2020-07 Practicing Natural Compassion
In this live, 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 …
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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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2023-01 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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2020-10 Ngondro 4 – Finding Your Heart of Devotion
Finding Your Heart of Devotion with Lama Liz Monson, Kathe McKenna and Ron Thomas This daylong retreat focuses on what is possible when we cultivate an authentic presence and connection …
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2021-07 The Art of Dying
Death is a topic that we often shy away from, and its realities are hidden in our cultural context. Yet the Buddha taught that contemplating death is a practice of …
2021-04_Wakeful Body Module 2: The Art of Vajra Vinyasa
While we might think of a mortal coil, great masters of the past have taught that the body is the temple, a profound source of yogic wisdom. As the Hevajra …
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2021-02_Wakeful Body – Module 1
While we might think of a mortal coil, great masters of the past have taught that the body is the temple, a profound source of yogic wisdom. As the Hevajra …
