Spring Practice Period 2025
Awakening
The Heart of Compassion
with Ekai Joel Kreisberg
May 18th, 2025
Sunday, 9:00 am ET - 5:00 pm ET
Online
Our closing retreat for the Spring Practice Period 2025 - Faces of Compassion will focus on cultivating empathy and compassion.
To do this we will work with Sustainable Compassion Training, a method that helps us realize the power of unconditional care from within. This work is deeply healing by supporting us becoming more present to ourselves and others. We all need to experience how it feels to be held in love and compassion. From this, we can extend love and compassion to others, We will become fully present to our feelings in order to become fully present to others with kindness.
This retreat is based on the teaching of John Makransky called Sustainable Compassion. His teachings can be found in his book.
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Financial assistance is available to participants exhibiting financial need. To apply please fill out the scholarship application below, along with the refundable deposit.
Please note that Shining Bright Lotus aims to make our offerings financially accessible, we are unable to provide full scholarships for our programs and retreats.
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“I was pleasantly surprised with this retreat. I did not expect to get as much information and yet, it completely dovetailed with the experiential meditations. Ekai is masterful at explaining it all in ways that I will remember for a long time!”
About Ekai Joel Kreisberg
About Ekai Joel Kreisberg
Ekai continues to evolve his practice to incorporate a variety of Buddhist wisdom in his teachings. His commitment to compassionate action keeps offering endless opportunties for learning and growth.
Program Schedule (All Times in ET)
Sunday May 18th
9:00 – 9:30 am Check In & Orientation
9:30 – 9:55 am Morning Service
9:55 – 10:00 am Break
10:00 – 10:30 am Field of Care Meditation
10:30 – 11:00 am Discussion
11:00 - 11:05 am Break
11:05 -11:30 am Deepening Receptivity to Love
11:30 – 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 – 1:30 pm Break - Return to our seats 1:25
1:30 – 2:00 pm Meditation - Letting It Be
2:00 - 2:15 pm Small Group Discussion
2:15 - 2:30 pm Full Group Discussion
2:30 - 2:50 pm Embodiment
2:50 - 3:00 pm Break
3:00 – 3:30 pm Meditation
3:30 – 4:20 pm Discussion
4:20 – 4:45 pm Meditation
4:45 - 5:00 pm Closing Service and Check In
“Pure perception, then doesn’t just view others in their basic goodness; it reflects their goodness back at them, helping them become newly conscious of it.”