Large Group Times
Each day of the retreat we will all gather together for the Large Group Community Meeting.
This meeting goes from 1:00 – 2:45pm EST.
May 8th - May 14th, 2021
Awake and At Home: Embodied Mindfulness Retreat for Women
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About This Retreat
As a virtual at home retreat, this is an opportunity to deepen into mindfulness practice and explore what it means to awaken in each embodied moment of our often challenging, chaotic and beautifully sacred lives as women. Join a diverse community of women from around the globe and experience meditation practice in a way that honors the intuitive and embodied aspects of the journey. Through mindful movement, stillness, silence and connection, our team of seasoned teachers, all trained in both mindfulness meditation and embodied awakening practices (such as yoga and qigong), will create a nourishing retreat container to slow down, reconnect with the wisdom of your body and return home to your heart. Collectively we will support and empower each other on this journey of becoming more fully grounded, spacious, and responsive in our day to day lives. All those who identify as women are welcome.
What makes our retreats unique
Intimate
With small group work at the heart of our virtual retreat model, we always prioritize human contact & relationship–deep intimacy at a distance.
Supported
You’ll be supported, for a few hours each day, by a highly-experienced teaching team. Receive quality instructions, get your questions answered, we’ve got your back.
Peer-Led
Help build the retreat by hosting & attending peer-led practice sessions, offered throughout the day. On retreat we practice alone, together.
Customizable
You can turn your life into a retreat by designing your own formal retreat schedule. We make the logistics easy, so you can do the hard work of showing up & being present.
Planetcentric
Practice in a global community of adults, tuning in from across geographic time-zones & cultural backgrounds. ALL are welcome in a Mindfulness Retreat Online.
Retreat Features
Large Group Retreat Meeting
A daily meeting where everyone on the retreat will get together for a daily teaching plus practice and/or small group work. The large group community meeting marks the both the beginning of each new day of the retreat, so is an important common point of reference as we practice together across timezones.
Small Group Practice Meetings
At least once each day, you will be joining a group of dedicated peers, and a retreat teacher, to engage in group practice. These sessions will give you a chance to practice along with the retreat curriculum, and ask practice related questions. These sessions will be offered at a number of times throughout the day, and you’ll be able to see which teachers & times are available before registering for the retreat.
Peer-Led Practice Sessions
Throughout each day of the retreat there will be 30-minute silent peer-led practice sessions offered. These silent peer-led sessions give retreatants ample opportunity to engage in supportive group practice. You can even help host them, taking even deeper ownership for the continuity of practice on this retreat.
Private Teacher Meetings
During a Mindfulness Retreat Online you'll have the option to schedule a 20-minute private session with a retreat teacher. You can use this meeting to check-in about how the retreat is going, ask any questions that you have, and get general support from a skilled guide.
Mindfulness Retreat Network
Each retreat is offered through our Mindfulness Retreats Network. Here, you’ll be able to find a detailed schedule for your retreat, along with recorded talks and supplementary learning material from the retreat teachers. In addition, once the retreat is live, this network is where you’ll find the event information you’ll need to join the live peer-led practice sessions.
Meet Your Teachers
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Leslie Booker
Leslie Booker brings her heart and wisdom to the intersection of Dharma, Embodied Wisdom, and Social Justice. She shares her expertise nationally as a guest lecturer at conferences, universities, and Dharma centers, on expanding our vision around culturally responsive teaching, and changing the paradigm of self and community care. She has contributed to several books and academic papers including Best Practices for Yoga in a Criminal Justice Setting and Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality’s report: Gender & Trauma—Somatic Interventions for Girls in Juvenile Justice. Booker is a graduate of the 2020 Spirit Rock Retreat Teacher Training, is a 2020 Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary, and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement in Mindful.org. She continues to be inspired to hold folks in their journey to find a sense of freedom and liberation within a world that is burdened by greed, hatred, and delusion.
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Kate Johnson
Kate Johnson is a meditation teacher, facilitator, author and mama who leads classes and retreats integrating spirituality, social justice and creativity. A passionate meditator since her early 20’s, Kate is authorized as an independent Buddhist meditation teacher through Spirit Rock’s 4 year teacher training. As an organizational consultant, she has trained hundreds of leaders and change-makers to use embodied, awareness-based approaches to systemic transformation. She holds a BFA in Modern Dance from the Alvin Ailey School and MA in Performance Studies from NYU. Her first book, Radical Friendship, will be published in May 2021.
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Dawn Mauricio
Dawn Mauricio has been practicing and studying Insight Meditation since 2005, and has graduated from the first teacher development group of True North Insight, and Spirit Rock's Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training, Dedicated Practitioners' Program, and 4-year Retreat Teacher Training. She is known to teach with a playful, dynamic, and heartfelt approach, and leads daylongs, retreats, year long programs, and mindfulness workshops in Canada and the US for Spirit Rock, True North Insight, and for teens with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education. Dawn is also the author of "Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners."
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Anne Cushman
Anne Cushman is MMTCP’s Director of Mentoring and a pioneer in the integration of mindfulness, embodied meditation, and creative writing. A practitioner of dharma and yoga for over 35 years, she is the author of the memoir The Mama Sutra, the novel Enlightenment for Idiots, the mindful yoga manifesto Moving Into Meditation, and the India pilgrimage guide From Here to Nirvana; and her essays on spiritual practice in daily life have been widely published. A member of the Teachers’ Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, she leads regular meditation retreats with a focus on creativity, embodiment, and daily life practice.
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Amana Brembry Johnson
Amana Brembry Johnson teaches meditation and compassionate movement nationally and internationally. As a spiritual mentor, Amana nurtures practitioners who wish to deepen and integrate meditation into daily life. Rooted in the ethics of Dharma and social justice, wisdom and liberation practices are made accessible to diverse communities by interpreting the teachings through the language and cultural artistry unique to those communities. Body and breath awareness are central in Amana’s distinctive form of contemplative movement, one that interweaves indigenous wisdom with yoga, Qigong, and other embodiment practices. An accomplished visual artist, Amana creates imagery that exposes emotional and spiritual barriers of the heart as gateways into kindness, compassion, and self-love.
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Janice Gates
Janice Gates has been teaching the integration of meditation, mindfulness and embodied practice for over 25 years, including at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, UC Berkeley, San Quentin Prison and in businesses and retreat centers around the globe. She began practicing Vipassana meditation and yoga while living in Asia in 1988 and her teaching is influenced by Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism, her studies in somatic practices, the psychospiritual work of Jennifer Welwood and many years of falling down and getting back up! Janice currently works as a teacher, mentor, coach and facilitator and is most interested in how these teachings can support our down-on-the-ground daily lives and relationships.
Dawn Mauricio
Leslie Booker
Kate Johnson
Anne Cushman
Amana Brembry Johnson
