2 EVENTS LEFT!!
Both in Nashville, TN
Note: Each event will offer different talks and meditations.
You are welcome to attend just one or to attend multiple events as a series.
All events will have a book signing.
The Heart of All Healing and Awakening
Joining Buddhist Meditation with the Internal Family Systems Model
A Daylong Retreat
Saturday, March 15th, 10am–5pm CST
Wild Heart Meditation | Nashville, TN
“Self energy, buddha nature, the open-hearted state, Source, Love—pick a term that sits well with you. Whatever you call your basic nature, it’s already here. The search is over. Go inside and get started. Plant your seeds and tend your river from this place. This is the spirituality of healing our lives—of outshining trauma.”
—Ralph De La Rosa, Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Self-Compassion
The Buddha taught that radical compassion is synonymous with full awakening, and that one must begin with compassion for oneself. Compassion is a healer, an alchemical force, a grossly underestimated state of heart and mind. Self-compassion could heal every part of you if stayed with long enough. Self-compassion opens the door to the deepest of insights.
This daylong is a primer in how to open to this presence in meditation and extend it towards parts of the psyche stuck on the treadmill of affliction. Utilizing the integration of Buddhism and the Internal Family Systems model presented in Ralph De La Rosa’s new book Outshining Trauma (foreword by Richard Schwartz), this daylong retreat will offer you:
Teachings from the Buddhist Lojong
A crash course in IFS and why it compliments the Dharma so well
Breath techniques for opening space in the heart-mind
Meditations for directly experiencing of buddha nature
Meditations for extending self-compassion to parts of the psyche caught in affliction
Self-Compassion and Empowerment
Book Launch, Breathwork, and Sound Bath
with Ralph De La Rosa and Ann Sensing
Sunday, March 16th, 2pm-4pm CST
Sound Mind ± Body | Nashville, TN
“Because you were born, so much is possible: Healing is possible. Transformation is possible. Awakening is possible. Buddhahood is possible. Developing the altruistic courage to positively impact countless lives is possible. The confounding problems and worldly B.S. you so often wrestle with do not delete these truths. It also doesn’t matter what you believe about yourself or what you’re worth. These truths remain valid and will keep on being so regardless. What you struggle with on the surface pales in comparison to the vastness of who you truly are underneath it all.”
—Ralph De La Rosa, Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Self-Compassion
Join us for a unique two-part experience. Visiting teacher Ralph De La Rosa will hold space for meditation and discuss insights from his new book Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Self-Compassion. Then, immerse yourself in powerful shamanic breathwork in tandem with a regenerative soundbath offered by Ralph and Ann Sensing together.
This will be an invitation to deepen your awareness and access to self-compassion, release stored emotions and wounds from the body, and lay claim to your natural power as a heartful human in a chaotic world.