About this episode

Rocky Donati shares her transformative experience at a 10-day Vipassana silent retreat focused on meditation and self-awareness.

In this episode of Heart + Head Work, we explore what happens when everything goes quiet. Rocky Donati shares her experience attending a 10-day Vipassana silent retreat—a meditation practice centered on awareness, equanimity, and learning to see reality exactly as it is. With no phone, no speaking, no reading, and more than 11 hours of meditation per day, the retreat created an environment designed to strip away distraction and invite a direct encounter with the self. What unfolded wasn’t bli...

People in this episode

Host: Tessa Arneson

Guest: Rocky Donati

Topics covered

• meditation
• self-discovery
• mindfulness
• silence
• retreat

Keywords

• Vipassana
• silent retreat
• meditation
• self-awareness
• mindfulness

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Vipassana silent retreat

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