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 …
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2023-04 Teachers Retreat (Spring) – In This Together
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 …
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2023-03 Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method
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 …
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2023-02 Wakeful Body 6-Week Course
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 …
2023-01 Dharma Dialogues – Confronting Race and Injustice
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 …
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2023-02 Natural Freedom Winter Retreat: Visions of Awareness
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 …
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2023-01 The Wonder of Awareness: NDF Annual Winter Retreat
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 …
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2022-10 Why Would Anyone Watch the Mind? An Introduction to Meditation
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 …
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2022-08 Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method and Meditation
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, …
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2022-05 Brendan Kennedy Retreat
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 …
