A spiritual retreat is a period of time set aside just for spiritual practice. Why do retreat? Although the main field of our spiritual practice is our daily life, it is very helpful from time to time to focus exclusively on our meditation practice without having to deal with a hundred other tasks. Retreat is an opportunity to minimize all our distractions and to gather our energy inwardly into the stillness of our heart. Retreat time provides the inner space to go deeper and enables subtle inner transformation to occur in ways that is very difficult when we are constantly having to attend to the demands of the outer world. If you haven’t already tried setting aside a few days or weeks to do retreat, you should give it a go – you will find it gives your spiritual practice a real boost.