Choosing a Meditation Retreat in Canada
Wondering whether you’re ready for a meditation retreat?
There are many things to consider, such as “where are you actually at with your meditation practice?”
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Clear Sky Blog
How Good Posture Brings Good States
When we asked Jordan to write something about his experience as a Karma Yogi at Clear Sky, we didn’t know a poet lurked within. And yet if you know this gentle man, then perhaps you’re not surprised at all.
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Wellness retreats in nature as an antidote to anxiety
Ever wondered how the best wellness retreats work?
Wellness retreats heal anxiety and nurture our whole being, because the environment has been consciously prepared for the purpose. Mindful attention to detail, both inside and outside, tell the body and mind it is time to relax.
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2022 Spring Pun Retreat
We’re not lion. You’ll enjoy this punny retreat where the central practice happens around the meal table. Open that throat chakra!
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Healing Ecological Grief – Meditate in Nature
A new term, ‘Ecological Grief,’ describes our natural reaction to actual or anticipated ecological losses. No wonder there’s a term for this feeling. After all, we’re seeing the loss of species, ecosystems, and meaningful landscapes, all because of acute or chronic environmental change.
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Mindful Money Coaching – Journeying into the Depths
It wasn’t until I talked to Karen did I realize that I was not acknowledging a fundamental issue regarding money. An initial exploration needed to happen…and that was asking myself, ‘What is my relationship with money?’
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How I Cured My Insomnia
It was at the end of a meditation retreat and I was exhausted. Not because of the retreat but because, once again, I hadn’t slept the entire time.
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What’s It Like in a Tibetan Wong Kur?
What do you do in an initiation ceremony? What’s a Yidam? And why all the rice?
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The Paramis: How to Gain Energy by Playing Cards
The Paramis: How to Gain Energy by Playing Cards The six paramis, or paramitas, are one of the many “Buddhist lists,” such
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Are You Up for a Challenge?
How can we keep things fresh, awake, when our working days or lives look much the same, week in, week out? Or when we find that even with regular practice, we don’t seem to be going anywhere?
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Finding Bliss in the Challenge of Retreat
The teachers’ comments cut through the confusion. The belief that I couldn’t do it, couldn’t meditate properly, was simply another arising within the field of empty awareness.
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How will this support my mindfulness practice?
Until I learned to ask the question, “how will this support my mindfulness practice” in everything I do, I had a really frustrating time. In fact, I had two patterns that drove me crazy.
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So tell me what you want, what you really, really want!
When I start a meditation retreat these days, I know it takes me quite a while to calm the system down from living and working with technology. In those first few days, the levels of nervousness and agitation are much more than 16 years ago. It’s because I’m on the computer and on social media much more now.
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Attached to The Suffering
Attached to Suffering – Following The Script for the Modern Happy Life Settling for A Normal Life From the time I was
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What You Do While Meditating
By Catherine Sensei
Sometimes people imagine that retreat is just sitting still for a month, which may not seem compelling. It’s far more fascinating than that. With meditation, we don’t just sit: we watch the mind. It’s an incredible entity!
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On Entering a Month-Long Advance
By Catherine Sensei.
In a few days I’ll begin my first solitary retreat in over twenty years of spiritual practice, for a month. I’ve done month-long retreats before, and usually I was either helping organize or teach. So it’s been a while, or maybe it’s never been.
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How Sex and Dharma Healed My Relationship with Women (and Myself)
How Sex and Dharma Healed my Relationship with Women (and Myself) We all have individual Dharmic paths that lead towards our own
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The Bardos of Scarlett Elizabeth Grey
My form as a woman has experienced the bardo of birth through my flesh, and then within weeks my daughter’s death bardo.
The two events were so close together I realized that these passages are made of the same energy.
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Learning To Integrate Mindfulness
Learning To Meditate Off The Cushion It’s amazing when you enter a clear and radiant state on the meditation cushion. But can
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Challenging My View of Asperger’s Through Dharma
When I was in university, things got clearer.
I was seeing a psychiatrist and in one session, he said that I have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD, under which Asperger’s is now classified).
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Finding Connection in Aloneness
It’s a feeling that’s unexplainable, but during that week, I had a taste of what it felt like to be deeply connected to something. To something bigger than myself. Bigger than my problems and my struggles.
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