non-dual pure awareness. Meditations on nondual pure awareness are supported by learning how to rest the mind in its natural state.
The way of teaching will include explanation and instruction, guided meditations, and group discussion.
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Location: De Burcht in Amsterdam.
​​The retreat will begin Friday, October 10th at 16.30 hr. and will end Friday October 18th at 12.30 hr.
Retreat fee: € 795,-
We have scholarships (a reduction of the fee) available for students with a small income. Especially for those under 35 years old. Please contact Guusje.
Enrollment is limited to 25 participants.
There is a morning and an afternoon meditation session each full day.
Participants must attend all sessions. If for some reason this is not possible, they are asked to discuss that in advance with Susan.
The retreat is non-residential: please make your own arrangements for accommodation and meals!
Registration: by submitting the application form and payment of the retreat-fee.
Any questions? Contact Guusje:
Guusje van de Ven, guusjevandeven@planet.nl,
Tel: +31 (0)6 107 900 40