This hybrid retreat is available either in person at Wonderwell in the residential option or live via Zoom in the online option. To register, please select one of the options in the yellow panel.

To fully say yes to life, we must also learn to honor no. This retreat invites participants into a practice of compassionate discernment, where both fierce clarity and gentle care support a more liberated heart and mind. Through embodied meditation, the retreat explores how conscious boundaries can help us take responsibility for our role in consciousness while staying open to what is most alive and true.

Drawing on Zen Buddhism, somatic inquiry, EcoDharma, and conscious movement and dance, the retreat creates space to meet the body as a source of wisdom. As we work with our minds, habits, and relationships, we begin to release the tendency to place authority in conditioned beliefs or external expectations. In doing so, we reconnect with a wider, more life-affirming field of possibility.

Please join us to:

Restore yourself through the boundless nature of spacious awareness
Recognize the body as a guide and truth-teller
Deepen your attunement to the inner compass
Learn to set conscious, compassionate boundaries
Express yes and no with courage and skill
Reconnect with a broader field of possibility that supports life

This offering is an honest, heart-opening, and non-dual exploration of boundaries in service of Life. Rather than replacing yes with no, it invites a fuller embrace of our humanity so that we may remember the boundless love we are. The work begins by bringing awareness to our own minds and habits, supporting authentic being and a deeper alignment with true nature.

Through devotion and attunement, we listen more closely to the still small voice within and reclaim an authentic authorship of our lives. As we continue to release projections onto beliefs and the perceived expectations of others, we open ourselves to a larger field of possibility that feels more alive and more free.

Embodied meditation offers a way to practice the skillful expression of yes and no, yin and yang, courage and receptivity, conscious allowing and conscious protection. With the body as guide and truth-teller, this retreat invites a deeper relationship with the inner compass and permission to slow down enough to notice what speaks through sensation, intuition, energy, and relational knowing.

This retreat bridges personal and collective liberation.

The retreat includes sitting meditation, walking meditation, relational mindfulness, somatic awareness practices, dharma talks and inquiry, and conscious dance. No dance experience is required, and no long meditation background is necessary. All are welcome.

Typical Retreat Schedule

All times are Eastern time zone.

First Day — Hybrid evening session begins around 7:00 pm.

Full-Day Schedule — Morning meditation at 7:00 am; breakfast break from 8:00–9:30 am; lunch break from 12:00–2:00 pm; dinner break from 5:30–7:00 pm.

Last Day — The closing session typically ends by 12:00 pm.

These times are provided as a reference only. A more detailed schedule will be shared in the pre-retreat information emailed during the week before the event.

Innerdance in Springfield

Innerdance in Springfield