Winter Meditation Retreat: Connection, Compassion, Curiosity
The Winter Retreat offers practices to ground us in our basic goodness, sanity, and worthiness. Starting Friday, December 27, two days after Christmas, this retreat will include meditation and compassion practices designed to support our experience of connectedness with others, and to raise awareness of habits that distract us from being present. We will contemplate how we, as individuals and as members of a group, might build enlightened society. The retreat will include practices designed to bring us face-to-face with our authentic selves and others.
Come as you are, with all your feelings about our world these days—our fears and uncertainties are fertile ground to experience how meditation can open our hearts and reveal new possibilities.
This retreat is facilitated by our Collective Liberation group, which meets monthly to explore issues of identity, race and culture. Everyone is welcome regardless of their experience with meditation. Meditation instruction will be provided.
Daily teachings and practices will include Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, Heart Sutra, Four Immeasurables (Brahmaviharas), Tonglen, and practices that attend to the body and the bonds between us. In addition, we invite all to participate in Rota practice, which means caring for each other and the Center by cleaning up after ourselves.
This program will be offered both in-person and online. For those attending in-person, breakfast, lunch, tea and snacks will be included.
Program price: $75/day or $300 for the full retreat (includes cost of: daily breakfast, lunch, tea). For those attending online, $60/day or $225 for 5 days. Our generosity policy is pay-what-you-can.
NOTE: When registering, please indicate which day(s) you plan to attend. Please also indicate if you plan to attend online or in-person. If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected].