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To People Who Are Struggling To Get Anything Out of Sitting In Silence
Not All Meditations Are Created Equal, And I’m About To Show You Why
Learn The Technique That Completely Changed My Relationship With Life, Love, and Pain
THIS 10 DAY ONLINE VIPASSANA MEDITATION RETREAT MAY BE FOR YOU IF...
- You’re ready to unlock new levels of insight and creativity
- You’re ready to harness your mind as an ally for creative expression
- You have a hard time focusing or quieting your mind
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You're ready to let go of past traumas & harness a deep sense of peace
- and happiness
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You’re constantly stressed and easily triggered
- You’re suffering from anxiety, depression, addiction, chronic pain or substance abuse
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You’re inspired to foster deeper connections with friends and family
What makes a life extraordinary?
An important question, but not one we choose to frequently ask ourselves.
Why? Because it opens the conversation up to two larger questions: Who are we at our core and what makes us happy?
If the last year has taught us anything about the way we live our lives, it’s that it can be so easy to fall into mundane patterns, making it harder for us to figure out what these questions mean to us.
“Wake up, do work, eat lunch, do more work, eat dinner, sleep, repeat.”
At first glance, that’s not a completely terrible life.
- At least you have a job
- At least you have a roof over your head
- At least you have food in your stomach
Realistically, things could be so much worse— and yet, that’s the problem with mundanity, it’s just neutral.
Neutral is neither good, nor bad.
Neutral is the middle ground.
Neutral is accepting familiarity in exchange for certainty.
Well, that’s an incredibly safe place to be, but eventually “neutral” turns to “numb”—and while this dulls any pain you’d feel, it also dulls joy.
A life of neutrality is a life without risk, danger, pain...but it’s also a life without vibrance.
But that’s not what you want, is it?
The best parts of life come from experiences: the highs, the lows, and everything in between.
So instead of falling into these cycles of dullness in life, how do we open ourselves to the possibility of these experiences?
How do we go about finding who we are and the things that make us happy?
For some, it has to do with our need to do more in life. To get more from life. To become the best at something. To achieve.
For others, it’s about the relationships we build with friends, family, and loved ones—It’s the connections that drive us.
Well, what if I told you that you could find all of that within yourself, if you just took the time to look?
Most people are too distracted to dig deep and find the answers within, but...
...With the power of meditation, that's all possible
Our focus creates our reality
Your attention is your most valuable currency—where you place that attention creates your world
When used the right way, meditation is a tool that you can use to sharpen your focus so you end up doing just that—creating your reality.
I know it can seem a bit out there, a little esoteric, but trust me when I say meditation is not at all what it seems (but more on that later).
As human beings, when we focus our attention on a specific outcome, we’re capable of incredible feats. Only a few hundred years ago literacy was something reserved for a small percentage of the population: the monarchy, the wealthy, and the clergy.
Now, every single person reading this can access the entirety of the collective knowledge of the ages with a small rectangle that we carry in our pockets at all times.
Whatever it may be, we always find a way.
And while our attention is the most valuable currency we possess, we’re constantly fighting the distraction economy: the collection of our external environment looking to take control of your attention—because of that we have so little left over to direct internally.
Wouldn’t it be useful if you knew how to harness the true power of attention so you had complete control over where it was directed?
And what if I told you that practicing control over that awareness is the only tool you’d ever need to build your world?
The truth is, most people do want that, but they aren’t getting the right meditation training on “how to get it.”
A majority of the world is either not meditating at all, or they’re meditating in such a way that they aren’t able to go deep and there are two main reasons for that:
1. It’s stuck as a mystified practice
2. Popular meditations have a low ceiling
We’ve seen the hype of apps like “Headspace” and “Calm” make their mark on the mainstream and don’t get me wrong, these are useful tools in their own right and deserve to be applauded.
Like any habit, meditation takes time to build up that sharpened awareness and control over your attention, but to get someone to go from zero to 100% is a recipe for disaster.
So what do these apps do instead? They preach the consistency of the practice through push notifications and give you a simple launching point which is beautiful because they’re making meditation feel more attainable and comfortable.
