What is SHAMBALI concretely, what is its reason of being?

Do you know a lot of people saying “ I love my life”?

We met so many people on our road with an incredible career, very honorific titles, everything amazing on the paper: a good job, a beautiful family, nice relatives, the all attributes of our society: the big house(s), the car(s), the full package proving the success… But at the end of the day, they were admitting to missing something, they could not explain: deep inside they were feeling incomplete. Actually, they were wandering without a real sense of life.

Elif Shafak said this very wise sentence which is most of the time hard to accept:

“No matter who we are and where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It is like having lost something and experiencing the need to find it back. What is this “something”? Most of us will never find it. And among those who succeed, even rarer are those who go on its quest.”

Actually, the reason of SHAMBALI is to help people to find this “something”, to identify and then be able to reactivate it. This is the basis of maieutic: make people give birth to themselves.
In other words to help people to find themselves by proposing them a maximum of tools and technics to find their own way as everybody is unique and there is no unique magic recipe.

Our modern society separated us: each other, from the environment, nature, and from our true nature: our deep soul & our deep self.

Our modern society brings a virtual hyper-connection and overwhelms most of us by so much information occupying our mind all the time, creating the phenomena of “busease” (a mix of busy and disease). Therefore we are never anymore absorbed by the present: we are always absorbed by something else: our memories, our future plans… That’s why this “something” is maybe due to the fact people are lost basically.

SHAMBALI is a “center of well-being”, where the word “center” at the core becomes wholly meaningful: to return to the center (etymologically “meditate”): to meditate on the meaning of life, the senses of life, the essence of life and ultimately to redevelop our senses: our 5 senses and even beyond our 6 senses (by developing the 6th one).

Indeed we propose a holistic approach and new vision with a solid accompaniment. We guide our travelers on their inner journey to find their own way with theories and practices. We use and suggest a special methodology called T.I.P method: Theoretical Intuitive Practical approach.

The goal is to present the different keys to open up the doors they want and to get daily tools to achieve permanently a stable harmony through inner and outer fullness. There is a common thread in the entire pattern of the organization creating at the end a luminous and beautiful big picture. We explain and establish lots of bridges in between the different activities to show that all are linked. This journey to reach YOUnity passes through different steps of initiations, introductions to new perceptions and new experiences. The ultimate goal is you find yourself and find back your “natural nature” and your balance.

Practically the full package is made of 5 full days and 5 nights all included: food, room, activities (even outside)… It is quite intense as we take care of our hosts from 7:00 am till 10:00 pm but obviously, people are completely free to squeeze an activity as they do at their own pace. All is done for letting people evolving at own rhythm following their own harmonious inner symphony.

The retreat proposes different disciplines: Mindfulness, Meditation, Pilates, Kundalini Yoga, Aquatic massage, Floating, Sound therapy, Self-hypnosis, Breathwork, Reiki, Bowls healing, Qi Gong, Light painting’ art therapy, Sufi dervish Turner initiation, Ecstatic dance and also various activities: Trekking in rice fields, Vigil with fire, Massage, Stargazing…
The choice is large for the exploratory dimension of our guests, like this they will have a large insight and they could decide later to deepen more activity than another because it will more vibrate as we are all different with different sensitivity.

We are inspired by the light of different disciplines in order to reflect it harmoniously to people.

We are proposing various principles, values, perspectives to apply a new grid of reading and co-writing the Great Book of Life.

If we go more in details here is the list of the activities and their reason of being:

1-Disciplines

We provide several disciplines as different keys to open up the doors of the same thing: harmony and happiness like all roads lead to Rome.

• Mindfulness: Attention/focus on every single task at each second: fully in the present moment
• Meditation: Reconnect our mind with our body and with the YOUniverse with different tools
• Pilates: Connection in between breathing-posture-mind
• Kundalini Yoga: The harmony of postures and breathing to activate your vital source of energy Kundalini
• Aquatic massage: Harmony of the gestures in the flow of water requiring trust in between partners
• Floating: The release of the gravity: no weigh anymore allowing enlargement of consciousness
• Sound therapy: Principle of cymatic: the positive effects of the sounds on our bodies and magnetic fields
• Self-hypnosis: Autosuggestion progressively to enter in different layers of trance to reach to unconsciousness to reconnect with your Higher Self
• Breathwork: Hyperventilation allowing to release some post-trauma and to reach harmony
• Reiki: Re-energization of the flows (Ki, Qi, Prana) of the body through different meridians
• Bowls healing: Purification of the energies of the body and the mind through the sound and the Tibetan bowls
• Qi Gong: Fluidity of the movement in the space, the balance between strength and weakness, firmness and flexibility
• Anchoring light art therapy: The resonance in between the harmony of Light (geometrical draws) and your mind through your personal intuition and artistic dimension
• Sufi dervish Turner initiation (and show): Transcendental meditation by sipping to reach trance and dilution of the ego into the YOUniverse
• Transe & dance (ecstatic dance): Ecstatic dance allowing to release your inner animal to reach YOUnity by renouncing to your ego
• Massage: Activate all muscles in mindfulness to relax them after an effort to feel deeply one’s physical body
• Stargazing: reconnect to the celestial vault, reconsider our space-time dimension and our human perspectives and beyond

2- Relearning/concepts

We propose you various concepts to relearn the essentials, the bases, the foundations that most of the people lost and we approach a deepening with new perspectives

• Cleansing: The lack (fasting, phone detox, bad habits…) emphasizes what we have daily and of which we are no more aware
• Breathing: The art of breathing is the bridge in between the physics and metaphysics
• Eating: The nutrition allows to be conscious of the special intakes of each ingredient
• Walking & Standing: The posture, the way of standing and evolving in mindfulness
• Reconnection to 4 elements: Reintegrate the importance of the 4 elements to be closer to nature
• Reconnection to 5 senses: Redevelop your 5 senses to develop the 6th one and reach the deep essence of Life
• Regaining of our childish vision: Relearn the capacity to marvel for simple pleasures
• Exploration of nocturnal dimension: an exploration of astral dimensions: out of body experience, astral travel
• Decrypt the hidden messages of the Great Book of Life: Discover the synchronicities and solicit them and relearn to listen to nature
• Teachings of mysteries: There is an encoding of the visible world, only 4% is based on matter, all are based on sacred geometry

The retreats are done in a small group of maximum 20 persons. We really want to preserve the proximity for the people to know each other and beyond with an accompaniment of the practitioners with permanent availability. Our travelers and guests most of the time become like friends or (kind of) part of the big family/community SHAMBALI. The goal is to set up bridges, a solid network on the long term run among us. In the spirit that we are not ALONE we are ALL ONE…

We are convinced people having the chance to experience SHAMBALI retreat will never be same, they will go home by gathering some much information, integrating some many tips to reactivate the highest frequencies of harmony in their daily lives.

Beyond of state of mind for our guests, SHAMBALI is a foundation financing an orphanage and some charity projects: teaching local people, recycling/cleaning nature, a gigantic platform Worldwide YOUmenchmark gathering the best ideas of the planet: from the past and from nowadays to make this Light, these genius ideas circulating throughout the world.

SHAMBALI is a fruit of a lot of Light, Love, passion and deep belief in the human transcendence. As the little prince said and we all believe: “turn your life into a dream and this dream into reality”.

Issa ~ AM