A retreat with Maru Moonlion and Desiree Damen, and honored guests Françoise Pottier and Shelley Anderson

Being Peace Now: healing for our ancestors, ourselves, and those to come

We are happy to announce that, we will again be offering a LGBTQIA+ Retreat * in the EIAB to everyone practicing in the Plum Village tradition who identifies under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella.

During these days together, we wish to co-create spaces of mindful encounter, characterized by openness and loving kindness — spaces where we can open up, be visible and share ourselves with the Sangha. We want to support and encourage each other so we can share both our pain and our joy and simply enjoy being together. We honour and celebrate both our own uniqueness and our common connectedness, recognizing the wondrous diversity of life.

Our Earth and all who live on it urgently need healing. We can ground ourselves in peace to help in this work of healing. Practicing peace, respecting the web of life around and inside us, we can learn to heal ourselves, our ancestors and the future.

We look forward to practicing together. We assume that participants are familiar with the practices of sitting, walking and eating meditation, stopping with the bell and Dharma Sharing. This time, in addition to our Plum Village practices and the sound and movement meditative practices of the past years, the retreat will include practices of nonviolence.

If you have questions regarding the retreat, please contact us at Sanghatogether at yahoo.com

* Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, +

The retreat-facilitators kindly ask for a donation. Please give it directly to them during the retreat.