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SUMMARY:The World is Its Own Magic - A Weekend of Plein Air Painting and Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:This four-day residential weekend workshop offers techniques in outdoor landscape painting in the high desert forest of the eastern Columbia Gorge. \nThe workshop is designed for artists of varying skill levels who have some experience in drawing and composition; knowledge of color theory is helpful. We will explore color\, composition\, and perspective in new and complex ways allowing artists to unlock fresh avenues of expression and deepen their understanding of visual storytelling. \nHosted at SCOL\, near Goldendale\, Washington\, the schedule will include a guided morning meditation led by KCC teacher Kathleen Benz. We will allow ourselves to become still\, reflective and observant\, and from this mindful stillness we will visit our first painting site where Jef will give guidance on viewing the landscape\, seeing space\, and how it might be arranged in a rectangular canvas\, and then how to manage drawing and colors with mind and heart. \nThe tuition includes lodging\, vegetarian meals and guidance in painting and meditation. Students will need to bring their own painting materials; click here for a class materials list. The SCOL center will provide a cook and facilities staff\, but each student will be asked to complete a daily task of service. \n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n  \nArtist Jef Gunn\nA Northwest native\, Jef Gunn studied drawing and painting in California through the 1970s and held residencies in Barcelona and Paris in the 1980s. With a balance of humor\, broad knowledge and helpful insight he is able to draw from each student their own natural way to paint\, while bringing to bear practical instruction through contemporary and historical examples. He has been teaching painting\, including landscape outdoors\, for 30 years. Jef has been a part of the KCC Buddhist community since moving to Portland in 1998. He was part of the team that built the retreat facility at SCOL. \nFrom Jef: \n“Over these years of meditation practice and learning Buddhist views on life\, ethics and kindness\, and care for all beings\, I’ve seen a shift in my work as an artist. Sometimes\, I’ve made this explicit in the forms of the work or in the titles\, with both abstract works and landscapes. \nBringing Buddhist awareness and perhaps a Daoist understanding\, life and living systems open before us. A hill is just a hill\, then it’s a metaphor\, then it’s a hill again. It lifts into sky and drifts into valley. River flows to the sea. Cloud flows. Warm colors and cool colors interact. The blues of the sky change as you look higher. The wind blows through you. You mix colors\, looking at the wide world for clues. You’re interacting with this wild inhabited land\, and you’re responding with irascible paints on a palette. \nJust as with following meditation instructions\, you follow a protocol with the palette\, the mixing knife\, the colors\, the canvas\, the impossible view\, its impossible spaciousness. The mind too is impossibly spacious. You can be present for the whole thing. You might even end up with a painting.” \nVisit Jef’s website here: www.jefgunn.com\n\nVIEW EVENT DETAILS: https://kcc.org/event/the-world-is-its-own-magic-a-weekend-of-plein-air-painting-and-mindfulness/
URL:https://kcc.org/event/the-world-is-its-own-magic-a-weekend-of-plein-air-painting-and-mindfulness/
LOCATION:SCOL – Retreat Center\, Goldendale\, WA\, 98620\, United States
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SUMMARY:Practicing With the Heart-Mind
DESCRIPTION:This five-day retreat is at SCOL\, our 240 acre retreat land near Goldendale WA.\n \nThe Heart-mind is the seat of our nonconceptual knowing. Mahamudra meditation is the practice of learning how to let things be just as they are—neither grasping & encouraging them nor judging & rejecting them. \nIn this retreat we will explore practices that observe how our bodies seem to hold emotions and what happens in the body when emotions arise. Our purpose will be to simply allow experience rather than to change\, fix\, or explain anything. By becoming aware of what is there\, we can befriend it in a non-conceptual way. \nWithin a fairly relaxed schedule\, we will observe silence in the mornings\, and the days will be filled with guided meditations\, discussions\, and plenty of time for personal practice in nature. There will be time for personal interviews. This retreat is for practitioners of all levels. \nThe retreat will be looking through a dharma/meditation lens.\nIt is not oriented around trauma discovery and therapeutic healing.\nThere will not be a professional therapist onsite. \nNo reading is necessary. However\, for some understanding of this approach\, and the science behind it\, I suggest Why We Meditate by Tsoknyi Rinpoche & Daniel Goleman. \nIf you have questions or need more information\, contact Lama Kathleen. \nRetreat Schedule  \nThe retreat opens on Thursday\, November 5th\, with dinner and an evening session and ends on Monday\, November 9th\, with a closing session and breakfast in the morning. For retreat days\, the schedule will be as follows: \nAM\n6:30 – 7:30 am             Personal practice\n7:30 – 9:00 am             Breakfast break\n9:00 – 10:30 am           Instruction\, guided meditation\n10:30 – 11:00 am         Tea break\n11:00 – 12:00 pm         Practice session \nPM\n12:00 – 2:30 pm           Lunch break\n2:30 – 4:00 pm            Q&A\, discussion\n4:00 – 4:30 pm            Tea break\n4:30 – 5:30 pm            Practice session\n5:30 – 7:00 pm            Dinner break\n6:45 – 7:45pm             Group session \nRegister For In Person \n  \nREGISTER FOR ZOOM\n\nVIEW EVENT DETAILS: https://kcc.org/event/practicing-with-the-heart-mind/
URL:https://kcc.org/event/practicing-with-the-heart-mind/
LOCATION:SCOL – Retreat Center\, Goldendale\, WA\, 98620\, United States
CATEGORIES:Retreats & Special Events,SCOL Event,Zoom Retreat
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