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Spring Weekend Retreat: May 10 – 12, 2019

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Every season has its unique gifts. As a season for deep rest and renewal, spring provides us a unique opportunity to step away from our active life and come into deep introspection and regenerate. To help you come into a deeper rhythm with the natural world, Lin Gordon and Lee Steppacher will weave nature-based meditation practices throughout this silent weekend retreat. We will spend...

February 1, 2019
2019, Weekend Retreat

Meditate in Nature

"Nothing supports the opening of the heart and mind like the beauty, tranquillity, and silence of the natural world. When we meditate in nature, we bring a receptive presence to the natural world. It comes alive—and so do we.”

- Mark Coleman, from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, author of the book Awake in the Wild

Read Mark's Awake in the Wild article on Lion's Roar, March, 2018

Spring Weekend Retreat: May 10 – 12, 2019

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Every season has its unique gifts. As a season for deep rest and renewal, spring provides us a unique opportunity to step away from our active life and come...

February 1, 2019
2019, Weekend Retreat

Meditation Fusion – Five Teachers, Five Styles: June 21 – 23, 2019

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Date: Friday – Sunday, June 21 – 23, 2019 Location: Kripalu Center of Yoga and Health, Stockbridge, MA Come join me in experimenting different meditation styles at Kripalu on...

October 2, 2018
2019, Weekend, Workshop

Practice: Standing in front of a Tree

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In a technology-oriented world we live today, we rarely get the opportunity to have an intimate and deep connection with the natural world and learn from it.  This practice...

September 25, 2018
Guided Meditation

Guided Meditation: Making It Happen vs. Letting It Happen

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My teacher Jonathan Foust gave a talk on “Making It Happen vs. Letting It Happen” back in April.  I always love that Jonathan is so artful in condensing spiritual...

July 24, 2018
Guided Meditation

Meditative Hike to Lake Awosting – How to Listen (July 2017)

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As we sat in silence on top of a ridge last week, other hikers who passed through came into silence. I am always touched by the power and beauty of silence in a world of noise. The dignity and stillness of mountains and lakes reflect back to our own capacity for stillness and equanimity. #silence #naturemeditation
Thanksgiving weekend meditative hike with a group of lovely yogis. #ice #rocklandlake #gratitude #optoutside
Beautiful fall at one of most beautiful nature retreat center. Feeling a deep sense of gratitude to be on this land. #fallleaves #vallecitosmountainretreat #goldenaspens
Did you know there is cactus in New York? #cactus
Scouting fall hike - beautiful hike at the Long Path. #fallhike #longpath #hudson

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Being in the Wild is born out of a love for meditation and nature. When meditating in nature, our senses come alive. Whether it is touching tree barks, hearing bird songs, or meandering on unknown paths, nature allows us to see into the essence of our experiences and our world. From focusing on a single leave to dissolving into the sky, nature practices may help you connect to a rich and vast inner and outer world, and you can access them any time in the midst of an urban life.

Lin Gordon has been practicing insight meditation in the last eight years under the guidance of Jonathan Foust, Mark Coleman, as well as various teachers at the New York Insight Meditation Center. In stillness and silence, she discovers the transformative power of mindfulness practices to help live a life of flow, joy, grace and gratitude.

In the last three years, Lin was particularly moved by the power of nature meditation practices to connect with a deep sense of well-being, tranquility, love and resilience.  She graduated from Mark Coleman’s Awake in the Wild Nature Meditation Teacher Training in 2017 and has since taught at New York Insight Meditation Center.

Our Senses

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

W. B. Yeats

2017 Events

June 4, 2017

Meditate and Write in the Grove: June to October (Monthly...

May 28, 2017

July 29: Lake Awosting – Meditative Hike & ...

April 17, 2017

June 24: Mineral Springs Falls Meditative Hike – Lakes,...

March 2, 2017

May 20: Bird Watching/Nature Meditation at Jamaica Bay...

March 1, 2017

April 22: Earth Day Nature Meditation at Central Park

March 1, 2017

March 25: Spring Equinox Nature Meditation at Fort Tryon ...

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