Spinning Threads of Light: Finding Resilience and Ease in Reconnection

Sat., October 17, 9 am-4 pm
UU Church of Concord Sanctuary (and on-line)

Retreat Focus:  Amid accelerating ecological, political, and humanitarian crises, humanity faces not only environmental collapse but also a profound crisis of identity. Modern culture, stranded in the logic of separation, has forgotten its place within the living earth. The forests, rivers, and animals that once spoke to us as kin have become “resources,” and the human mind has come to experience itself as an observer rather than a participant in life’s unfolding. Beneath this forgetting lies a deeper remembering: an intuition that consciousness and nature are not two, and that the wisdom and healing we seek is already alive in the world around us. 

Today, we need new ways of being, healing, and practicing – ways that do not arise from the same paradigms used for hundreds of years. How do we harness our innate ability to remember who we really are and to learn why we are really here? How do we learn to listen, beyond thought, to our innate wholeness? To the living world that is always offering itself as our teacher? And how can this recognition of wholeness offer us a place of refuge, support, and resilience from which to become present with love and compassion in this struggling world? If these questions resonate with you, please join Lama Liz Monson for this daylong retreat at the Concord UU Church on October 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

For more information or questions, please contact the retreat manager, Betsy Black.

Register here: uuconcordnh.breezechms.com/form/spinningthreadsoflight

About Liz Monson

Lama Elizabeth Monson is the Spiritual Co-Director and Guiding Teacher for Natural Dharma Fellowship. She has practiced Tibetan Buddhism in the Kagyu and Nyinma lineages for almost forty years and taught for the last twenty. Liz holds a PhD in Religious Studies, focusing on Tibetan Buddhism and Ethics, from Harvard University. Currently, Liz writes, guides meditation retreats, and develops curricula for people interested in reconnecting with the natural world and responding to contemporary social and spiritual issues as a path for liberation. She is exploring the potential of combining Buddhist meditation with indigenous plant medicines and psychedelics as portals for accessing and resting in the natural state. Liz lives with her husband in Grantham, NH and spends as much time as possible hiking and reconnecting with the natural world.