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Tuning In: Practicing Mindfulness and Deep Listening in Creative, Musical Community

March 21 @ 5:00 pm - March 23 @ 2:00 pm

Music, song, and chanting can be a wonderful practice opportunity and a vehicle to offer our communication, aliveness, healing and connection. Together, we will cultivate curiosity about our individual and collective conditioning, exploring the courage to step forward and/or the humility to step back in musical community. We will Honor the voices that we have. You are invited to join recording musical artists, Order of Interbeing practitioners Lynn Deeves and Honey Bear for a weekend of joyful practice, inquiry and heart-song as we co-create the possibility of accompanying and befriending our inner and outer voices. Musicians of all levels are welcome to attend, as together we put the “play” back into “playing” music.


Practices will include:

  • Sitting meditation
  • Walking/movement meditation
  • Mindful eating
  • Chanting
  • Deep Relaxation
  • Circle Sharing
  • Loving Speech/Deep Listening
  • Musical Prompts/sharing

Also at this retreat, practices may include:

  • Touching the Earth
  • Embodied exercises
  • Dyad sharing
  • Journaling
  • Deep Looking
  • “Be-In”/ “Happiness Gathering”

Retreat Facilitators:

Lynn Deeves is a mindfulness practitioner, OI member & Maine-based, singer-songwriter. Music has been a constant from the 1980’s top 40 rock stages to the release of “Songs from a Peaceful Heart,” recorded at Morning Sun with soulful and heartfelt contributions from Michael Ciborski, Lark Holmes and many lay/monastic friends. Lynn weaves music into her 2 home sangha’s and is recently retired from teaching 3-5 year old children with special needs. She has co-lead retreats in Maine, NH and Vt. Dharma teacher/NVC trainer Peggy Smith shares: “Songs from a Peaceful Heart was the only music that my nervous system enjoyed during the pandemic/lockdown.”  https://lynndeeves.hearnow.com

Gary Brain, often to referred to as Honey Bear lives in Morning Sun with his best friends Mary Beth and Jaxi. He practiced for many years in the Bay Area and was ordained an OI member in 2009 as a sibling in the Mountain family. Music gave form and voice to feelings and thoughts he didn’t know words for. He has practiced with The Guitar Circle of North America and played backing moods to countless events, tracks, and campfires.



Accommodations:

  • Dormitory Beds:  We have several rooms available in El Cielo (beds for 10-14 people depending on whether folks are alone, or couples, or in a ‘pod’). We also have a few dormitory beds available in our simple living yurt (woodstove heat in the colder months).
  • Commute: You may also choose to commute in and out if you live locally. Please register for the program below (as a commuter), and also book your local accommodations separately (you need to do both).
    • You may also book at other hotels and rentals offered by airbnb, vrbo, etc in the area. Please note that you need to provide your own transportation to and from MorningSun during your program if you register as a commuter.

Retreat Conduct: There will be periods of silence and periods to enjoy conversations with others. To create a gentle and quiet retreat atmosphere, we practice with the Five Mindfulness Trainings. Meals will be plant-based (vegetarian), and we do not drink alcohol, ingest intoxicants or any recreational drugs. Firearms and other weapons are not permitted in the Mindfulness Center. In order for everyone to feel respected and safe during their retreat MorningSun will not support or tolerate any act of bullying, discrimination, sexual harassment or assault. On arrival each participant must affirm these practices by signing a commitment to maintain retreat conduct.



Registration Form

1A 2025 Music Retreat Registration

Music Retreat Mar 21-23 2025

Plan to arrive at 5pm on Friday and to depart at 2pm on Sunday.

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Details

Start:
March 21 @ 5:00 pm
End:
March 23 @ 2:00 pm

Venue

MorningSun Mindfulness Center
81 Rose Apple Lane
Alstead, NH 03602 United States
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