Because our lives are deeply interconnected, relationships are where we find love and care, conflict and separation, pain and healing, and the possibility of transformation. This online retreat focuses on the dharma of relationships between partners, friends, family members, colleagues, and many others. With guided meditation, movement practices, and experiential exercises, this program will be highly interactive, while offering moments of stillness and introspection. Relational exercises and mindfulness practices will be offered with sensitivity to participants’ diverse identities, lived experiences, and social locations.
Thich Nhat Hanh suggested that the next Buddha may be a sangha. The dharma offers practices that support our awakening through relationships, help us lean in toward one another, and hold fluctuations with care. The teachings of impermanence, sila, and the Brahma Viharas offer wisdom that guides all phases and types of relationships. Please join us for this weekend retreat to explore dharma teachings we can call upon when the going gets rough and we want to bury our heads in the sand, put on boxing gloves, and/or run away.
Program Format: This program will include relational practices, meditation, journaling, dharma talks and Q & R.
Participant Expectations: Cameras must be on during exercises and attendance of entire program is required.