Lama Rod Owens – Day 1

Going to the Edge: Exploring Chaos & Radical Resiliency

Ticket Pricing

• Friday evening price: $10

This ticket option is for the Friday evening talk only. If you would like to attend the Saturday daylong retreat, please register at this link. Please note, registration for Saturday includes Friday admission; no need to register for both events.

Presented by Bhumi Durham in partnership with Peace Hill at Avila.

We are living through an apocalypse, a period of deep truth unveiling. The world is unsteady and chaotic. We find our lives completely disrupted again and again as we are confronted with the reality of death in a way we never imagined. Many of us are struggling to make sense of the impact we are experiencing in our personal lives, relationships, and communities. In the face of all this, it is hard to maintain our physical and emotional balance. 

Resiliency is such an important skill to develop right now. Resiliency is about how well we are able to meet the challenges of our lives with a sense of openness and curiosity that helps us to regain our balance. Balance means understanding how to return back to a sense of being grounded in order to meet challenges directly. 

To move through this period, we must rely on our capacity to grieve, to touch into the sadness of change and loss and tend to it with compassion. In this compassion we can allow our hearts to break and in the breaking be held by the understanding that we are not alone in this grieving. Once we allow ourselves to be in relationship with our grief, then it can begin to teach us how to move through sorrow and hopelessness into clarity and connectedness. Yet most importantly, our relationship to grief through compassion opens up the space for joy and gratitude.

Join Lama Rod Owens as he explores this liberating relationship with grief through the radical practices of skillful mourning, self-care, and refuge. We will also engage in discussion and guided contemporary tantric deity practices along with meditation, movement, and pranayama. This experience will move us into the edges of our practice with support and care in order to be resilient in the face of chaos and uncertainty.

Learn more about Lama Rod Owens here.