Every retreat is different.

I keep thinking that I want to share about the Labor Day retreat but there aren’t a lot of words. I can still feel the energy of it in my body though, which is something like joy because it makes me smile when I think of being there. Every retreat is different. The commitment of this particular group was powerful. Each retreatant came with a mature willingness to enter the unknown terrain of stillness and silence and meet the truth there. What an incredible energy this created. It was so clear in the glowing faces at the end of the weekend; that each person had entered into that mystery and found the thing we are all looking for…ourselves. I had my own journey that involved what at times felt like energetic open-heart surgery! I can never predict what healings, insights, connections, transformations will happen on retreat. The more willing I am to surrender to the unknown, the more surprised I am by what I experience. Where in your life can you surrender control? Can you consciously enter into the emptiness of the mystery of life and practice simply staying there? When we are willing to stay for longer and longer in the unknown, in the simple beingness, and less and less in the managing, strategizing, controlling, we are opening up to Life’s gifts. We are opening up to the aliveness of our own potentiality. This is where the good stuff is. At the end of the weekend, one of the retreatants said, “It’s like three years of therapy.” We are all just waiting to meet ourselves in this unknown, silent mystery. The invitation is always open.