This enriching week-long retreat will provide a thorough grounding in the practices of embodied meditation. With the soma as our gate, we will be able to draw on the deepest wellsprings of our being and unlock the boundless love of our hearts. By connecting with the wisdom of the body, we are freed to live a life that is open, meaningful and filled with joy.
Location
Blazing Mountain Retreat Center
Crestone, CO
About the Teacher
Caroline Pfohl is co-lineage holder of the Dharma Ocean lineage. She chairs the Dharma Ocean Foundation board of directors, and holds the health and well-being role of Desung (Protector of Joy) for the community. Her spiritual journey has included three decades of study and practice in Chan, Taoism, and Tibetan Buddhism. Within Dharma Ocean, drawing on lifelong work with healing and the arts, she takes the lead in bringing somatic meditation into the arenas of mentoring, relationships, healing, design, and the arts. Read full biography…
Video: Loving Presence
This video was recorded on December 22, 2014 at the Winter Meditation Intensive in Crestone, Colorado at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center. In the talk, Caroline discusses the ground of the human journey in the body and explains how our felt sense relates to the unfolding of experience in meditation practice. She introduces a guided meditation in the video, which is presented below.
Guided Meditation: 10-Points Practice
In this guided meditation, Caroline introduces the 10-Points Practice as a foundational practice for releasing habitual tension and opening to the experience of the body.
Guided Meditation: Earth Descent
The Earth Descent practice invites us to give in to the limitless warmth and invitation of the earth. In this guided practice, we’re invited to let go further into the energy of the earth.
Registration
Registration for this program is now closed. To learn more about other upcoming retreats, visit our program calendar.
Scholarship and Work-Study
There will be scholarship and work-study available for this program. If you are interested in this option please register for the program and fill out an application by April 11th, 2015. Click here for more information, and to find the online financial aid application.
Transportation
For general information about traveling to our retreat center, please see the Getting Here page on the Blazing Mountain website.
Dharma Ocean will be offering shuttle service from Moffat to the retreat center for those riding the Black Hills Stage Line from Denver. There are limited seats available for this service, therefore we suggest that you choose this option at registration if you need this service and would like to guarantee a seat. If you need to add this option please contact the Dharma Ocean Registrar (registrar@dharmaocean.org). The cost of the shuttle is $30 round-trip.
Retreat Details
Please plan to arrive between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 23rd. Departure will be after breakfast on Sunday, May 31st. If you are staff or work-study for this program, you may need to arrive a day early and depart a day late. Please contact Scott Exline (registrar@dharmaocean.org) if you have questions about this.
Check out our Program FAQ page for other important information about being on retreat at Blazing Mountain. For any further questions please email us at trib15@dharmaocean.org.
Program Staffing Opportunities
If you feel inspired and called to deepen your training by serving in a staff role, please visit Service and Volunteering Opportunities and fill out the staff request form. Preference will be given to people who submit their offer by March 23rd. We will respond to offers made by this date within a month’s time. If this date has passed and you are interested in a staffing role at this program, please fill out the request form and we will respond to these offers in an ongoing way as space permits.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL US AT 303-955-2574 or 1-877-DHARMA9