Mudra Space Awareness
An Embodied Experience of Nowness
Reawakening to Your Embodied Experience
This retreat is an opportunity to deepen into your embodied experience. Within a group setting, we will explore the principles of Mudra Space Awareness through practices using:
- Movement
- Sensory exercises
- Intensification exercises
This weekend is a chance to slow down. Slowing down with Mudra will allow us to deconstruct our minds, bodies, and experience of the present moment as a way to more fully open up, feel our genuine nature, and experience confidence and compassion. We will primarily practice together indoors in a shrine room but we will also take our practice outside to more fully open our senses to nature and the elements, weather permitting.
Slowing Down, Sensing, and Connecting
Mudra Space Awareness is a powerful embodiment practice rooted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of meditation. Its contemplative movements are influenced by monastic dance, Dzogchen, and the theater arts. This unique lineage of teachings comes directly to us as a gift from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Shambhala, and offers a way to deepen our presence, confidence, and compassion through movement and awareness.
The Joy of Spontaneous Play
To complement the Mudra activities, we will have a dance party Saturday night as a means of connecting deeper with our embodied intuition as well as spontaneously playing in the space and in the presence of others. Our very own DJ Glitter Kitty (Tai) will lead us on a dharma art dance journey Saturday night!. This will be a chance to be in your body in the way that feels right to you in the moment; mixing space, movement, and stillness as you see fit.
Please join us for this weekend of practice and play.
Schedule:
- Friday Night: Arrival, dinner, and an opening talk
- Saturday & Sunday: Full days of embodied practice, exploration, and dance
This retreat is an opportunity to reawaken your senses, embody your intuition, and rediscover the joy of being fully present. Whether you’re new to Mudra Space Awareness or returning to deepen your practice, we welcome you to this weekend of exploration, movement, and connection.
Getting Here
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Pricing
Karmê Chöling values its commitment to making programs affordable and available to all who wish to study with us. To support this commitment we provide two program price options.
Generosity Price: $265.00
You're able to help us with this commitment by choosing the "Generosity Price". The money above the basic tuition cost goes into a scholarship fund for those who might not be able to attend a program otherwise.
Tuition: $220.00
This is the price of the program, it does not include housing options or material fees.
Please Note:
Price does not include accommodations, which will be added during the registration process.
Policies
Payment Policies:
Please read the payment policy before proceeding with registration.
Financial Aid:
Karmê Chöling offers full-time student discounts, scholarships and other financial aid.
Program Credit:
If using existing program credit to pay for a program, you must pre-register for this program at least two weeks prior to the program start date by calling the front desk (802-633-2384 x3000). Program credit may not be used to pay for housing or practice materials and may not be used on or after arrival day.
Instructors
Suzann Duquette has been a student of body-focused disciplines since 1974 and a student of Daoist Qigong in the lineages of Dr. Eva Wong since 2007. Suzann is an authorized instructor of Dr. Wong for Daoist Qigong Levels 1 through 5 and Strategic Leadership, based on the writings of Zhuge Liang. Student in the lineages of Chögyam Trungpa and Sakyong Mipham, Suzann is a former director and senior teacher of Karmê Chöling Shambhala Meditation Center in Vermont. Suzann includes body-focused disciplines in her teaching as methods for health, well-being, and the embodiment of wisdom. She lives in Barnet, Vermont, with her husband, where they own and run Blue Skies B&B.
Alison has been studying and practicing meditation and Buddhism for over a decade. She has studied Dharma Art and Mudra Space Awareness for the past 12 years. Alison mixes her passions for art, embodied healing, creativity and meditation in her New York therapy office. When Alison isn’t in the shrine room or therapy office, you will find her playing with her cat or outside with her friends.
Tai has been practicing Buddhist Meditation and learning Mudra Space Awareness teachings for about 15 years, and has spent years training with Alison as a Mudra Space Awareness teacher. She has her own psychotherapy private practice, Whole Psychotherapy, in Norwalk CT. For the two years, Tai has been immersed in a DJ training course and community, PHDJ. By day, Tai works in energy financial services and lives in CT with her two cats.
Instructors:
Suzann Duquette
Alison Pepper
Tai Pimputkar
Date & Time Details:
Location:
On-Land
Program Fee:
Generosity Price - $265
Tuition - $220
Room/Meals Fee:
This will be added in during the registration process.
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Getting to Karmê Chöling:
Contact Us:
Karmê Chöling
(802) 633-2384
info@karmecholing.org
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