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Finding Peace where You Are: The Art of Unburdening the Heart
Lisa Ernst
July 9 - 13, 2025
Southern Dharma Retreat Center
The Buddha’s path to liberation is designed to help us face the full experience of embodied human life. Through deep practices of mindfulness, concentration, and emptiness, we can cultivate clear states of mind that naturally allow inner peace and insight to emerge. We will also learn to bring acceptance, patience and love for ourselves into […]
Kwan Yin and Embodying Deep Wisdom and Compassion: A Retreat for Women
Lisa Ernst
October 22 - 26, 2025
Southern Dharma Retreat Center
During these increasingly uncertain and challenging times, it is vital to pause, replenish ourselves and find strength and connection in practice and community. By calling forth Kwan Yin, the bodhisattva of compassion, we access our own inherent capacity for compassion for self and others. This mostly silent retreat will offer a space for women to […]