Retreat Description
Many of us are living with persistent strain as authoritarianism rises, climate systems destabilize, and ecological loss accelerates. Futures feel narrowed; fear, grief, exhaustion, and despair move through our bodies.
This retreat is an invitation to come as you are within this civilizational dis-ease—and to discover forms of support that do not rely on denial, bypassing, or escape.
Held among natural springs, granite peaks, old forests, and open sky in the Northern Sierra, this gathering uses the privilege of refuge as a generative threshold. We do not treat this wondrous place as neutral; the very fact of gathering here carries responsibility.
The depth of this retreat is offered as a laboratory for opening new forms of life, inviting us to slow down together and sense what becomes possible when familiar coordinates no longer hold. Its nourishment is meant to reorient rather than enclose, opening worlds rather than reinforcing a fearful or defensive spirituality.
At the heart of the gathering are the Four Fields—ecological, psychological, meditative, and mystical—a way of practicing with the living earth, emotional life, natural awareness, and the openness of being as one living terrain from which personal transformation and planetary care arise together. The Four Fields weave spiritual depth with social and ecological awareness, without collapsing one into the other or keeping them safely apart. They invite a form-of-life that can remain open, responsive, and mature amid instability.
Over five full days, we will move through interwoven modes of practice:
- Land-based and elemental practices, allowing the living biosphere to steady, challenge, and teach us
- Psychological and imaginal inquiry, lingering with fear, grief, and constraint long enough for new possibilities to emerge, rather than rushing toward resolution.
- Meditative practices of rest and slowing, releasing from capitalist speed, urgency, and the attention economy into a more spacious rhythm of being.
- Mystical practices of unknowing, loosening our grip on certainty, optimization, and control, and opening into what exceeds prediction and management.
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