"The Sacred Pause" Meditation Retreat
Fri, Oct 07
|Vallombrosa Center
A Leadership Meditation Retreat to BE More at Vallombrosa Center


Time & Location
Oct 07, 2022, 1:00 PM PDT – Oct 09, 2022, 1:00 PM PDT
Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
About the Event
My first meditation retreat was a week of silence in 2004. I was exhausted, burnt-out, and overwhelmed with the loudness of life that I thought was normal. I just wanted a moment to “pause” - make the loudness and busyness of my own life stop. My initial draw to the retreat was to stop, to hide, to find an escape. I had no idea that my life - and leadership - would change forever. I had no idea that the foundation of that retreat would anchor me more deeply to myself and a commitment to live a lifestyle with greater presence and authenticity - a life that I would not need to hide or escape from.
I could go on, yet since then, my work and life speak to the power of this practice more fully than I could ever describe here. All because I got quiet, got still, slowed…