Boundaries Alongside Boundlessness (Online)

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

To truly embody our yes to life, we must equally honor our no. Liberating our hearts and minds and taking responsibility for our contribution to consciousness requires both fierce and gentle compassion.

In this embodied meditation retreat, we draw from the wisdom streams of Zen Buddhism, somatic inquiry, EcoDharma, and conscious movement/dance. By learning to set conscious boundaries within our own minds and habits, we create the conditions to listen deeply to the still small voice within and reclaim authentic authorship of our lives.

Through relational practice, meditation, and embodied inquiry — and by letting go of projecting authority onto conditioned beliefs and external expectations — we remember and reclaim a wider, more life-affirming field of possibility.

Please join us to 

• Restore through the boundless nature of spacious awareness
• Recognize the body as guide and truth-teller
• Deepen your attunement to the inner compass
• Learn to set conscious, compassionate boundaries
• Express Yes and No with courage and skill
• Reconnect with a wider, more life-affirming field of possibility

Boundaries Alongside Boundlessness offers an embodied, honest, heart-opening, and non-dual exploration of setting skillful, compassionate boundaries when it serves Life. This life-affirming work is not about replacing yes with no. We can only remember the boundless love that we are by embracing the full spectrum of our humanity.

This work begins by learning to set conscious boundaries within our own minds and habits in order to affirm authentic being and true nature. Only when we listen deeply — with devotion and attunement — to the still small voice within can we take genuine and emergent authorship of our lives. By continually letting go of projecting authority onto conditioned beliefs and the perceived expectations of others, we remember a wider and more life-affirming field of possibility.

Embodied meditation teaches us how to skillfully express Yes and No, yin and yang, courage and receptivity, conscious allowing and conscious protection. Recognizing the body as guide and truth-teller, this retreat is an invitation to deepen our attunement with the inner compass. It offers permission to slow down and savor that which speaks to us somatically, invisibly, energetically, through intuition and relational forms of knowing.

This retreat bridges personal and collective liberation.

The retreat includes sitting meditation, walking meditation, relational mindfulness, somatic awareness practices, dharma talks and inquiry, and conscious dance. You do not need to be a dancer to participate, nor do you need years of meditation experience. All are welcome.

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 8:00-9:30 am; Lunch break 12:00-2:00 pm; Dinner break 5:30-7:00 pm.

Last Day — The closing session typically ends by 12:00 pm.

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. 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 available in your user dashboard (more information about user accounts provided in pre-retreat materials). 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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