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#6 - The Hidden Medicine of Doing Less and Why Retreats Matter
Kelly and Nyssa dive into the topic of retreat, exploring why stepping back from everyday life—especially through silence and meditation—can be so transformative.
Kelly shares stories from her early Zen retreats, including a hilarious (and humanizing) fart-at-the-final-ceremony moment that shattered her assumptions about belonging, and she explains how intensive practice, noble silence, and communal practice shaped her understanding of presence.
She then contrasts group retreats with her recent largely self-directed, partly solitary retreat in Florida and North Carolina, describing how…
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