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Date & Time Details: Program runs from 9 am to 4 pm on March 14, April 18, and May 9.

Location: Storyhouse

Address: 6449 Old Pietila Road, Clinton, WA 98236

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POSTPONED: Daylong Mindfulness Retreat

With Sarah Manchester

March 14, 2020

This program has been postponed to protect public health. If you would like to be notified when this is rescheduled, please add your name to the waiting list! Thank you.

 

Take time and gift yourself a day of mindfulness with Sarah Manchester!

  • Learn why it is important to meditate
  • Learn mindfulness meditation or enhance your existing practice
  • Take meditative walks on exquisite trails
  • Enjoy a delicious meal (lunch provided)
  • Write, collage, draw, and contemplate (art materials provided)
  • Spend time in reflection and discussion

Come for one day or build on your practice and come to all three days. Each daylong retreat will focus on a specific mindfulness meditation. See the brief descriptions below:

March 14th: Mindfulness of Body. What is mindfulness of Body? With an emphasis on the posture of meditation, we will pay specific attention to our bodies, how we sit in meditation and how we can carry that posture/ practice into our lives.

April 18th: Mindfulness of Speech. What is mindfulness of speech? In the silence of meditation, what is the aspect of speech? Taking a look at what and how we speak or do not speak our thoughts on and off the meditation cushion.

May 9th: Mindfulness of Mind. What is Mindfulness of Mind? What are our thoughts and how can meditation help us to work with our thoughts?

Cost is $85.00 for one day or $210.00 for all three days.

For more information and to register, contact Sarah.

Sarah is a student of The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and a senior student in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage.

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Sarah Manchester
Sarah is a longtime meditator and a practice instructor in Nalandabodhi—the sangha established by Tibetan meditation master Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.  She believes that meditation has been the biggest influence in her personal and professional life, in that it has given her a tool for having a deeper understanding of herself.  In addition to time on the cushion, Sarah is a psychotherapist and a mother of two adult sons.  She loves spending time outdoors. She has led weekend and day-long meditation retreats at the Whidbey Institute and this will be the second retreat that she has co-led with her husband, Howard…
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