WEEKEND MINDFULNESS RETREAT- LLANO, NM

Join us in the beautiful mountains of Northern New Mexico for a weekend mindfulness retreat. 

This retreat will include silent practice, mindful movement and relational mindfulness practices. 

This retreat can be engaged with as a daylong on Saturday June 21st or for the full weekend including a Friday night arrival through Sunday afternoon departure. 

Location: Llano, New Mexico

Date: Saturday June 21st from 10am- 4pm 

With option to camp out on Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st. (Optional campfire gathering Saturday evening, and casual hikes and lunch on Sunday)

Suggested Donation: 

Sliding Scale $50- $300 

(no one is turned away for lack of funds)

Facilities: The location is rustic. We will have an outdoor practice space, outdoor kitchen, picnic tables, and 2 clean outhouses. As well as a  space to pitch tents for those who are staying over.

You'll receive more travel and packing details when you register.

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Anthony "T" Maes-  Anthony “T” Maes was born and raised in the East Bay. He has practiced Buddhist meditation since 2003, primarily as a student of the Thai Forest lineage. He is a teacher at UC Berkeley, Inward Bound Mindfulness, and EBMC where he specializes in trauma-informed relational mindfulness. “T” graduated from UC Berkeley in 2004, completed the yearlong Commit2Dharma program at EBMC in 2011, and the Facilitator-1 training with JoAnna Hardy and Vinny Ferraro in 2017. He completed the 3-year Organic Intelligence trauma resilience practitioner training. He is currently in the 4 year Teacher Training program at Spirit Rock & IMS

Devon Sangster Rath-  Devon is a queer woman who cares deeply about the power of mindfulness practice as a tool to heal and liberate.  She has practiced meditation since 1997 and has been formally teaching mindfulness since 2010.  Devon is committed to making mindfulness accessible to all, specifically people who have a experienced trauma, are recovering from addiction, and historically marginalized populations, including people of color, trans and queer folks, people of size and different body abilities.  She offers classes with the homie T Maes on trauma informed mindfulness. Devon is also passionate about using mindfulness to support white people in waking up to whiteness, power and privilege. 

Sarwang Parikh- Sarwang is a decolonial psychotherapist, facilitator and meditation teacher  based on unceded Ohlone land in SF Bay Area. He was born into a devotional Indian lineage with an immigrant, working-class background.  They have been practicing and studying the Dharma for over 25 years, sharing ancestral wisdom of Vedic yoga, Theravada and Indian Vajrayana in culturally-relevant ways. He has completed various multi-year teaching and study programs in meditation through East Bay Meditation Center and Spirit Rock. Sarwang teaches with Dharma Homies, East Bay Meditation Center, Inward Bound Mindfulness, Spirit Rock and SFInsight. He also serves on the board of Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Sarwang loves playing his handpan, being immersed in sci-fi or getting free on a dance floor.