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Iā€™m so grateful to be offering this free one day retreat introducing students to the practices of mindfulness meditation and compassion.

These profound and practical teachings are helping millions of people around the world live with greater freedom, peace, and joy while bringing compassionate love into their relationships and our world. They are secular-friendly and appropriate for people of any faith or no faith.

Come see for yourself how they may help you.

  • Sunday September 8th 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  • In-person in Tempe, AZ (address shared after registration)

The retreat will feature meditation instructions, periods of guided and silent sitting meditation, walking meditation, short wisdom talks, and question and answer periods. An optional celebration dinner will be shared afterward.

Space limited. Register HERE.

Kai Newkirk, the course teacher, is a devoted practitioner and teacher-in-training of mindfulness meditation as well as a progressive leader and founder of For All, a center for nonviolent organizing to make America a Beloved Community. He began meditating seriously after a 2001 ten day Vipassana course and is currently participating in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Kai hopes to help build a nonviolent army of political bodhisattvas. He lives in Tempe, Arizona with his wife, immigrant rights leader, Erika Andiola, and their beloved dog Luna.