Nature Medicine - silence, meditation and refined food
This retreat focuses on silence, meditation, yoga, and nutritional re-education, where we transition between a solid diet based on fruits and vegetables, fruit juices, and water.
ValueR$242.00/day, with a discount of 5% for stays of 7 days or more.
Flexible durationYou choose how many days and the start date.
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Through this, one experiences the restoration of our natural rhythms to reconnect with Happiness through the purity of Nature.
In this retreat, in addition to daily meditation practices, we offer pranayama, yoga, and kriyas. These activities are included and optional. The only mandatory activity is the meditation, prayer, and sharing circle at the end of the afternoon.
Would you like to learn about our other retreat options?
3-day retreat
Experience life in silence, a juice-based diet, light cleansing, body practices, yoga, and direct contact with nature. Perfect for those who wish to begin practicing fasting and a more refined diet.
Retreats of Silence and Fasting
An experience of pause, cleansing, and deep listening for those seeking cleansing, self-knowledge, presence, and reconnection with the body. We have options for 7, 14, or 21 days.
At Portal, nutrition is understood as part of the holistic training of the self. What is received by the body, senses, emotions, and thoughts directly influences the quality of the mind. Therefore, nourishing oneself is not just about ingesting food, but also about observing the relationship between desire, habit, need, clarity, and presence.
During a meditation and silence retreat, food should be consumed in a simple, moderate, and mindful manner. Food is received as support for the practice, not as an object of distraction, excess, or compulsive gratification. The way food is chosen, prepared, served, and eaten becomes part of the process of self-observation.
The withdrawal of mental activities
Meditative practice requires conditions that favor the quieting of the mind. When the body is burdened by heavy foods, excessive combinations, or unnecessary stimuli, the mind tends to remain more agitated, dense, and reactive. A simple and light diet helps reduce these interferences.
The goal is not to impose rigid control, but to create an internal environment more conducive to observation. By reducing excesses, the mind can gradually withdraw from its distracting activities, becoming more stable, clear, and quiet.
In this state of reflection, the mind ceases to be continuously occupied with impulses, preferences, and aversions. It begins to develop a greater capacity for attention, discernment, and equanimity. When it becomes less agitated and less identified with its own movements, it can reflect in a purer way the presence of Purusha, the silent, witnessing, and immutable consciousness.
Food utilization
A raw food diet prioritizes fresh, raw, or minimally processed plant-based foods, such as fruits, leafy greens, vegetables, seeds, nuts, sprouts, germinated seeds, herbs, and natural juices. These foods are easily digested, rich in water, fiber, micronutrients, and vitality.
The mucus-free diet is a naturalistic approach that proposes reducing foods considered dense, acidifying, congestive, or difficult to eliminate, such as dairy products, refined flours, sugar, fried foods, ultra-processed foods, excess starches, meats, and heavy food combinations.
In this tradition, the term "mucus" refers not only to the physiological mucus naturally produced by the body, but also to a condition of overload, sluggishness, accumulation, and loss of bodily clarity. The proposal is to favor simple, plant-based, fresh, and easily digestible foods, supporting processes of lightness, hydration, intestinal regularity, anti-inflammatory action, and greater internal awareness.
The subtle approach to food should not be understood as a quest for idealized purity, nor as a universal rule. It is a gradual practice of simplification. Each body has its own history, its limits, and its own rhythm. Therefore, at Portal, raw food and mucus-free diets are conducted with responsibility, listening, and respect for individuality.
The purpose of this practice is to support the path of recollection, silence, and observation. By making eating simpler, the body is relieved, the mind encounters fewer obstacles, and consciousness can recognize more clearly that which lies beyond the fluctuations of body and mind.
