Dharma Sunday (1/12) - The Power of Presence: Cultivating the Courage to Show Up for Your Life (Online)

Live Online! 

12:00 – 2:00 pm ET

What would our lives be like if we really showed up in the here and now? If we made a priority of stopping to smell the roses? So much of our time is spent in rumination, distraction, and overwhelm.

The contexts we inhabit, including our technological ones, habituate us to living just a little outside of our bodies and our sense fields, a little outside of the present moment.

We rarely pause long enough to consider what might be at stake: the loss of connection to beloved others, the loss of embodied awareness, the loss of access to the fullness and majesty of what is unfolding right in front of us.

If there is one thing that a meditation practice teaches us, it is that while presence is powerful, it is not a given. To come present is a subtle, deep art. It takes practice to return to our senses and bodies, to love what is here, and to attune to our own state or the state of another.

But it is a worthwhile effort. A cultivation of presence links us to the vibrant, open possibilities and potentials right in front of us, right here right now, and helps us ground in the powerful humility of the real.

Zoom link —The Zoom link will be sent two days before the retreat to all those registered by then. Please contact the registrar on Saturday if you haven’t received the link. If you register after that date, you’ll receive the link shortly after submitting your registration. If you don’t see an email from Natural Dharma Registrar or Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, it may have mistakenly been sent to your spam folder. Please put this address in your Contacts to ensure you receive our emails: register@naturaldharma.org.

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