This retreat is a continuation of the curriculum from our 7-day Intensive Training in Integral Polarity Practice. Only students who have completed at least one weeklong IPP training and have a consistent personal practice are invited to join.

December 5th-7th, 2024 • Wasatch Retreat Center • Salt Lake City, UT

In the sacred traditions of the world, humans have discovered independently—across time and space—that we are capable of joining ourselves with the Fullness of all that is. Some have called this spiritual reality awakening, others liberation. In the Christian tradition, perhaps surprisingly, a powerful concept pointing to this divine union is at-one-ment.

But how can we translate these beautiful concepts of Oneness into a lived, embodied reality? When we feel separate and estranged from ourselves and the Divine, what can we do to thin the veil and return to a state of Creative Flow and Grace?

Join us this summer in the idyllic, rolling hills of Hillsboro, Oregon at Scholls Valley Lodge, for a deep dive into Integral Polarity Practice (IPP). IPP is a “Mindfulness+”, integrating all of the wisdom of the mindfulness tradition, but evolving it in significant ways. IPP draws from the deep wisdom patterns of Christianity and Buddhism, but also from modern modalities including developmental psychology and Integral Theory.

Integral Polarity Practice (IPP) is designed to support a person in “waking up” and “growing up” as well as in developing a healthy integration of body, emotions, mind, and Spirit. IPP also provides a framework for interrelating and integrating deeper internal awareness with more inspired, passionate, and creative action in the world: “showing up.” It provides strategies for working productively with polarities in relational and organizational settings. In short, IPP is a practice that supports human thriving.

Faith is a kind of free fall. Because we cannot fully know the truth of who we are and what life ultimately means, we must act based on our limited understanding in a spirit of trust. Not knowing exactly how to live our one precious life, at a certain level, terrifies us.

And yet, when we bring our full awareness and open heart to the question of faith, we invariably discover new aspects of the self we did not realize were there—new possibilities in life waiting to be lived. To transcend our limited conception of self and come to express something truer and more beautiful is joy itself.

In this spirit, Lower Lights will host a three-day retreat to explore the soul’s terrain in the company of good friends. Engaging wisdom from both ancient and modern traditions, as well as styles of faith from both East and West, our intention is to live more abundantly and allow something new to be born through us all. 

Though the journey can be harrowing, we trust that Love is ultimately on our side.