Meditation offers us many ways to learn to be more present to the full range of human experience.

Can we become intimate with each moment? What does that even mean? In this retreat, we will explore these questions and more, together. Email coopertea99@yahoo.com to register.

Shoshana Cooper, Miriam Eisenberger, and Shir Feit at the closing of the 2022 retreat

In certain wedding vows, two beings say “for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until parted by death.” These words point to intimacy between beloveds. In Buddhism, there are eight worldly winds: praise and blame, success and failure, pleasure and pain, fame and ill repute. We seek to find a way to still ourselves within these oscillations. In Judaism, the entrance requirement to higher schools of spiritual learning is equanimity. This is yet another way of articulating deep intimacy with every moment.

Can we cultivate this intimacy with self and others and each moment? Come explore.

Rabbi Shir will be doing a contemplative davening (prayer) and music session each morning.   Miriam and Shoshana will be offering a meditation instruction session each afternoon. There will be evening talks each night. Times will be made available to meet individually and in small groups with the guides.

This retreat will be offered twice in 2023. There is a 30-person maximum at each retreat. Email coopertea99@yahoo.com to register.