Loving Kindness 2023
a compassion-based meditation retreat
August 3-6
To reserve your space, text or call 812.653.6615
A mindful mix of meditation sessions,
exploration of nature,
and community building.
Metta, often translated as Lovingkindness, is one of the Four Boundless Hearts from within the Buddhist traditions. Over the course of this very special weekend, our facilitator Christopher Luard will guide participants through a series of sessions in which we will work to cultivate a boundless of kindness, friendliness, and care. In drawing on the meditation techniques found in the Secular Buddhist traditions, neuroscience and psychology, this retreat will bring its participants to experience their circle of kindness and care widening gradually to include all beings everywhere. Katarina Svabcikova will be leading sessions of her unique brand of yoga that will help bring the work being done in the mind and heart together in the body.
Retreat Sessions include a variety of guided meditations, Q&A, yoga, and interactive discussions with retreat participants.
A variety of stay arrangements can be made from our private suites to treehouse elegance to forest cabana style. Meals and all scheduled activities included in weekend package purchase (pricing below). All facilities will have access to our outdoor showerhouse, rooftop bathtub, hiking, and swimming hole.
Come center yourself for a weekend and sink into the energy of Loving Kindness
Your facilitators:
Christopher Luard of
Such Sweet Thunder
Chris Luard has been practicing meditation for nearly 4 decades and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. Chris has received formal training in Zen, Mahamudra and Dzogchen, from the Mahayana (Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan) traditions, Vipassana and early Buddhist studies from the Theravada traditions, and Vedanta from the Hindu traditions. In addition to this Chris has received formal instruction from the more modern traditions and modalities such as Secular Buddhism, MBSR, Insight, Buddhist Psychology, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Neuroplasticity, Non-Violent Communication, and Trauma Healing.
Katarina Svabcikova
Yoga Therapist | Yoga Teacher e-RYT500 | YACEP
Katarina has been practicing yoga for 11 years and teaches yoga since 2017. Most recently, she started working as a Yoga Therapist supporting oncology patients at the IU Health Hospital as well as the Indianapolis Trauma Therapy Center supporting clients with traumatic experiences. In addition, she co-leads a 200h Yoga Teacher Training and is a director of a 50h Yin Yoga Teacher Training. Katarina’s personal experience of trauma led her to passionately study the topics of healing, trauma, PTSD, neuroscience, and somatic vagus nerve regulation. Katarina found yoga to be an abundant source of healing, deepening her trust, compassion, forgiveness, and grace.
“My personal yoga practice is the practice of my heart because yoga allows me to be who I truly am. To me, yoga is a tool through which I can connect to my body, mind, heart and spirit. It is a tool that reminds me that courage, strength, compassion, kindness, and love are all so inherent in all of us. It is a practice of learning how I want to show up for myself and the people around me.”
Pricing:
The Pop Top
Our signature treehouse
All 3 nights
1 Full size bed
All meals included
$625
The Roost
(Sold out)
Upstairs suite
All 3 nights
1 Queen bed
1 King bed (Bird’s nest)
Extra living quarters
All meals included
$600
The River Bed
(Sold out)
Private location
Attached to our library
12 foot family bed
All 3 nights
On the Lost River itself
All meals included
$575
Forest Nest
(1 left)
Screened forest cabana
Power and ceiling fan
Each has an Individual personality
All 3 nights
All meals included
Full size: $300
King size: $350
Camping
All 3 nights
Pop-up campsite along the Sweet Arrow Trail
Access to all LRH grounds and facilites
All meals included
$125/person