Time Out 10 Days

A Transforming Encounter With Yourself

This is a substantial retreat for people at a personal or professional crossroads who are ready for a true Time Out — a chance to renew purpose, meaning, and focus.

As the deepest retreat offered here, it includes intensive one-to-one work alongside extended periods of silence, creating the conditions for profound inner change.

The experience offers a rare opportunity to:

• step back and reconnect deeply with yourself
• give focused attention to important questions in your personal and professional life
• gain insight into the patterns that shape you, both positively and negatively
• renew inspiration and clarify your direction in life
• ground and develop as a whole person, balancing head and heart while aligning body, mind, and spirit

With family responsibilities, work demands, and the constant pull of modern media, it is easy to lose touch with ourselves. Important questions are postponed, and our inner source of creativity and effectiveness can remain neglected.

This retreat gives you the space to reconnect with that source and open to what you can truly become.

Guidance

Approximately 18 hours of one-to-one Transformational Coaching and Mentoring with Peter.

Participation in the twice-daily Nirarta group Awareness Meditation programme.

Optional prayer and meditation sessions to soften awareness and open the heart and mind.

Programme

Day 1

Arrival by midday

Personal administration

Lunch

Phase 1 – Pre-Silence

Optional traditional Balinese cleansing blessing to open the retreat

Orientation meeting

Preparation to clarify focus and intention

Days 2 & 3

Continued preparation to clarify focus and intention

Phase 2 - Silence

Days 4-8

Five days of solitude in nature by the river

You will spend these days alone in a quiet bungalow by the river, living simply in silence and nature without the usual props of modern life — no organizer, phone, reading, or writing materials. The diet is equally simple: fruit and water.

Time in the company of the elements helps release the markers that normally define daily life. Each person’s experience is unique, but this kind of silence often becomes a watershed moment — a natural turning point that supports meaningful change and growth.

Phase 3 – Conclusion and Bridging

Days 9 & 10

Consolidation and bridging

Day 11

Consolidation and bridging

Traditional Balinese cleansing blessing to close the retreat

Lunch

Departure

Facilitator:

Peter Wrycza, PhD

Peter is the founder of the Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness. Over the past forty years, he has worked internationally as a trainer, consultant, and coach with organizations and individuals. He is experienced in both group facilitation and one-to-one coaching and counselling, and has been a meditation guide for nearly 50 years. His training includes NLP, Person Centred Expressive Therapy, and other forms of expressive work. He has led retreats at Nirarta since its beginnings in the 1990s.

He is the author or co-author of several books on personal development, including:

• Living Awareness: Awakening to the Roots of Learning and Perception,
• Moksha: A New Way of Life, (with Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani)
• Living in the Spirit (with Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani)
• When Performance Meets Alignment: A Compass for Coaching and Mentoring (with Jan Ardui)

A gifted facilitator of deep transformation and awakening, he also developed Conversations on the Edge of Silence, supporting growth in individuals, couples, groups, and communities through Generative Dialogue, as well as the holistic Re•Patterning process.

Inclusions:

• Single accommodation, all meals, airport transfers, government taxes, and service.

Exclusions:

• Credit card charges and bank transfer fees.

Reviews

• 'I just wanted to tell you that since my stay at Nirarta and the work with you, I've rediscovered a wonderful energy. Thanks again, a thousand times for the beauty of this work that you offer.' – A M, (France/Morocco), 2006
• 'Peter, the retreat and my long time in Nirarta has been a very wonderful experience and more than that, a source, from which I feel slowly changes in my every day life rise. Thank you again. ' – A H, (Germany), 2008
• 'I came into the 10-day guided retreat with an idea of what I wanted to achieve and experience. However, within the first two days Peter helped me clarify and deepen my understanding of where I was and what I was seeking. From there the true transformations began to occur, and I now feel like I've shifted paradigms in the way I experience my world. This 10-day experience was much more than I expected, and the insights and clarity that emerged during the retreat, and that have been continuing to emerge since, have been life changing. Thankyou Peter!' – MB, (Australia), June, 2010