2020-07 Practicing Natural Compassion
In this online meditation retreat, we engage with Buddhist practices of love and compassion as a means by which to open the heart. Through exploring both how to open our …
In this online meditation retreat, we engage with Buddhist practices of love and compassion as a means by which to open the heart. Through exploring both how to open our …
The Teachers Retreat is the annual occasion for the leadership of NDF’s spiritual programming to gather, learn, and connect. As meditation teachers and mentors, we honor the calling to share …
2023-04 Teachers Retreat (Spring) – In This Together Read More »
This daylong retreat combines accessible yet profound mindful meditation practices with sessions of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons, the brilliant sensory-motor approach to gently and wisely re-educating the neuro-muscular system. Alternating …
2023-03 Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method Read More »
Yoga and Meditation as an Integrated Path Many of us have a complicated relationship with the body. In its vulnerability to aging and illness, we tend to think of our …
A YEAR-LONG INQUIRY INTO BUDDHIST CARE AND COMMUNITY ACROSS DIFFERENCE How do we bring our whole selves to the work of personal and collective liberation? How can we respond skillfully …
2023-01 Dharma Dialogues – Confronting Race and Injustice Read More »
The 2023 Winter Trekchod retreat explores the visionary practices of Togal, especially the visions that emerge from sky yoga. This retreat includes a close study of the Yeshe Lama and …
2023-02 Natural Freedom Winter Retreat: Visions of Awareness Read More »
Just as the quiet beauty of snow-covered mountains hosts an indescribable peace, our awareness is home to a lucid wakefulness within that the practice of meditation helps to unleash. This …
2023-01 The Wonder of Awareness: NDF Annual Winter Retreat Read More »
Are you curious about meditation? Do you sometimes find your own mind a challenging place to be? Would you like to know how to abide peacefully in the center of …
2022-10 Why Would Anyone Watch the Mind? An Introduction to Meditation Read More »
Awakening includes both the body and mind. Join us as we explore the body’s natural intelligence to relax habitual (and often stressful or painful) patterns into greater ease and freedom, …
2022-08 Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method and Meditation Read More »
Awareness, or mind itself, is totally perfect and complete, as stated by Longchenpa. So, if that’s the case, how can we become the mind or awareness itself? By simply being …