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The Undefended Heart: A Metta Retreat for Cultivating Lovingkindness


devon + nico will be teaching a residential retreat at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.

What would it feel like to meet yourself and others with unconditional kindness, to let down the walls around your heart and discover the strength that lives in tenderness? Engage in daily guided metta meditation during this immersion, and cultivate lovingkindness beginning with yourself and gradually extending goodwill toward loved ones, neutral people, difficult people, and all beings everywhere. 

Learn to work skillfully with the obstacles that arise in metta practice—including self-judgment, anger, grief, and the fear of vulnerability. Through daily dharma talks, discover how an undefended heart is not a naive or unprotected heart, but rather one that meets life with strength, wisdom, and radical acceptance. 

Registration information is coming soon.

In Person Retreat

Earlier Event: June 13
Staying Power
Later Event: July 11
The Courage to Be Real