After years of teaching mindfulness to thousands of youth, I'm opening up a rare opportunity to work intimately with a very small group. This is the first in-person retreat I've offered in several years—and it will meld all my latest understandings and deepest insights about the profoundly transformative potential of meditation.

We often feel the shadow of complexity, wishing for relief from our overworked minds. The distractions we turn to don’t often fulfill us. Mostly, we find ourselves feeling resigned, concluding that peace and joy is far away, elusive, perhaps not even meant for us in these times. And yet, inner freedom is a potential inherent to the human experience. The question is, How do we access it?

Great realizers throughout the ages and traditions have shown us that sublime peace can be experienced. It is part of the human birthright. It is accessible to us now, even in our busy world, even with our busy minds.

What You'll Experience
On this Lightness of Being retreat, we will create a container for the exploration of the practices and perspectives that reveal a way out of our familiar mental entanglement and shine light on the path to profound inner freedom.

Together, we will explore habits of mind that usually ensnare us from a place of equanimity and acceptance. When we experience that sense of steadiness, clarity, and ease regardless of what our thought patterns may be, we realize we are, at the deepest dimension of our experience, never fully caught or bound. We touch into a different vantage point, looking at our human experience from the unlimited field of consciousness, rather than looking at unbounded awareness from our limited human eyes.

The practice of deep meditation and sincere contemplation is what enables us to shift our vantage point and frame of reference. It offers us a path to another way of seeing and another way of being.

When we drop into ourselves, we find something so familiar, which we seem somehow to have forgotten. Maybe we remember glimpses of this spaciousness and joy from when we were very young, or first in love, or struck by the most exquisite sunset.

Letting go in meditation gives us access to a deep reservoir of peace. We didn't need to wait for the world or anyone else to change, we shift our identification or vantage point, and find that the miraculous opens up before us.

Why This Retreat Is Different
The retreat is intentionally limited to nine people to allow for an unusual degree of focus and care. This intimate setting enables maximum transformation over six concentrated days. I have planned a truly supportive environment, where all our practical needs will be taken care of, enabling us to explore free from the distractions of our complicated lives. It is an opportunity to fall back in love with yourself and with the wonder of Life.

There will be periods of meditation, guided reflection and contemplation, question and answer, and the opportunity to be in noble silence for those who wish to explore ongoing stillness outside of our sessions together.

I hope you will join me. I am so looking forward to this opportunity to immerse in the wonder and luminosity on retreat together.

Sincerely,
Amy