Closing the Home Retreat - Alive, Aware, Awake!

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Closing the Home Retreat - Alive, Aware, Awake!

On Fri, 17 July, 2020 - 09:46

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Closing the Home Retreat - Alive, Aware, Awake!

We hope you have enjoyed becoming Alive, Aware and Awake with us this week!

Thank you so much to the Taraloka team for leading daily sessions, exploring the four foundations of - or gateways into - mindfulness. You can find the recordings of the daily Zoom sessions on the Home Retreat page. You can also find the recordings on this Youtube Playlist.

Please give now and mention “Taraloka” in the donation box - any donations from the retreat will be shared with Taraloka.

Here’s some of the feedback we’ve received throughout the week:

This has been a life changing experience so far xx thank you.

I absolutely have loved the material particularly today on Mindfulness of Dhammas. Saddhu to all involved.

Thank you for being so generous with your time, skill and knowledge.

Thank you Taraloka Team, this is my first retreat and it has been beautiful and enlightening. Your delivery was so compassionate and intense it was inspirational. Thank you.xx

However you have used the resources this week, we really hope that exploring the different elements and practices of mindfulness and having a sense of community online have benefited your Dharma practice. Please do let us know here how you have found the week, we’d love to hear from you.

We would love it if more and more people could access these home retreats and experience the online Sangha we can create together.

You can help make this happen - give regularly, or a one off gift, to help us to keep reaching out, offering Dharma content which supports people to transform their lives and the world.

Generous donations from this retreat will also support Taraloka Retreat Centre during this period of lockdown.

Of course, we understand that some people are unable to give, especially at this uncertain time. We want to still be able to offer our resources freely and ask those who can to support us to continue this.

Thank you! 🙏🏻

Look out for our next Home Retreat - Subscribe to our Dharma Toolkit Newsletter and we’ll send out the details nearer the time.

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Listen to a special podcast edition with the Taraloka team here

Visit the Alive, Aware, Awake Home Retreat page

Watch the live Q & A with the Taraloka Team

Read all posts on Alive, Aware, Awake!

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