Led by Mark Coleman and Eleni Monos
In this silent, fully outdoor nature retreat, participants will engage in meditation and sensory awareness practices amidst mountains and meadows, cultivating insight, interconnection, and well-being. The retreat offers an opportunity to explore nature’s teachings on change, equanimity, and love for the earth, while deepening mindfulness and fostering a contemplative relationship with the natural world.
RETREAT DETAILS
Like the Buddha, people for millennia have sought refuge, clarity and wisdom in nature. In this silent, fully outdoor nature retreat, you will meditate in the serenity and beauty of mountains and meadows, while cultivating potent yet accessible sensory awareness practices that open you to insight, interconnection and well-being. This nature immersion provides the perfect antidote to our busy, digital and stressed lives.
During the retreat, you will cultivate a receptive, embodied quality of mindful attention. This awareness supports learning from nature’s wisdom teachings on change, letting go, equanimity and sensing intimately ones inter-connection with all life. You will also explore how nature evokes not only profound insight but also opens the heart to a profound love for the earth and all species. This love is the fuel for and inspired action in these ecologically challenging times.
Participants will develop a contemplative relationship to the earth, deepen their understanding of what it means to be mindful in nature, and experience themselves as earth, and discover nature as refuge, teacher and source of wisdom and awakening. There will be nature-based sitting and walking practice, Dharma talks group meetings. There’s also time to explore the beauty of nature with contemplative presence both alone and in community. Be prepared for unexpected delight, awe, mystery, silence and illumination.
TESTIMONIALS
“Mark is a wonderful and natural guide. The practices and teachings invited me to connect with a spectacular place in an intimate and sacred way. The poetry Mark read matched the poetry all around us and the poetry I felt inside. When I was challenged by the practice, he offered helpful tips”. KB
“I really appreciated the freedom in Mark’s approach, which encouraged us to inhabit a place fully and to be present to all its wonders without demanding strict discipline or rigid adherence to protocol. The silence, the sitting, and the other mindfulness practices awakened my senses and created fertile ground for falling in love with everything around me, reconnecting with the divine, and expanding my capacity to be present with myself and others”. SA
About Rocky Mountain Eco-Dharma Center
A rustic retreat center, at 8,500 feet, replete with alpine meadows, spruce forests, birdsong and bugling elk, all under a view of Colorado’s iconic Continental Divide.
RMERC brings Buddhism and Dharma back into the natural world where they originated, and fosters the clarity and compassion needed to better address the ecological crisis and inextricably related social justice issues. We call this Ecodharma.
180 acres of private river, meadow and woodland at an altitude of 8500 feet adjacent to National Forest and just a few miles from the Indian Peaks Wilderness. The land is set aside as a nature preserve and home to an abundance of wildlife, including deer, elk, moose, bear and beaver.
- Three historic buildings; sleeps up to 30 people.
- Incredible views of the Continental Divide and Rocky Mountains.
- Minutes from Indian Peaks Wilderness.
- 1.5 hours from Denver Int’l Airport.
- Permanent conservation easement as a nature preserve.
- Bordered by National Forest and other protected private land.