The container of experience: Holding life in awareness - Padmadharini

Join us for a day long nourishing retreat sponsored by the Buddhist Sangha of Bucks County - practice with an ordained Buddhist teacher.

Whether you're new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, this retreat offers a gentle yet powerful way to deepen your practice. We will be guided by Padmadharini, a respected teacher of Buddhism in the Triratna tradition. This event is perfect for both beginners and experienced practitioners looking to deepen their practice. See you there!

Theme of the retreat:

In this day retreat we will explore the theme of containment. At times our experience can feel too much: emotion, uncertainty, or struggle may feel overwhelming or unmanageable. Practice invites a different movement — not towards controlling experience, but towards discovering a deeper holding.

Together we will explore the relationship between relative containment — the capacity to ground, regulate, and care for experience — and the wider container of awareness, within which experience is already held. From this perspective, even difficulty can be met within a field of compassion and love.

Through meditation, embodied awareness, and reflection, the day will explore how a sense of inner safety and openness allows experience to unfold without contraction, revealing a more spacious and responsive way of being.

This retreat is suitable for those with an established meditation practice who wish to deepen their exploration of experience and awareness.

Safety

If you think you may have been exposed to Covid-19 please take rapid test on the day of the event

If you have cold or flu symptoms, we ask that you do not attend.

About the teacher:

Padmadharini has over four decades of dedicated meditation practice. Her insights and guidance provide a profound and transformative perspective on the human experience. She is trained and educated in modalities that support going deeper in meditation. This includes her training as a Chaplain, as a coach, in secular mindfulness, and in focusing and somatic work. Padmadharini has over 20 years of experience teaching meditation and mindfulness as a path to a more meaningful life.