Becoming a Butterfly: A Manual for Life's Transitions

Meditations for the heart. Tools for the mind. Trust for the path ahead.

For young adults navigating stress, change and the unknown.

The PREET Retreat: A Journey Into Presence, Joy, and Self-Trust

🧭 Why This Retreat Exists

What problem are we solving?

You might feel like your mind is always racing—school, expectations, your future. It’s a lot. No one taught you how to manage all of it. No one gave you a way to feel calm and clear inside your own life.

Who is this for?

If you're between 16–25, or in a liminal space (a space between unknowns) or dealing with burnout and ever feel like:

• "How am I going to manage all this?"

• "Why do I feel so out of control?"

• "Is this even the right path for me?"

...this retreat is for you.

What will this unlock for you?

• A way to get clear, calm, and grounded

• Simple, powerful tools to plan your life without overwhelm

• A deeper connection to your joy and your body

• A personal "manual for life"—the one you were never given

What might you walk away feeling?

• "I feel lighter. I actually have space to breathe."

• "I know how to move forward now."

• "I feel like I’m living from my own rhythm."

💡What will you take home?

This retreat gives you a full toolkit to meet life’s transitions with grace:

🧘 Guided Meditations & 🎥 Visualization Techniques

Throughout the retreat, you’ll experience a variety of guided meditations and visualization techniques—designed to help you relax, reconnect, and reimagine your path. From emotional release to future self-visioning, each session gives you a new inner tool to navigate life’s transitions.

• Meditation techniques like Pure Consciousness Experience, Touching Transcendence Meditation, Silence practice and our signature Gratitude practice

• Visualization methods Multiple techniques that help you create and manifest your life from a centered place of joy

🗂️ Productivity frameworks for executive functioning — functioning without chaos and stress

Designed to reduce stress and bring structure to your life. Tools to focus on the important vs. letting the urgent overwhelm you—including the 80/20 rule to prioritize what matters, Agile planning for your month/week/day/to break down overwhelm, and the Ikigai method to align your passions with purpose.

You’ll not only feel better—you’ll leave with tools you can return to daily—tools that help you focus, feel, and move forward.

No one technique fits all. Thus, the intent of the retreat is to equip you with multiple tools that you can pick and choose to guide your day and your life

📅 What do we want you after the retreat?

• Pause and check in with yourself daily

• Use what you’ve learned: your breath, your vision, your calendar

• Trust your instincts. Let joy lead the way

💬 Ongoing Support After the Retreat

Growth doesn’t stop when the retreat ends. That’s why we’re creating a private Discord community where you can:

• Share how you’re applying what you learned

• Ask questions and get support from peers

• Drop in for mini-practices and reminders

We’ll keep the momentum going—together. Because transformation happens not just in retreat, but in the small choices you make every day.

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Who’s Delivering the Retreat?

This retreat is created and led by Harpreet Singh—a Silicon Valley professional with over 25 years of experience as a tech CEO/Entrepreneur (launchableinc.com), Head of Product (CloudBees, Atlassian) and an Engineer (Sun Microsystems).

Harpreet brings the weight of real-world execution, leadership, and burnout recovery into this retreat’s productivity frameworks and life design tools.

But just as deep is his journey inward. Harpreet has spent decades immersed in meditation and personal growth, drawing from Kriya Yoga, Tantra (Sri Vidya), Advaita (Non-Duality), and other contemporary practices.

He has led numerous meditation in-person and online sessions and is the creator of the signature course: Gratitude Meditation: A Journey into Stillness and Feeling.

This blend of executive clarity and embodied stillness informs every part of this experience:

• You’ll learn meditation not just to calm down—but to touch who you really are

• You’ll learn productivity not just to get more done—but to do what matters most to your joy

This retreat is not about escaping life. It’s about learning how to live it—fully, presently, and wisely.

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🧩 Mapping the Workshop to the Real Problems

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🔤 The PREET Framework drives the retreat

PREET means Love in Hindi—and it’s also the journey we’ll walk together.

