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About Cave of the Heart

Cave of the Heart is devoted to the recognition of your essential nature, through sharing the teachings of meditation and yoga.

Instructors

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Ricky

What Do People Say About Us?

All our reviews are from travellers with verified trips booked through our platform.

Kateryna Yatsenko

from Portugal, July 2025

Grateful for this experience.

I am glad to participate in this retreat. If you expect deep thought processing, then this is a great place to reboot. At the same time, you need to be prepared to spend five to six hours in meditation. At first, it was difficult, but it was worth it.

I am grateful to Ricky for this time…🙏

Eray Demirsoy

from Netherlands, January 2025

Such a Great Journey 🙌🏻

If you're interested discovering yourself on a deeper level, this is definitely a great start for you! Highly recommended!

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It was my first silent retreat experience ever and I didn't know what to expect. As soon as I arrived, I felt right away home thanks to the warm welcoming and greetings by Ricky and his lovely team.💛

Ricky guided us in the best way possible with his gentle and kind being by sharing his deep spiritual knowledge and shed us light throughout our journey. So we could purely focus on our self-discovery during the retreat.

I must say the whole retreat was very inspiring in so many ways and really helped me to put a different perspective in my life. I've explored a lot about myself as it helped me to be more aware of my sufferings and explored further the ways how to surrender them thanks to the guided meditations and spiritual talks given by Ricky.

I'm very happy that I could apply everything that I learnt to my daily life during the retreat, especially meditation! Silent retreat is also a part of my life now!

Thanks Ricky and the Cave of the Heart team!💛

Nikola Knezevic

from Portugal, August 2024

Great Experience

Location, nature, rural setting, teaching meditation and practice, two lovely dogs, and one amazing Mr. Cat.

Food and water replenished every atom of our beings and learning how to function in comune was priceless.

The participants and volunteers were so inspiring.

Anonymous

from Austria, August 2022

It was such a great experience I can recommend to everyone. As a beginner I wasn‘t sure if a 5day silent retreat would be a good introduction to the spiritual world but it turned out that even though it wasn‘t easy going all the time the schedule and the heartwarming attidude of Ricky really allowed me to grasp my first real experience in meditation. Would do it 10/10 again. Food and accomodation (brought own tent) was great as well.