In this heart-centered conversation, we sit down with Sasha, co-founder of Hridaya Family Retreat Center, a small, family-run sanctuary tucked into the pine-covered mountains of southern Mexico. Far from the noise of modern retreat culture, Hridaya Family offers something increasingly rare — genuine presence, deep listening, and a space where each person is truly seen.
Sasha shares the spirit behind their work: creating an intimate environment where spiritual practice is not performance, but lived experience. We explore what it means to hold retreat space as a family, how warmth and attention become forms of teaching, and why small, human-scaled communities may be essential for authentic inner transformation.
This episode is a gentle reminder that awakening doesn’t always happen in grand halls or large gatherings — sometimes it unfolds quietly, in the mountains, in stillness, in the presence of those who care enough to truly be there.
Whether you’re a long-time seeker or simply curious about heart-based spiritual practice, this conversation invites you into a softer, more personal path home to yourself.
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Hridaya Family is a small, family-run retreat center nestled in the pine-covered mountains of southern Mexico, offering an intimate, caring environment where people are met with real attention, warmth, and presence.
Our work is rooted in non-dual Shaiva Tantra and informed by Buddhism, Sufism, early Christianity, and modern psychotherapy.
Slogans:
1)Come back home... into the Heart
2)Waking up, all the way down to earth.
https://www.hridaya-family.com/
Our main offerings are:
• Silent meditation retreats focused on awakening, embodiment, and integration (https://www.hridaya-family.com/10-day-hridaya-meditation-retreat-mexico)
• Individual solitary and dark room retreats (https://www.hridaya-family.com/dark-room-retreat-hridaya-family-mexico)
As well as:
• Workshops on emotional digestion, trauma, and the release of chronic contraction
• Programs on conscious relationship and intimacy
• Somatic meditation and embodiment practices for inhabiting the body and relating to the world
