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Dharma Talks given at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
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2025-06-12 Belonging, Reciprocity and Gratitude 40:42
Kirsten Rudestam
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This talk looks at the dependent co-arising in the context of nature-based practice and the tenderizing of the human heart.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild

2025-06-11 Wisdom Teachings From Nature 53:31
Mark Coleman
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Exploring how the three characteristics are revealed in nature practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild

2025-06-10 "When you know the place you are, practice begins" -- Working with obstructions to clear, embodied knowing 49:22
Kirsten Rudestam
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This talk describes hindrances as fuel for our practice and offers suggestions for working skillfully with them.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild

2025-06-05 Grief and the Loss of Identity 45:19
Amana Brembry Johnson
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When we can face and mourn our grief, it becomes a portal into transformation and insight.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-04 Mindful of Thoughts and Mind States 56:42
Amana Brembry Johnson
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In this instruction we will move from a focus on the object and turn towards an investigation of the quality of the mind and an awareness of what arises in the body
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-03 Being at Home in the Body 47:43
Amana Brembry Johnson
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A remembrance of The Body as home and an understanding that we are not the body but a part of an interconnected web of life
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-02 Letting Go, Coming Home to the Earth: Nature as Teacher 41:23
Carol Cano
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Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-05-24 You Are the World 29:07
Peter Williams
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Everything you are aware of is in your mind. The mind has no boundary, it is as large as the world. You are the world.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Blessed by the Land:

2025-05-23 Heartfulness 52:36
Peter Williams
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How to bring the beauty, vulnerability, and passion of your heart into your practice.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Blessed by the Land:

2025-05-20 Sensory Clarity and the Joy of Embodiment 48:16
Peter Williams
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To drop out of the mind and into the body is to drop out of time, stress, and separateness and into presence, ease, belonging and joy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Blessed by the Land:

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