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Retreat Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Spiritual Sanctuary: A Women's Liberation Retreat

We live in times of increasing pressure—both individually and systemically—and this pressure can be experienced as intensity, stress, limitation, or dissatisfaction. The Four Noble Truths remind us that pressure is, and has always been, a part of life, and that freedom is possible within it. The teachings point to our relationship with pressure, and the ways we respond to it, as choice points where our freedom lies.

This retreat offers a sanctuary space in which practitioners can choose rest, renewal, and liberation. Together we will practice in noble silence, integrating movement and stillness meditation, outdoor practice, and Dharma talks that lift up women’s journeys of awakening from a diversity of lineages and traditions.

We welcome all who identify as women, as well as non-binary folks who feel nourished in spaces centering women, to join this journey of insight, ease, and individual and collective liberation.

2024-09-19 (7 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2024-09-20 Guided Meditation: Grounding and Settling (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:41
Erin Selover
2024-09-20 Skygazing Instructions & Introduction to Prajnaparamita (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:03
Erin Selover
Short personal introduction to Prajnaparamita, the goddess of wisdom, who sits at the center of the circle of our retreat, along with sky gazing practice instructions and a brief practice period.
2024-09-22 A Love Letter to the Deathless (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:38
Erin Selover
An intimate sharing of over two decades of courtship with "the deathless."
2024-09-23 Guided Meditation: Body, Breath and Stillness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:56
Erin Selover
2024-09-24 Awakening Heart Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:00
Erin Selover
A guided heart practice on the last night of retreat.
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