Online Only — The Wonder of Awareness: Natural Dharma Fellowship's Annual Winter Retreat

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If you would like to sign up for a home group after the Jan. 5th 4:00 pm ET deadline, please use this link to sign up:

Link for Late Home Group sign up

You will need to check your email during the 12:00-2:00 pm ET lunch break on the first day of the retreat for your breakout room assignment.\

Just as the quiet beauty of snow-covered mountains hosts an indescribable peace, our awareness is home to a lucid wakefulness within that the practice of meditation helps to unleash. This new year, experience the wonder of awareness by engaging, sustaining, and deepening into the vibrant heart of meditation practice within our online community. Mixing our experience, no matter what it is, with practice, we discover how meditation can provide a powerfully transformative container for everything that arises.

Natural Dharma Fellowship’s Annual Winter Retreat includes meditation sessions, dharma teachings, and guided movement. Teachings, offered by Lama Willa and Lama Liz, explore the nature of awareness as an innate embodied and loving resource for human flourishing. We will pay special attention to the importance of stability, self-compassion, ease, and freshness, while considering how meditation can become a resource of skillful action.

A daily movement session will keep our bodies vibrant and wakeful, and participants have an option to sign up for daily meetings with a small cohort to discuss meditation practice (a good way to connect sangha or get to know our community).

The Winter Retreat includes an option to take the Refuge Vow and Bodhisattva Vow on Saturday evening.

DAILY SCHEDULE – All times are Eastern Time

Saturday only —  the first day of the retreat begins with an orientation session at 9:50 am, followed by the opening Dharma Teaching at 10:00 am.

7:00 – 7:40 am             Optional Sunrise Meditation (Sun., Mon. & Tues.)
9:00 – 9:45 am             Meditation Practice
10:00 – 11:00 am         Dharma Teaching
11:15 am – 12:00 pm   Meditation Practice
2:00 – 2:45 pm             Optional: Practice Discussion Cohorts
3:00 – 3:50 pm             Mindful Movement
4:00 – 5:00 pm             Dharma Teaching
7:00 – 8:00 pm             Flexible Session (Q&A, Teaching, Meditation Practice or Vow Ceremony)

Zoom link — The Zoom link will be sent several days before the retreat to all those registered by then. If you register after that time, you’ll receive the link soon after submitting your registration. If you don’t see an email from Natural Dharma Registrar or Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, it may have mistakenly gone to your spam folder or to Promotions or Updates in Gmail.

Important: Please put these two email addresses in your Contact or Safe-Send list to make sure you receive our emails:

• retreats@wonderwellrefuge.org
• register+wonderwellrefuge@retreat.guru

PROGRAM COST

It is Natural Dharma Fellowship’s aspiration that no one be turned away from our teachings and retreats because they are unable to pay the full cost. In order make our courses affordable for all who wish to attend, we are offering a three-level fee structure that takes into account people’s differing financial circumstances:

• Benefactor – for those who can afford it, this fee level helps provide support for those with limited financial resources and assists with the care and maintenance of Wonderwell Mountain Refuge
• Course fee – for those who can cover the basic cost of an online retreat or course
• Supported – for those with limited financial resources or recent financial hardship

The pricing options for a particular retreat are based primarily on its length and are intended to give you an idea of what it costs to offer that retreat. The amounts listed are suggestions. You may write in any amount that fits your financial situation. Any amount offered above the Course Fee level will be considered a tax-deductible donation and will be acknowledged as such.

USER ACCOUNTS & RESOURCES

The user account feature of our website provides a secure place where materials from your retreats can be posted and accessed. If you don’t have an account already, you’ll want to set one up as soon as you register.

• If you haven’t already created an NDF user account, please visit our website to Create an account as soon as possible.
• User accounts are manually synced after the retreat. Please be aware that this does not happen automatically with registration. It is a separate, manual operation.
• Resources and Recordings: The retreat resources and recordings will be available in your user account. Recordings must be edited before they are posted. We appreciate your patience! You will receive an email letting you know they are available in your dashboard. If you have any questions about resources and recordings, please email support@naturaldharma.org.

Please visit the Technical FAQ page on our website for useful information about user accounts, helpful tutorials, as well as answers to many other questions. You can contact support@naturaldharma.org with questions about your user account.

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