Wattle Hollow Schedule SUMMER 2025 **
Welcome dear yogis! Following is the upcoming Spring/Summer listing of events: ** WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS AND FULL EMBRACE OF “ANNICCA”, THE BUDDHIST DOCTRINE ACKNOWLEDGING THE ETERNALLY SHIFTING AND UNFORESEEABLE FACTORS OF LIFE ON EARTH. Registration is required. You may register anytime, friends…though my response may be somewhat delayed… Friends, I suggest that you don’t wait too long to register for any of these offerings…They seem to fill up faster every year!
READ MORE / RegisterAbout Dharma Days
Dharma Days are a one-day opportunity, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to take a personal tour in the Theravadan Vipassana meditation traditional practices of sitting, walking, eating and loving-kindness/metta. It’s a great chance for beginning meditators to get their feet wet, and for oldies to refresh their practice. We also do a mild 50-minute stretching/yoga/or creative movement session. An organic vegetarian lunch will be served. No charge for this day, though dana/donations are accepted. See Registration link below to register. We will have chairs...
READ MORE / RegisterSongwriters’ Creativity Weekend
May 9 – 11, 20256 p.m. Friday – 4 p.m. Sunday Here’s another opportunity to experience a conjunction ofcreativity, kindness, gourmet food, with the best possible guides onour musical journey: Donna and Kelly Mulholland, Jack Smith. Contact Judy Smith for information and registration:judysmith221gmail.com All Wattle Hollow retreats (except Songwriters’ weekend) areoffered by donation…e.g. no one is turned away for lack of finances,according to the ancient Buddhist tradition.
READ MORE / RegisterDHARMA DAY May 24
Saturday, MAY 24, 2025 – 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. We will be practicing the various forms of Vipassana Buddhist meditation:** Sitting (no sessions more than 30-40 minutes), various types of practices.** Walking (both indoor and outdoor)** An hour-long movement/yoga session** Eating (lunchtime will be silent, with special focus on the food)** Metta/Lovingkindness practice The practice of Noble Silence will be observed all day, except for group discussions, in order to deepen our meditative focus. All Dharma Days are suitable for oldies and for...
READ MORE / RegisterDharma Day – June 22
Sunday, June 22, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. This retreat will have a special focus on nature. (See above for fuller description of Dharma Day.) All Dharma Days are suitable for oldies and for newcomers…since we all need to arrive with “beginner’s mind,” anyhow. No charge for this day, in the ancient Buddhist tradition. Dana/donations are accepted, however. Friends, I suggest that you don’t wait too long to register for any of these offerings…They seem to fill up faster every year. Registration is required. Register –...
READ MORE / RegisterJuly Two-day Weekend Retreat
July 12 -13, 2025 Begins Saturday morning, 10 a.m., and ends Sunday 3 p.m. Email to Register
READ MORE / RegisterDharma Day July 19
Saturday, July19, 2025 (10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) We will be practicing the various forms of Vipassana Buddhist meditation:** Sitting (no sessions more than 30-40 minutes), various types of practices.** Walking (both indoor and outdoor)** An hour-long movement/yoga session**Eating (lunchtime will be `silent, with special focus on the food)** Metta/Lovingkindness practice The practice of Noble Silence will be observed all day, except for group discussions, in order to deepen our meditative focus. All Dharma Days are suitable for oldies and...
READ MORE / RegisterDharma Day September 6
Saturday, September 6, 2024 (10 am – 4 pm) Dharma Days are an opportunity to take a personal tour of the Theravadan Vipassana meditation (traditionally practiced in SE Asia and in the West) practices of sitting, walking, eating and loving-kindness/metta. It’s a great chance for beginning meditators to get their feet wet, and for oldies to refresh their practice. We also do a mild 50-minute stretching/yoga/or creative movement session. An organic vegetarian lunch will be served. No charge for this day, though dana/ donations are...
READ MORE / RegisterTwo Day Weekend Retreat
September 19 – 21, 2025 Starts with supper on Friday evening, 6:00 pm, and ends at 4 pm on Sunday. Email to Register
READ MORE / RegisterTales from Joy #11 – 2024
Greetings from Battambong, Cambodia, dears. My balcony looks down on Klong 2.0, here in the marketplace. Life happens three stories down below. It’s relatively quiet and breezy up here. And why are the monks carrying umbrellas, you may wonder? Temperatures are often in the high 90’s, approaching 100 degrees. My shoulders, knees and midriff remain covered, however, like the local Khmer women, when I’m out in public. In my sixty years of travel in the Third World, I’ve never wanted to offend the culture I’m in. I’m not quite ready, however, for...
READ MORE / RegisterTales from Joy #10 – 2024
Read about Food, Farms, Lessons from the River…and getting both Joy AND her computer across the border to Cambodia…. View/Download Tales # 10 pdf Click Here
READ MORE / RegisterTales from Joy #9 – 2024
Read about Pa Joy’s MONTH-LONG MAECHEE CHALLENGE, update on Nawg Joy, TWO Confessions from Joy, and a look at her 6 foot neighbor…. View/Download Newsletter # 9 Click Here
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Wattle Hollow is a relatively small retreat center (40 acres of woodlands on a mountainside in Northwest Arkansas) with capacity for 20 - 25 folks.