Register for The Power of Original Wisdom (Residential)

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

Important Health Information

The NDF Health Committee continues to monitor evolving public health conditions and trends, as we keep the safety of our Sangha at the forefront of our decision-making. At this time, COVID-19 testing is no longer required. Masks are optional and encouraged if you are at higher risk. We encourage you to stay at home if you are symptomatic to protect others.

Scholarships and Fellowships

Cancellation Policy

We understand that personal circumstances may require you to cancel your registration. In these cases, please contact us right away at register@naturaldharma.org. Cancellations affect our ability to offer rooms to others and create additional work for our staff, therefore we charge the following fees to help mitigate these costs.

For cancellations (based on program start date):

• > 45 days: 100% refund minus a $75 admin. fee.
• 31-45 days: 50% refund of the required deposit; or 75% refund if registration paid in full.
• 21-30 days: 50% refund of total registration cost
• < 21 days: nonrefundable

If you must cancel due to an emergency or extenuating circumstances, please contact us at register@naturaldharma.org.

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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