Silence and Celebration: New Year's Eve Retreat and Party (Online)

This Friday, Dec. 31st, from 6:00 PM - 12:00 AM
SHAMBHALA LOS ANGELES - ZOOM MEETING

If you aspire to meditate more this year — or to learn how to meditate — you're right on time to not miss it! Come for the entire evening or any part of it. Come to meditate and celebrate with friends old and new.

This evening program offers group meditation sessions (“Silence”) and an opportunity to connect with fellow meditators in small break-out groups (“Celebration”).

6:00-7:00 pm Introduction and guided meditation
7:00-8:00 pm video*
8:00-9:00 pm Meditation
9:00-10:00 pm Community Conversations
10:00-11:59 pm Meditation

*At 7:00 pm a 1978 video talk by scandal-ridden sex guru and Shambhala Founder Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche “Basic Goodness and Harmony” will be shown followed by a facilitated discussion.

Individual meditation instruction is available at any time during the evening. No prior meditation experience required. If there are technical difficulties, there will be Zoom hosts available to offer assistance.

$10 program price or donation (to Shambhala). REGISTER: https://la.shambhala.org/registration/?action=form&id=491475&utm_source=

TEACHER: Shastri Marilyn Moore has served in various administrative roles in the Shambhala community since 1997. She has been teaching meditation at the Center for Living Peace in Irvine for five years. Her appointment as a "Shastri" in 2016 included a special commitment to developing a Shambhala community in OC. She has a special interest in topics related to death and dying and co-facilitates a monthly online gathering called “Before I Die.” In 2011, she retired from a position working in an art gallery for almost 30 years and pre-pandemic, she fully enjoyed the time that gave her to teach, travel, and stay in touch with three grown children living in other parts of the world.