Retreats and Events

A Year to Live practice group starting November 19th, 2025.

In September the 2024 YTL (Year to Live)group wraps up.  We practiced this year at Ashtanga Yoga in Cary and it has been a beautiful and insightful time together. 

If you are not familiar with Stephen Levine or A Year to  Live, check out this interview with Stephen explaining it in his own words www.personaltransformation.com/stephen_levine.html 

YTL as we call it is a year long practice (actually 13 months) and exploration about life and death, living and dying. It is a transformative practice that opens the heart in a way only looking at mortality can accomplish.

Each group begins with a short meditation, some thoughts from this month's readings and then each group member can share their experience with the work during the previous month.  If time allows we will meditate again and plan for the next month.  A Whatsapp group will be set up for members to communicate, if they choose, throughout the month.

The new group will be structured a little differently and will meet at Greendoor Vitality in Raleigh, one evening a month, Most months we will meet on the third Wednesday 7 pm 8:30 pm. We will limit the group size to 12 people. There will be a fee for the year of practice which can be broken up into four payments. 

A limited number of scholarships will be available, email me if you want to be a part of this practice group but funds would get in the way of you participating. There are alternate opportunities for dana (generosity) in that case.

The cost for the 13 month group will be $480 and will include a copy of the book.
visit this link www.greendoorvitality.com/index.php/events.html   
  scroll to November 19th to sign up.

I will be making an offering of dana (generosity) to Ondrea Levine, Stephen's widow, https://levinetalks.com in thanks for the ability to practice with this wisdom.  If you are in the position to offer dana to her directly in appreciation I encourage it. She has a gofund me page;

www.gofundme.com/f/help-ondrea-fix-her-solar-system 

Journalling, meditation and other practices will be part of the monthly suggested work,  

Recordings of the guided meditations will be available on this website for use during the practice and beyond.

justsit.raleigh@yahoo.com Please email me with questions. If you are interested in being a part of this year‘s practice, you can also send me an email to save your spot in the group.