Time?

From the Dhamma.org website:  "The following timetable for the course has been designed to maintain the continuity of practice. For best results, students are advised to follow it as closely as possible."

This will be my daily schedule for ten days.  Registration/check-in is on a Wednesday evening and the program ends two Sundays later in the morning.

As you can surmise, it is a rather demanding schedule.  I added up the time spent in meditation and it is a total of 11 hours and 45 minutes each day.  The longest sit is 2-1/2 hours.  You also have to remember.  These are meditations taken in total silence.  No music.  No guided meditations.  You are given instruction of the technique to be applied and then left to sit with it.

It's almost like meditation boot camp.

-- AM
0400....................Morning wake-up bell
0430-0630............Meditate in the hall or in your room
0630-0800............Breakfast break
0800-0900............Group meditation in the hall
0900-1100............Meditate in the hall or in your room
                                   according to the teacher's instructions
1100-NOON.......Lunch break

--  PM
1200-0100............Rest and interviews with the teacher
0100-0230............Meditate in the hall or in your room
0230-0330............Group meditation in the hall
0330-0500............Meditate in the hall or in your room
                                   according to the teacher's instructions
0500-0600............Tea break
0600-0700............Group meditation in the hall
0700-0815............Teacher's discourse in the hall
0815-0900............Group meditation in the hall
0900-0930............Question time in the hall
0930....................Retire to your room; lights out