Programs
The World is Its Own Magic - A Weekend of Plein Air Painting and Mindfulness
Description This four-day residential weekend workshop offers techniques in outdoor landscape painting in the high desert forest of the eastern Columbia Gorge. The workshop is designed for artists of varying skill levels who have some experience in drawing and composition; knowledge of color theory is helpful. We will explore color, composition, and perspective in new […]
Practicing With the Heart-Mind
With Lama Kathleen Benz
This five-day retreat is at SCOL, our 240 acre retreat land near Goldendale WA. The Heart-mind is the seat of our nonconceptual knowing. Mahamudra meditation is the practice of learning how to let things be just as they are—neither grasping & encouraging them nor judging & rejecting them. In this retreat we will explore practices […]
Practicing With the Heart-Mind - Zoom Only
With Lama Kathleen Benz
The Heart-mind is the seat of our nonconceptual knowing. Mahamudra meditation is the practice of learning how to let things be just as they are—neither grasping & encouraging them nor judging & rejecting them. In this retreat we will explore practices that observe how our bodies seem to hold emotions and what happens in the […]

