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[Cancelled]Turning the Tide: A Mindful RevLOVEution for Our Times

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Thanissara

Gullu Singh, JD

Dawn Mauricio

Adam Stonebraker, MA, ERYT500, YACEP

Djuna Deveraux,E-RYT, SEP

  • Location Big Bear Retreat Center
  • Experience Levels All
  • Date Starts Tuesday, October 17, 2023
    Ends Sunday, October 22, 2023

    5 nights
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Turning the Tide: A Mindful ReLOVEution for Our Times
Meeting these times with love, courage & authenticity

This retreat will be offered as a hybrid – in-person at Big Bear Retreat Center and online via Zoom (more info). 

Join us in a journey from overwhelm and anxiety into an alliance as collaborators navigating the poly-crises of these times. By opening to the heart’s intuitive knowing and our embodied belonging within Nature’s sacred web of life, we will be guided by the living Dharma as depth wisdom and revolutionary love. 

As humanity faces its utmost challenge, we will also explore holding faith in the spirit of collective transformation, knowing that the greatest trials also hold the seed of opportunity. The Buddha called Mindfulness “the flood stopper,” enabling a shift from reactivity, to clarity and authentic presence, to manifest quantum shifts needed for a sustainable future.

As a Bodhisattva training for our times, we will engage with these themes within the foundation of Mindfulness and Insight Meditation, we will also draw from devotional and ceremonial practices, the Kuan Yin Dharmas, Qigong and gentle somatic-based movement, psycho-spiritual inquiry, depth breath practice with sacred music, somatic-based movement, chanting, mantras, and Dharma reflections focused on meeting the initiation of these times. The retreat will be in noble silence with interactive inquiry and sharing sessions in small and larger groups. This retreat will offer a plant-based diet only in alliance with care for the Earth and it’s myriad beings. 

Big Bear Retreat Center is a 3-hour drive from Los Angeles Airport (1.5 hours from Ontario Airport), nestled in the ancient Juniper forests of the San Bernardino Mountains at a 7,000-foot elevation near Big Bear Lake in Southern California.  The Center is immersed in nature amidst about 100 acres of forested land with direct access to several hiking trails connected to our property.  Various lodgings are available, from three per room to single rooms.  The retreat fee includes lodging and three daily plant-based (vegan) meals. In reverence to the ancient Buddhist tradition, which holds that the teachings are priceless, the teachers will receive no set remuneration.

Dana/Generosity: Teacher compensation is not included in the registration fee. There will be an opportunity at the end of retreat to make a donation to the teachers. Thank you for your support! *note: as of June 2023, we will not be accepting cash and there is not an ATM at BBRC. Credit cards and checks are accepted. 

COVID Requirements (read more):
-Proof of full vaccination + boost
-Proof of negative covid PCR test within 3 days prior to arrival
-Masks Required for the first 48-72 hours then optional after secondary rapid testing

Please be sure to check the carpool to join or offer a ride by clicking Sign-Up to the left. Thank you for supporting fellow practitioners.

Thanissara

Thanissara is an Anglo-Irish teacher from London and started Buddhist practice in the Burmese school of U Ba Khin in 1975. She was inspired to ordain after meeting Ajahn Chah and spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun where she was a founding member of Chithurst and Amaravati Buddhist Monasteries in England. Her practice and... Read more

Gullu Singh, JD

Gulwinder “Gullu” Singh is a mindfulness and Dharma teacher who also practices corporate real estate law. Although he was exposed to meditation as a child, he found his own practice when, after law school, he found himself working at high-powered law firms where the job was extremely stressful. Gullu completed the four-year Spirit Rock Meditation... Read more

Dawn Mauricio

Dawn Mauricio (she/her) has been practicing and studying Insight Meditation since 2005. She has graduated from the first teacher development group of True North Insight, and Spirit Rock’s Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training, Dedicated Practitioners’ Program, and 4-year Retreat Teacher Training. She teaches with a playful, dynamic, and heartfelt approach people of color and folks... Read more

Adam Stonebraker, MA, ERYT500, YACEP

Adam Stonebraker discovered and began practicing Yoga and Meditation in 1999, and has been teaching to diverse audiences both locally and internationally since 2010. He draws his inspiration from his extensive training in Yin Yoga and his long-time training in Buddhadharma. Adam’s primary objective is to lead people into an understanding of their own uniqueness... Read more

Djuna Deveraux,E-RYT, SEP

Djuna Devereaux has taught the integration of yoga and Buddhist Dharma for 20 years. She teaches retreats at Spirit Rock and leads their Dharma and Yoga Teacher Trainings, and supports her primary Dharma teachers, Thanissara and Kittisaro, as a core teacher and board member for Sacred Mountain Sangha. Djuna is also faculty for Prajna Yoga,... Read more

Pricing Options
Single Room Private Bath $2100
Single Room Shared Bath $1750
Double Room $900
Triple Room $550
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Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support members of marginalized groups (people of color, queer people, people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible).

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

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