Blossoming by Nature: Four Invitations to Creativity
With Arawana Hayashi and John Rockwell
May 5 - 11, 2023
The Hudson Valley and Shawangunk mountains are renowned for their beauty since the time the Lanape people lived here. Sky Lake Shambhala Meditation Center invites you to join Arawana Hayashi and John Rockwell for a springtime 5-day retreat. This retreat will offer sitting meditation and compassion practice, walking in nature, social presencing theater and conversations, and spontaneous delights. These are the four invitations to pacify, enrich, magnetize, and let go. Spring is a magical time for creative renewal as we are called to step forward into the challenges of our times. Everyone is warmly invited to join us.
About the Facilitators

Arawana Hayashi
Arawana’s career has been in dance, both in the theater and in communities, with a focus on cultivating individual presence and group awareness and creativity. She began to meditate and study with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche in 1974, and has been teaching Shambhala Training and Dharma Art practices since 1980. She currently works with the Presencing […]
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John Rockwell
John Rockwell has been on the path of dharma for 46 years. He met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1975 and studied and practiced the Buddhist and Shambhala teachings for 12 years with him, and in particular worked with him on translating Tibetan texts into English. For ten years, he studied and taught at Naropa University […]
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