Student Program

Growing in the community

The Student Program is the further step following the Tourist Program: it allows you to continue living and working on yourself within the community.
It's a deeply involving program, during which you have the chance to get to know yourself in depth and experience many different situations.
This happens through meeting with the other students, by having fun and creating together, while still following one's personal path and growth.
The willingness to grow is constantly enhanced by experiences and relationships taking place within the community.
It is a program for people who want to live their daily lives in a more exciting and creative way, with a positive perspective and by learning to give themselves more pleasure.
The basic program includes: meditations, sharing, counseling, stress release, evening classes, weekend groups and communal living.
Program Coordinator: Nandita.

....impressions of a student

I arrived on March 21, 2003, a special day, the awakening of life everywhere, a day of good omen.
This is a place where for the last 7 years I've made some of the important choices which have determined my life.
This time my visit here was not only due to the need for a personal search, which in fact brought me every day in contact, or even confrontation, with all the people moving through the Center, but was also based on the need and the choice to spend a further month here for my physical healing.
I had come in a pitiful psychological and physical state.
Slowly, through groups and sessions, I learnt to handle my body, to become aware of my breathing, and therefore to accumulate more energy inside myself and to discover what was really important for my sexuality without feeling ashamed.
For the first 2 weeks I didn't even have the energy to get up for the morning meditations.
Then little by little I got stronger and I managed to do everything the Student Program offered.
My face was changing, and from inside a soft light was beginning to glow, helping me to have a clearer vision and more trust in the future.
Beside the meditations and the theater and massage sessions provided every day by the Center for my healing, there were walks in the woods and by the river, where primroses and wild violets were sprouting along the banks... not to mention the good, healthy meals prepared by some of the excellent cooks of the Center.
Here every meeting is fantastic, every person is ready to listen and exchange.
I had a good chance to get to know so many people and to be mirrored by them... and each one of them gave me something special, something I'll carry with joy in my heart for a long time.
Thank you to all for the support; and thanks to myself for the love which I'm able to give myself now!

Sw. Bodhi Ishu