Wild Garden Meditation (at Retreat House)

Step outside the familiar edges of the domesticated garden and into a quieter, wilder kind of attention. In this guided, contemplative class, participants are invited to wander the grounds of Retreat House as though entering a living sanctuary—one where growth is untamed, beauty is imperfect, and every season has something to teach.

Together we’ll practice slow walking, spacious gazing, and simple sensory meditation: noticing the textures of bark and leaf, the hush between birdsong, the scent of soil, the way light moves across stone. With gentle prompts along the way, you’ll be encouraged to imagine the garden not as something to manage, but as a mirror—reflecting your own cycles of blooming, fading, resting, and renewing.

This is an invitation to release the impulse to prune and perfect. To set down what is controlled and curated. To let the wildness within you emerge—patient, honest, and alive.

Led by Wild Guide: Lil Smith