RETREATS

Upcoming Retreats

Come home to yourself. Say YES to a spacious retreat designed to nurture your body, heart, and mind. This retreat will offer opportunities to explore Buddhist teachings on six fundamental practices that can help us to awaken our hearts and invite more loving kindness, compassion, and joy into our everyday lives. The daily schedule will include guided meditation, yoga, bodywork, and time in nature, while being held in community. Throughout the week, you will be invited to deepen your relationship with yourself and the natural world. You will leave this retreat feeling grounded, resourced, and ready to move through your life with greater kindness and care.

Nurture family connections while rejuvenating your spirit in the beautiful terrain of Drala Mountain Center. Family Camp is a creative and contemplative retreat the whole family can enjoy. Take time for yourself in the mornings to practice meditation, yoga, and participate in Parenting as Path discussions, while your children participate in enriching activities with friends. The afternoon and evening activities include practicing in the Stupa, contemplative arts and crafts, play, song night, a talent show, and a dance party. Throughout the retreat, we will explore Buddhist teachings and practice in the context of family life that can assist us in cultivating loving kindness for ourselves while developing compassionate relationships within our families, our communities, and our world.

Our family lives are knitted together by mutual love and caring, but sometimes those threads are strained as we doubt our capacities as parents, are triggered by our children’s struggles, or have differences of style from our partners. This is where mindfulness-awareness practices can help and where lovingkindness practices can soften the rough edges. As we cultivate greater kindness toward ourselves, we can naturally warm our relationships with others as we navigate busy and stressful times in our families. What are the different styles of compassion? How does kindness manifest as we set safe boundaries for our children? Through daily progressive compassion training meditations and glimpses of current compassion science we have an opportunity to strengthen the bonds of love in our everyday relationships.

Past Retreats

Join Kelly Lindsey and Camilla Figueroa for a nourishing and invigorating week at Blue Spirit, one of the foremost world-class yoga and meditation retreat centers in Costa Rica. Perched on a hilltop that overlooks the Pacific Ocean and a three-mile long white sand beach– Blue Spirit offers an extraordinarily beautiful and natural setting for a deeply nourishing and unforgettable retreat experience. Each day, Kelly will guide you through a meditation practice and Camilla will offer a healing yoga journey, both designed to regulate your nervous system and guide you into a deep, embodied experience of soul and soma. During this retreat you will feel the vibrancy of your body, the inspiration of community, and the healing magic of Blue Spirit.

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