Join us for deep dives into meditative, relational, imaginal, and shamanic practice. Strengthen your community skills through intimate economy and the hearth.
The Nectary’s spring schedule includes three potent weekend retreats at The Journey Space in Glen Echo, plus intimate gatherings in DC focused on some of the core issues we face when we build community.
If an event interests you, we encourage you to register early, as space is limited. More events will be added as they are ready!
Trustworthy Ground Together: A Meditation Daylong
Meditation and spiritual practice can be deeply nourishing and relational. Led by Mitra Peter Park, a monastic of seven years, founder of multiple intentional communities, and meditation teacher, this daylong retreat explores relational, embodied meditation rooted in safety and belonging in ourselves and with each other.
The Art of Economying: A Dinner Party
In an age of billionaire overlords and exponential global consumption, what is economic choice and does it even matter anymore? Join the BioFi Project and The Nectary for an evening of shared inquiry and imagination, exploring the surprising powers and mysterious beauty of community economics.
Catalyzing the Vow Field: Imaginal Practice for a Second Renaissance
Modern culture has largely lost touch with soul-focused practices intended to clarify our Vow, such as vision quests and other initiation rituals. This retreat — led by poet, scholar, psychotherapist, and imaginal practitioner Sam Hinds — will support us to connect to our Vows and to the greater whole to which we all belong, humbly serving cultural transformation and restoration.
Building a Second Body: Practicing with Gurdjieff in a Time-Between-Worlds
Led by spiritual teacher, philosopher, and cultural activist Layman Pascal, this intensive seminar is for metamodern philosophers, we-space practitioners, spiritual innovators, and shamanoids of all kinds.
Lyric // Attunement
A weekend-long meditative conversation in the lineage of Circling. We will use a musical motif to help organize the myriad relational formations that emerge when the simplicity of being meets the complexity of collective becoming.
Matters of the Hearth: A Gathering
Join us for a culminating celebration of our time together at The Nectary as we explore matters of the hearth – the ancient practice of tending the collective field with presence, care, and intention.
A Celebration of Gift, Shared Risk, & Song
At this celebration, we warmly invite you to experience and shape The Nectary’s culture and practices of interdependence. We invite you to bring your gifts, your needs, and your soul’s longing for a world of relational depth and care. The night will include a tour of The Nectary and its micro-economy, a joyfully offered feast, a living room concert, and a pop-up free store & fruit stand.
Moving from a Deeper Ground: An Evening with Geoff Fitch and Abigail Lynam
What might leadership look like in this time between worlds? Join us for a contemplative-relational workshop with Geoff and Abigail — our teachers, mentors, and senior faculty at Pacific Integral.
Communal Reverie: Tending the Central Fire
A daylong imaginal practice workshop with Sam Hinds. A practice in collective imaginal attunement, and an experiment in stoking shared desire’s subtle resonance.
Pattern Foraging with Xavier Snelgrove
How can we ethically forage patterns from nature?
We will lead an interactive nature immersion, with guided contemplation on the unity of concept, perception, and world.
following the questions (a circling integration container) with Garrett Jones
What is happening when we circle? This event is for those who want to come together to hold unanswered and unanswerable questions.
Lyric Attunement with Dechen, Tara, Garrett and Tyler
Join us — a quartet of devoted Circlers, artists, and friends — for a day of relational practice inspired by the lyric sensibility.
Oracular Bodies with Cheryl Hsu
Oracular Bodies is an intimate gathering of nourishing and listening to the oracular within and between. It will be led by Cheryl Hsu in collaboration with Sabra Saperstein, Garrett Jones, and Tara Dougans.