We held our first retreat in years this October 2022 in Atlanta, GA at Neighborhood Church in the Candler Park neighborhood. This 4-day retreat consisted of three days of teachings from Lama Rod, Lama Justin, Ayesha Ali, Karen Nelson and a guest appearance by Swami Jaya Devi.

The fourth day was an open celebration at the park with community that attended the retreat and some that did not. During this time we gave offerings, did a Tsok prayer together and spent time connecting with each other.

A total of 41 of us gathered together in Atlanta (35 attendees and 6 staff). We were able to offer a scholarship and three work trade spots for this retreat. Pricing for this retreat was on a scale of $500 - $150 for a ticket.

Thanks to our incredible community’s generosity and some careful budget planning, we were able to give $2,280 to the sangha through this retreat. Thank you so much to everyone that purchased a ticket or donated to this retreat! Everyone that donated or attended the retreat received photos and videos of teachings from the retreat as a special gift.

The feedback we received was overwhelmingly positive! A piece of feedback that kept coming up that we will take into consideration moving forward is the desire to eat together. Breaking bread is a beautiful way to connect and perhaps we can have more opportunities for this in the future.

Again HUGE thank you to everyone that attended. Thank you to the Practice Circle that offered valuable insight through the entire planning process!! Thank you to the teachers for their wisdom. Thank you to our small but mighty staff that made it all happen.

Looking forward to the next one!!