Gratitude, Connection, and Healing in Nature (Zoom)
With David Loy, Jean Leonard, Johann Robbins, Kritee (Kanko) and Peter Williams
June 5 - 7, 2020
Online
Date and Time Details: Friday June 5, 6–8pm MDT
Saturday June 6, 9am-7pm
Sunday June 7, 9am-1pm
Location: Zoom
Contact: Peter Williams
ptrwllms98@gmail.com
Approximate Schedule: All Times in MDT Friday Evening, All on Zoom 6:00PM Welcome and Orientation 6:30 Refuges and Precepts 6:45 Themes and Intentions 7:00 Sitting Meditation 7:30 Small Groups 8:00 Evening Ends 8:10-8:45 Zoom: Optional Late Sit Saturday 7:15-8AM Zoom: Optional Early Sit 9:00 Zoom: Sitting Meditation 9:45 Zoom: Introduction to Nature Meditation 10:00 Walk or drive to your place in nature for the day 10:30 Zoom Phone: Nature meditation sitting instruction/guiding 11:30 Zoom Phone: Nature meditation walking instruction 11:45 Sitting and walking in nature practice on your own, lunch, rest (Zoom off) 2:30 Zoom Phone: Gratitude in nature instructions 3:30. Walk or drive home 4:00 Zoom: Small groups discussion and sharing 5:15 Short break 5:30. Zoom: Sit all together 6:00-7:00 Zoom: Dharma Talk 8:10-8:45 Zoom: Optional Late Sit Sunday 7:15-8AM Optional Early Sit Walk or drive to your spot for the day, ready for practice by 9AM 9:00 Zoom Phone: Meditation in Nature. 9:15 Zoom Phone: Nature meditation sitting instruction/guiding 10:00 Zoom Phone: Walking in nature 10:30 Zoom Phone: Sitting in nature 11:00-11:30 Walk or drive home 11:30 Zoom: Dharma talks 12:30 Zoom: Small groups sharing circle 1:00 Zoom: Closing ritual 1:30 Retreat over
The teachers will not be asking for additional dana at the end of the retreat, they are donating their time, so 100% of the retreat fees will go to RMERC to help pay costs while it is closed down. If the suggested amount is too much, you may offer what your budget allows, and no one will be turned away due to finances. If you can, please offer more. Donations of $350 or more will get a donation tax receipt for the amount less $100.
Weekend Nature Meditation Retreat
Friday June 5, 6–8pm MDT
Saturday June 6, 9am-7pm
Sunday June 7, 9am-1pm
This is a fully guided and supported meditation retreat in nature, facilitated through Zoom. All are welcome, including newcomers to meditation.
As we shelter in place, connection with dharma practice, nature and community is critically important to our wellbeing*. This retreat is an opportunity to explore and nourish together on a spring weekend, outdoors. Themes will include meditation in nature, gratitude, joy, interdependence, and how being with nature soothes fear and vulnerability.
You can do this retreat from your home and neighborhood, walking nearby, looking out a window, porch or balcony; or going to a park or natural area with a smartphone. The retreat will include structured sitting and walking practice in nature, meditation instruction and guidance, and small group breakout sessions with the teachers for questions, discussion and sharing. Full support and instruction will be available for beginners.
We will encourage a quiet, silent retreat container as much as possible in your home setting, including staying away from work, email, phone and media, and limiting interactions with others. Detailed information on doing the retreat will be available and sent after registration.
The suggested retreat fee is $100-$250. Please pay as much of that as you can; the teachers will not be asking for additional dana at the end of the retreat and are donating their time, so 100% of the retreat fees will go to RMERC to help pay costs while we are closed down. If the suggested amount is too much, you may offer what your budget allows, and no one will be turned away due to finances. Space is limited, so register soon.
RMERC is committed to reopening as soon as we are able to safely, and will continue to offer these retreats until then. We hope you can join us.
*Quiet time in nature is important, if not essential, to human health, happiness and well being. You can read more here.
About the Teachers
David Loy
David identifies his spiritual roots as primarily in the Japanese Zen tradition. His Zen practice began in Hawaii in 1971 with Yamada Koun and Robert Aitken, and continued with Koun-roshi in Japan, where he lived for almost twenty years. He was authorized to teach in 1988 and has led retreats and workshops nationally and internationally in […]
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Jean Leonard
Jean Leonard, Ph.D. (she/her) is a licensed psychologist, dharma teacher, certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, and Buddhist Ecochaplain in private practice in Louisville, Colorado. Jean teaches mindfulness classes and mentors mindfulness teachers in training through Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She has practiced yoga for over 30 years and vipassana meditation […]
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Johann Robbins
Johann started backpacking and meditating as a teenager, and deepened his spiritual journey on frequent solo wilderness trips. His passion is facilitating spiritual practice in nature: he has guided and taught wilderness retreats and workshops in various traditions for over 25 years, including as a Vision Quest guide in the late 1990s. Johann founded Impermanent […]
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Kritee (Kanko)
Kritee (dharma name Kanko) is a Climate Scientist, Buddhist Zen priest, Educator & Founding Spiritual teacher of Boundless in Motion. She is an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. She has served as faculty for courses or retreats at the intersection of climate crisis, […]
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Peter Williams
Peter has practiced meditation for 29 years in the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He has done more than 31 months of silent retreat. He has taught insight meditation (mindfulness) since 2003 and has completed the Community Dharma Leader training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Peter teaches retreats and dedicated practitioner groups based in Longmont, CO. […]
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