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Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community

This retreat, the fifth LGBTQI+ retreat from Gaia House, offers an opportunity to connect with others in ways that affirm our identity as a community of shared intention and practice, allowing us to make greater peace with ourselves and our lives, and to grow our capacity for freedom. We aspire to co-create a space of acceptance, reflection and support in which to cultivate mindfulness, embodied kindness and wisdom through meditation.

The retreat offers guided sitting and walking practices, movement, small groups, dharma talks, and Q&A sessions.

We welcome anybody who self-identifies as LGBTQI+. Our intention is to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive community, and we aim to make the retreat as accessible and welcoming as possible. To support this, there are optional affinity sessions for those who identify as BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People, and People of Colour), and for those who identify as trans/non-binary/gender-fluid.

2025-07-23 (5 days) Gaia House

  
2025-07-24 The Metaphors of Meditation 45:08
Bernat Font
This recording also includes walking meditation instructions from River Wolton.
2025-07-24 For Nothing is Fixed 46:15
River Wolton
Simultaneity of lived experience and anattā.
2025-07-25 Holding Thoughts Lightly 45:58
River Wolton
Caring for the retreat container in the service of steadiness and insight; two kinds of thinking; developing a toolbox for training the mind.
2025-07-25 Cultivating Seeds of Friendliness 38:35
River Wolton
Guided mettā meditation.
2025-07-25 On Stream-Entry and How to Climb a Ladder 50:25
Bernat Font
Stream-entry not as an attainment but an image of the committed practitioner; reflections on identity view - sakkāyadiṭṭhi.
2025-07-26 Instructions for the Last Full Day of Retreat 44:32
Bernat Font
2025-07-26 Fearless Joy 35:40
River Wolton
Guided meditation.
2025-07-26 Riffing on Mettā 49:44
Bernat Font, River Wolton
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