Mindfulness in Action (Winter Retreat-Full Week)
Mindfulness in Action (Winter Retreat-Full Week)
22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, NY, USA
December 27, 2024 - January 2, 2025
About this Retreat
Arawana’s career has been in dance, both in the theater and in communities, with a focus on cultivating individual presence and group awareness and creativity. She began to meditate and study with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche in 1974, and has been teaching Shambhala Training and Dharma Art practices since 1980. She currently works with the Presencing Institute, creating with colleagues an art form called Social Presencing Theater, which brings the contemplative teachings of Shambhala art into the field of social change. She is the author of Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move.
Gaylon Ferguson, PhD, is a senior teacher in the Shambhala and Buddhist traditions who has been leading meditation retreats since 1976. He was a member of Naropa University’s core faculty and is the author of Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With. Additionally, his article, “Making Friends with Ourselves,” was selected for inclusion in The Best Buddhist Writing 2005 and his essay “No Color, All Colors” appears in the book, Mindful Politics.
Details of this retreat
This hybrid retreat is offered in person at Sky Lake, with a Zoom option available. It is open to experienced and beginning meditators.
You are warmly invited to join our annual holiday meditation intensive, an opportunity to fully immerse oneself in five days of mindfulness-awareness practice.
Mindfulness is the heart of the path of awakening. Being present with ourselves in a retreat setting can be the basis for awareness, loving-kindness, and compassion in everyday life. In addition to engaging daily sitting and walking meditation practice, participants hear talks, have lively group conversations about practice and meditation in action, engage in movement and embodiment practices, and meet with experienced meditation teachers.
Some of the days we'll be in silence, which encourages opening to our direct experience of sense perceptions in the brilliant environment of Sky Lake at this time of year: snow-covered trees, silent woods, and the sounds of winter birds.
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Scholarships:
We would like to make this retreat possible for as many as reasonably can be accommodated. Please be in touch with us via email by December 7 so you may be considered. Please include in your email: name, in person or hybrid, partial or full retreat, how much discount you need to attend.
Partial Attendance:
Partial attendance is an option for this retreat, please write programs@sky-lake.org to find out more.
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You are warmly invited to join our annual holiday meditation intensive, an opportunity to fully immerse oneself in five days of mindfulness-awareness practice.
Mindfulness is the heart of the path of awakening. Being present with ourselves in a retreat setting can be the basis for awareness, loving-kindness, and compassion in everyday life. In addition to engaging daily sitting and walking meditation practice, participants hear talks, have lively group conversations about practice and meditation in action, engage in movement and embodiment practices, and meet with experienced meditation teachers.
Some of the days we'll be in silence, which encourages opening to our direct experience of sense perceptions in the brilliant environment of Sky Lake at this time of year: snow-covered trees, silent woods, and the sounds of winter birds.
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Scholarships:
We would like to make this retreat possible for as many as reasonably can be accommodated. Please be in touch with us via email by December 7 so you may be considered. Please include in your email: name, in person or hybrid, partial or full retreat, how much discount you need to attend.
Partial Attendance:
Partial attendance is an option for this retreat, please write programs@sky-lake.org to find out more.
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Getting Here
Sky Lake Shambhala, 22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, NY, USA
Accommodation
Dorm Room - $110 per night
Roommates will be assigned.
No Lodging - Commuter
Shared Room - $130 per night
Roommate will be assigned.
Shrine Room Floor
Single room - $160 per night
A room with either one queen or one twin bed and private bathroom to yourself.
