Keeping it Real
in a Frantic World

Thubten, Rahla and I are offering this 5-night retreat because we know that when we feel connected to our bodies and minds, it’s as if we’ve found home.

And when we find home, things like uncertainty and loneliness don’t pack the same punch.

The outside world may be in chaos, but if we know we’ve always got the house of “us” to come back to, we will always have a refuge.

The aim of this retreat is to help you find that refuge, or at least help you build one.

To do that, we have to be fearless, bring dark realities out into the light and accept them. This takes courage and effort, and most people would rather just “have a nice day”.

But we’ve seen what happens when the days stop being so nice. We know we need some kind of safety net so the fall doesn’t kill us.

None of us want to face the unfaceable, but there has to be a baptism of fire if we’re to come out the other end – wise, not broken.

We offer this retreat as a guide to help bulk up our emotional resilience as far as learning to deal with the unknown.

So that when the waves of living feel unswimmable, and we feel we’re going under, there are enough life jackets to go round.

During the retreat, we will offer workshops and tools which support us to get through a day - without thinking we’ve failed, that we didn’t do enough, that we should have or could have ... (well, you know the lyrics).

To remind us that who we are is enough. And that if we can believe that, if we can create a calmer environment inside us, this will impact on what’s outside us, too.