The Divine Name – Online Weekend Retreat at Home

Join hundreds of people from around the world for a powerful online weekend retreat where you will immerse yourself deeply in the profound peace and quiet joy at the heart of your being. 

Throughout the weekend, you will explore various pathways back to your essential self  — the ‘I’ that lies behind, or beyond, our thoughts, feelings, relationships and experiences.

To whom does the name ‘I’ refer?

Understanding this is perhaps the most vital and intimate knowledge we can have of our essential nature. It is the portal to the peace of our being.

When we peel away all the qualities the ‘I’ acquires from the content of experience – thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions – what stands revealed is not the temporary, finite being we’ve long felt ourselves to be, but unlimited being. Infinite being. God’s being.

Thus, ‘I’ is the divine name, the name of the divine in each of us.

Details
This online weekend Retreat at Home will comprise of meditations and dialogues on the essential, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions. This simple, contemplative approach, which encourages a clear seeing of one’s experience rather than any kind of effort or discipline, leads the us to an experiential understanding of their own essential being and the peace and fulfilment that are inherent within it.

The weekend will begin on Friday with a guided meditation. There will be two guided meditations and a Q&A session on Saturday, with breaks in between, and on Sunday there will be two meditations during the day, finishing with a Q&A session. Details of the schedule are below.

Community
The retreat is a wonderful opportunity to connect with like-minded people around the world. There will be a private facebook group just for event attendees, where you will meet each other and start to connect before the event. You may also wish to join one of the several Zoom rooms that will be open for a period of time after each session for you to chat, meditate or spend some time together.

Access
All you need to participate is a computer or a mobile device, such as a tablet or smartphone, with a built-in speaker and access to the internet. The platform we use for the sessions is Zoom. Neil will walk you through the sign-in process, which is very simple, and he will email you with the invitation to join ahead of the weekend. We also now have a 'View Only' livestream option which allows access to a stream of all the sessions in real time and also provides playback links on the livetream page for viewing any missed sessions due to timezone differences. All participants also receive audio and video links to stream the recordings of each session, and these will remain active for 30 days. 

To optimise your retreat experience, we recommend a wired connection if possible. If you do use a Wi-Fi connection, close all or most other devices using the signal. For mobile devices, a 3G or 4G connection is needed.

To calculate the time difference where you live, use this link: everytimezone.com

Everyone who registers for this event will automatically be added to a Discussion Board, which will put them in direct contact with all other attendees, enabling them to be in touch with one another, individually or as a group, exchange information or simply for social purposes. Please note that the Discussion Board is not to be used for promotional purposes.

The Discussion Board will also be used by the group organiser to contact the whole group in the run up to the event with important information and to share the links to recordings during the retreat. If you have technical issues during the meetings please contact the organiser directly using the chat function on the platform.

The server will only send out emails for the organisers posts. If you would like to stay in touch with the other attendees, you will find the Discussion Board tab is available, once registered for the retreat and is located on the tab next to the Attendees list.

To register for this weekend retreat, please use the 'add to basket' buttons below and follow instructions to check out.

Tickets are available based on the sliding scale below, with the intention of making the teaching available to more people: 

£40 - Supported: for those who would like to attend but are unable to do so for financial reasons*
£80 - Standard: for those with sufficient financial resources to attend at a fair price
£160 - Sponsor: for those with adequate financial resources and a desire to support attendance for others.

£65 - Livestream – view only access (*see below for details).

Tickets include access to all of the daily meetings. Links to the streamable recordings will be posted on the discussion board after each meeting and will be available for four weeks. Please select from the options in the tickets section below, add to basket and checkout as normal. 

PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE THREE HOURS BEFORE THE FIRST MEETING.

90% refund will be given on tickets cancelled before the start of the retreat.
No refunds will be given after the retreat has begun. 
If you have technical problems, please contact the organiser of the retreat for assistance. 

Supported Tickets

If you wish to attend with a Supported ticket, please email the team, support@rupertspira.com, to apply for a discount voucher code. Once you have this you will be able to follow the usual 'add to basket' process to book your place using the discount code to reduce the ticket price. Applications will be processed from Monday 21st August.
*If you are unable to afford the tickets at the supported rate, please include this in your email, stating that you wish to receive a free place on the retreat and we will allocate a free ticket to you.

Please note that the cut-off date for supported ticket applications is Tuesday 12th, 8pm GMT. 
 

*Livestream View Only tickets have been made available to allow more people to attend the retreat at home than we can fit into the Zoom room. Attendees will have access to all sessions as view only; this means that there won't be the opportunity to ask a question during Q&A sessions, or join the breakout rooms after the sessions. Attendees have access to the playback links on the viewing page soon after the session ends and these will be available for 30 days to watch again.

Access will be under 'My Live Streams' under your account on Rupert's website.

Booking will close after the first session, so please be sure to register online if you wish to attend. You will receive an order confirmation email and you will be emailed the streaming link before the start of the retreat.

(please use everytimezone.com to find the times for sessions in your own timezone)