Join us for a day long nourishing retreat sponsored by the Buddhist Sangha of Bucks County – practice with an ordained Buddhist teacher.
Click to reserve your spot here. The container of experience: Holding life in awareness – Padmadharini
Whether you’re new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, this retreat offers a gentle yet powerful way to deepen your practice. We will be guided by Padmadharini, a respected teacher of Buddhism in the Triratna tradition. This event is perfect for both beginners and experienced practitioners looking to deepen their practice. See you there!
Theme of the retreat:
In this day retreat we will explore the theme of containment. At times our experience can feel too much: emotion, uncertainty, or struggle may feel overwhelming or unmanageable. Practice invites a different movement — not towards controlling experience, but towards discovering a deeper holding.
Together we will explore the relationship between relative containment — the capacity to ground, regulate, and care for experience — and the wider container of awareness, within which experience is already held. From this perspective, even difficulty can be met within a field of compassion and love.
Through meditation, embodied awareness, and reflection, the day will explore how a sense of inner safety and openness allows experience to unfold without contraction, revealing a more spacious and responsive way of being.
This retreat is suitable for those with an established meditation practice who wish to deepen their exploration of experience and awareness.
Click to reserve your spot here. The container of experience: Holding life in awareness – Padmadharini
About Padmadharini
Padmadharini has more than four decades of meditation practice and teaching experience. Her work blends training as a chaplain, coach, and secular mindfulness teacher with somatic and focusing methods. She brings warmth, practical skill, and deep contemplative insight to retreats and workshops, guiding participants in practices that are both grounded and transformative.
