LIVE ONLINE — Bailing the Boat: A Mindful Detox Day

Meditation can serve many functions. It can help with stress management. It can support psychological growth. It can create a safe harbor in stormy seas. It can mitigate the pandemic trance of unworthiness. It can increase clarity and stability of mind. It can deepen the well of compassion.

During exceptional times of extreme chaos in the world, as in now, when anxiety and uncertainty take center stage, meditation can serve a detoxifying function, without which we can feel decentered, overwhelmed, fraying at the edges.

This day of practice will not emphasize deep states of calm or transformative insight. Instead, we will focus on simple practices to release accumulated patterns of tension in body, breath, heart-mind and replenish the heart with good food.

Periods of sitting meditation will be interspersed with standing, walking, mindfulness of the body exercises and mindful speaking and listening.

Sitting alone together can strengthen resolve, help us to feel HELD internally and externally in a holding environment of good company, and offer a sense of connection to like-minded others.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION Please read carefully! A Zoom link will be emailed to all those registered 2 days before the retreat opens. Registrations received after that will receive the Zoom link before the retreat opens. 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 open your spam folder and, if you find an email from us, open it and mark it as “Not spam.” Please add the email address you see in the From line to your Contacts to ensure our emails land in your inbox. Contact us at retreats@wonderwellrefuge.org if you do not receive the Zoom link.

Schedule (all times EDT)

8:00 am    Teaching
8:30 am    Meditation
9:00 am    Q&A
9:30 am    Meditation

10:00 am – 2:00 pm    Break

2:00 pm    Movement
2:30 pm    Meditation
3:00 pm    Group Discussion
3:30 pm    Q&A

4:00 – 7:00 pm    Break

7:00 pm    Meditation
7:30 pm    Teaching
8:00 pm    Movement
8:30 pm    Closing

Retreat ends at 9:00 pm

Wonderwell Mountain Refuge strives to offer retreats in a manner that is non-cost prohibitive and inclusive to persons of all means. If the full retreat cost would create an undue financial burden, we encourage persons to apply for scholarship and work-study. Whether one needs to request aid to defer a large or small portion of the cost of a retreat so as not to incur a financial burden, we strive to accommodate you. This link will take you to information about our work-study and scholarship possibilities. 

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