Programs
Integrated Dharma at Southern Dharma Oasis
David McKay
A thirty-minute meditation period followed by an hour-long discussion guided by local Buddhist teacher David McKay. Integrated Dharma offers teaching and tools from a variety of Buddhist traditions, as well as psychological and embodiment practices, to supporta full span freedom– relief from suffering, personal flourishing, and the means to translate that into a heart-centered response […]
Healing Space at Southern Dharma Oasis
Tuesdays - Saturdays, 3 - 6pm Inside, you will find simple invitations to turn towards the body and slow down, to seek guidance and reflect, to get creative and play, and to tend grief. You are invited to lay down your burdens and spend a little time filling your cup. All ages welcome. Curated by […]
Listening Circles at Southern Dharma Oasis
Mondays beginning November 4th, 5:30 - 7pm This in-person listening circle is a safe space to share our common and unique experiences and feelings as we continue to recover from Hurricane Helene. It has been a month since the storm hit: How are you now? Whether you are "fine" or have lost everything, there is […]
With Awareness Comes Choice
David McKay
We suffer from that which we cannot see. We each have been trained to accept automated processes of thought within our minds, and the self-defeating 'reality' which these thought patterns create. The result is that we suffer in separation from our authentic nature. Someone who is 'unconscious', who identifies with these thought patterns and cannot […]
[DAYLONG/ASHEVILLE] Honoring the Grieving Heart through Ma Tara: A Late-Autumn Teaching, Practice, and Ceremony of Caretaking
Lama Rod Owens
We are living through a period of decolonization, an apocalyptic period of truth telling and unveiling. Many of us are struggling to make sense of the impact we are experiencing in our personal lives, relationships, and in our communities. To move through this period, we must rely on our capacity to grieve, to touch into […]
Fall Work Weekend with SDRC Staff
Help the Southern Dharma staff care for our beautiful property while immersing yourself in nature-based meditation practices. This program is structured as a partially silent retreat with daily scheduled work periods, group meditation sessions, opportunities to share practice notes with other participants, and some optional dharma study around nature and wilderness themes. Participants will be […]
New Year's Retreat: Non-Duality of Sacred Darkness and Sacred Light
John Orr and Eve Decker
Note: This year's retreat will be your last chance to welcome in the new year at Southern Dharma led by John Orr as your teacher. We thank him for his many, many years of service in this role. Meanwhile, we are delighted to be welcoming Eve Decker as John's co-teacher. Eve also co-leads our LGBTQIA+ […]
Winter Monthlong Retreat
Rupert Marques and Kerstin Deibert
The birds have vanished into the sky. And now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and I, Until only the mountain remains.- Li Po A monthlong period of practice is a unique opportunity to settle back into a continuity of awareness and to see what is revealed through such a sustained […]