Hello, dear friends.
My name is Semen and I am one of the organizers of the retreat center.
My wife and I have been organizing retreats and tours for 11 years, and today I would like to tell you a little about how the idea of such events came about.

My wife and I had a daughter 13 years ago and we came to the village Sazhino, Suksunsky region, Perm' edge.

Living here in the village, far from the bustle of the city we unwittingly began to think about the meaning of life and very soon we met wonderful people, meeting with whom has changed our lives.

We met people with amazing eyes and bright faces, the communication that they gave, we had not previously met anywhere.
They listened to us with all their heart, it was obvious their desire to help and share their innermost feelings.

Very soon my wife and I began to experience incredible happiness from meetings with these people and we very much wanted to share this state with others.

So we came up with the idea of holding retreats with the participation of these wonderful people, so that as many people as possible got to know them and became at least for a moment a little happier.

Do you know what the most important thing that changed in my life?
When I was a student I used to go to the mountains and that's what attracted me there:
First you had to prepare for a long time - train, buy equipment, save money. Then I put on a heavy backpack and walked up the mountain with my friends. A couple of weeks of climbing and there you are "standing on the top - you're happy and it" as Vysotsky sang. Minutes of indescribable happiness were then - when you get to the top through many difficulties. And tears of this happiness were pouring out of my sunglasses. Then the train came down and you were at home in the gray of everyday life, already waiting and preparing for new peaks.

These moments of real happiness were a real "drug" that beckoned me to the mountains.

After we met people like Kirill Novoselov, Lena Ponomareva, Dmitry Minibaev, Alexander Rakhmatullin, Sergey Timchenko, Oleg Suntsov, and many others I started crying with happiness more often. And for this you do not need to go to the mountains and buy a bunch of equipment, you just need to communicate with an open heart. Because happiness is a relationship, it's love.
Of course on this way there are also many difficulties, and these people about whom I spoke they with pleasure help to overcome them.

If you want to experience this taste - the taste of pure relationship, the taste of selfless love, the taste of joy in life - look for meetings with these people. At our events there is a unique opportunity to communicate with them in an informal atmosphere

One more small point I would like to pay attention to:
Why retreat: to feel grace and joy you need a special atmosphere - an atmosphere of love and trust and here at the retreat we and the team try to create this atmosphere. And in this we are helped by the local nature, indescribable beauty, which in itself already causes delight in the heart and makes us relax and open up.

But even in such a benign environment we need some time to breathe in and open our heart to the real happiness. More