REGISTRATION UPDATE: This online retreat is now full (18 participants). Registration has been closed and there is a long waiting list. Contact Tom@dharmazephyr.org if you would like to be added to the waiting list. Note: the starting and ending times have been changed slightly to 7 pm and 11:30 am,…
Flyer: Santikaro 2019 flyer REGISTRATION OPTIONS QUESTIONS? Contact Tom Gray at tom@dharmazephyr.org or 775-846-4658 Photos by Tom Gray and Mark Breedon, respectively
UPDATE: As of 8/6/2018, this retreat is full and no longer accepting additional registrations. If you wish to add your name to the waiting list you may do so by replying to Tom@dharmazephyr.org, but please do not attempt to make any payments unless you are notified that a spot has…
The Dharma Zephyr Sangha Retreat Committee announces a change to our schedule for September 15-16. Steve Armstrong, the scheduled teacher, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and has canceled his autumn schedule while receiving treatment. (See the Caring Bridge website https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/stevenkarmstrong for further information and updates on Steve’s treatment.)…
We will gather at a meeting place on Blue Lakes Road in Hope Valley, CA and drive together a short distance to the retreat site – a short walk from the road on level terrain. Once we settle in the meadow, we will alternate between sitting and walking for the…
“Dancing towards open awareness” This retreat is based on the fundamental principles of practice. First – is the discipline to stop and collect ourselves – the principles of concentration. Second – the ability and repetition of seeing into the simple functions of the heart and mind. Seeing how we live…
What can you control? When must you surrender? How do you perk up your enthusiasm when it slackens? What is the purpose of deep relaxation? As we become increasingly aware of our perceptions, we refine our engagement with our experiences and learn to meet our life more and more clearly…
Balanced and skillful effort is a vital meditative skill. This daylong program will cultivate relaxation, letting go, and persistence as we learn how gentle diligent effort supports the deepening of concentration and insight. This day long is suitable for both new and experienced practitioners. Participants may attend one or both…
“OK so I had an Insight, maybe it was small, maybe it changed everything for me. Now what?” (By the way, everyone has insights!) We spend much of our spiritual lives chasing after meditative ‘experiences’, perhaps hoping for the intensity, the ‘big moments’. We often miss the simple insights, which…
The Buddha emphasized over and over that it takes effort to follow the path of the Dharma. Yet, the ultimate result is about the nature of ease. We use effort to see into the nature of a fearful and restless Mind/Heart. Then, using the fundamentals of insight – relaxing into…
