A Work That Reconnects retreat

Boundless in Motion is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and a trauma-informed meditation community based in Boulder (Colorado). We are building a spiritually rooted movement towards climate action, racial equity and respect for all life on our planet. Our May 2025 healing retreat will be hosted in collaboration with our dear friend and collaborator Deborah Eden Tull.

Eihei Dogen, the twelfth-century founder of Soto Zen, referred to meditation as a “Returning to Source.” Join Kritee and Eden, two Zen teachers and climate educators in the Rocky mountains of Colorado for a “Work That Reconnects” retreat held in a silent container in which we return to source together through meditation, embodied inquiry, nature kinship practices, relational mindfulness, and rituals from the Work That Reconnects. Resting in compassionate awareness, and listening deeply to the wilderness, within and out, we will restore our connection to source, our original consciousness, as the ground of equanimity, compassionate action, non-duality, kinship, and conscious response to the polycrisis we face today.

You feel burnt out and/or overwhelmed and need to recharge in an emotionally safe space in the mountains of Colorado where we gently witness and honor each other’s experience? You recognize that everything in this world is imbued with intelligence and sentience and that we belong to this intelligent web of life? You want to support embodied changemaking in response to the polycrisis we face today? Please come join us at the stunningly pristine and healing Rocky Mountain Ecodharma retreat center (RMERC) for a Work That Reconnects retreat held in a silent container designed for empowering anyone who cares about healing and belonging. You could be a mother, community organizer, healer, educator, activist, artist, scientist, journalist, lawyer, author or storyteller working.

No prior experience is necessary. All are welcome! Space is limited to an intimate group.

Venue & Dates

Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center (RMERC)
May 19 – May 25, 2025

With Dharma teachers and guest facilitators

— Deborah Eden Tull, Author, Dharma teacher, WTR facilitator and spiritual activist
— Kritee (Kanko), Zen teacher, Grief-ritual leader, Climate Scientist, Co-founder of BIM and RMERCExplore Kritee’s (Eco)Dharma teachings and articles

Schedule

Each day will include healing, belonging and kinning practices, i.e., silent seated and walking meditation, outdoor walking, rituals/ceremonies and relational practices in small groups or dyads and dharma talks by the teachers.  These sessions will discuss how our bodies store and remember stresses, how can we express and release these stresses through movement, meditation, rituals, and group-work. We will also engage in ceremonial practices that tap into our gratitude, express grief, anger, despair, fear and inspire actions. Please see a draft schedule here. 

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Testimonials

— This (retreat with Kritee) was an extremely healing, challenging, beautiful, transformative experience. You all have given such profound gift to all of us participants in this retreat. Your love will ripple out into the world through us. Grief ceremony gave me release like I have never experienced before. (Benjamin P. Finegan, Climate and Housing justice advocate, Montana)

— Having attended both silent and other Plum village retreats, I found the retreat to be particularly well suited to meet the needs of modern lay people facing polycrisis in a way that other retreats normally don’t. Weaving in of Buddhist practice with trauma care, nature spirit connections, ancestral energies in the very real context of polycrisis that disproportionately impacts people of color….. I found the SOLO in nature to be very profound. Rare it is to be alone in nature for long periods of time where we can really begin to connect with ourselves, land and ancestors (with Bianca), giving us a snippet on the Buddha’s journey to Enlightenment sitting alone under the Bodhi tree. The grief circle was also really powerful and necessary given all the unprocessed grief we hold in a world where our pain is denied and we are taught that if we are upset, it is because something is wrong with us and we need to handle it alone. Kritee is possibly one of the best facilitators and teacher for people of color grappling with the polycrisis that I have seen. The love, grace, skillfulness, and the Saturn (discipline) energy she led with was phenomenal. Imtiaz was delightful grounding (like a solid tree we can lean on) and nourishing energy.  (Sandra Kim, Korean Shaman-priest & Qi Gong practitioner, Colorado)

— Most transformational aspects of the retreat were: Building a solid container of trust and safety, the elaborate and heartfelt rituals and ceremonies (especially the grief ceremony), the kind and thoughtful attention to somatic and metta (loving kindness) practices, amazing food and PLAY TIME (From Dr. Karthik Kashinath, Scientist, California)

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