Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQIA+ Community

This retreat, the sixth LGBTQIA+ retreat from Gaia House, offers an opportunity to connect with others in ways that embrace our identity. We aspire to create a community of shared intention, acceptance, reflection, and support in which to cultivate mindfulness, embodied kindness, and wisdom. How can the dharma help us to skilfully welcome our identities with care, lightness, and fluidity? What is it to queer the Dharma and what is Dharmic queerness?

The retreat will offer guided practices, movement, small group meetings, and Dharma talks.

We welcome anybody who self-identifies as LGBTQIA+. To support the creation of a diverse and inclusive community, there will be daily opportunities to practise silent meditation in affinity groups for those who identify as BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People, and People of Colour) and those who identify as trans/non-binary/gender-fluid.