ABOUT STILLNESS

Take a moment to feel the simplicity of your own beauty: your hands, your breath, the weight of your body on the earth. You are simple and beautiful like a stone, a fallen branch, a red cardinal or a yellow moon is simple, and beautiful.

Each day we will find moments to move from the still and quiet practice of meditation into practices of collective singing, authentic movement and collective wisdom dialogue. We will explore how the power of stillness moves into embodiment and can become a to tool for navigating emotions, relationships, creativity, focus and all kinds of challenges in in everyday life. This class is for BIPOC folks and it is inspired by and guided by the teachings of the Buddha through the lens of contemporary Black and Brown Buddhist practitioners.

Things you are guided to explore on this retreat.

  • simplifying life

  • becoming at ease with the feeling and fear of producing nothing

  • the nature of our minds. Our minds are constantly changing, this realizations helps with things like letting go, staying focused, forgiveness and compassion

  • how little pauses can be taken throughout the day.

  • instead of using meditation as a comfort zone of peace, we will intentionally discuss how to use meditation and stillness to support you to be fully present in all of life’s challenges.

  • the power of collective storytelling and singing

 

 WHATS INCLUDED

  • at least 4 hours of guided sitting and walking meditation a day

  • a curriculum that draws from Black and Brown Buddhist teachers

  • open dialogue about meditation as spiritual bypassing

  • simple nervous system regulation tools to navigate emotions

  • explorations of stillness to movement and movement to stillness

  • collective singing and storytelling

  • collective celebration

“I would have never come to meet all my different guides and protectors and energies were it not for the ways that Sojourner really creatively and playfully leads space.”
— Pascale Williams, Stillness Participant
“I have my ancestors and I understand Orishas and different guides that are coming from ancient traditions and lineage, but the ways that we are connected to our own wisdom… This is the invitation that Sojourner presents.”
— Stillness participant
“I have visualized very specific things that I can call back to in spaces that Sojourner has held. Their meditations are really powerful and important and still resonant.”
— Alyssa Ramos, Stillness Participant

SAMPLE DAY LONG CALENDAR

9am-10am- Opening Ritual

10-12pm- Sitting and walking meditation

12-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:00 -Movement and Sitting Meditation

3:00-4:30- Collective Dialogue/ Dharma talk

4:30-5:00- Collective singing. Closing. Reflections

Schedule is subject to shift depending on the dynamics of the people who show up in real time and any pressing world and group themes that would be of value to engage in at the time of the retreat.

Resources for Contemporary Black Buddhist Texts

Details

Times

Friday 5-8pm

Saturday 9am-5:00pm

Sunday 9am-5pm

Cost:

$350-$750 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds. Please send an email for other payment and trade options

Where: ONlLINE, Zoom Link Sent at Registiration