Interdependence Lab
June 1-24, 2027 | Earthdance, Plainfield, MA
For young adults longing to free the heart,
come home to the body,
and build beloved community.
❋ Insight meditation
The program opens with learning how to rest and receive, then enters a week-long silent Insight meditation retreat. We continue with daily morning and evening meditation practice, taught by experienced and beloved Insight teachers.
❋ Relational practice
Facilitated 1-1, small group and full group authentic relating and mindful communication practices help us speak our truth, listen deeply, and nurture intimate, honest connection. Supported conflict transformation to grow our capacity to meet inevitable relational tension and expand.
❋ Creative expression
Ecstatic dance, contact improv, music jams, poetry — however you connect to creativity, you will find others to play with and share.
❋ Cooperative living and working
We work together collaboratively to care for each other, the space and the earth: cooking, cleaning, and tending the land.
❋ Play on the land
Jump in cold water at the quarry, steam in the sauna, go on a hike. So many ways to play at Earthdance.
At the close of a meditation retreat, someone raises a hand with a question many of us hold: How do I live the dharma — not just on the cushion, but in relationship, in conflict, in the mess of daily life?
Interdependence Lab is our answer — nearly a month living in sangha to deepen our practice on three levels: within ourselves, interpersonally, and communally, with the wider world.
The month begins with remembering how to rest and receive, moves into a more classic silent Insight meditation retreat, then opens to mindful living in community; mornings of silent practice, afternoons of workshops featuring an array of relational practice and creative expression modalities, and evenings of emergence, connection, dance, play. Throughout, the sangha practices ethical, cooperative living with each other and the earth: cooking, cleaning, and tending the land.
Visiting teachers: Chas Dicapua, Kaira Jewel-Lingo; more to be announced.
