Plan Your Visit

Now that your application for admission has been accepted, you are probably wondering what you should do now. Below are some tips for planning for your visit to TMI:

Travel: Please let us know your travel plans at least three weeks prior to your arrival. We will be glad to meet your flight at the Charlottesville, Virginia, airport on the Saturday on which your program begins. We request that you arrange for your flights to arrive between 12 noon and 4pm if at all possible.

If you are driving, please try to arrive Saturday between 12 noon and 4 pm at the Institute. On the following Friday morning, the final day of the program, please plan to depart for home after breakfast.

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What to bring:

• A journal in which to write, a writing pen or pencil
• Comfortable and casual clothes
• A robe to wear to the bathroom
• Walking or hiking shoes
• In warm weather, bring a bathing suit to swim in the lake

Meals

Our home-style meals offer choices of vegetables and legumes, salad bar and fruit with entrees of chicken, turkey and occasional seafood. If you have any restrictive dietary needs feel free to bring any unique food items with you and TMI will be happy to accommodate to the best of our abilitiy.

Yoga:

Early morning Yoga classes are available with Iyengar Yoga Teacher Shaaron Honeycutt and Integral Yoga Teacher Surya Lipscombe. This is a good chance to maintain or begin your practice and an excellent way to start the day! Please bring comfortable loose fitting clothing if you wish to join in the classes. There are mats, blocks and other props available for use as well.

Fitness:

There are a variety of other fitness opportunities including weights, walking, hiking, swimming, and ping pong. TMI feels strongly that light daily physical activity is integral to improving the quality of each individual experience. Please bring appropriate clothing if you wish to take advantage of any or all of these activities.

Massage:

Massages are available during program break times, at additional cost. Please plan in advance to bring either cash or personal checks (US Dollars Only), as credit card payments cannot be accepted.

Recommended Readings and Recordings

Please understand that what Robert Monroe has written in FAR JOURNEYS about the one-to-one Explorer sessions in the lab is not part of the Gateway Voyage training system. Also, though Bob’s books document his considerable experiences in the out-of-body state, the Gateway Voyage offers a much broader, more comprehensive exposure to expanded states of consciousness, of which the out-of-body state is only one. Therefore, we neither emphasize nor guarantee an out-of-body experience. We do believe, however, that taking the time to listen to yourself may and will be quite transformative!

Other Activities

There are many wonderful places to visit and things to do near the Institute’s facility in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Please consider some of them if you’d like to enhance your trip.

Fallen Oak Bed and Breakfast is a wonderful Guesthouse located on the Monroe Institute New Land.

Please feel free to contact us is you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you soon.

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