El Escorial Retreat in Madrid, Spain
2nd - 7th May 2025
2nd - 7th May 2025
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The retreat will be held at Casa San José, on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. A unique opportunity to share time deepening your awakening with Helen.
The centre is set in a wonderful and spacious garden, a place of deep reflection, peaceful rest and absolute tranquility. This retreat is for attending in person only and is not available online. We will also offer live Spanish translation. |
Pricing
The price for attending the retreat includes accommodation and meals. The accommodation is based on shared accommodations in twin rooms. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis, in separate male or female shared rooms. Please click here for further details of the retreat fees.
The price for attending the retreat includes accommodation and meals. The accommodation is based on shared accommodations in twin rooms. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis, in separate male or female shared rooms. Please click here for further details of the retreat fees.
Information about the centre and travel
Each person is responsible for their own travel arrangements to and from the retreat centre.
For more information about the retreat centre please click here
For details regarding getting to the retreat centre check the document below:
Each person is responsible for their own travel arrangements to and from the retreat centre.
For more information about the retreat centre please click here
For details regarding getting to the retreat centre check the document below:
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Scholarships
We are offering limited partial scholarships for this retreat. Recipients would be required to pay £425 towards attending the retreat. Please click here for further details about how to apply for these scholarships. The closing date for all applications is 6pm UK time on 6th January 2025.
We are offering limited partial scholarships for this retreat. Recipients would be required to pay £425 towards attending the retreat. Please click here for further details about how to apply for these scholarships. The closing date for all applications is 6pm UK time on 6th January 2025.
Donations
Please use the payment options below to donate a partial scholarship for another student for the retreat
Please use the payment options below to donate a partial scholarship for another student for the retreat
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£400.00 Pay now |
To donate a partial non-refundable scholarship of £400, please use the button to the left. To donate an amount of your choosing please click here |
Please note you MUST see the terms, conditions and refund policies click here before you commit to this retreat.
Below are testimonials from students who have attended our retreats:
In July 2024, I discovered Helen listening to her in a video on YouTube. As it happens to many, it had a deep resonance in me. I have been searching and doing spiritual practices for more than 30 years, and without a doubt they have given me a lot, perhaps for that very reason, this meeting came at the right time.
After two months, in September I was able to attend one of her retreats. Something happened in that retreat that a deep understanding has settled in me. It is an area where words fall short. I could say something like that Helen takes us through a direct way to be able to recognize ourselves in our Being, to discover that we are what we are looking for.
Eternal gratitude for this meeting.
- Vero
After two months, in September I was able to attend one of her retreats. Something happened in that retreat that a deep understanding has settled in me. It is an area where words fall short. I could say something like that Helen takes us through a direct way to be able to recognize ourselves in our Being, to discover that we are what we are looking for.
Eternal gratitude for this meeting.
- Vero
Wow, I begin my testimony. There are no words to express what I experienced with Helen's courses. It is wonderful to know that she really Is. Yes, she is a close, committed and absolutely dedicated Master for the awakening of those beings who sincerely desire it. I have felt so accompanied that there is little I can express here. I think that what has helped me the most has been to gently and casually redirect attention to what we are. That calm, silent and empty space that is free and free of all conditioning. Freedom is spacious, light and joyful. Now I can say yes, that every day I recognize a little more, that fertile, vital void that is... Thank you Helen for your wonderful presence.
- David
- David
Recognizing the Self seems like hard work because of the constant intrusion of that function of the mind we call the I. One of Helen's fantastic jobs is to keep us in the continuous questioning of that I that is superimposed on that Reality that we eternally are.
Thank you Helen
- Koldo
Thank you Helen
- Koldo
Dear Helen, It is nice to address you knowing that it is just Me playing. Continuing with the game I will tell you that your teachings have changed my life, because thanks to them the door to REALITY has been opened. I can only convey to you my deepest gratitude for your absolute generosity and dedication, for your honesty and courage. A great honor to share this experience with you.
- Montse
- Montse
I have been with Helen for 4 months and it seems like an eternity because of how much she is changing my life. She is helping me to let go of the weaknesses that were leading me to live from suffering. And in my daily activities there is more enjoyment getting to perceive life as a dance between identification with a separate being and pure Consciousness. I feel more and more at peace and free. And from the heart of my being there is an infinite gratitude for this gift of life that Helen is for me. It is a real privilege to be able to count on her in every moment of doubt, of anguish or celebration. She is always available for anyone who needs her, taking us by the hand if necessary with an admirable level of dedication and devotion.
