Dharma center to offer meditation retreat
Registration is open for a weeklong retreat, “Awakening the Heart: An Insight Meditation Retreat,” with teachers Erin Treat and Jaya Rudegard from April 11 to 16 at Kelly Place Bed & Breakfast.
The residential retreat will be presented by the Durango Dharma Center and will focus on practices cultivating peace, freedom and the compassionate heart.
During this silent retreat, insight meditation practice, qigong practice, loving kindness meditation and periodic meetings with the teachers will be used to cultivate acceptance and wisdom.
Treat is active on the teaching council and board of directors of the Durango Dharma Center and gives talks, leads classes and teaches meditation retreats in the Southwest and nationwide. Rudegard is a former Buddhist nun, a trained psychotherapist and teaches mindfulness in the United Kingdom.
Registration is $450-$700 on a sliding scale, with scholarships available.
For more information, visit www.DurangoDharmaCenter.org, email Cindy Dunbar at d2@ekiva.net or call at 764-8070.
Har Shalom to host events this weekend
Congregation Har Shalom, 2537 County Road 203, will host these events:
Jewish Meditation and Torah Service will be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon today in the synagogue.
Purim Carnival will take place from 4:30 to 7 p.m. today. The carnival celebration will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The event will include a catered dinner, costumes, carnival games for all ages and a Purim Shpielen Megilla reading. Sandra Alexander also will give a talk about the Ramah Outdoor Adventure summer programs.
Chai Mitzvah No. 7 “Days of Remembrance” will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Sunday. The rabbi also will give an Israel update.
Herald Staff & Associated Press
