A daywander is a daylong solo nature experience held by community. It is a wilderness meditation. It is a place of slowing down, of being with nature and being with yourself.

More concretely, a daywander is a solo experience in which you spend time alone in the wilderness from sunrise to sunset. That time is bookended by time spent in the community of fellow participants and with the holding help of your guides, so that the lessons that you learn on the land can be witnessed by community, and brought forth into your everyday life.

A daywander is a fast— you will be fasting from human contact, from rooms and walls and couches, from familiarity, from the ping of your phone, and perhaps from food. You will be stripping away all these potential distractions in order to arrive at the heart of yourself. To slow down and tap into the embodied knowing that lives deep in your gut-heart.

Logistics

Participant Requirements:
This program is open only to 90 day Rains Retreatants from Deer Park Monastery

Program Dates:
January 15th to 17th

Arrival will be 1 pm on January 15th
Departure will be 11:00 on January 17th

Program Location:
Anza Borrego Desert, Calfornia
An hour or so east of San Diego

Program Guide:
Tonks