Yogi, doula, mother and writer Mairéad Heffron was initially dubious about going on a ten day silent retreat in Clare with no phone, no dinner and no speaking allowed. Instead of boredom however, she found introspection.
I told a friend I was going on a silent meditation retreat, and she looked at me like I was crazy. “If I had 10 days without kids I would go to Bali and do lots of massages and healing treatments”. Maybe it’s a masochistic or ascetic streak or maybe I feel less guilty about being away from my kids while sleeping in an old farmhouse in Clare than in a beach hut in Ubud.
Then comes the question “is it really so important, or even if it is so important, why does it feel so fraught when we disagree on it – or our ability to work our schedules around it?”
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