{"id":17486,"date":"2026-05-18T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wien-meditation.at\/kurse\/meditation-retreat-for-women-who-am-i-when-i-dont-need-to-be-anyone\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:24:28","slug":"meditation-retreat-for-women-who-am-i-when-i-dont-need-to-be-anyone","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/wien-meditation.at\/en\/kurse\/meditation-retreat-for-women-who-am-i-when-i-dont-need-to-be-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Retreat for Women &#8211; Who am I when I don&#8217;t need to be anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"17486\" class=\"elementor elementor-17486 elementor-17466\" data-elementor-post-type=\"mec-events\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-756ed7a5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"756ed7a5\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-266c9a23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"266c9a23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"880\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">3 days at the Meditation Center in Burgenland <\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Who am I when I don\u2019t have to be anyone?<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"body\">Being a woman often means being many things: mother, partner, colleague, daughter, caregiver, the funny one, the serious one. Always in relation, reliable and available.  <\/p><p class=\"body\"><strong>For three days, doing can rest.<\/strong><\/p><pre class=\"pull\"><em>\"The self steps back\u2014so that perception can become possible in the first place.\"<\/em><br><em>after Simone Weil<\/em><\/pre><p class=\"body\">This meditation retreat is an experiment: <strong>living into the question for three days\u2014who am I when I don\u2019t have to be anyone?<\/strong> Together with other women, in silence and conversation, with curiosity and self-compassion.<\/p><p class=\"body\"><strong>This question has no answer in words. It lives in silence. <\/strong><\/p><p class=\"body\">Sitting and walking alternate. <strong>Everyday life steps back.<\/strong> What remains reveals itself on its own\u2014and can be just as it is.<\/p><p class=\"body\">In between, impulses from philosophy and consciousness research\u2014for observing and reflecting. Space for questions and conversations that are allowed to remain open. <\/p><p class=\"body\"><strong>Time for non-doing. Time for silence. <\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Elements of the Retreat:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Sitting and walking meditation<\/span><\/li><li><p>Insights into the meditative posture<\/p><\/li><li><p>Exchange and reflection<\/p><\/li><li><p>Physical exercises<\/p><\/li><li><p>Periods of silence<\/p><\/li><li><p>Space for personal observation<\/p><\/li><li>Insights from philosophy and consciousness research<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br><\/strong><strong style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 days<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> <strong>Friday<\/strong><strong style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 13.11. 2:00 PM\u2013Sunday, 2026-11-15, 1:00 PM<br><\/strong><strong>Facilitator:<\/strong> Mona Schramke <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Fee:<\/strong> \u20ac370 <strong>including 4 organic vegan meals<\/strong> (including brunch &amp; early dinner, plus coffee, tea, and snacks available all day).<\/p><p><strong>Overnight stay<\/strong> at the meditation farm is available on request.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you insured with SVS? You can redeem the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svs.at\/cdscontent\/?contentid=10007.817071&amp;portal=svsportal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Health Hunderter&#8221;<\/a> for this offer. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chains of thought, brooding, circular thinking\u2014movements of the mind that sometimes go on endlessly. A meditative approach arises not through suppression or struggle, but through allowing inner silence. From this emerges a space of mental autonomy, in which thoughts are allowed to come and go without dominating the experience. Being unintentionally in the moment means lingering beyond roles and expectations\u2014and thus entering more directly into the experience of present existence.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[179],"class_list":["post-17486","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-retreat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meditation Retreat for Women - Who am I when I don&#039;t need to be anyone? - MEDITAS Meditationszentrum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"3 days of meditation and mindfulness in a protected setting in Burgenland. 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