January 2020
6-Week Meditation Class Series
Thursdays, January 9 to February 13, 2020 at 4:00 - 5:30 pm, Unity Church of the Sierra, Carson City, NV This 6-week class will introduce attendees to the practice of sitting, walking, and eating meditation, and teach participants how to bring mindfulness to everyday life. Kathy and Tom will draw on what they’ve learned about meditation over years of evolving practice. Beginners and experienced meditators alike are welcome. There will be ample time for Q & A to begin or…
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Lake Tahoe Mindfulness, Meditation & Movement Retreat
Two Night Residential Retreat at beautiful Lake Tahoe with Denise Barclay A retreat with sound and silence, movement and stillness, introspection and self-expression at beautiful Camp Galilee! On this retreat we will practice the four foundations of mindfulness through gentle yoga and QiGong practices, walking and sitting meditations, and immersion into sound. The practice of mindfulness will be woven into other activities like art and conscious movement while relaxing in the beauty of Lake Tahoe and savoring the nutritious and…
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Santikaro. Embodied Practice: Sensitive, Aware, Kind
This retreat will explore our bodies as a field for mindful curiosity and insight. We will base ourselves in healthy posture and relaxed breathing in order to explore these bodies and Buddhist perspectives that illuminate them. Bodies are sensate experiences, sources of pleasure and pain, jumbles of perceptions, emotional echo chambers, and fields of concocting. The focus of much of our attention and neurotic energy, our bodies are a necessary realm for mindfulness practice and insight. With understanding, we don’t…
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Daylong retreat with Heather Sundberg
Relax and learn with Heather Sundberg, a Mountain Stream Meditation teacher well-known to us and others in the northern Sierra.
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John Travis returns to Lake Tahoe
Our annual summer retreat on the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe with John Travis, our mentoring teacher.
Find out more »Mountain Meadow retreat with Anne Macquarie
Join us for a day in our own beautiful forests and mountains. We will gather at a meeting place then drive a short distance on the Blue Lakes Road to the retreat site, a meadow approximately ½ mile from the road on level terrain. Once settled in the meadow, we will spend the day alternating between sitting and walking meditation. There will be a break for lunch and a dharma talk. Dharma Zephyr lay leader Anne Macquarie will be leading…
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Retreats with Donald Rothberg
Join Donald Rothberg, a returning teacher, at O2 Yoga in Minden, Nevada for two days of meditation and discussion.
Find out more »Retreats with Donald Rothberg
Join Donald Rothberg, a returning teacher, at O2 Yoga in Minden, Nevada for two days of meditation and discussion.
Find out more »October 2020
Lake Tahoe Mindfulness, Meditation & Movement Retreat
A retreat with sound and silence, movement and stillness, introspection and self-expression at beautiful Camp Galilee! On this retreat we will practice the four foundations of mindfulness through gentle yoga and QiGong practices, walking and sitting meditations, and immersion into sound. The practice of mindfulness will be woven into other activities like art and conscious movement while relaxing in the beauty of Lake Tahoe and savoring the nutritious and delicious meals offered at Camp Galilee. All levels of Yoga/Meditation practitioners…
Find out more »November 2020
“The Jhanas and Insight”: A 10-Day, 9-Night Residential Retreat with Leigh Brasington at Lake Tahoe
Registration for this retreat will open in April 2020. Updates to this notice may happen in January 2020. Please check back then. The jhanas are eight progressive altered states of consciousness that can be identified with the aspect of the Buddha’s Eightfold Path called right concentration. Training in concentration leads to these states, each of which yields a deeper and subtler state of awareness than the previous one. The jhanas are not in themselves awakening, but they are a skillful…
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