THAT is what YogiLab was created for: to normalize meditation for the general public, make exercising the mind a widely used skillset, and turning that practice into a more enriching experience beyond “mindfulness”.
The version of meditation that we see right now in western culture is the entry point to Vipassana meditation which starts with the awareness of the breath.
But that’s where it seems to end…
...in order to actually exercise the mind, you have to treat it like a muscle—you don’t grow without pushing your boundaries and stretching it.
Unfortunately, even though so many people are getting consistent practice, with only 20-30 minutes of that practice they aren’t testing their limits.
The mind muscle isn’t growing and they stay at the surface of awareness—barely breaking the surface.
Essentially, these people end up stuck on the first step of a 10 step ladder that has the ability to bring them so much happiness even though it’s just out of reach.
"These 10 days have been an absolute transformation of my life. I have no words to express my gratitude. I truly respect and appreciate the efforts of making this course available online and spreading this knowledge worldwide"
-Ms. Matilda
REFLECT ON SOMETHING WITH ME FOR A SECOND
The benefits of practicing meditation encompass the physical, mental, and emotional.
People in their early stages of learning are often brought to the awareness that they may experience better sleep, lower levels of stress, and reduced negative emotions.
And even though these are great benefits, you can also experience a serious boost in your imagination, creativity, an increased sense of self awareness, and of course a stronger control of your focus so you can direct it in any which way you see fit.
Wouldn’t life be that much less mundane this way?
If you managed to sharpen your focus and use that alongside this new found self awareness, wouldn’t you be so much happier with your life?
What would it look like if you had that level of control over yourself? What would it look like if you were able to manage your stress, get better sleep, spend more time in positive emotions, would that be worth 10 days of your life?
That's why YogiLab has transformed this course to resemble the style of practice used by Burmeses monks, and popularised by the late, great teachers Sayagyi U Ba Khin and S.N. Goenka.
Now, 10 days may seem like a lot of time. It may seem like it would be too hard to get into, but in retrospect, what’s a week and a half of working on your mind and pouring into yourself for the power to change your life at a whim?
We see these 10 and 15 day detoxes where you’re only supposed to be drinking certain juices and while those are hard, people do them all the time.
Those juice cleanses detoxifies the body, meditation detoxifies the mind. If the benefits were right, if you could start seeing progress after just 10 days, would it be worth that for you?
There’s an old saying that the past is prologue. This is untrue.
Keeping a consistent practice is key
A TRULY POWERFUL TOOL TO TRAIN THIS EVER EXPANDING MUSCLE WE CALL THE MIND
Like I’ve said before, you don’t have to believe in “the mystical” in order to gain near Superpower-like benefits from meditation.
With meditation comes :
- A drastic increase in concentration, attention, and mental clarity
- The decrease of blood pressure, inflammation response, and overall stress
- An increase in overall physical health and mental well being
At first it just looks like another “healthy living” tool, (mindfulness*) but just imagine what you could do with this kind of power at your fingertips. Remember a time when you were fully healthy, and how much better and more capable you felt.
My personal introduction to meditation couldn’t have been any more practical or logical because I saw what was possible—and believe it or not, I’m currently living it.
Hi, I’m Dave
Some people have referred to me as The Millionaire Monk, entrepreneur, or author, but I’ve come to find that what’s more important than the money or titles you acquire, is the impact we leave on the world when we leave it.
While I was building my businesses and acquiring my wealth, I knew deep down that it wasn’t the end goal, it was just a means to support my true purpose: making Vipassana meditation available for anyone who had the desire to learn.
I’ve met with spiritual leaders across the world, I’ve practiced varying degrees of self exploration, and I've been helping people learn meditation, and running meditation retreats for nearly two decades.
Because once upon a time, before I was experiencing a life based around love, compassion, and ultimately, success—I lived a life that was centered around pain.
While I was building my businesses and acquiring my wealth, I knew deep down that it wasn’t the end goal, it was just a means to support my true purpose: making Vipassana meditation available for anyone who had the desire to learn.
I’ve met with spiritual leaders across the world, I’ve practiced varying degrees of self exploration, and I've been helping people learn meditation, and running meditation retreats for nearly two decades.
