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<div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This coming Thursday is the next 3 hour retreat offered by the Kintsugi Sangha. </div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Please arrive between 5:30 and 6PM the<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">retreat</span><span> </span>begins at 6PM (normal sangha meeting starts at 6:30PM)</div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The evening will be a brief check-in with last minute instructions then alternating periods of sitting (about 20 minutes) and walking (about 10 minutes) just like we do on a normal Thursday night. There will be a break in the middle for some Qi Gong and yoga to loosen up your body and get the blood flowing again. We will conclude shortly before 9PM with a brief checkout.</div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">After the check in the rest of the evening will be essential silence..... speak only to share important data, no please and thank you's, no questions, nothing extraneous. A<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">retreat</span><span> </span>is a solo exoerience done in a group setting.</div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Please wear loose fitting comfortable clothes preferrably black, grey or dark in color without logos or pattern. This paying attention to nothing is difficult enough, looking at logos and bright prints adds to the distractions which are already so plentiful.</div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If you've never attend a<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">retreat</span><span> </span>please consider it. They are a good way to get to a deeper level of awareness and understanding. </div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hope to see you there July 12th</div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Regards</div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Erich</div>

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