The Wonder of Awareness: Annual Online Winter Retreat

Ease into the New Year with the NDF community at our annual Winter retreat when we explore the wonder of awareness through live teachings with Lamas Willa and Liz.

In this retreat, we explore the nature of awareness as an innate embodied and loving resource for human flourishing. We will pay special attention to the importance of stability, self-compassion, ease, and freshness, while considering how meditation can become a resource for skillful action.

Please join us to:

• Start the New Year in a sacred circle of spiritual friendship
• Discover ways to bring practice into daily experience
• Explore embodied meditation and movement as sources of stability and ease

Our time together will include teachings, meditation practice, yoga sessions with Laura Sicari and daily small group meetings.

Just as the open spaciousness of snow-covered mountains gives rise to an indescribable peace, our awareness is home to a lucid wakefulness, a deep ease within. When we mix our experience, no matter what it is, with practice, we discover how meditation can provide a powerfully transformative container for everything that arises.

Suitable for all levels

Retreat Schedule

(All times are Eastern time zone)

Thurs, Fri, Sat: 10:00 am – 8:00 pm with breaks from 12:00-2:00 pm and 5:00-7:00 pm

Sunday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm with break from 12:00-2:00 pm

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 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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