Slowness hospitality engaged a creative collaboration to study how to translate a traditional Vipassana retreat into an architectural destination with contemplative purpose.

Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation.
This meditation technique is a way of self-transformation through self-observation.

It focuses on the deep interconnection between mind and body, which can be experienced directly by disciplined attention to the physical sensations that form the life of the body, and that continuously interconnect and condition the life of the mind.

It is this observation-based, self-exploratory journey to the common root of mind and body that dissolves mental impurity, resulting in a balanced mind full of love, compassion and total freedom.

Inspired from the architecture of silence, nourished from the natural elements integrating bathing , steaming, body work and meditation rooms.

This project will be part of a hospitality masterplan located 45min from Lisbon.


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