Dear Friends,
Just as things seem to be contracting again during the newest wave of this pandemic, I wanted to offer a bright spot on the horizon and something to look forward to for the coming year. Each in-breath is filled by an out-breath in the endless cycle of change in our lives.
As many of you know, Donna Martin and I have led retreats in Hawaii since 1999. After twenty years of teaching at Hui Ho’olana we decided to discontinue organizing and managing these retreats. However, we still feel like we have something to offer and we have generous and committed students who have offered to assist in organizing another retreat. We have also heard from many of you who have asked for another opportunity to be with us, especially after the particularly barren time we have all lived through over the past 18 months. We will be returning to the Hui in May of 2022 assuming the pandemic has shifted sufficiently by that point.
The retreat is titled Hakomi as Spiritual Practice and will be a body-centered week of relational practices founded in mindfulness. We will have periods of meditation, mindful movement, interpersonal exploration, and deep internal work, all focused on living with more freedom and choice. We expect there to be Hakomi practitioners interested in continuing their training experience with me and Donna, Zen students looking for a deepening of their spiritual practice, and people from many other disciplines who have studied and practiced with us in the past and who long to return to the Hui. Whatever the motivation, all are welcomed, and I trust that the group will become a gathering of those who are called to this particular time and space to be nourished and renewed.
Donna and I are not in charge of registrations, but for more information about details or to register, please follow the link here: https://www.hakomicascadia.com/retreat-hakomi-as-spiritual-practice
With our warmest aloha,
Flint
