The Center for Holistic Living offers a contemplative atmosphere for relaxation and spiritual renewal in a beautiful and peaceful country setting. No particular religious or philosophical viewpoint is promoted. Everyone is welcome for personal self-directed retreats.

Personal retreats may be totally or partially in silence. Silence is not mandatory but is requested in areas where others may be in silence. Retreatants may enjoy a variety of activities such as walking, reading, meditation and mindful work.

ACTIVITIES OFFERED

Dialogues with Ms. Dantes

Guests will have an appointment arranged upon their arrival for a private dialogue with Ms. Dantes.

Daily Meditation

There are three meditations daily at 7:30 am in the morning, 12:00 noon, and 7:00 pm in the evening. Participation is optional. People may meditate in whatever way they are accustomed (not disturbing the silence of other guests).

Nature Walks

The natural beauty of the retreat setting provide a quiet and peaceful environment to walk or sit in contemplation. Writers and other artists often find inspiration in the peacefulness and solitude.

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These retreat/workshops are kept very small for individualized attention. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available.

Personal Rejuvenation

Healthcare providers often live demanding lives of service to those in their care. Our programs provide respite and rejuvenation, benefits that extend to families, co-workers and patients.

Experiential Education

Workshops and retreats with Ms. Dantes inquire directly into everyday experience. This education provides technical information and also insight into one’s relationships with others, which is immediately applicable in one’s healthcare practice.

Private Dialogues

Private dialogues with Ms. Dantes make our programs unique. Many people have found these dialogues to be life-transforming experiences. The 26-Hour and 46-Hour Retreat/ Workshops allow each participant an opportunity to dialogue privately with Ms. Dantes. Participants may inquire into the interrelatedness of body/mind/spirit, personal matters and professional concerns.

The Center for Holistic Living is approved to provide continuing education credit by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and the California Board of Registered Nursing.

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This program is for the person with a genuine desire to discover life’s deepest meaning.

The Paths of Natural Insight© is an opportunity to make an actual commitment to one’s own spiritual unfolding. This process can be joyful and life transforming for the applicant who brings sincerity, honesty and perseverance to the work. In fact, without inner resolve–fortitude of spirit–there would not be the commitment needed for self-discovery in this Natural Spiritual Path.

Traditionally, monasteries, sanghas and ashrams came into being to offer this kind of support within religious or philosophical belief systems. The Paths of Natural Insight offers the same support without belief systems, rituals or dogma, however, always respecting each individual’s religion or philosophy of life. The Paths of Natural Insight© is about living holistically (attending equally to spirit/body/mind). It is about awakening awareness (dissolving old patterns of conditioning) and compassion in everyday living, discovering peace of mind, and the joy of service.

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Are you at a stage in your life when you could dedicate a period of time and energy to real transformational work? The Residential Paths of Natural Insight Program offers extraordinary opportunities for more intensive inquiry. Participants confront self-centered conditioning at root-level. As this conditioning withers in the light of awareness, one is able to experience joy, beauty, love and compassion, inner peace and true service. Ms. Dantes’ non-judgemental compassion is the soil that nurtures this amazingly effective process. Participants find that freedom and responsibility are inseparable; but also that this demanding work of self-discovery brings a growing sense of liberation, a taste of genuine freedom and joy, and an inner confidence in one’s own spiritual path.

Those who persevere can observe the effects of mindful and selfless action. They experience a difference in themselves and those around them. Ms. Dantes herself is selfless. Her concern is always for others–that they discover truth for themselves, and finally experience the love and freedom that is their true nature.

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In-depth individual dialogues for people interested in discovering their true nature.

Ms. Dantes shares her experience of ©Spiritupsychophysicalness (her neologism) in direct dialogues with individuals opening doors for direct experiences of their true nature. Her approach is educational in a Socratic style of self-inquiry without judging or evaluating. Her unique inquiring approach includes looking into consciousness, bringing an expansive awareness of the true wholeness of human existence in universe.

The tuition for ©Spiritupsychophysicalness Inquiries is $250.00.

To request an application for dialogues, please contact the
Center for Holistic Living by phone: 805-474-0555
or by mail: P.O. Box 368, Grover Beach, CA 93483
or by email: office@centerforholisticliving.org

Allow yourself 2 to 3 hours for contemplation & dialogue.

You are also welcome to enjoy the peaceful gardens, walk the labyrinth, and use the library for the remainder of the day.

Location, directions and arrival time will be provided upon acceptance of your application.