Life Is A Beautiful Mess: A Heart Refuge Day Long Retreat for BIPOC

Life is a Beautiful Mess invites us into a tender, honest embrace of the full human experience: its joy and sorrow, clarity and confusion, peace and chaos. In a world that often demands perfection and certainty, this mindfulness retreat offers a sacred space to rest in the truth of impermanence and the beauty of imperfection. Through guided meditation, embodied awareness, and heartfelt community, we will gently explore how to meet life as it is, without judgment, without needing to fix, trusting that even in the mess there is meaning, wisdom, and belonging. This retreat is an invitation to come home to yourself, just as you are.

Facilitated by Rashid Hughes and Mama Ayesha Ali, this Heart Refuge gathering invites you into practices that center the body, nourish the nervous system, and awaken the heart. Through guided meditation, sound healing, sacred reflections, mindful movement, and circle sharing, we will explore how awareness begins with deep connection to ourselves, and how, from that rooted presence, we begin to feel into our greater interconnectedness.

This retreat is grounded in the truth that mindfulness does not elevate us out of our humanity, it brings us into a loving relationship with it. Belonging is not something we earn through perfection or performance. It is a courageous practice of choosing ourselves, choosing each other, and choosing to be here, as we are.

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