On-Land Retreat

Exploring the Relationship between the Awakening Heart and Unentangled Knowing

With spring in full bloom, May 1 marks a moment where cultures around the world celebrate relationships. In Buddhism, a key relationship worth exploring is our capacity to know and our capacity to care. Silent retreat allows us to touch, taste, feel, smell, and see this luminous dance between embodied knowing and embodied care. At this time of increasing global crisis, the relationship between letting go and trusting a heart that knows can resource us in profound and unexpected ways. On this retreat, we will enter into Noble Silence, invoking our intention to increase our intimacy with this primordial relationship. Our intention is to support you as you tenderly meet each moment with care, shedding layers of holding and unwise beliefs. We will weave Dharma teachings with stillness, movement, ritual, sound, and song. We invite you to bring an object to our shared altar representing your intention for the retreat.

Teaching Team

Erin Selover, LMFT

Erin Selover, LMFT

Teacher

Erin Selover is a Dharma teacher with over 25 years of Buddhist training and co-stewards a meditation community integrating the Celtic Wheel of the Year, Buddhism, gift economics and distributive governance. She is a member of the Nonviolent Global Liberation practice community. She works as a Spiritual Strategist with individuals.

Monica Magtoto, E-RYT

Monica Magtoto, E-RYT

Teacher

Monica Magtoto is an artist, yoga instructor, energy worker, educator, and tarot reader based in San Francisco, Ca.Magtoto is a Yoga Alliance 500 Registered Yoga Teacher, holding additional certificates in Restorative and Yin yoga.

Tara Marchant

Tara Marchant

Teacher

Writer, Storyteller, Creative, sound/song weaver and alchemist, council holder for healing and meditation. With fifteen years as a Non-profit Director in the Green Economy, Community Resilience and policy forums. Consultant/advisor for Ubuntu Climate initiative.

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