Register for The Power of Original Wisdom (Online)

This is the ONLINE component of the retreat. If you’d like to register for the RESIDENTIAL component, please click here.

Supporting Teachers

Camille Hykes, David Bayer, Roxanne Broadbent

Discover the path to your innate wisdom in the new year by immersing yourself in the profound path of Mahamudra.

This six-day retreat will focus on transformative practices that allow us to directly experience the love and wisdom that comprise the very fabric of our deepest nature. Through guided meditations and teachings, we will explore how to access and rest in innate original goodness and wisdom.

Please join us to:

• Start the New Year in a sacred circle of spiritual friendship
• Learn the nature and qualities of primordial awareness/wisdom (rigpa);
• Practice techniques of tranquility meditation that function to tame, calm, and stabilize the mind, enabling us to rest at ease in our being;
• Discover how to access original wisdom – a profound state of interbeing and wakefulness.
• Explore embodied meditation and movement as sources of stability and ease

Throughout this retreat, we will emphasize how to integrate natural awareness meditation into ways of speaking, listening, moving and being that can help us to merge these practices with daily life. By joining primordial wisdom to our everyday activities, we can discover a bottomless source for resilience, effective action, and compassionate responsiveness to this troubled world.

Kim Albert will lead daily movement sessions. Retreatants will have the opportunity to share within small discussion groups throughout the time together.

Suitable for all levels.

Typical Retreat Schedule

(All times are Eastern time zone)

First Day — Opening session begins around 7:00 pm.

Full-Day Schedule — Morning meditation 7:00 am; Breakfast break 8:30-10:00 am; Lunch break 12:00-2:00 pm; Dinner break 5:30-7:00 pm.

Last Day —The closing session will end by about 11:30 am.

These times are just for reference. An expanded schedule will be provided in pre-retreat information emailed during the week prior to the event.

Zoom Link

The Zoom link will be sent several days before the retreat to all those registered by then. If you register after that date, you’ll receive the link with your confirmation email shortly 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 this email address in your Contact or Safe-Send list to make sure you receive our emails:

• register@naturaldharma.org

Program Cost

Our program fees provide essential support to our non-profit operations and NDF’s mission to spread the Dharma in accessible, relevant, and creative ways. Our goal is that no one misses out on our events due to lack of funds. Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to offer tiered pricing and additional support to fit varied financial situations: 

• May All Beings Benefit! *– supporting access for all and general support for NDF operations
• A Middle Way – covering the base cost
• Held in Sangha Loving-kindness – offering ease when financial resources are limiting

If the lowest cost tier creates an obstacle to your attendance, please see our financial support options on the registration page. The process is simple and does not require extensive information. Financial aid is immediately approved using discount code options that allow you to contribute the most you are able while honoring your particular resources.

* The difference between the May All Beings Benefit! tier and the Middle Way tier will be considered a tax-deductible donation and will be acknowledged as such in writing. Contributing at this level helps us offer financial aid to other participants. Thank you!!

Access to Recordings

NDF offers unlimited access to recordings, which are accessed in your user dashboard (more information about user accounts provided in a pre-retreat letter). If you have a user account, please register with the same email you use to log into your dashboard. If not, an account will be created for you using your registration address.

Availability will vary depending on the type of event and the backlog for our precious resource volunteers. Thank you for your patience.

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