​Key Info

• ​This offering is for Saturday, April 18 from 9:30 - 4:00 p.m. PT

• ​This is a daylong at home retreat for folks of all levels of practice and will be facilitated over Zoom.

• ​Registration for this event will close on Friday, April 17th.

• ​This offering is shared shared on a tired based contribution scale to support some compensation to teachers and SMS' operational costs. There will be an opportunity to give dana and additional support to the teachers at the end of the offering.

• ​This offering will be recorded and recordings will be shared with registered participants.

​Offering Description

​Many of us have been taught to rely primarily on thinking to understand our lives. Yet human beings have always known through many channels — body sensation, emotional resonance, intuition, relationship, and contemplative awareness.

​In this daylong retreat, we will explore diverse ways of knowing through meditation, guided reflection, embodied awareness, and relational inquiry. Drawing from Buddhist insight practice, somatic awareness, and relational wisdom traditions, we will gently investigate how clarity arises and how certain ways of knowing may be strengthened, silenced, or overlooked in our lives.

​Together we will explore:

• ​The difference between conceptual knowing and direct experience

• ​How the body and nervous system participate in wisdom

• ​The role of emotion and intuition in insight

• ​How relationship and community shape understanding

• ​How contemplative practice supports trustworthy knowing

​This retreat is suitable for both new and experienced meditators. The day will include periods of silence, guided practice, reflection, optional journaling and group sharing.

​Participants will be guided and invited to: 

• ​Develop awareness of multiple ways of knowing

• ​Recognize their own knowing strengths and blind spots

• ​Deepen embodied awareness and knowing

• ​Explore how wisdom emerges relationally and ethically

• ​Learn practices to support decision-making and discernment

​Facilitators

​Janka Livoncova (she/her) is an Insight Meditation Teacher and Somatic Movement Educator. She has been practicing and studying the dharma for over three decades. Initially in the Soto Zen tradition and, since 2010, under the guidance of her Vipassana mentors Kittisaro and Thanissara. Janka is the guiding teacher for Chattanooga Insight Meditation Community and core teacher for Sacred Mountain Sangha.

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​Adam Stonebraker (he/him) has studied and practiced Buddhism and Yoga for over two decades and began teaching in 2010. Dedicated to sharing ancient spiritual teachings to support others in realizing their true nature, he is the guiding teacher at Mountain Stream and a core teacher at Sacred Mountain Sangha. He believes that through diligence, consistency, and deep love, we can cultivate unwavering peace—both within ourselves and in the world—as we deepen our confidence in our interconnectedness with all that is.