Boundaries Alongside Boundlessness (Residential)

This is the RESIDENTIAL component of the retreat. If you’d like to register for the ONLINE 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 — Orientation at 6:45 pm. 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. Evening session 7:00-8:30 pm

Last Day —The closing session end at 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.

Important Health Information

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

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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