Because once upon a time, before I was experiencing a life based around love, compassion, and ultimately, success—I lived a life that was centered around pain.
- The pain of watching my mother simultaneously work 4 jobs and put herself through university after escaping from the grasps of a cult.
- The pain of having to bear witness to friends and loved ones struggle with suicide and abuse of all kinds.
- The pain of twisting my spine at the age of 14
That’s when I discovered Vipassana
At the age of 23, I’d already been practicing a variety of meditation techniques for about 9 years and up until that point, I realized that I wasn’t releasing any of the pain that was in my body—I was simply masking it with these techniques.
Looking to find ways to do more than just manage the burden I was carrying with me for so long, I found myself on a Vipassana meditation retreat where something fundamentally changed my relationship with pain.
About 3 days in, the pain and numbness of sitting for 10 to 12 hours per day was starting to settle in. Most people fight this with a collection of pillows formed to create a makeshift throw but it wasn’t until I started focusing on that pain and stepping towards it rather than trying to escape it that I made my discovery:
“ WHETHER I SIT HERE FEELING THIS PAIN OR WHETHER I GET UP AND LEAVE, I'M ALWAYS GOING TO BE WALKING AROUND WITH IT. I'M GOING TO BE FEELING PAIN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. “
It occured to me that it was better for me to try this technique for everything it was worth and see if it actually did work: so I thought, “let me move towards the pain instead of trying to avoid it.”
As I’m doing this, I had a deep pain in my knee from sitting cross legged and I’d decided to focus all of my attention with the technique on that. Lo and behold, I started using the technique correctly.
I felt this pain resonating outwards from a point in my knee and as I got deeper into the details, the smaller and sharper my awareness got, the more I realized: there wasn't just pain.
There was pain, then space.
Then pain and space.
And soon, there was more space than pain.
I got so deep into this awareness of what was happening, the pent up tension in my knee exploded and was released throughout my body—I was finally able to let go.
IT WAS AT THAT POINT THAT I KNEW NOT ALL FORMS OF MEDITATIONS WERE EQUAL
At that point in my life, Vipassana had taught me that all of my external turmoil, all of the things physically happening to me and in the outside world were just a reflection of what was going on internally. Because when I left the meditation center, it wasn't just the pain in my knee that had dissolved, my entire life had begun to transform.
And of course I knew this on a logical level, but it wasn’t until I felt it for myself that I actually understood how it worked.
You see, I’ve never been attracted to fluffy belief systems, those seem to use their practices to escape reality.
The truly hardcore spiritual practitioners leverage meditation to embrace and affect their reality, not run away from it.
They look inward to heal what’s going on internally and end up creating a new world externally.
Consider the story of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was a Thai billionaire, (yes, billionaire) who had bought the English Football Club, Leicester City.
If you’re a fan of English football, you’d know that Leicester City were not one of the top clubs in the British Premier League—in fact, they're almost always on the bottom.
Leicester City were more likely to get relegated again in 2014 and get sent down to a lower league than to win The Premier League and the odds of Leicester City actually winning at the beginning of that year were 5000 to 1
But Vichai wasn’t just a billionaire, he was also a dedicated meditator. Set on bringing glory to the club, he wanted to draw more meditators towards Leicester City in hopes to bring .
The team participated, the staff as well, he even would fly over Buddhist monks to sit in the stadiums while the team was playing to be able to bless the games.
And then something ridiculous started happening—they actually started beating all of the top teams.
At the time, Manchester City was one of the most expensive teams in the world and were nearly guaranteed to win that year, but lo and behold, Leicester City won the Premier League.
You could say that there are a million different factors involved when it comes to winning like that but I think we all know that after reading this:
“The Mind Is A Powerful Weapon And Meditation Is The Stone That Sharpens It—And Just Remember, 5000-1 Odds“
Some might think there’s a catch but to be completely transparent with you, I’ve made my money. I’ve lived a lifestyle I never thought possible when growing up poverty stricken in London, fulfilled a lifelong goal of buying my mother her dream home, and I’ve watched others do much of the same for themselves.
