Every heart has a door
Join community circles, service activities and multi-day retreats for a collective exploration around how ancient values can respond to modern challenges.
Where will you show up?
Each gathering is unrepeatable. There is no fee — retreats are offered entirely in the spirit of gift.
Educators Retreat
Youth Retreat
Spirit of Service
Circles, gatherings & community events
Awakin Ahmedabad [Satellite]
Join a Retreat
Whether your first or your fifth — each gathering is unrepeatable.
MovedByLove volunteers host periodic multi-day experiential retreats — to harmonize our "hands, head, heart" orientation, build deep connections, and reflect on subtle values that guide our acts of service. People arrive from every continent, every profession, every tradition. The only common throughline: a heart that says yes.
Volunteer
Twenty volunteers create the field. This is where the deepest transformation often happens.
You come to give — and receive so much more. Volunteers prepare meals with love, write name tags while chanting metta, run microphones with prayer, drive guests at 2 AM as if they were family. It doesn’t feed the material part of oneself. It feeds a much deeper, hungry part — not homo economicus, but homo divinus.
Host a Retreat
Offer your community, your city, your corner of the world.
The spirit is interoperable — any format can be fused with the principles of gift. A qigong retreat, a cooking retreat, a youth gathering, a business leaders’ circle. We will walk alongside you, sharing what we’ve learned, while honoring that each community will make it their own.
We recommend: participate first, then volunteer at one, then host. This isn’t gatekeeping — it’s how the transmission works best.
Offer Your Space
We’ve been blessed with heart-aligned partner spaces. But the magic can arise anywhere.
We don’t need luxury venues. We need spaces held with care — a campus, a farmhouse, a monastery, a community center. If other elements align, any place can become sacred ground. The space you offer becomes part of the gift.
Nominate Someone
Know someone who would be moved?
The retreats have never been advertised in fifteen years. People arrive through word of mouth, through serendipity, through a quiet pull they can’t quite name. If someone comes to mind — a friend, a colleague, a stranger whose path you admire — trust that instinct.
What people ask before arriving
The best answers still come from showing up. But until then —
Is this a meditation retreat?
No — though meditation may be part of the experience. A meditation retreat offers inner coherence: an individual immersion. These retreats offer something different — collective coherence. What does it feel like to fall into a deep, coherent state with other human beings?
It’s a completely new category. Most people arrive acknowledging they couldn’t fully understand their friend’s description of what exactly happens. After the experience, they say the same thing: “I still can’t describe what we did here.” Because it’s not about what, but how we gather.
The distinction: meditation retreats tune the instrument of the self. These retreats tune the instrument of the collective.
What happens at a typical retreat?
Morning practices (optional — stillness, movement, walking). Farm-to-table breakfast prepared with love. Morning circles with deep questions and stories of transformation. Unhurried lunch and rest. Afternoon immersions — outdoor practices, small acts of kindness, embodied engagement. Silent dinner under the stars. Heart circle with candles lining the path. Gifts waiting on your pillow.
The format is Head (questions instead of answers), Hands (embodied practice that evokes inner wisdom), and Heart (deep listening, compassion in action). Duration ranges from one day to ten days.
But the real curriculum is what happens between the lines — the conversation over tea, the volunteer who prays before handing you a microphone, the stranger who becomes family.
Do I need to be spiritual or religious?
No. People of every tradition attend — and people of no tradition. The retreats don’t belong to any religion or philosophy. They draw on universal principles: generosity, deep listening, the intelligence of the heart.
If anything, the experience tends to deepen whatever path you’re already on. A scientist finds more wonder. A believer finds more spaciousness. A skeptic finds something they can’t explain but also can’t dismiss.
Who funds these retreats?
Retreats are offered fully by volunteers, on the gift spectrum. There is no fee. No fundraising. No sponsorships. No institutional backing.
How is that possible? Twenty volunteers show up — many of them accomplished professionals — and offer their time, expertise, and love without compensation. Spaces are gifted. Meals are prepared with donated ingredients. The economy that runs these retreats is the oldest economy on Earth: generosity.
Nature-funded. It regenerates.
When problems are so many, isn’t this indulgence?
We get asked this often. It’s a fair question.
We’ve tried creating change through money. Through protest. Through systems design. Now we will try AI. But we will fail — unless we learn to respond as one, to evoke a deep sense of kinship with all that is. Without that foundation, our actions and systems remain fragmented. This is the root work.
Gandhi was clear that only 10% of action should be overt resistance. The other 90% must be constructive program — the quiet building of alternatives, the patient cultivation of inner and outer coherence.
These retreats are that 90%.
Can I host one?
Yes. We recommend: participate in one first, then volunteer at one, then host. This isn’t gatekeeping — it’s how the transmission deepens. You need to experience the soil before you can tend it. You need to feel the spirit before you can hold space for others to feel it.
Any format can be fused with the MBL spirit. A qigong retreat can include elements of silent dinner. A cooking retreat can run on the gift spectrum. “Dharma is entirely interoperable.”
How do I apply?
Applications for upcoming retreats are listed above on this page. The process is simple — a short form asking who you are and what draws you. We read every application with care.
If a retreat is full, you’ll be placed on a waitlist. We don’t charge a fee. We never advertise. People arrive through word of mouth, serendipity, or a quiet pull they can’t quite name. Trust the pull.
What if I can’t travel to a retreat location?
The same principles that animate these retreats are available everywhere — through Awakin Circles (weekly gatherings of silence and sharing in living rooms worldwide), through the broader ServiceSpace ecosystem, and through everyday practice.
And if you feel called to bring this spirit to your own community, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out about hosting →
Why have I never heard of this?
By design. These retreats have never been advertised in fifteen years. There is no marketing budget, no social media strategy, no growth target. People find their way here through word of mouth, through serendipity, through the quiet network of people who’ve been moved and who carry that signal into the world.
The fact that you’re reading this now means something reached you. Trust that.
Still have questions? We’d love to hear from you. Write to us →
What’s rippled so far
Over a hundred retreats, across six countries
Over the last decades, we have convened over a hundred in-person gatherings, with wide-ranging themes. It has rippled into retreats happening in countries like Vietnam, Japan, United Kingdom, Austria and America.
Instead of organizing around a singular purpose, Moved by Love retreats organize around a process — that if we come together, not from the fullness of our material and spiritual identities, but from the emptiness of our essence, we make room for an exponential emergence in the space between us. The impact of this humbling approach has consistently amazed us over the years.
Quiet dispatches from the field
Occasional reflections, stories, and invitations. No noise. No urgency. Just the kind of signal your heart recognizes.
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