PREET is a return to the love beneath all effort—the kind that feels like worthiness (“I am worthy”), and lives in the stillness of simply being. This worthiness and trust in yourself makes life a incredibly fun journey

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🗺️ Two-Day Retreat Roadmap

🌄 Day 1: Grounding + Awakening

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🅿️ P — PRESENT

“Be here. Be now. That’s where your life is.”

🌟 Core Intention

To bring participants out of their heads and into direct contact with the present moment—through the body, the senses, and simple awareness.

• Opening ritual

• 👣 Practice 1 – Walking Barefoot

• 🧘 Practice 2 – Watching the Next Thought to find yourself

• 👂 Practice 3 – Listening to Sounds to find the space between thoughts

• ✍️ Journaling

• 💬 Pair sharing

• 🌀 Popcorn circle

“The present doesn’t need your effort—just your attention.”

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🔷 R — REFLECT

“Let go of the noise. Drop into your inner world. That’s where the truth lives.”

🌟 Core Intention

Help participants move from mental clutter to emotional depth—to see what’s really going on beneath their stress and feel the relief of reconnecting with their body and being.

• 🧠 GTD-style mind dump to de-stress

• ✍️ Short journaling: how do you feel now?

• 💬 Pair sharing: what surprised you?

• 🧘 Deep emotional + gratitude meditation (30 min)

• 💬 Pair share + popcorn insights

• (optional) Ikigai framework exercise: guided journaling + mini map

• 🌀 Popcorn circle

“The body remembers everything. When you listen to it, it gives you back your peace.”

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🟣 ENVISION — PART 1: Create the Blueprint

“Your joy is not random. It’s a message from your future self.”

🌟 Core Intention

Help you connect with a vision of a joyful life—through imagery, feelings, and subconscious resonance.

• 🧘 Grounding meditation

• 🧠 Bengston cycling method

• ✍️ Journaling

• ✨Deep Guided Visualization

• ✍️ Journaling

• 🌀 Popcorn circle

“If this lives in you, it’s real. And it’s yours to move toward.”

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🌅 Day 2: Expression + Expansion

🟣 ENVISION — PART 2: Clear the Path

“You don’t need to fight harder. You need to let go of what’s in the way.”

🌟 Core Intention:

To uncover and release the beliefs, blocks, and resistances standing between the participant and their vision.

• 🧘 Grounding and vision recall

• 🔍 Inquiry: What’s stopping you? Discovering limiting belief

• 💬 Pair sharing

• 💥 Releasing technique: Releasing belief

• 💥 Belief unstickiness

• 💞Using love to give your vision wings

• 🧘‍♂️ Surrender. Drop into No-mind

“Vision without clearing is fantasy.
Vision with love and stillness is fuel.”

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🟠 E — EXPRESS

“Let your vision move through action—aligned, joyful, intentional.”

🌟 Core Intention

Teach participants how to structure their life around clarity and joy, using tools like Agile planning, themes, retrospectives, and energy-based decision-making.
This session is about turning vision into movement, not hustle.

• 🧘 Opening meditation

• 🗂️ Agile planning: month → week → today, with themes

• 🧠 Retrospective + pre-mortem reflection

• 🧮 80/20 rule + Pomodoro method

• 📅 Time boxing + scheduling on a calendar

• 🌟 Joy vs. obligation drill

• ✅ Pick one joyful task and commit

• 🌀 Popcorn circle

“The difference between motion and momentum is joy.”

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🔵 T — TRUST

“You are the sky. What arises will pass. What you are remains.”

🌟 Core Intention:

To help participants rest in Being, taste the silence underneath the self, and walk away knowing they can trust the awareness that’s always present—beyond their thoughts, plans, or performance.

• 🎥 Pure Consciousness Experience

• 💗 Signature gratitude meditation & using gratitude to box your days

• ✍️ Journaling

• 💬 Pair sharing

• 🧘 Heart-centered thank-you practice

• 🏞️ Story time. The Daisen-in story to navigate life

• 🌀 Final circle: ritual return of stone + whispered intentions

  Let gratitude become your daily meditation.
  Let trust become your way of moving through life.
  And let love be the place you return to—again and again.