Join long-time friends and collaborators Leslie Booker and Dara Silverman in July in Upstate New York for a four-day retreat. They will guide participants through somatic practices and the Buddha’s profound teachings on the Brahmaviharas—expressions of loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. In this four-day retreat, we’ll explore hope as an embodied practice in a tumultuous world.
Together, we’ll cultivate these capacities and deepen our understanding of how to embody hope, love, and presence. We'll explore meditation and body-based somatic practices.
As a group, we'll sit in the questions:
How can we hold hope without bypassing the realities of injustice and hardship?
How do we stay rooted in joy and well-being while staying fully present to the world around us?
How can meditation practice, and somatic practice, support our engagement with the world (rather than provide an escape?)
Is this for me? If you are interested in learning more about your body, responses under pressure and capacity to work with other people towards justice and through practice- this is for you. If you are an organizer, consultant, trainer, coach or activist, this is a place for you to be deepening and building your commitment to racial justice. This retreat is a place to deepen in your somatic awareness, embodied practice and learnings.
Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of experience with meditation or body-based practices.
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