Pulling threads
Notes and news from the present moment, on its swift way to becoming past.
Winter Solstice
I have added a Winter Solstice meditation session to the calendar, on Tuesday, December 21, 2021. Join us! Also coming soon — the end of year mini-retreat — and in January, our weekly Winter meditation session is open for signup.
Turn the Year Retreat
A Winter Solstice Mini-Retreat
8:30–9 :30 a.m. December 27–31, 2021
As each calendar year ends, on the heels of Winter Solstice, I make a point to mark the transition with intention. There is something so delicious about retreats at this time of year. I find a sense of newness emerges by paying attention to how the natural world changes with the season, and dropping into resonance with that. There is an inward quality to the season of winter, and an outward quality to our holiday celebrations. With tempering and balance, this can be a rich time of rest, and if we are lucky, a deeply generative quality can be found in these dark, cold days.
Welcome Summer Retreat
When we sit together, we practice resting into our experience.
We practice sharing, and we practice listening.
In these ways, may we become skillful.
July 5–9, 2021
8:00–8:30 a.m.
Awakening Spring: A Meditation Retreat
With this seasonal change I will call upon an archetype of earth, the fecund and great Mother, in all her lustiness and intensity. She brings us the flowers and honey, the sweet colours of spring, and the terrific force of birth. She is one who will not be denied, and we do not control her. Join me in meeting Spring with a seasonal retreat: March 15–19, 8:00–8:30 a.m.
Turn the Year: A Meditation Retreat
It is natural to take time to reflect as the year turns — a time for meditative retreat in the darkest days after Winter Solstice. Let us close this year with a dedicated space for that reflection, to integrate and inquire…
December 28, 2020 – January 1, 2021 8:30–9 a.m.
October Retreat
A balm for difficult times — let us rest into supported community practice together, for one week of morning practice in the last week of October.
Happy Thanksgiving
What would an authentic practice of gratitude look like for you? Can we nurture natural gratitude without burying “non-gratitude”? Let's play with this idea!
Riding the Wave
Many feel this season and the next will be long ones. I hear resignation and some dread. I feel these things, yet, I also experience a glimmer of excitement for the deep inward turn that will come with winter. A time to dig deep into rich material, dream-time, integration and quiet creation time.
August Retreat
Join me August 17–21 for one week of morning meditations, a miniature self-retreat, in community.