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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.
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Upcoming Offerings
HYBRID OFFERING
Online VIA ZOOM
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In Person at Wolfe Studio in
Jackson, MS
Thursdays
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM CST
December 5, 2024 - January 23, 2025
Book Study and Group Meditation
First Aid Kit for the Mind
Breaking the Cycle of Habitual Behaviors
by Vimalasara (Valerie Mason-John)
Flowering Lotus Meditation and Wolfe Creative Legacy are partnering together to host this hybrid book club with meditation. We will take 8 weeks to work through the chapters of the book. We will do the suggested practices with recordings from the author together as group. This is a hybrid event. Some will join in person at The Wolfe Studio in Jackson, MS and others will join via zoom.
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We will meet Thursdays at 6pm CST in December 2024 and January 2025.
Each week we will read the chapter aloud, do the suggested reflection and meditation practices and then have a group discussion. This is peer led by Beth Herzig, Executive Director of Flowering Lotus Meditation and Bebe Wolfe, Founder of the Wolfe Creative Legacy.
Zoom link and address instructions will be sent in the registration email.
We start on December 5, 2024 with Chapters 1 & 2
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Why a First Aid Kit for the Mind?
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Becoming Aware of Triggers
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Coming Home to the Body
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To Feel or Not to Feel
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It’s Just a Thought
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Excavating Emotions
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Thoughts without a Stinker
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Actions have Consequences
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Breaking the Cycle
You can buy the book here. We will have some for sale at the first meeting in person in Jackson, as well.
*Book Purchase is not required to participate.
*Full Scholarships available, email floweringlotusms@gmail.com to enquire.
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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In Person Retreat
with David Chernikoff
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WJ Kelley Retreat Center
510 N 2nd St, Bay St Louis, MS 39520
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In-Person Retreat • April 11th - 13th , 2025
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Registration Opening Soon
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First Aid Kit for the Mind
Breaking the cycle of habitual behaviors
with Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John
A First Aid Kit For The Mind, a retreat to help us to stay equanimous during unsettling times. Statistics show that when people live under the reality and or the shadow of war, the fear of families being split up due to deportation, the fear of the woman's body under surveillance and the basic human rights being threatened, that addictive, compulsive habits escalate. People are more agitated, quick to react, suspicious, and sometimes even hateful. This retreat welcomes all who want to have respite from the ills of the world, and equip themselves with tools to live life from a place of loving kindness
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Teacher Bio: Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John is a Trauma expert working in the field for mindfulness for Trauma and Addiction. Trained in Internal Family Systems, and one of the founding facilitators of Dr Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry, they teach the year long course and have a private practice. Award-winning author of 11 books, they are the co-founder and co-author of Eight Step Recovery: Using The Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction, with 8 step meetings in 3 continents. This year their new book a First Aid Kit for the Mind: Breaking the Cycle of Habitual Behaviours was published. They live on the unceded territory of Kanata.
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WJ Kelley Retreat Center
510 N 2nd St, Bay St Louis, MS 39520
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In-Person Retreat • June 13th - 15th , 2025
Join us for Lunch on Friday (Check in 11 am, Lunch at Noon)
Retreat Concludes 11:30 pm Sunday
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Payment Plans Available
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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