In the quiet, dark time between Christmas and New Year, join me from the comfort of your home for a day of deep resting in warm presence. What if we could choose to spend this day free from any obligations or having to make anything happen? Instead, let’s immerse ourselves into the welcoming space of mindful compassion practice where we can fall into ourselves and take time to simply be with what is… This invitation to ourselves to stop and pause might not only offer some respite and the space to catch one’s breath, but also a chance to become freshly awake to what really matters, so we can take that clarity of focus into the new year ahead.

I rest my hand above my heart

and feel how this, too, is the tenderest of teachings—

to say yes to the body, to ask nothing of it,

to feel in the palm the miracle of heart beat,

and fall in, fall all the way in. 

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

What to expect of this online retreat day?

We will start at 10am by checking in with what you’re bringing into the day, and after discussing some practicalities we can ease into silence and practice until returning outward again at 4pm. In between, the day will be spaciously filled with various moving and still practices, mostly guided but also leaving space for deepening into your own kind of silence, with a sprinkling of poetry.