Discover your EcoDharma: Provocations and Possibilities for Dharma Leaders

Durango Dharma Center: Monday Night Speaker Series with Adam Lobel

Online

7:30 Eastern/5:30 Mountain

SURGING FORTH AT THE THRESHOLD

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUR FIELDS

With Adam Lobel

In person at the Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh

5 Mondays from 7:00-9:00pm:

October 21, 28 and November 4, 11, 18.

Price: $120

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

This Five-week course introduces a nimble approach to meditation and contemplative life, inseparable from a wild love of our damaged planet and our entangled socio-political impasses. What does it mean to cultivate a responsive spiritual life in these times, when our dominant stories are stale and our futures seem bleak? Let’s rediscover full-hearted, elemental, and playful forms of life beyond panic and bypassing, because the coming decades are going to be very interesting!

The Four Fields are:

• an ecological and embodied field
• a psychological and imaginal field
• a field of meditative awareness
• a field of being and emptiness

The fields cohere together in a contemplative ecosystem. We will practice meditation, inquiry, and explore the teachings of the Four Fields developed by Adam. Hosted at the Center for PostNatural History, this course is part of an ongoing reconsideration of spiritual practice on our metamorphosing planet.

THIS SACRED EARTH

An Eco-Dharma Gathering

July 15th-July 24th in person in France and Online Talk Series

Retreat led by Adam Lobel and Catherine McGee

Onsite Regenerative Activism workshop by the Ulex Project with Guhyapati

Online evening presentations by Dougald Hine, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Daniel Christian Wahl, and others!

Among the ancient trees and rolling meadows of rural France, join us for a lively retreat of meditation, Earth practices, community, inquiry, and wise action. Showcasing visionary ecological-spiritual communities throughout Europe, together we will transmute eco-anxiety and grief into responsiveness, explore land-based practices, skillful environmental protection, and discover the magic of our sacred world.

We will gather with a wide range of spiritual teachers across many traditions, thought leaders, land artists, farmers, and inspiring compassionate activists during this time of climate crisis and environmental loss.

Afternoons will feature onsite workshops such as:

• The Ulex Project with Guhyapati
• The Work That Reconnects
• Contemplative Land Art

SUMMER SOLSTICE MEDITATION AND EARTH PRACTICES RETREAT

In-Person at Eden Hall Farmin Gibsonia, PA

Join us for a contemplative retreat around this Summer Solstice on Thursday June 20th and Friday June 21st. We will gather on the beautiful, wooded land of Eden Hall for two days of meditation, guided silent practice, and land practices. Come for both days or one day, whichever works best for you.

We will focus on simple practice and the natural world as support and guidance within the ecological loss and climate change of our times. Come be in lively contemplative community, embedded in the natural world. Our first day of deep and nourishing practice will culminate in a ceremony to honor the Summer Solstice and a communal meal.

Environmental Justice Summit

In person in Pittsburgh May 9-11

Adam will be facilitating a Bearing Witness event for Awaken Pittsburgh at Clairton Coke Works from 1:00-3:00 on May 11

Beyond Burnout and Bypass:

A Retreat for Activists in Western PA

with Adam Lobel

Hosted by Awaken Pittsburgh

Oct 14

In-person in Pittsburgh

It feels as if we have crossed a threshold, doesn't it? So much is on fire. And our own nervous systems, hearts, and bodies can become enflamed, too.

We hear a call to gather, reflect, nourish, heal, and deepen for the long road ahead.

For those protecting lands, for those working for justice, for those in service to a more beautiful world...it is time to gather and support each other in the Western PA region. 

With trauma-informed mindfulness, collective conversations, and inquiry, we are offering this support in a day of practice.

This will be a free event, offered out of thanks for your service.

Please join us and spread the word.

Waking Up in a World on Fire:

Beyond Burnout and Bypass

Nov 4, 2023

In Person in Boston

With Adam Lobel

Amidst the smoke, fires, floods, and heat waves, we will gather to explore our inner response to global warming and ecological mutation. We will explore the "middle way" between a guilt-driven and panicked approach that leads to burnout, and an ignorant, escapist approach that leads to bypassing. 

This one-day retreat will provide unique opportunity for personal and communal inquiry into how we are holding our ecological reality. Through the power of self-reflection, open dialogue, and gentle embodiment exercises, we will support each other through the transformation from unsustainable paralysis, guilt, and overwhelm towards resilience and regenerative action.

Earth Based Practice: Teachings of Elemental Magic

Nov 5

In person in Boston

With Adam 

This one-day retreat offers an opportunity to open the senses and re-establish our connection with the more-than-human-world.

Amidst ecological and spiritual challenges, nurturing a reciprocal relationship between humans and the living world is vital. Beneath the surface of our conscious awareness, there's an ongoing exchange with the living world. This retreat will equip you with tools to nurture this vital connection. We will work with slowing down, sensing, and sadness as part of our rich inner landscape as we attune to the elements. 

In the teachings of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, and other contemplative methods, the living world offers ongoing communication. We will explore how such teachings of elemental magic can offer support and guidance amidst ecological crises.