About the retreat:

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Big questions, small practices, deep listening, & heart-led shifts of consciousness ~ into
the embrace of aliveness, for the benefit of the whole.

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Along the last decades, I’ve had the sense of society coming unwoven—through doubt,
distraction, dissociation and disassembling of community. Our culture seems to leave
gaps in loving support, inside us and between us. People, cultures, species…we are
falling through.

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I’d like to be part of life’s reweaving.

Examples of reweaving include the way an insight reorganizes the psyche. The way it
feels good and is good for us to be in touch with other people. To have and to give
support. To create and to listen. To lie on the ground, to see the sky, to eat the berry, to
hear the water. To feel how being in our juiciest connectedness is good for us and for
the world.

And part of reweaving is to rediscover how we humans can dovetail together—each
coming with our specific leanings, doubts, compassions, growing edges and
wonderings...each of our paths distinct yet mutually generous.

Each of us finding and resting into what helps us and what calls us.

Each of us getting a visceral sense of what kind of difference our listening presence
makes in us and in others…What kind of difference it makes when we hear our life
calling or feel our heart move.

What kind of differences happen when we rest into aliveness? When we trust joy and
tenderheartedness more than contracted mind.

Each of us listening together to the heartbeat of this shared moment in history.

When we weave and are woven into life, life can circulate in and through us more
gorgeously—as finer love, simpler kindness, more creative intelligence and help. As a
sense of purpose beyond words. As joy, friendship, wonder, resonance, insight,
transformation, awakening.

The goodness of the flow is abundant, good for us and for the common good.

In this homeward shift to let life flow in and through us, trust is a key.
But we cannot force trust.

What might help trust to emerge naturally?

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Before saying more about themes of this online gathering~ here’s an overview of the
structure.

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How will we explore?

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~Dharma talks and dialogues, every two weeks
~Optional Signal group
~Optional organically emerging gatherings
~Deep listening practices…each optional so you can adjust your participation level to
specific needs and leanings:
Trios with Jaya & other participants
Inquiry in pairs with other participants
One-to-ones with Jaya

We will do our best to schedule listening trios to fit the schedules of those who join.
There is limited space for Trios.
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And back to a few more questions and pathways towards trust that are calling me these
days ~
Questions
What reorients us, helps us remember what is important?
What allows wider circulation of our deepest resources?
What helps us know, in embodied and transcendent ways, that we are part of—that we
cannot exist apart from—this wider organism of life, wider breath, of life wider than
biology?