Jess Huon, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne (2025)

18/11/2025

Let’s come together to cultivate our spiritual strength and resistance

So that we can keep sparking and protecting life in these tender and tumultuous times.

Join me for my final retreat of the year, with my friend Ruth Langford - beautiful woman, powerful Indigenous leader.

To light up our inspiration and warm the edges between us… fostering eros and aliveness as we face what’s hard. So that we can resist cycles of inner and outer harm.

Ruth will be joining us fresh from the COP 30 climate conference in Brazil, and I will be emerging from a three-month intensive here in Melbourne/Naarm, teaching on the power of the heart in troubled times.

Details:
Inspiration - Urban Day Retreat
Naarm/Melbourne
7th December 2025

Booking Link in Bio

18/11/2025

* Urban Day Retreat with Ruth Langford*

🔥Do you want to embody what you care about?

🔥Do you want to plug into aliveness and joy, as you face what’s hard?

🔥Do you feel we need more of us standing together?

In these divisive times, let’s come together to awaken our inspiration.

So that we can keep sparking and protecting life.

Let’s resist cycles of inner and outer harm, and light up what helps us stay resourced and connected.

Join me and Indigenous Medicine Practitioner Ruth Langford in a powerful collaboration as we draw wisdom for these times from our Dharma and First Nations lineages.

I know Ruth will have her own things to say - fearless, gutsy leader and activist, as well as artist and cultural woman, about what's needed in our world right now. I'm thrilled to be coming together again.

Book in for our Sunday 7th December Urban Day Retreat in Melbourne / Naarm at the link in bio

📷 Smoking Ceremony at Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival where Ruth Langford is creative director, in Lunawuni/ Bruny Island. Photo by Peter Casamento

14/11/2025

What keeps you going?

It’s easy to lose our eros, our ease of movement, our get up and go, and our capacity to be still and reflect well, when we’re confronted with fear of all that’s troubling.

Yet this is exactly what we need to keep sparking and protecting life.

Eros, beauty, art, spirit strengthening and humour help you stand up, light up your inner fire, and warm the edges between us. Indispensable water for the road!

🐝How can we keep making honey - igniting creativity - in the midst of all we are grappling with - personally and collectively?🐝

Join me and Indigenous Medicine Practitioner Ruth Langford to explore this at our Urban Day Retreat - Out of Isolation - on Sunday 7th December.

☝🏼Booking link in bio.

📷 Honey Bees on Wurundjeri County by Peter Casamento

24/10/2025

I’m thinking about counting blessings. Working with the freedom we have, with our hearts. Taking it deeper. Whilst I can. Whilst we can.

Let us live.

Recently I came out of immersion in this year's round of The Collective Well to offer Breathing as Neighbours - an afternoon of kindness, amidst the heat of the times.

Knowing these times are impacting us all, differently, unevenly, but none of us escape them.

I keep wondering, how might we foster, plant good seeds, now, here. . .?

I have one last Urban Day Retreat this year open to every-one, with my friend, Ruth Langford - beautiful woman, powerful Indigenous leader. To shake us open into connected and fresher modes of being and doing, out of isolation….

Together we can foster eros, aliveness, as we face what's hard.

Join us to cultivate regenerative seeds - growing corridors of aliveness that can flow within and through the body - and beyond.

Not to exit. But to enter and act from a deeper place.

🌱Sunday 7th December, Augustine Hall, Naarm/ Melbourne

👆🏼Bookings at link in bio

📷 1 - Ruth Langford and Jess at their first retreat together in Abbotsford Convent
📷 2 - Ruth Langford
📷 3 - Jess Huon

08/10/2025

Save the date for an Urban Day Retreat with Indigenous medicine practitioner, song woman and Storyteller Ruth Langford, and Dharma teacher and writer Jess Huon.

Join Ruth and Jess for another powerful collaboration - Ruth from her First Nations lens, Jess from her Dharma lens.

To shake us open into connected and fresher ways of being and doing. Out of isolation - into an alive and responsive flow.

