This retreat is open to anyone who wants to bring insight and healing to the path of birth and motherhood, such as difficult: births of your own or your children, relationships with your mother or mothering, abortions and miscarriages.

We gather as a community for a Healing Birth Ceremony nourished by compassion practices and teachings on the Great Mother, Prajna Paramita, somatic resourcing and elemental meditations. We weave together a supportive and generative community that allows us to bring healing and transformation to some of our birth imprints.

Our feelings of overwhelm, rage, support, confidence in our relationships with motherhood originate in part from this initial template of birth.  Birth energy is primal life energy. It is sacred feminine creative power and when we reclaim and heal our initial imprints of our own births or those of our children, a catalytic leap of life energy returns to us to use for the good of all.

Healing can happen at any time, no matter how old your child is.

As we connect with the Great Mother, the very ground of being, we access resources and resilience to vision and dream the future.

In this daylong retreat you will have the opportunity to:

• Experience practices within a ceremony container which repair difficult or traumatic pregnancy, birth and postpartum experiences  
• Gain inspiration for ourselves and others for future births 
• Increase compassion for yourself and your family
•  Develop a supportive, nurturing, and generative community 
•  Learn meditative practices to support our experience of birth and the path of motherhood and grandmotherhood

Who Should Attend? 
This retreat is open to anyone who wants to bring insight and healing to the path of birth and motherhood, such as difficult births of your own or your children, relationships with your mother or mothering, abortions and miscarriages.

Recommended Reading
There is no preparation needed for this retreat.  However you may enjoy reading from any of our recommended booklist:

• Return to The Great Mother by Isa Gucciardi, Phd
• Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient African Teachings to Celebrate Children and Community by Sobonfu Somé
• The Tibetan Art of Parenting by Anne Maiden Brown
• Mothering from the Center by Tami Kent
• Healing After Birth by Jennifer Summerfeldt MACP
• Momma Zen by Karen Miller
• Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The Mama Sutra by Anne Cushman
• The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson
• Call of the Wild by Kimberly Ann Johnson

What is a Virtual Retreat?

Virtual Retreats are Tara Mandala At-Home intensive retreats, teachings and in-depth workshops during which practitioners receive dharma teachings, engage in guided practice, experience hands-on learning, and connect with other participants through an easy-to-use online platform (Zoom) during consecutive days (with few exceptions) and daylong offerings. This modality of learning is appropriate for practitioners who are able to create a practice container of their own, setting aside a dedicated retreat space, removing themselves from social media, and taking care of necessities with the mind of compassion in action for the specific dates and times that the teachings occur. 

Virtual Retreats are meant to be attended live given that direct transmission (Tib. lung) may be given. However, access to recordings of the sessions are available for additional viewing for various timeframes specified by the price level selected.

Tiered-Prices

Tara Mandala is working to expand opportunities for access to Buddhist teachings and practices while offering an equity-informed fee structure when possible. With our new tiered pricing, we strive to make the Dharma more accessible to all while furthering the important conversations that must happen around current structures that inhibit equal access to underprivileged communities. We encourage you to select the registration tier at the highest level within your capacity to assist Tara Mandala in covering the costs of offering these wonderful teachings while also benefiting from access to the recordings of the teachings post-retreat. We thank you in advance for your support and your practice!

$96 – Tier 1 (includes access to recordings of all sessions for up to 30 days from the end of the retreat)
Registration at this level covers the basic costs for this retreat and allows Tara Mandala to maintain sustainability.

$115 – Tier 2 (includes access to recordings of all sessions for up to 1 year from the end of the retreat)
Registration at this level covers the program costs for this retreat and provides additional support for the year-round work of Tara Mandala.

$77 – Access Level (includes access to recordings of all sessions for up to 7 days from the end of the retreat)
Registration at this level is offered below the cost of holding this retreat to assist participants with financial limitations and encourage the exploration and practice of dharma.

Choosing the Tier 1 or Tier 2 levels allows Tara Mandala to continue to make dharma teachings accessible and inclusive while also allowing its year-round operations to continue and expand while being a repository for wisdom literature, a center for translation, a beacon for the feminine in Buddhism. Tara Mandala is an  active dharma organization and retreat center that provides refuge for deep practice and transformation. There are many ways to support and engage with Tara Mandala’s worldwide activities. Click here to learn more. We appreciate your support and generosity! 

Offering dana to the teacher: The practice of offering dana, which means “generosity,” is the traditional offering the student makes to the teacher as a symbol of appreciation, gratitude, and reciprocity for receiving the precious teachings. Information on offering dana to the teacher will be provided during the virtual retreat. To learn more about dana and suggested dana ranges, please click here. 

Payment Plans and Financial Assistance
Tara Mandala has two scholarship funds and offers deferred payment plans as resources for anyone with financial limitations. For more information and to apply, visit our Scholarships and Financial Assistance Page. 

Sustaining Sangha:
If you are currently a member of our Sustaining Sangha, you may apply your retreat discount to this course.

Click Here for Our Cancellation and Refund Policy

VIRTUAL RETREAT SCHEDULE

Listed times are the online portions of the retreat. All times are Mountain Time. 
Please use this link to see how this daily schedule translates into your timezone.

10:00am-12:30pm: Teaching session 
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch Break
1:30pm-4:00pm: Teaching session 

There will be two, 5-minute breaks during the program.