I owe that to meditation and that’s why YogiLab puts together courses like this for everyone around the world with an internet connection to access.
And listen, I’m completely aware that not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur or a millionaire, which is fine, because meditation isn’t just for “the elite”—it can be a powerful tool for anyone at any income bracket at any stage of their life.
You might also be wondering at this point what this 10 day “at home retreat” entails, so I’ve decided to give you a brief overview of what’s inside.
HERE'S WHAT TO EXPECT DAY TO DAY IN THE VIPASSANA MEDITATION COURSE
Day 1: Mastering the mind
We’ll start off slow with the first understanding of Vipassana meditation, feeling the breath coming in and out the nostrils. We want you to really connect with this and understand that the mind is a muscle. With this you’ll develop the willpower, the focus, the clarity, and the sensitivity to begin working with yourself.
Day 2 : Heightened Awareness
On this day, you’re going to learn the skill of “mastering the mind” and enhancing your focus further. If you can tell the mind to stay somewhere, you're in control of it. You’ll be increasing sensitivity and building awareness that’s near microscopic. This is actually the skill that The Buddha used to get to enlightenment—going so deep into awareness to the point where you can perceive the fibers of reality. This’ll show you how powerfully focused your mind can get.
Day 3 : Incremental Equanimity
You’ll learn “equanimity”, which is the ability to feel what you're feeling more deeply without reacting to it in the same space—it’s a place of complete mental calm and clarity that can be achieved through the breath.
Day 4 : Vipassana
You’ve sharpened and prepared your mind over the past 3 days, but now you’ll learn to take this even deeper. You can feel but don’t have to react and going forward, you can now start to move throughout the body and feel sensations you’ve never felt before. It’s this skill that will bring you fully in contact and in communication with your internal world.
Day 5 : SingleStream Meditation
On this day you’ll be able to go inside the body, down through the reverse pathway that we normally follow which is to say: you’ll be feeling the awareness on the inside of your body instead of the outside. This allows us to go deep into trauma and be able to go through a trauma cycle to release the tension.
Day 6 : Metta Bhavana [Loving Kindness]
We enter into focusing on loving feelings and start to learn that you can do that without an “object of love”. Essentially, you’ll be feeling the love from within so you don't need to receive it from the outside.
And you can also focus on others and give love as well. You’ll become a love generator, so you no longer need to be a love seeker. This is what we call Metta Bhavana: it’s what bridges the gap between you and the world allowing you to carry the practice into the world.
This day is extra special because we’ll start learning how to approach open eyed meditation using a technique called transfiguration, which is when you learn to be able to actually look at the world and meditate with your eyes open. At this point, we also talk about happiness being non-dependent in the same way that love is not dependent on day six.
Day 8 : Transfiguration Continued
Here you’ll focus more fully on transfiguration and taking the skill from the mundane to the mystical. We’ll go deeper into the feeling of clarity and connect what you’ll be learning on day 6 and 7 so that you have a more complete picture.
Day 9 : Relational Presence
We start to bridge the communication gap: you’ll learn a technique called relational presence. This is essentially where we can start to use our words and get out of the structure we usually see meditation operating on. You’ll be able to get into a meditative state and actually start talking from within that state without breaking focus.
Day 10 : It's a Secret
This is where we plug you back in and connect the meditative world and the real world. Can we really bring this back with us into our day to day? Can we turn this into a practical tool while we’re going about our lives and communicating with others? Day 10 is where we’re breaking the silence whilst still meditating.
Now, I know this seems like a lot to take in,
the path to sharpening the mind isn’t an easy one
But if you were to take 10 days out of your life just to master your mind, it would be worth it, right?
- Control over your focus and attention so you’re making the moves YOU want to make
- A deep understanding that extends beyond “objective love” so you can experience a deeper connection with yourself and your loved ones.
- A way you can bring this tool into your real life so you can experience mental calmness and clarity even when you’re still interacting with others
What would your world look like if you could integrate just one of these pieces into your everyday life?
Would you be able to do more meaningful work?
Would you love fully and live freely?
