Wattle Hollow Schedule SUMMER/FALL 2024 **
Welcome dear yogis! Joy will be on her own silent solo retreat for forty days in August and September. (She will still receive text messages and email letters, albeit not every day) —————————————————————————————- Following is the upcoming Summer & Fall listing of events: ** WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS AND FULL EMBRACE OF “ANNICCA”, THE BUDDHIST DOCTRINE ACKNOWLEDGING THE...
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August – September 10, 2024 Joy will be on her own silent solo retreat for forty days in August and September. (She will still receive text messages and email letters, albeit not every day)
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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 / RegisterDharma Day July 21
Sunday, July 21, 2024 (10 a.m. – 4 p.m.) THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL, and a waiting list has begun! 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...
READ MORE / RegisterDharma Day September 15
Sunday, September 15, 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 accepted....
READ MORE / RegisterDharma Day Sept 28
Saturday, September 28, 2024 (10 a.m. – 4 p.m.) 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...
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OCTOBER 4-6 , 2024 I’ve lost track of the number of fabulous weekends (29, maybe?) during which we have seen our “inner children” run free of their boundaries in a joyful exploration of what is possible, musically and creatively. Our amazing and talented guides are Jack Williams and Still on the Hill musicians, Donna and Kelly Mulholland. It feels like a family reunion, and the newest members are lovingly absorbed right away. The Songwriters’Creativity retreats are now scaled down in size to enrich our experience and minimize crowding. These...
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10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, October 19, 2024 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...
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November 1 – 3 (Fri 6:00 pm – Sun 2:00 pm) We are again quite fortunate to lure the amazing Mark Cain away from his extremely busy farm schedule to join us for this event, and to share his grace as a yogi-meditator. He and I will co-teach and guide you. This event has happened annually every year for (about?) seventeen years, minus the pandemic one year. This is a deeper dive into the possibilities of witnessing our meditative focus and offering the mind and body a veritable “brainwash.” No particular expertise is required for...
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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...
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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
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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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This newsletter from Joy comes after several days at the south campus of SDS, a three-hour drive from Bangkok. To Read/Download the full newsletter #8 (pdf) Click Here hanging out with my tribe of Karin teenagers, the fifteen local village kids who chose to come live here several years ago When I indicated that I wanted to help plant the cosmos, for example, they quickly: *dug the holes *piled up dirt all around the holes *placed the plants in each hole Then invited me to push the dirt over the plants…. Our classes are festivals of happiness...
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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.