Seven mornings. One conversation a day about where your attention has been. $79, once.
Start with three free sessionsNo card for the free sessions. The retreat is $79, paid once, with a 7-day no-questions refund.
You talk. By voice or by text, in your own words, about where attention went yesterday and where it is now. Ayu asks where that sits on the map and lets you place it. Up to 60 minutes a session, with 150 minutes to spend across the week; most mornings need far less. Ayu remembers what you brought, so each day starts from the last.
You sit. 10 minutes, after the conversation, in the free practice app. The talking is the recognising; the sit is the return. The practice app, free for life
You measure. The mind score is offered before day one and again after day seven: the same 49 questions, about 13 minutes, so what changed is a number next to another number rather than a feeling.
The map comes from my book. It sorts every moment of attention into nine positions: past, present or future, combined with liking, disliking or neutral. The book's claim is that only one of the nine, the present with nothing added, is in contact with what is actually happening, and that the other eight each cost something now. The retreat is seven mornings of noticing which of the nine you were in, and saying so. The nine attention states
There is no script. Each morning starts from where attention went the day before, and Ayu carries the thread from one day to the next. By the seventh morning the naming is faster, which is the whole of what the week is for.
It is not therapy, and Ayu is not a therapist, a doctor or a counsellor. If what you would bring to the first morning is low mood that has lasted two weeks or more, loss of interest in things you used to enjoy, or thoughts of harming yourself, a doctor or a crisis line is the right first conversation, and Ayu will say so.
It is not a promise of a number. The score at the end may be higher, the same, or lower; it measures the week you took it in.
It ends on day seven, or when the 150 minutes are used, whichever comes first. Nothing renews.
I could not fly to a mountain every time a week went wrong. The book's claim, tested on myself for long enough, turned out to hold: the one position with nothing wrong in it is available from a kitchen chair, and the whole of the practice is getting back to it faster. This is that practice, made into a week, with someone to say it to.
Up to 60 minutes, once a day, with 150 minutes across the week. The free sessions are 20 minutes each.
Nothing happens and nothing is charged. The three sessions are there so you can find out whether saying it out loud does anything for you before deciding.
Yes. Voice or text, whichever lets the sentence finish.