Róisín Ingle
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I'm not a Buddhist, by the way.
I'm not in anything, but if I was anything, I'd probably be that, I think.
It's more aligned to everything I sort of feel.
Yeah, he introduced me to meditation and vipassana and things like that, yeah.
So Vipassana is a type of meditation technique and there's a guy called Goenka, I think he's from Burma.
And what it is, is these 10 day retreats.
They're silent retreats.
And you get up at four o'clock in the morning and your last meal is 11 a.m.
And you don't speak to anyone.
You don't look at anyone.
You're just in this place and you meditate.
They teach you how to meditate.
I've done it three times.
I did one in Portumna.
That was the first one.
That was when... So with all this self-loathing and all of this stuff, I, you know, I wanted someone to love me.
And I found someone who decided that they loved me.
And we got married very early.
I was only in my early 20s.