Awakening Through Love and Awareness Retreat

As Spring returns, this six-night retreat invites us to turn toward the heart of the Buddha’s teachings with freshness and sincerity. Rooted in the classical foundations of mindfulness, wisdom, and the Brahmavihāras, we will explore a way of practice that brings together steady awareness, compassionate presence, and a deep sense of belonging to the Dharma.

Through silence, sitting and walking meditation, Dharma reflections, and simple heart practices, we’ll cultivate an awareness that is both clear and tender—an awareness that understands experience directly while holding it with kindness. Along the way, we’ll draw inspiration from early Buddhist teachings, the Thai Forest tradition, and the Mahāyāna vision of boundless love and interconnection.

In this shared time of practice, we discover again and again that awakening is not distant or abstract—it is available in each moment the heart meets life with openness, curiosity, and care. Spring reminds us of renewal, and the Dharma…