{"product_id":"asha-40-day-retreat-book","title":"Forty Days Alone, A Visual Chronicle by Asha Greer","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis is a visual history of a forty day retreat Asha, one of the founders of the Lama Foundation, did in the winter of 1989 in a ten by twelve cabin in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia. It had no electricity or running water and was about a 45-minute walk uphill from the nearest dwelling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“I decided to chronicle my experience daily as I had so few maps myself of retreats. None of the experiences I had read or heard about gave me a sense of what actually happens. This is my experience as honestly as I could chronicle it.” …\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Learning to be alone is not easy. Loving one’s self enough to overflow love to others is not easy. Exploring our shadow is not easy. Developing a realistic version of reality is very hard. There are so many wonderful results of this hard work. A respect for life itself and its awesome mystery being among the greatest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eMay you find peace every day... and a good laugh.” —Asha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e12” x 14” | spiral bound | 104 pages\u003cbr\u003enote: binding is white poly (not metal as pictured)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lama Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40031788793942,"sku":"","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/1736\/0214\/files\/book_40days_01.webp?v=1790716166","url":"https:\/\/store.lamafoundation.org\/products\/asha-40-day-retreat-book","provider":"Lama Foundation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}