Turn the Year: A Meditation Retreat
Bells from India, photography by Meagan Eady Photography.
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, which has been fraught on so many levels, with a dedicated space for that reflection, to integrate and inquire: Where we are now? What have we learned? What are we unlearning? What are our intentions for the dawn of this new year?
Join me for a meditation circle to turn the year. We will gather each morning for one week, marking our transition to 2021.
December 28, 2020 – January 1, 2021
8:30–9 a.m.
Our morning practice is simple — a brief greeting, a poem or short reading, followed by a 20-minute sit. Zoom will connect us where we are.
This morning meditation circle is the third online “mini-retreat” in 2020. Each retreat has been so affirming, centering, and supportive — simply by coming together with a clear commitment to practice for a short time over a few days.
This year in particular, I mark and honour a number of significant anniversaries, happy and sad, in the holiday weeks. I will treat the whole week as a retreat, and look forward to deep listening, rest, reading, and reflection in these five days, to candles and bells to ring in the New Year. I encourage you to join us for morning practice, and consider how you might create a larger sense of retreat for yourself during this transitional time, closing one year and treading mindfully into the next.
