Kintsugi for New Year’s Eve: Following the Golden Thread
With Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW, Eric Archer, and Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee
December 30, 2024 - January 1, 2025
AN IN PERSON RETREAT
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
191 Cragsmoor Road, Cragsmoor, New York 12566, USA
What do You
Genuinely
Long For?
There is a universal longing to come into closer alignment with our fundamental wholeness and our inner radiance. This spiritual yen nudges us at the deepest level—like a gravitational force—gently pulling us towards our highest values, towards awakening, towards deeper communion with our own core divinity. By bringing your longing into the light of consciousness, you create a resonance field of possibility.
New Year’s Eve offers a portal into a Sacred Time, a threshold that invites insights and expanded consciousness as energies are heightened.
It is an amplified field where our deepest longings can be revealed, strengthened, and nourished. Welcome 2025 by coming into closer alignment with your fundamental wholeness and your inner radiance, using kintsugi as your path as you explore the pillars that create and nourish a life of passion and purpose.
Throughout this program, each segment of each day will offer a teaching, a practice and a Kintsugi Portion
Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of repair with gold. In the opening ritual, you will break the handmade ceramic bowl you have been gifted. Like a mini alchemical process, you then transform the broken shards into gems as you re-member and re-weave yourself back into wholeness. It is both a symbolic journey and a literal one.
The shards become the metaphorical landscape to reclaim your resiliency and to touch that core place within that has never been broken—your fundamental wholeness. The golden shards become the golden portals… as each shard carries the energy bits of your wholeness and your resiliency.
Through the art and metaphor of the broken bowl, you will identify the core values that comprise a life worth living.
OPEN TO ALL
There are no prerequisites for this program; it is appropriate for all. No art-making experience necessary; all materials will be provided.
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Group size limited to ensure personal access to the teacher
Opportunities to be in community while enjoying silent creative exploration
Group sharing and deepening will be woven into the weekend time together
Seating and walking meditation
Guided visualizations
Spoken Word Sound Bath
Movement and Dance
Option to begin each morning with salutations and silent meditation
Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
Extensive library of dharma books
Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful flora and fauna
Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
