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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello my fellow suffering beings how we doing meditation retreats are the object of so much intrigue and even suspicion as I've

mentioned in the past the chapter I wrote about my first meditation retreat in my

book 10% happier is perhaps the most commented upon piece of

writing I have ever produced. People still ask me about it all the time.

Even if you have not read that chapter or the book you may have a ton of questions yourself

about meditation retreats. Yeah how do you stay silent all day? How do you meditate

all day? What is the food like? What are the other people like? Why would you do this

in the first place?

All very reasonable questions. So today we're going to take you inside a 10-day

silent meditation retreat that I recently did with my longtime teacher Joseph Goldstein.

In this episode you're going to hear me in conversation with my colleague,

podcast senior producer Marissa Schneiderman.

I was fresh off my retreat with Joseph

when we had this conversation.

Marissa was fresh off of her own retreat

with a different meditation teacher,

Alexis Santos, who's been on this show many times,

and in fact we'll be on again very soon. You'll hear us talk about the ups and

downs of retreats. You'll also hear some snippets of Joseph answering my

questions on the retreat we did. I recorded Joseph on my iPhone so I hear some of

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