An exploration of Spiritual Receptivity and its significance.

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As part of the Urban retreat.

Learn how to open up to beauty, channel disparate motivations into growth and cultivate a fit, positive mind. Day by day we get a taste for what it would be like to let go of any fixed sense of ourselves and become free of all limitations. 

We’ll support you to turn a week of your normal life into a retreat with early morning meditation (plus breakfast), lunchtime classes, a total immersion day, evening dharma talks and motivational text messages.

Urban Retreat Programme:

Kick Off & Opening Ceremony | Saturday 15 March | 1.30pm - 4pm
Meet the team, chat with fellow urban-retreatants and commit to turning your life into a retreat over the coming week. We’ll look at tips on how to best engage with the retreat, reflect on our intentions and hopes, and take part in a special opening ceremony to start the retreat together.

Total Immersion Day Retreat | Sunday 16 March | 10am - 5pm
Intensify your meditation practice on this mostly silent retreat-like day.

Morning Meditations | Mon 17 - Fri 21 March | 7.15am - 8am (followed by shared breakfast)
Start your urban retreat weekday with communal meditation in the NLBC shrine room. Stay after for a shared breakfast (of muesli, cornflakes and/or toast) before you head off to work.

Lunchtime Meditations | Mon 17 - Fri 21 March | 1pm - 2pm
A mid-day check in with your body, your heart, your mind and your fellow retreatants.

Meditation & Dharma Evenings | Mon 17 - Thu 20 March | 7.15pm - 9.30pm

• Monday 17th March – Ksantikara: Growing Up for Adults
  Exploring Integration and its role in the spiritual path.

• Tuesday 18th March – Maitrishura: The Awakening of the Heart
  A journey into Positive Emotion and its importance in spiritual growth.

• Wednesday 19th March – Darsavini: Letting the Moment be New
  An exploration of Spiritual Receptivity and its significance.

• Thursday 20th March – Anandavajra: Breaking Free
  Delving into Spiritual Death and its transformative power.

Closing Ceremony | Fri 21 March | 7.15pm - 9.30pm

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