The Spark of Freedom

With Lama Liz Monson, Camille Hykes and Janine Grillo Marra

July 9 - 14, 2021

Online Program Online

12:00 am Jul 09 - Jul 14, 2021 EDT

Date and Time Details: Friday, July 9 to Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Please see schedule for daily times. All times are Eastern Daylight Time. You can use this time zone converter to determine the start time at your home.

Contact: retreats@wonderwellrefuge.org

REGISTRATION: We appreciate your registering early so that retreat materials can go into your user account before the retreat begins.

PRICE: Please see the paragraph titled Program Cost for an explanation of the fee structure for this retreat.

  • Benefactor: $575
  • Program fee: $450
  • Supported: $325
Prices
  • Sliding fee scale

Participants are encouraged to practice generosity by giving dana (Sanskrit for "generous giving") at the end of the retreat.

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Join us this summer as we dive into the deep waters of awareness to explore and recognize the nature of the heart/mind. In this retreat, we will engage with Mahamudra techniques of Vipashyana – practices designed to enhance our capacity to experience reality directly and completely, beyond the veils of misunderstanding and conceptuality that usually mediate our experience. We will learn what it means to examine the still mind and the moving mind in order to relax into the vast openness of our being, the space of present-moment awareness out of which all appearances arise and into which they dissolve. Through practicing Vipashyana, we can have a direct experience of the nature of mind – an experience of spacious, awake responsiveness to the world of suffering around us.

This retreat will include lectures, meditation session, group discussion and movement practices.

Depending on the type of work that you do, you may be eligible for a Hemera Contemplative Fellowship. Please click on this link for more information.

SCHEDULE

Friday, July 9
6.30– 8:00 pm: Opening Session

Saturday, July 10 – Tuesday, July 13

10:00 – 11:00 am   Dharma Talk and Discussion
11:15 – 11:45 am   Group Meditation
12:00 – 12:45 pm   Group Exercise
12:45 – 2:45 pm     Lunch Break
2:45 – 3:15 pm       Group Meditation
3:15 – 4:15 pm       Dharma Talk and Discussion
4:30 – 5:30             Movement Session

Wednesday, July 14
10:00 – 11:00 am   Dharma Talk and Discussion
11:15 – 11:45 am   Group Meditation
12:00 – 12:30 pm   Final Session

All times are Eastern Daylight Savings Time

IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Please read carefully! The Zoom link will be emailed to all those registered two days before the retreat begins. If you don’t see an email from Natural Dharma Registrar or Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, it may have mistakenly gone to your spam/junk  folder or Promotions or Update categories. Please check your spam/junk folder and, if you find an email from us, open it and mark it as “Not spam.” Then add the email address you see in the From line to your Contacts to ensure our emails land in your inbox. Contact the registrar at retreats@wonderwellrefuge.org on Thursday if you have not received the Zoom link.

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
  • Program fee – for those who can cover the basic cost of a retreat or course
  • Supported – for those with limited financial resources or recent financial hardship

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

A new feature of our website—user accounts—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.

  • Paid resources – retreat recordings and other retreat materials, including Zoom links – will only be available in the dashboard of your user account.
  • 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 with the retreat 24-48 hours prior to its start. Please be aware that this does not happen automatically with registration. It is a separate, manual operation.
  • You must have a user account set up 48 hours prior to the start of an event for access to any pre-retreat materials provided by the teacher.
  • If you register less than 48 hours before a retreat, we cannot guarantee you will have access to your account when the program begins. In that case, your account will be synced 24-48 hours after the program has finished.

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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About the Teachers

Lama Liz Monson

Lama, Managing Teacher, Spiritual Co-Director Elizabeth Monson, PhD, is the Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Managing Teacher at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. Liz was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism after over 30 years of studying, practicing, and teaching Tibetan Buddhism […]

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Camille Hykes

Camille is a Dharma Teacher with Natural Dharma Fellowship. She is the Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship’s Margha Program, which offers year-long training in natural meditation and practices of bodhicitta. Teachers and sources of inspiration for Camille Hykes include Nyoshul Khenpo, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Robert and Rachel Olds, Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Charles Genoud, Anam […]

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Janine Grillo Marra

Meditation Teacher, Chair of NDF Movement Committee. Janine is the owner of Tranquil Flame Yoga and Wellness in Revere, MA. As a licensed physical therapist (McGill University, 1983), Reiki practitioner, certified Shake Your Soul dance teacher and certified fitness trainer, she augments her yoga classes with aspects of therapy, healing, and fitness for an integrated […]

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