Wide Open
A Retreat into Being & Emergence
“All creation emerges from what I am, and yet I do not begin or end. The great unfolding needs no design, only space wide enough to receive and reveal Its self!”
How wide open is this moment?
This question echoes through the stillness, calling us beyond identification, beyond control, beyond even consciousness—to the primordial awareness from which all emergence arises.
Join us for a profound and yet dynamic journey where we won’t teach or acquire, but recognise and realise. Where Beingness reveals itself, not through effort, but through Openness.
This gathering isn’t about changing things in the space but realising I am the space from which all emerges.
What we will explore:
The “non-practice practice” of The Form. Is it your silent vibrational state that defines what version of reality can exist now?
Sitting in the wide-open moment without grasping or identifying, do I discover inherent freedom?
How suffering arises from the attempt to control emergence
Discovering awareness as our real nature
Dissolving layers of sleep-like patterning naturally
Awakening to the vastness that we are beyond the “I”
Why This Retreat?
This is not a training. It’s a return.
To the ground of pure being.
To stillness before thought.
To creation that emerges without agenda.
To discovering that the moment you ask—How wide open is this moment?
—you are already within it, as it.
Who Is It For?
For seekers, meditators, creators, and explorers of true reality
For anyone drawn to the mystery beyond the mind.
For those ready to loosen their grip on the story of “me.”
Come. Discover how to be wide open.
Discover what you’ve always been.
The retreat will be held at Kalypso Cretan Village Resort, our beautiful 'home' on Crete. You will love this amazing location and the wild beauty and ancient mystery of Crete.
Every retreat with B unfolds in its own unique rhythm – a typical day has three or four sessions and a break at lunch with plenty of time to enjoy, to explore and commune as you deepen in the heart.
The retreat will be held across the whole resort space. There will be sessions in the meeting hall at the highest point of the resort (with a spectacular view of ocean), as well as informal meetings with B in several of the resort’s beautiful outside locations. There will be spontaneous walks across the cliffs to the nearby beaches and tavernas and there may well be the occasional very early morning or very late night sessions.
Bookings:
COST | €1895
Includes:
• Daily meetings with B
• Learning and deepening in The Form Reality Practice.
• All meals
• Twin share/double accommodation in a resort hotel **
Does not include:
Travel to Crete
Airport Transfers
Note : Excursions are an additional cost arranged spontaneously throughout the retreat
** Single Room accomodation is available upon request at an additional cost.
Arrival – Thursday 25 September
Please plan to arrive at the Resort by 5.00pm. We will show you your room to settle into before dinner at 7.00pm. The first retreat gathering with B will be after dinner.
Departure – Sunday 5 October:
The retreat finishes at around 3.00pm.
Additional Nights:
If you would like to arrive at the hotel a few days early or stay longer, this can be arranged. either through us or you can book with the hotel direct. If you book direct, please let the hotel know that you are part of our group.
Sharing a Taxi from the airport
Please advise us if you would like to share a taxi from the airport. We will endeavour as best as we can to match you up with other retreat participants. The cost for a taxi (4 seater) is 130 EUR, or 180 EUR ( 5- 8 seater) divided by the number of passengers. Please refer to the travel & venue information page for further details.
The Form Reality Practice
Over the duration of this retreat, you will learn the full five-part sequence of The Form Reality Practice, a profound movement of awakening and self-mastery that is the living embodiment and vehicle of everything B points to. If you have learned the movement before, you will discover it anew and further deepen in the practice, for there is no end to this unfolding.
“ What I want to emphasise as we go into The Form, is that the body is the appearance of the energy and Presence of Being, one's innate nature. We turn our palms up and we look into Eternity. We look into Eternity for we are actually Eternity looking into itself. The practice is demonstrating that the mind freed from objectivity of the known can be turned towards the invisible, the indivisible. The mind becomes a servant of the One, the indivisible.”
As we move our hands very slowly up, heading towards high prayer, behold the Presence, the energy, which is the now, which is What One Is. The mind begins to be in obeyance to this Presence. It ceases to function in the known. It begins to drop open to the unknown. And instead of being ‘someone’, you're pure observation, pure-aware observation; not a centre. Here, there is no centre. You are pure observation.
The slow movement encourages the mind to drop completely open. Notice the vibration in the body and get to know the body as a field, and a field of relationships to you as present Source aware. For the body carries the infinite messages of the universe.. the universe is in communion with itself. “
“Each movement is a timeless moment in which being resonates in creation and beyond creation. This is the reverberation of all existence knowing you, you knowing it as the One. It’s the trinity.
Why do we move slowly? Because it tames the mind. It brings the mind to vibrate at still point, the point, which is a juxtapoint between existing and non existence.
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The Form Teacher Training 2025
At the end of the retreat you will be eligible to join the Form Teacher training .
Contact us if you would like to find out more about this possibility.
“When you arrive Here, which is Now, everything is possible for you are the impossible made possible in every moment.”
Excursions
Much time on this retreat will be spent outdoors, enjoying all that nature has to offer as our retreat space. There will be walks to nearby beaches and spontaneous outings as well as some full day excursions to some of Crete’s beautiful and sacred sites. These are an integral part of the retreat, an opportunity to ground and embody what you are opening to on this journey. The cost for the excursions is NOT included in your booking and the per person costs will be announced on retreat.
Contact
If you have any further questions about the Crete Retreat, retreats with B in general or if would like to speak with one of our team contact: karen@bernieprior.org
View a previous Crete Retreat Video Invitation for an impression of the retreat space and the location.
“There is no them and us. There is only ‘I’. Everyone coming towards ‘I’ from different ways, different backgrounds, different life patterns, nonetheless I am always coming to ‘I’. Everyone’s coming to ‘I’. No matter what, you’re coming to ‘I’.”