Being Fully Present
With Jack Petranker and Ignacio Ercole
June 14 - 16, 2024
We welcome Jack Petranker and Ignacio Ercole of the Center of Creative Inquiry in Berkeley to offer this weekend of deep listening and observation.
For many of us with busy and fast-paced lives, we find that feelings of stress, overwhelm, irritation, or anger arise more frequently than we would like. This causes strain in our relationships at home and at work. The antidote for difficult and damaging emotions is the practice of becoming fully present, finding our breath and being with what is actually happening in this moment, open to our sense of past and future, but not trapped by them.
In this retreat, we explore ways to be fully present with the now. We will draw on practices that engage body, mind, and spirit. We first ground ourselves in our body, work with our breathing, explore our senses of hearing and seeing, and then identify the stories we are telling ourselves. We begin to analyze the thoughts and emotions that build up around these stories.
Through contemplation and movement, time spent in nature, and sharing our time together, we will learn to become more fully alive. We will activate a new way of experiencing that starts with relaxation and the joy of discovery and deepens naturally into compassion and calmness.
If you feel like you could use more peace in your life, find more resources for healing your relations, and learn more about who you are, come join us on this retreat!
This retreat includes:
- Meditation
- Practices for Being Fully Present
- Kum Nye – Tibetan Yoga
- Time in Nature
- Group Discussion
This retreat includes:
- Meditation
- Practices for Being Fully Present
- Kum Nye – Tibetan Yoga
- Time in Nature
- Group Discussion
Schedule (Subject to Change):
About the Facilitators
Jack Petranker
Jack Petranker has been a student of Tarthang Tulku for more than 40 years, and has worked for the Nyingma organizations as an editor, writer, and teacher. A past Dean of the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, he is now the Director of the Mangalam Buddhist Research Center and the Center for Creative Inquiry, and has […]
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Ignacio Ercole
Ignacio Ercole (they/them) is a latinx psychologist, artist and mindfulness trainer. They have been trained as a psychodrama group coordinator and as a contextual and mindfulness based therapist. They completed the Full Presence Mindfulness teacher training and are currently the Art Director of the Center for Creative Inquiry.
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