Click here to view Part One and Part Two of this series. Three days for a retreat isn’t a long time, but it feels like the perfect amount of time to reset. Long enough that your mind can quiet and your body can relax. Long enough to appreciate the new patterns and new community you…
Two teachers guide us through this three day silent meditation retreat. Their names are Tuere Sala and Shelly Graf. The retreat itself is taking place over MLK weekend and the retreats guiding focus is the intersection of the tenets of buddhism, like non-harm and mindfulness, and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The retreat…
About 15 minutes before arriving, as I am driving down the winding country roads of central Massachusetts, I start to get nervous. Fifteen minutes of nerves is more desirable than days, for sure, but I start asking myself why I thought it was a good idea to try my first silent retreat? Why would I…