with Deborah Eden Tull
Sunday, March 8th: 10:00AM – 4:00PM
with a 90 minute lunch break
EMBRACING THE MEDICINE OF DARK AND LIGHT
Even though it is midnight, dawn is here; even though dawn comes, it is nighttime.
-Shunryu Suzuki
Darkness is often perceived as the absence of light, but this is a fundamental misunderstanding. Darkness is itself a powerful and vital essence of nature. Humanity needs both darkness and light in order to be whole. In this age of disruption, the medicine of Darkness has much to offer us, both personally and collectively.
On this restorative day-long retreat, we will re-awaken to the radical wholeness that is possible when we embrace the partnership of darkness and light.
We will explore the healing of turning towards, rather than away from the dark, both within ourselves and in our world. We will release personal conditioning and systemic biases that impede our capacity to see ourselves, one another, and our world clearly.
This retreat will include:
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Meditation
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Dharma Talks
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Mindful inquiry
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Relational mindfulness
All are welcome… both experienced meditators and those who are new to practice.This retreat offers both an invitation to deepen practice and to experience the gift of conscious community.
About DEBORAH EDEN TULL
Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, author, activist, and sustainability educator. Eden teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives. She spent seven years training as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and has been teaching dharma for 19 years. Eden has also been living in, and teaching about, sustainable communities for over 25 years.
Her teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, experiential learning, inquiry, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation. She teaches engaged awareness practice, which emphasizes the connection between personal awakening and global engagement. Eden draws upon teachings from the natural world and an embodied understanding of animism.
She is author of Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Our Self, Each Other, and Our Planet (Wisdom 2018) and The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide for the Sustainable Food Revolution. Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Tricycle, Yogi Times, GOOP, Shambhala Times, and The Ecologist. She also teaches The Work That Reconnects, a program created by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy, and teaches for UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. Eden offers retreats, online courses, and consultations internationally. Learn more at deborahedentull.com.
Registration
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