Programs

  • $25.00 – Program Price each session

Date & Time Details: Saturday, May 4, 10-12:00pm Pacific Time

Hybrid: Contemplative Rest Practice on First Saturdays Monthly

With M Freeman

May 4, 2024

This Contemplative Rest Practice series is open to those who have taken a Contemplative Rest retreat with M Freeman.

Each session offers opportunities for awe-savoring, somatic, guided meditations by M and silent resting-in-awe practice together as well as gentle time for group sharing, connecting, and cherishing the transporting benefit of communal contemplative practice. “All living beings will profit from your relaxation and energy. This is the most basic kind of peace work,” Thich Nhat Hanh writes in How to Relax. And when we practice together? “The energy is amplified,” he writes, “and you will create a powerful collective energy…for your own healing and the healing of the world.”

If you have taken a Contemplative Rest retreat, please join us monthly for group practice sessions.

Facilitator

M Freeman
Media artist, writer, spiritual director, and independent scholar, M Freeman works at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices. They are author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing, 2020) and creator of Cinema Divina—short films for contemplative practice. Their text and media arts essays have been published in or at The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Rolling Stone and Abbey of the Arts. Their films are screened on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers and festivals worldwide.  marilynfreeman.com.    
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