- Raquel Fernandez
- Raquel Fernandez
Like you, who are now reading this, I have had a tireless search for inner peace. I read and listened to many wise and awakened people. It has been a long journey. And for the first time, in more than 20 years, I feel that the search is finally over!!! And if you have come this far I can tell you with complete certainty, without fear of being wrong, that you too have just reached the end of your search. I finally managed to find someone who has already awakened and has a compendium of all her experiences which help me not to make the mistakes that she already went through... She lived trial and error, over and over again and knows each step that must be taken to remember, awaken and see what we really are. It was a miracle for me to find her on YouTube. Everything is perfect, we found it at the exact moment. Let us take advantage of this opportunity that Life gives us to know step by step how to get out of suffering.
- Lília Osorio
- Lília Osorio
Within this space that Helen offers us, I have found great resonance with her teachings and strategies to guide us and point us to our true Self and origin. With her empathic way of dealing with our common emotional and psychological stumbling blocks, she has allowed me a free, direct and trusting approach to the experiential recognition of our true nature, in the day to day, in the unbroken living and total moment. Her direct and clarifying teaching, along with her empathic and listening qualities to the inner voices of our conceptual and psychological minds, which limit us from the unconscious beliefs we form, allow me a continuous and accurate discovery of what I Am, more and more, little by little or suddenly. In addition, all this facilitated by their generous translators, with great dedication and determination to their loving service to the Hispanic communities.
- Nuria Torres
- Nuria Torres
Through YouTube I came to Helen's teachings, after several months I felt moved to attend a retreat and be in her presence, her team, and other people who are on this path. I can not express in words how much the approach has changed for me and how everything continues to change right now. Each time is getting better and better since I have also joined the Spanish sangha three months ago. It is a great opportunity that I couldn't imagine, not even in my best dreams! I feel blessed to have received such a great gift and I encourage anyone who wants to have peace, mental stillness and feel the humble advice of a loving teacher like Helen plus all the support of the team and other family of the sangha. You will feel embraced!, so is my experience.
- anonymous
- anonymous
"For some reason I felt drawn to sign up for the October retreat in Virginia with Helen Hamilton. I spontaneously signed up and then my mind started its old pattern of worry. Could I handle the long drive alone? Would it be worth my time? I am so glad I followed my heart, ignored my mind’s chatter and attended the retreat. What a wonderful six days spent surrounded by Helen Hamilton’s words of wisdom and guidance. Helen was always present to us She had morning coffee with us, hugged us in joy and sadness, laughed with us, ate all meals with us, led us in meditation and silence, answered our questions with love and kindness. For six days Helen gently, lovingly guided us in experiences that helped us discover our Higher Self. I was also surrounded by twenty seven other people who came into my life as strangers and over those six days became my family. What power there is in being with others who are searching for truth! It was refreshing to be vulnerable and honest with others and to really open my heart and to experience love ! I came away from the retreat with a clearer understanding of who I really am and what love is!!! I will carry this understanding with me forever. I am grateful!!!!! "
- Dory Deisenroth
- Dory Deisenroth
"I have always suspected that my lifelong addiction to sugar was some kind of compensation for not feeling loved. Now, returning from the retreat with Helen. I discover that this addiction seems to have disappeared. And even more mysterious is the fact that I wake each morning without the familiar feeling of lack, a vague sense that something is missing that has lurked at the centre of my being ever since I can remember. I feel like a new person and it is hard to find the words to describe how profound and transformative this retreat experience was."
- Gillian Pederson-Krag
- Gillian Pederson-Krag
"Eureka! Helen Hamilton showed me I am that by being that herself. She created a safe, loving environment at a rural retreat center in northern Virginia. With Qigong we built the chi and worked out the kinks with gentle movement. We spent time in silent sitting. We had guided meditation and satsang. We transformed individually, and as a group, as the week progressed. It was a true love fest by the final day. Other team members rounded out this coordinated effort to give us space to dissolve our obstacles. Words fall short of how wonderful this experience was. Helen is truly love itself."
- Al Cedarholm
- Al Cedarholm
"Helen’s retreat at the beautiful Land Celebration was an unforgettable experience for me, and now that I’m home I continue to experience this profound transformation. It was a gradual unfolding each day with Helen and her loving and supportive team. Watching my fellow retreaters and myself melt into Awareness, we shed our fears and feelings of unworthiness. We became one loving family. Helen was always there for each of us, literally holding our hands and holding us when we needed her. I’ve never experienced anything like this as the unreal dissolved and I deeply realized who I truly am. My eyes have softened and my heart has opened. If you want to merge into Awareness and live as your true Self, I encourage you to experience a retreat with dearest Helen."
- Lynn Cedarholm
- Lynn Cedarholm
"As a gay man I found this retreat to be extremely healing . It was a safe space to explore who I really am . I found the deepest knowing of me . The one love that is in everyone and everything. This identify as a separate person with a gay man’s identity is so loved , so equally loved and blessed . It has left me with a sense of equanimity with all beings and everything. I am deeply grateful for this beautiful retreat and this dear beloved beautiful being called Helen , that loved without conditions. This was a deep dive into a week of unconditional love.Thank you Helen and everyone."
- Michael Gough
- Michael Gough