Resting Retreat-

Friday February 27, 6-7:30pm ET

Saturday February 28, 10am-3pm ET

Sunday March 1, 10am-3pm ET

Zoom

This three day meditation retreat is designed to allow participants to contact rest in ways that are nourishing, sustaining, and, ultimately, awakening. We gather with the singular purpose of settling into our practice. Through multiple sessions a day, we encounter a variety of aspects of our experience. Exactly what we encounter is unpredictable in some regards- we can’t anticipate our feelings, moods, thoughts, physical sensation, or environment. Not exactly. The content varies. But, on the other hand, we know that we’ll encounter something in our experience that streams through feelings, moods, thoughts, etc. We will encounter our minds and bodies. We’ll encounter our habits. This may not be an enticing prospect, as these are generally the things that fall under the category of that-which-we do-not-want-to-encounter. These are the things we want to get over. However, sitting in meditation for long stretches of time is a way that we cultivate another approach all together. We cultivate rest. We meet our compulsive mind again and again, and we simply begin to relax around it. We regard our experience, whatever that may be, with less of an urgent need to fix it. The experience may include everything from boredom, to sleepiness, to anger, to confusion, to sorrow, to joy. We learn to stop discriminating against whatever arises and simply let it be. We may even find some friendliness towards ourselves in this state of rest.

The retreat will include seated and walking meditation, with readings, dharma talks, and time for discussion.

This retreat will not be recorded.

Cost- $160 Please scroll down for registration and payment options.

No one turned away for lack of funds, please reach out if you need financial assistance.