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Flowering Lotus Meditation is a mobile sangha.
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We host meditation retreats at multiple locations across the southern United States and strive to create retreat experiences accessible to all.
We bring in experienced Buddhist teachers to teach students, with any level of experience, meditation.
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All retreats and other events are based on Buddhist teachings of mindfulness and compassion.
We welcome anyone to attend.
Meditation & Community Across the Gulf South
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Upcoming Retreats
Upcoming Retreat Postponed
Due to the devastation and difficulty to travel to and from North Carolina, we have postponed the retreat with our Spiritual Director Ven. Pannavati.
The Heartwood sangha is doing what they can to provide for their community. Please support Heartwood Refuge and Venerable Pannavati by donating here.
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Awakening into the New Year
with Dave Smith
During this New Years’ Insight meditation retreat we will cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves through gentle and sustained awareness of our body, breath, heart, and mind. Each day will include periods of silent sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks and group meetings with the teacher. New Year’s Eve will be held with a special intention-setting ceremony. Together, we’ll develop a greater sense of care for ourselves and for our world through the revolutionary practices of the Dharma.
The practice instructions will be based on the four foundations of mindfulness in combination with exercises in kindness and compassion. This silent retreat will explore the many ways that true spiritual practice is an engagement with life that runs contrary to the confusion in this world. This ancient path of awakening our own deepest wisdom is accessible to all who choose it. The retreat is suitable for both beginning and more experienced practitioners. We hope you can join us for a meaningful and beautiful beginning to the New Year!
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WJ Kelley Retreat Center
510 N 2nd St, Bay St Louis, MS 39520
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In-Person Retreat • December 30, 2024 -January 2, 2025
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Wild Heart Summer Retreat
with Rev. Mikey Noechel, MS and
Andrew Chapman, LMSW
In retreat, through careful and sustained mindfulness, we experience for ourselves the ever-
changing flow of the mind-body process. Meditation is the vehicle through which we develop
the clarity and compassion needed to accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and joy,
sadness and happiness that life inevitably brings. As insight deepens, we develop greater peace
in the face of change—we develop a capacity to meet each arising and passing moment with a
deep curiosity, compassion, and wisdom.
St. Mary’s Sewanee
770 St. Mary's Lane Sewanee, TN 37375
In-Person Retreat • July 16-20 2025
REGISTRATION OPENING SOON
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Weekly Dharma Share
and Meditation Practice
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Come sit with us every Sunday online. We share a dharma offering by either reading a dharma book or article. Then will sit together for 30 minutes.
Then we will allow for optional sharing and visiting as time allows.
Weekly Meditation Sits • Sundays at 6pm - 7pm CST
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