Becoming Less Attached: A 5-day Meditation Retreat

Join the Director of Ratna Ling, Linda Copenhagen, for a year-end retreat to help you loosen and soften your attachments to outcome and your story.

Do you find yourself attached to a vision, desire, or outcome? Are there things that you just need to go your way?  And if they donʻt, you find yourself disappointed, angry, or annoyed with what is happening? If you ever get caught in the grip of emotions of longing, sadness, fear, despair, or unworthiness, you can trust that there is an antidote: Meditation.

In this 5-day Meditation retreat, we will explore how our minds, bodies, patterns, beliefs, and emotions work together and discover new tools to help loosen our grip around what we think things or people should be like. We can stop should-ing and start being, noticing, and getting creative with new situations. We can celebrate uncomfortable feelings and situations as opportunities for growth and change.

Meditation can help us slow down, notice things we didnʻt see before, calm our body/mind, and create a bigger gap between stimulus and response. Meditation allows us to have a multitude of ways to respond and react to each moment, as opposed to acting automatically from something that would otherwise trigger us into the predictable response.  These mindfulness practices will help you become more tolerant, spontaneous, effective, spacious, and less invested in a single outcome. You might truly realize that there is more than one way to approach a situation and that things donʻt have to be so difficult.

This weekend includes:

• Readings and Discussion
• Meditation & Mindfulness Practices
• Work Practice
• Kum Nye (Tibetan Relaxation Practice)
• Self-Massage Techniques
• Time in Nature and Solitude

Schedule (Subject to change):

WEDNESDAY

• 3pm Check-in
• 5:30pm Dinner
• 7pm Opening Circle, Meditation

THURSDAY

• 8am Silent Breakfast
• 9am-11am Introduction to Meditative Awareness
• 12:15pm Lunch
• 2pm Work Practice
• 4pm Kum Nye
• 5:30pm Dinner
• 7pm  Tibetan Bowl Meditation

FRIDAY

• 8am Silent Breakfast
• 9am-11am Meditation
• 12:15pm Lunch
• 2pm Work Practice
• 4pm Kum Nye
• 5:30pm Dinner
• 7pm  Self-Massage

SATURDAY

• 8am Silent Breakfast
• 9am-11am Guided Meditation
• 12:15pm Lunch
• 2pm Work Practice
• 4pm Kum Nye
• 5:30pm Dinner
• 7pm  Journaling and Reflections

SUNDAY

• 8am Meditation
• 9am Closing Circle
• 10am Brunch
• 12pm Checkout