IN-PRESENCE RETREATS - the intensive Vipassana retreat for experienced meditator, led by Ayya Virañani, is going on and will continue until mid-December.

After the New Year’s retreat, the centre will close until the new retreat season begins in late March 2025.

The new programme for 2025 has been published on our website at the following link:

https://www.piandeiciliegi.it/en/retreats/programma-english.html

Registration for our in-presence retreats will be possible, through our website www.piandeiciliegi.it, starting on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 8.00 am.

To be able to book a retreat you must be registered users on our website and be members of the Association Pian dei Ciliegi (you must have filled in and sent the application form for the Association). See the website for a detailed reference to procedures.

ON-LINE RETREATS - An online retreat on upekkhā (equanimity) led by AYYA Virañani will be held from December 16 to 22, 2024. This is the closing retreat of a series of four on the divine abodes (brahmavihāra) held in the past years (https://www.piandeiciliegi.it/it/iscrizioni-ai-ritiri-online.html). The retreat is already full, but you can ask to participate as listeners, writing an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Shortly in December we will move to our new website.

Dear friends,

Pian dei Ciliegi website will change its appearance soon. The current platform, based on Joomla technology - which has served us for all these years allowing all the operations that the law requires us - is becoming obsolete and begins to show some signs of aging. Therefore, based on the advice of some technicians we consulted, we have decided to transfer the entire website on Wordpress technology, more flexible and intuitive.

It may be bad news for those who are not very familiar with new technologies and who had already become accustomed to the - by now - ordinary ways, which perhaps may have been learned with some difficulty or not so immediately. However, we considered that, once known, the new platform will be easier to use and anyway, we tried to keep as much as possible the manual approach required with Joomla.

Therefore, the functions of accessing the website (the username and password of each user will remain unchanged), requesting admission to the association and registering for the retreats remain practically unchanged. They will have the same layout as far as possible, the graphics will be slightly different, but not less functional. Or at least, this is our hope. Of course, you can always notify us of any problems or shortcomings, which, if necessary, we will remedy as soon as possible.

With the wish that our continuous efforts of improvement may meet your favor, we wish you all a good practice and a rapid progress towards Liberation.

Mettā,

Pian dei Ciliegi staff