There have been over 200,000 people who have signed up to this program and said yes to all of these things."
In fact, we asked a few of these students and this is what they had to say about it :
If this many people have been able to use meditation in this way, don’t you think it’s possible for you too?
Well it is possible for you and I’m here to offer you an opportunity to completely change your life, if you so choose.
How Long Is 100 Hours, Really?
Most people hear about meditating for 10 hours,10 days straight and think that it’s simply way too long.
If we’re just looking in terms of time, that’s 100 hours which seems like a lot of time but in the grand scheme of things, it’s not.
Let’s compare a few things you’re already doing with 100 hours:
Holiday
Do you remember that holiday you wanted to go on that you thought was going to be the perfect escape? You've seen all the pictures on Instagram and Facebook of friends going out to enjoy themselves, so you settle on a 10 day getaway to relax and decompress.
While even the most picturesque of vacation can be fun and re-energizing, all you’ve managed to do is push pause on your real life—you’ve escaped reality only to come back to it when your time is up.
In that time, if you could cultivate the skill of Vipassana meditation, a skill that would enhance every area of your life and make something that didn’t need escaping from, wouldn’t your day to day mean that much more? Wouldn’t vacations?
Therapy
An effective tool for self discovery and pattern recognition, therapy can be a good way to disburse some tension over a longer period of time. If someone went to sessions twice a week for an hour each time, you’d reach 104 hours in a year.
I’ve worked with people who have had over a decades worth of therapy under their belt, (over 1000 hours) who haven’t made the behavioral changes they wanted for themselves.
After they’d gone through a 10 day Vipassana retreat spending just under 2 weeks reflecting inward with nowhere else to go, I’ve seen habits rewritten, addictions overcome, I’ve seen transformations in people that change their lives irreversibly.
Now as a point of reference, I’ve seen these people spend thousands of dollars towards therapy yearly, with the YogiLab 10 Day Vipassana Meditation course, all it’d cost you is 10 days and all of the emotional baggage you’ve been carrying around with you for most of your life.
Work
The default setting for so many of us. In a capitalistic society, we’ve allowed our self worth to be directly correlated to our output at work but tell me: Do you remember what you were “working” on 10 days ago? Did you have anything exciting happening or were you just going through the motions?
I’m willing to bet that most people end up saying they go through the motions, just waiting to get to the weekend where they can do more of nothing and have one day mesh into the next one.
I say this because this time is already being accounted for, so what if you simply just took 10 full days to work on and discover yourself instead of allowing the days to pass you by?
Your job will always be there and I’m positive you have days off/vacation days available, as most people do. If you were to take that time, what would life look like to you? Would it fall back into the mundanity of working for the weekend or would it help you flourish and take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to you?
Whether you’re bought in on spending 10 hours a day meditating for 10 days or you’re simply interested in using the course to keep yourself regularly practicing, Vipassana has been transforming millions of lives for 2,600 years. I think it’s fair to say it’s proven to be one of the most transformative forms of meditation that the world has ever seen.
In fact, I often wonder what life would be like for us if we were introduced to meditation in the same way we were introduced to language or mathematics—how many tears would be saved? How much unnecessary self-inflicted pain could be avoided?
Well, we can’t go back in time and teach you how to use Vipassana when you were in kindergarten, but what we can do is take you on an immersive 10 day journey that will most definitely change the course of your life in any direction you see fit.
Then maybe the next generation will learn meditation from their parents in the same way they learn language. Maybe that will stop our children from dropping bombs on each other...
I’d like to think of this moment right here as the famous “Blue Pill/Red Pill” scene in The Matrix.
“After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.”
“You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
The blue pill is you taking all this information and going back to your life without taking the 10-day course.
The mundane will certainly never become mystical, you won’t find out how far down the rabbit hole goes, and that may be just fine with you—but be aware that life may not progress any further than this.
The red pill on the other hand, isn’t your way out. It’s your way in.
It’s your way into a world where you’re in control of yourself, every little fiber of your being.
Access to the power within yourself that 99% of the world is simply “too busy” to discover and harness.
So, which will it be: The blue pill? Or the red pill?
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