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| We’re so grateful to you, our ever-growing Charis community.
As we enter into our blooming retreat season, we are excited to host so many of you down at Charis Mandala Sanctuary. In May, we welcome a 10-day Centering Prayer retreat, and in June we begin our fourth cohort of Charis Circles facilitator training in our largest cohort yet! July will then bring our first 10-day Charis retreat, filled with teachings that explore various stages of the spiritual journey from an interspiritual and multi-religious perspective.
We hope to see you there! |
| | Join us on Retreat!Space is limited!
Charis is holding its first 10-day retreats in 2025!Sign Up for an upcoming retreat at Charis Mandala Sanctuary!These retreats will be taught by Charis teachers Rory McEntee, Alejandra Warden, and Netanel Miles-Yépez
Space is limited! Please reach out if you’re interested in more information. admin@charisinterspirituality.org |
| | July 3 – 12 10-day Charis Retreat Stages of the Path All Practitioners Welcome Join us for an enriching 10-day Charis Retreat, where we’ll explore the Stages of the Spiritual Path through diverse religious traditions, including Christianity, Buddhism, Sufism, and the Sacred Feminine. Led by Rory McEntee, Netanel Miles-Yépez, and Alejandra Warden this interspiritual retreat invites you to deepen your practice and understanding of spiritual growth. Set amidst the serene Charis Mandala Sanctuary, the retreat includes meditation, contemplative practice, spiritual dialogue, and periods of silence. Explore the stages of the spiritual path while integrating transformative wisdom into your everyday life. Whether you’re new to Charis Meditation or looking to deepen your practice, all are welcome to this unique opportunity for shared learning and spiritual awakening. REGISTER HERE |
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| July 3 – 12 10-day Charis Retreat Stages of the Path All Practitioners Welcome Join us for an enriching 10-day Charis Retreat, where we’ll explore the Stages of the Spiritual Path through diverse religious traditions, including Christianity, Buddhism, Sufism, and the Sacred Feminine. Led by Rory McEntee, Netanel Miles-Yépez, and Alejandra Warden this interspiritual retreat invites you to deepen your practice and understanding of spiritual growth. Set amidst the serene Charis Mandala Sanctuary, the retreat includes meditation, contemplative practice, spiritual dialogue, and periods of silence. Explore the stages of the spiritual path while integrating transformative wisdom into your everyday life. Whether you’re new to Charis Meditation or looking to deepen your practice, all are welcome to this unique opportunity for shared learning and spiritual awakening. REGISTER HERE |
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| | | | Learn more about Charis Foundation in this new 5 minute video |
| | | | Charis CirclesCharis Circles are small, interspiritual practice communities which may be established anywhere in the world by trained facilitators. Featuring a communal practice of Charis Meditation and a shared practice of spiritual reading, Charis Circles provide a broadly accessible way to experience interspiritual community. Charis Circles are held either in-person or online, and serve to feed a deep hunger for spiritual community and practice. |
| | Learn all about Charis Circles in this 5 minute video |
| | | | | Keating-Schachter Center Update |
| | World Wisdom Teacher-in-Residence,
The Keating-Schachter Center and the Department of Wisdom Traditions were again pleased to have Rabbi Or-Nistar Rose on campus as our Spring World Wisdom Teacher-in-Residence. Rabbi Or is a scholar of Hasidism and founder and director of the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College. While on campus the first week of April, Rabbi Or held meetings with Master of Divinity students, participated in our Jewish-Buddhist dialogue, spoke in the Interspiritual Dialogue class (pictured above), and led teachings and practice for Jewish students. |
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Robert Wing Sensei is the founder of the Mountain Warrior Institute, Warrior of the Heart seminars, and the director of Wise Actions. As an Aikido practitioner, Wing Sensei is a student of both Koichi Kashiwaya Sensei and Hiroshi Ikeda Shihan, and founder of the Aikido curriculum at Naropa University, where he continues as the senior teacher of its Aiki-ken and Aiki-Jo club on campus in Boulder, Colorado.
In this episode, we talk with Wing Sensei about three types of language (representational, immediate, and structural), Aikido as a structural language, the asking of ‘physical questions’ in the martial arts, ‘internal martial arts,’ the meaning of ‘ai’ (harmony) and ‘ki’ (energy), ‘effective distance’ and ‘joining’ in Aikido, the idea of conflict and ‘entering and turning’ into it, fighting and not-fighting, his seminar ‘the Art of Hosting Important Questions,’ and centering and the effective use and right application of power.
The New Monastics Podcast can be found on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, iHeart radio, and more. |
| | Nature’s Corner from Charis Mandala Sanctuary |
| | The beauty of the unknown – Is this a sunrise or sunset? When all that is seen is this glorious sky of color, to understand whether the sun is bringing on the day ahead or setting for the night is all about perspective. We have to know the context, the direction we’re pointed in, to know which which way is up… or down. Until then, we’re holding both possibilities of the mystery. |
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Vow NineTo live a life of compassionate service and loving action, Understanding that we live because and not in-spite of one another. |
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