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SUMMARY:Saying “Yes” to Experience
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to activate the radical immediacy available within our ordinary experience.\n \nWe are pleased to offer this summer retreat at Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Sonoma County, one of the premier retreat centers in Northern California (www.ratnaling.org ( http://www.ratnaling.org/ )).\nThe self has a strong impulse toward the therapeutic, toward making knowledge into something that can benefit the self.\n–Love of Knowledge, Ch. 27\nWe live in a world shaped by the stories we tell about it—stories centered on the self. Using a logic that starts with the existence of the self, we turn knowledge into a tool that we use to uphold our own limits.\nIn this retreat, we will question this commitment to the self and the therapeutic mindset it puts in place. Focusing strongly on practice, we will learn how to activate the radical immediacy available within our ordinary experience, if only we know how to look for it. We will learn what it means to say “yes” to experience, to discover freedom within the patterns of the ordinary and bring it into every moment.\nAmong the exercises we may draw on in our inquiry:\nGoing without Going (TSK Ex. 23)\nA Marriage of Sound and Breath (TSK Ex. 24)\nMoments between Moments (LOK Ex. 14)\nConducting the Vision (DTS Ex. 1)\nTime of Thinking (DTS Ex. 2)\nBody-Mind-Thought Interplay (TSK Ex. 7)\nLayers of Mind (LOK Ex. 2)\nSound within Sound (LOK Ex. 28 and 30)\nObserving without Owning (LOK Ex. 23 and 22)\nCommanding Time (DTS Ex. 13A)\nField of Awareness (LOK Ex. 17)\nEmbodied Energy (LOK Ex. 38)\nAlternatives to Mind (LOK Ex. 46)\nThis retreat builds on themes explored in the workshop, The Self in Question, offered online in March 2022. However, anyone can benefit from participating, no matter what their background. All you need is an interest in inquiry and the intention to come more fully alive.\nSchedule\n7:00-8:00        Optional Kum Nye\n8:00-9:00        Breakfast and cleanup\n10:00-12:30    Morning session (with 15 minute break)\n12:30-1:30      Lunch and cleanup\n1:30-4:00        Individual practice/time off\n4:00-5:30        Afternoon session\n5:30-7:00        Dinner and cleanup\n7:30-9:00        Evening session\n\nAccommodations\nYou will be staying by yourself or with one other person in a luxury cottage. For details, see: https://ratnaling.org/accommodations/\nRetreatants will take turns helping with kitchen cleanup.\nPrice\nThe full price is $1,695 for the retreat, which includes meals and lodging. Please pay full price if you have the means to do so, as we are paying the facility for the space. If you need a discount, please apply one of the following discount codes on checkout according to your need:\n25%off\n50%off\nIf you need further financial assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact morgan@fullpresence.org and we will see what we can work out.\n
URL:https://creativeinquiry.org/events/saying-yes-to-experience/
CATEGORIES:Retreat
LOCATION:35755 Hauser Bridge Road, Cazadero, California
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