Workshops & Retreats

Summer Sanctuary Yoga & Meditation Retreat at Sandstone Ranch: I began Katharine Kaufman’s all day yoga and meditation retreat with a heavy heart and a very busy mind… Katharine’s yoga directives held me steady to stay in the depths of loss, to move through it slowly, witnessing, observing, silently allowing the sadness to do what it needed to do within my body. By the end of the retreat, I was literally astounded by the shift within me toward a space of peaceful balance in body and spirit. I learned that yoga and meditation are tools for fully witnessing sadness, grief, anger, joy, etc., when they arise. Katharine’s steady voice, her quick observations and gentle humor allow her students to reach new levels of contemplative yoga and meditation practice. I feel so grateful to have taken this day with Katharine Kaufman and look forward to future retreats with her. Highly recommended!
Amelia María de la Luz Montes, PhD

Associate Professor English and Ethnic Studies Creative Writing and Women’s & Gender Studies , University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Watch beyond the mindfulness intro video to see Katharine in an outdoor yoga dance film at the Shambhala Mountain Center:

Waking without Words

 

 

 

 

 

Women’s Summer Meditation and Yoga Retreat

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July 31–August 4, 2024

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Our bodies hold emotions, images, patterns, and stories. When we inhabit our bodies through mindfulness practices, we come to know ourselves as complete and wakeful beings. During this rejuvenating program, we will play with the four postures of meditation, practice nourishing yoga, and retreat in the forests, fields, and groves of Drala Mountain Center. Through sitting meditation, we will contemplate the nature of Way-Seeking Mind, the tender under-world of our being. Our practice and insight will deepen through silent periods, and our community will develop understanding and trust through conversation.

open pavilion

This retreat takes place in a scenic pavilion among the pine trees—an indoor/outdoor space.

Participation is limited to a small group of women. Trans women, genderqueer women, and female-identified non-binary people are welcome.

 

Please review and understand DMC’s current COVID-19 policy before visiting DMC.

Testimonials:

“Katharine facilitates her classes with passion and generosity, finding the delicate balance between offering expertise while encouraging self-discovery, experimentation, and new awareness of forms, techniques, wonderfully endless possibilities.”

“Katharine was wonderful, creating a safe nurturing tone and establishing community among us. She was both teacher/guide and fellow student herself – a powerful connection. She shared herself with us, and in doing so allowed us to share of ourselves.”

Retreat Faculty

Katharine Kaufman

Katharine Kaufman teaches meditation, yoga, writing workshops, and contemplative dance in Boulder County, at Drala Mountain Center in Colorado and online. Katharine is ordained in the Soto Zen lineage by Roshis: Vanja Palmers and Kobun Chino. She studied Yoga in Mysore, South India, and taught for many years at The Yoga Workshop, Studio Be and […]

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

writing into summer

June 6–9, 2024

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Suppose you had a long weekend to devote to your writing practice just before the brink of summertime. How would this focus and play support and change your creative landscape?

©2024 Rebekah West

In this retreat your writing will be inspired and supported by:

  • new writing prompts.
  • contemporary readings.
  • discussion.
  • daily movement practice, including yoga.
  • the four postures of mindfulness.
  • reading your original fresh drafts aloud.
  • listening to new work of others.

You’ll write trade-off poems and go solo. Wandering the hills and valleys of Drala Mountain Center, you’ll speak like a grownup to growing things. You’ll stay close in and write the rhythm of swinging doors.

With the support of our group and the beginnings of summertime, you’ll have the room to let down your guard. You’ll experiment with new forms, both simple and layered. You’ll write your memory body and slip notes into your pocket to discover later on.

You’ll follow where the pen takes you, now. You’ll write what has been waiting to be written.

You’ll write out of stillness, how you move, and breathe, where you are, what you know, what you like.

You’ll read and write poems, lists, prose, notes. You’ll write loose and you’ll write small.

Then you’ll share excerpts of what you’ve written.

Through discussion and your own musing, you’ll return home from writing into summer with refreshed ideas of how you’d like to move forward with your personal writing practice.

*~ This retreat is mostly generative, with affirmative feedback and no critiques ~*

Mixed levels of experience welcome.

 

Retreat Faculty

Katharine Kaufman

Katharine Kaufman teaches Yoga, meditation, writing workshops, and contemplative dance in Boulder County, at Drala Mountain Center in Colorado and online.  She studied Yoga in Mysore, South India, and taught for many years at The Yoga Workshop, Studio Be and Naropa University. She holds MFAs in Performance/Choreography as well as Writing/Poetics. Her poems have appeared […]