Escalante Wilderness Backpacking Retreat

April 9 – 15     Boulder, UT
Teacher: Susie Harrington
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A week-long retreat hiking through the stunning slickrock canyon country of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This is a silent retreat with dharma talks, formal practice, walking, layover days, solo retreat time, as well free time to explore the spectacular country. Participants need to be prepared for carrying 30+ pounds over rocky canyon terrain for 4 – 6 miles on the days we are moving.

Everyday Dharma: Bringing our Practice to our Interpersonal Lives

Non-Residential Retreat
May 5 – 7 | Friday - Sunday     Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA
Teacher: Susie Harrington
This retreat will explore how our practice is challenged and comes alive in the crucible of our interactions each day. While we can increase intimacy with ourselves through silent practice, the larger exploration becomes how to keep that connection alive while in relationship with others. Relational dharma is the invitation to make each interaction of our day a place of intensive and rewarding dharma practice – an opportunity for connection, understanding and insight.

Weekend Retreat

May 26 – 28      Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Teacher: Susie Harrington
Sponsered by Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community

Lost Coast Wilderness Retreat

June 3 – 11,      Northern California
Teachers: Susie Harrington and Erin Selover
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The Lost Coast is the longest, wildest stretch of the northern California Coast. Carrying daypacks and lunch, we hike nine miles along the rocky shore, dropping into silence along the way, and arrive at a place that feels sacred and magical. Nestled between the ocean and the mountains, we will practice with the surf, the birds and the sea breezes as our supports. Camping and indoor sleeping arrangements are available.

Emptiness: Experienced students retreat

June 13 -21      Insight Meditation Society
Barre, Massachusetts
Teachers: Guy Armstrong, Sally Armstrong, Susie Harrington, Brian Lesage

Meditation and Poetry Retreat

September 22–24      Old La Sal, Utah
Teachers: Susie Harrington and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Cost: $170 - $220 for room and 3 nourishing meals a day. Suggested donation to the teachers: $100 - $400.
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We live in a culture that wants to know—we chart and graph and test and outline. We codify and classify and name. But what do we really know? What is all this messiness and mystery that breeds underneath our longing for orderliness and certainty? What would happen if we could really rest in uncertainty? How deep might that relaxation go? How much more open might our lives be if we made friends with letting go?

We’ll read poems that don’t bring answers, poems that lead us deeper into paradox. We’ll sit in the midst of the not-knowing, sit with our joys, our challenges, the what is here of each moment. We’ll write our own explorations of what if and what else and see what even a small bit of wonder might do … if you’re willing to risk a little, meditation and writing can open doors where before you didn’t even realize a door existed. Spiritual doors. Healing doors. Doors where there used to be walls.

No previous writing experience required. No previous meditation experience required. This poetry and meditation weekend is for anyone who is curious about weaving spiritual awakening and the creative poetic impulse.