Hi all!<br/><br/>Starting tomorrow for 9 days I'll be participating in a Vipassana meditation retreat. My life has been out of balance and I'm going to attempt a restart. So...I've already broken the rules. I have 3 days of meetings that I cannot reschedule. The retreat leader is aware of these so I feel better. I also will every night be checking E and email for no more than 1 hour. So...I'll be able to catch up on posts.<br/><br/>I likely will not have the same experience as the other retreatants, but we each need to take a different journey. I'm likely going to find myself surrounded by many older, perhaps retired, individuals that have the ability to be gone from society for 9 days. I might, however, be surprised at the composition.<br/><br/>I am a yogi and Vipassana is dissimilar in many ways. I'm actually not sure that Vipassana is the tool for me, but I'm going to give a Vipassana-lite retreat a try. If it goes well I'll perhaps try a true emergence in Onalaska, WI which is internationally known for its retreats.<br/><br/>I'm certainly a bit more afraid after reading this (http://A Brutally Honest Review of My 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat). I'm a strong introvert forced to live an extrovert life so I welcome the silence, but I also am immensely productive and the no writing, etc. is going to be tough.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 6pt;">My biggest fear? I seemed to have forgotten to note that I don't eat fish or seafood and the food we will be served is non-mammal meat protein. God I hope we have chicken 9 days x lunch and dinner each day! </span>