While it may have been hiding under “rule of law” or “free market”, colonialism and supremacy function as the scaffolding of the industrial capitalist world. This series with Zeinab Benchakroun and Aparna Bakhle is an invitation to decolonize our mind, body, and heart. We will deepen our conscious and unconscious awareness of the systemic patterns of power.

Together through practices, workshops, and service meditations we will bear witness to the teachings that this wild land is offering us, which run in parallel with the teachings of Thay and the Buddha. We will take refuge in our natural world while we spend time exploring and experiencing the regenerative cultures and practices of the Happy Farm.

During this residency, practitioners will have ample opportunity to connect with the land and beings in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, practice with four Ecodharma and Zen teachers, build community with fellow practitioners, and explore how our Buddhist practice can meet this world in crisis.

Together, we’ll reflect on the wisdom animals offer and the ways they guide our lives. The gathering will include music, meditation, teachings, and ceremony, closing with a ritual to extend blessings to all beings.

Lev Michael Moses, Ore Ganin-Pinto and Jenn Biehn will lead this retreat that will feature ritual, song and embodied exercises to root, play and envision more clearly the world we want to live in. This retreat is for queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) and our larger LGBTQ+ Community.

For this weekend retreat, Nic Redfern will draw on the relational Dharma practice of Insight Dialogue to guide participants through Joanna Macy’s transformative framework, “The Work That Reconnects”, a body of practices designed to help us meet these times with courage, clarity, and compassion. Hybrid event.

Take advantage of this opportunity to deepen your meditation practice in a community rooted in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist lineage, with a trauma-informed approach to healing and teachings inspired by Kingian and Gandhian Nonviolence.

At the core of our Ecodharma practice is healing our relationship with ourselves and Mother Earth, and remembering that we are One with the Earth and all its beings. In this Zazenkai (Day of Practice), Karen Waconda-Lewis will share her wisdom on permission and reciprocity, drawing from Buddhist teachings and her lineage of Native Medicine from Laguna Pueblo.

A day of Buddhist wisdom teachings, and practices at the Jamyang Buddhist Centre London. With a meditation at the Imperial War Museum. Organised by members of Eco-Dharma, XR Buddhists and TES and other Buddhist groups.

We'll explore what Buddhism can offer in this time of multiple intersecting crises, infusing David’s experience leading Ecodharma retreats with the traditional Sanbo Zen sesshin structure.