Holding Each Moment With Wisdom & Love: Queer, LGBT, Gender Non-Conforming Retreat
A Residential Retreat with Leslie Booker, Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis
Oct 24 - Nov 7, 2022
self-retreat: Nov 7 - 13, 2022
Queer, LGBT, Gender Non-Conforming Retreat
OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 7 | in-person, residential retreat
NOVEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 13 | in-person self retreat (spaces available)*
*We have expanded the self-retreat to include a daily schedule of meditation practice, daily Dharma talks with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, optional group sharing, and one or more 45 minute individual interviews with a teacher. For the self retreat, Alisa Dennis will also be doing interviews online. If you would like to register for the self retreat only, you can do so here.
WAITLIST UPDATE
Our retreat has reached full capacity for white participants, but we are accepting applications for the waitlist and have some spots left open for BIPOC retreatants. Click here to apply, and we'll add you to the right list.
Please let us know if you already registered but are unable to participate in the retreat so we can open up the spot to someone on the waiting list. There are still spaces available in the self retreat November 7 - 13. You can register for that week here.
A two-week residential retreat at Dhamma Dena, with Leslie Booker, Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis.
For those wishing to continue their practice into a third week, Arinna and others will be offering an additional week of self-retreat from Nov 7-13.
How can we hold our grief, our shame, and our joys in these challenging times that sometimes seem empty of hope? How can we defy the rampant energies of ignorance and delusion so that we are able to support ourselves, and to care for and strengthen our communities?
The Buddha offered us a path of healing and liberation through the calling in and strengthening of our capacity to love and to be wise. On this retreat we enter, as a community, into a training to meet with kindness what ever arises within ourselves. Through moment to moment mindfulness wisdom grows and discerns what reduces suffering or what strengthens it. We increasingly become aware of these choice points and the possibility of transformation
Coming together as LGBTGNC gives us enough safety and support to be able to witness ourselves as we are with compassion and offer this witnessing to each other challenging the negative messages we have received and continue to receive. We know we depend on each others support and reflection to do this work for ourselves, and for the work we do in the world.
We orient toward liberation, justice and the greater capacity to hold the inevitable joys and sorrows of a fully human life.
Ten online spots will be available for those with disabilities and/or chronic illness who are unable to come in person.
Open to beginners and long-standing students.
The retreat is offered at a sliding scale of $20-$100 a day. No one will be turned away for lack of funds and registration fees are an important form of support for the running of the center. The online spots for people with disabilities and chronic illness are offered at no cost.
There will also be an opportunity to offer dana / donations for the teachings at the close of the retreat.