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Stillness Comes Easier Together: A daylong meditation retreat — no efforting required.

Stillness Comes Easier Together:
A daylong meditation retreat — no efforting required.

March 28, 2026 // 10am-6pm // Journey Space in Glen Echo, MD
Led by Mitra Peter Park, in collaboration with Dechen Ellen McSweeney and The Nectary
Registration fee $120 // Register here // Dana will be invited at the end of retreat

Join us for a day-long meditation retreat focused on deepening safety via relationship. 

The premise is simple: many of us carry a background hum of anxiety, loneliness, and self-doubt. Because of this, the turn toward presence and direct experience can be very activating. It doesn’t help that meditation is often taught through willpower, forcing, or dissociation.

This retreat takes a different approach.

The first priority is creating genuine safety, trust, and attunement with skilled facilitators. From that deep relational safety, from a foundation of secure attachment rather than effortful striving, we can settle into presence naturally. Melting rather than forcing.

We’ll have several skilled facilitators available to provide quick support to answer questions, provide care, and hold space.

No prior retreat or meditation experience is needed. Everything is optional.

This Workshop Is For You If

  • You’ve tried to meditate before but always found it too boring, hard, or causing tension.

  • You’re a busy professional and want to taste the benefits of meditation immediately rather than spending days in silence.

  • You’re a experienced meditator but looking to bridge mindful presence more into relationship.

  • You’re an experienced meditator who wants to relax into awakened awareness rather than forcing yourself to concentrate.

  • You want to bridge the worlds of sacredness and world, the solitary and the social.

  • You want to feel safe and relaxed in your body while being with others.

  • You want to experience the harmony of truth and love.

This retreat is an opportunity to realize those intentions into your actual experience. You’ll practice resting in radical presence while being connected with others.

What we’ll explore

  • Body alignment to allow a sense of safety and ease in the body.

  • How to stay bright and relaxed at the same time.

  • How to dissolve the hard boundaries of inside and outside, like sinking into a bath tub.

  • Learning how to receive support and care

  • Relaxing the need to control and maange and trust in the natural unfolding of life.

What you might experience

Unlike traditional practices, our retreat will be much more relational and embodied. The day will include:

  • Sitting practice emphasizing safety, belonging, and loving awareness

  • Movement expression practices for the body to be alive

  • Social meditations in small groups

  • Partner meditation practices

  • One-on-one practice coaching with skilled facilitators

About Mitra

Mitra Peter Park has over twenty years of contemplative study and practice. He holds a BA in Religious Studies and an MA in Comparative Philosophy, and trained full-time for seven years in a modern monastery.

In 2017, Mitra was authorized to teach within his monastic community and the wider public. His training includes three extended solo retreats of 10–12 weeks each.

Alongside meditation teaching, Mitra is a community weaver who founded the Boston Dharma House and helped establish the Asheville Hearth community.

Mitra has trained in Levels 1 and 2 of the Aletheia Unfolding method, has co-taught retreats with meditation master, Shinzen Young, and facilitates a weekly relational practice circle through Relateful.com. He also teaches in Boundless Refuge’s three-month Spring retreat.

Logistics

  • Carpool signup will be available

  • We’ll have a lunch break of around 90 minutes

  • Send any questions to retreat@peterxpark.com

  • At the end of the retreat, if you’re unhappy with your experience, reach out for a full refund mins registration fees.

Register here.

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