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2025 Ann’s Wise-Women’s retreat

Imagine this…..

We will gather together in the sanctuary on my land in the hills above Talent.  The sanctuary  is a beautiful cozy octagon that has been used intentionally for mediation for over 20 years.

 I’ll supply back-jacks for everyone and also have several meditation cushions and chairs available. You are welcome to make yourself comfortable by bringing extra pillows or your personal set up. 

You will be asked to give up your phones for the day and enter into sacred silence. 

Retreat days will include periods of sitting and walking meditation, qigong, dharma talks, lunch, and circle sharing. In each retreat we will be exploring different practices and focus. The meditation periods will vary in length from 20-35 minutes at a time.

Day Flow

-Arrive 8:45

-Begin at 9-Settling in together-INTENTION setting

-9:30-10:00 Qigong

-10-10:30 Guided meditation(sitting)

-11-12:15 Dharma talk and Q&A

-12-1  Meditation(walking or sitting)

1-2 LUNCH break–Soup and sides at Ann’s house

2-3:15 Dharma talk and Q&A

3-4  Mindful movement and meditation

4-4:30 closing circle.

RAIN-A practice of radical Compassion

-popularized by Tara Brach, this practice helps you become for conscious of navigating your response to shame and big emotions. RAIN can be done in meditation or anytime you find yourself navigating big feelings. The basic steps are to R-recognize, A-allow, I-investigate, and N-nurture what is unfolding in the present moment.

METTA-Lovingkindness practice

Metta is a concentration and mindfulness practice that invites the practitioner into a more loving, connected state of mind. In metta meditation, we wish happiness, safety, and ease toward ourselves and others. In the most common version of metta practice, we offer these feelings of goodwill through the use of simple phrases first to ourselves, and in succession to someone we love, someone we’re indifferent towards, someone we consider a “difficult person,” and finally to all beings, everywhere.

JOY

Through our meditation practice, we can consciously cultivate the natural well-being and joy that we were born with. Using mindful attention, we can directly experience the aliveness of genuine well-being in the body, mind, and heart as we connect with the goodness inside and around us. To access this natural joy, we don’t merely know we’re feeling good; we actually feel what it’s like to feel good.

Without efforting to make something happen, we can invite well-being and joy by simply inclining our mind in that direction as we connect with what brings us delight and appreciation, letting ourselves mindfully relax into it when it is here. Our own well-being and joy can be a gift to others as it awakens those qualities in those around us.

FORGIVENESS

Often our deepest suffering is the sense that something we have done—something about us—is fundamentally wrong and unacceptable. Finding a way to make peace with our human imperfections is the ground of all healing.

True Forgiveness does not deny the suffering of the past but has tremendous dignity and courage and power of love in it, That says….we will, and can, start again. -Jack Kornfield-