Lead by Charles Genoud

Saturday August 22nd to Saturday 29th in Petralia Soprana – Sicily (Italy)

Gesture of Awareness illuminates the situations of daily life as the spiritual path. There is nothing to do — just be ordinary, as the Ch’an master Lin-Ji expressed it.Yet the ordinary can be elusive.
The practice is usually held in silence, under the guidance of the teacher. It includes all aspects of human life. What we address is not what we are doing or how we are doing it, but simply being — being free.
This can be experienced through simple movements or gestures: in taking a step, in the contact with another person, or in the awareness of the way our thoughts arise. It can only be discovered when there is wholehearted acquiescence to life, in its satisfying as well as in its more difficult aspects.
Aware of the ungraspable immediacy of the present experience, one can discover the mystery of a life lived in fullness.

The morning is in silence
– 06:30 to 07:00: Meditation
– 07:15 to 08:00: Qigong or Walking
– 08:00 to 08:45: Breakfast
– 09:30 to 12:30: Morning session

– 12:30 to 01:30pm: Light meal
– 01:30pm to 03:00pm: Rest

– 03:00pm to 06:00pm: Afternoon session
– 06:30pm to 07:30pm: Dinner