🌊 Perhaps we’ve got more capacity in us than we sometimes think. 🌊

Bookings opening soon!

Details:

When: Sunday 7th December
Where: Augustine Hall, Hawthorn (Naarm/ Melbourne)
Time: 9:30 - 5pm
Cost: $80 + Dana (donation) for Ruth and Jess's teaching

17/09/2025

Everyone welcome to Breathing as Neighbours.

An afternoon of Metta (loving kindness) practice and listening circles in Melbourne/Narrm, to meet ourselves meet the times. Saturday 20th Sept, Ceres, Brunswick.

Link in bio above. We’d love to see you. Let’s circle up together.

15/09/2025

Everybody welcome… activists, professionals, parents, the exhausted, burnt out, the inspired…to this afternoon of Metta (loving kindness practice) and listening circles, to meet ourselves and the times.

Do you want to cultivate a refuge in your body - a visceral, spiritual home - to support you to respond honestly and congruently to life?

When everything feels so urgent, it can almost feel shameful to stop, to pause...

Yet we need this deeper pulse of connection, this sustaining tap root to inspiration.

So that we can resist, as the Buddha said, spiraling down and around cycles of harm.

Together, through an afternoon of metta (loving-kindness) practices we ‘warm the ground’ by sitting with the people directly in front of us, within the spaces between us… seeing what emerges together.

Space for quiet and space for utterances - personal experience, what’s happening right now - in your body, your home, and also our broader context.

Together, how might we make room for our differing or colliding views - whilst at the same time also settling and being nourished by a deeper dreaming that practice points us towards?

To cultivate regenerative seeds - growing corridors of aliveness that can flow within and through the body - and beyond.

Not to exit. But to enter and act from a deeper place.

Let’s gather to be nourished by a day of metta. This starts with you - as we resource ourselves, we can become a resource for others.

12/09/2025

...When everything feels so urgent it can almost feel shameful to stop, to pause. . .

🌿 Yet we need this deeper pulse of connection that can emerge when we slow down, even for a moment - this sustaining tap root to inspiration. 🌿

It’s quite rebellious to actually like yourself in a culture that can gain from your sense of lack.

Let’s take the power back. So that we can resist, as the Buddha said, spiraling down and around cycles of harm..…

Every-one welcome for an afternoon of metta (loving-kindness) practices, where we will pause and ‘warm the ground’ by sitting with the people directly in front of us, within the spaces between us… seeing what emerges together.

Space for quiet and space for utterances - personal experience, what’s happening right now - in your body, your home, and also our broader world context.

Breathing as Neighbours - Sat 20th Sept, 1-5pm, Ceres, Brunswick. Booking link in bio above.

12/09/2025

I’m deep in the process of writing talks for The Collective Well - Heart. We’re a month into this intensive program, and I’ll be emerging out to teach more on the heart next Saturday 20th Sept - an afternoon of metta practice with Melbourne Insight Meditation.

Really looking forward to being in person, anyone in the neighbourhood or beyond is welcome, come on down.

Breathing as Neighbours:

Location: The Learning Centre, Ceres Environment park, Roberts st, East Brunswick

Date & Time: 1-5pm, Saturday 20th September

Cost: $50 + Dana for teaching

👆🏼Book via link in bio

10/09/2025

You are warmly invited to Breathing as Neighbours - an afternoon of metta (loving-kindness) practice and listening circles, to meet ourselves and the times.

Sat 20th Sept, 1-5pm, Ceres, East Brunswick.

Do you want to cultivate a refuge in your body - a visceral, spiritual home - to stay alive to what matters to you, even when the heat is on?

When everything feels so urgent, it can almost feel shameful to stop, to pause - to gently lay your hand on the ground, on the trunk of an old gum, on yourself or on another.

🌿 Yet we need this deeper pulse of connection, this sustaining tap root to inspiration. 🌿

So that we can resist, as the Buddha said, spiraling down and around cycles of harm, fuelled by aggression, greed and delusion…

Join us for an afternoon of metta (loving-kindness) practices, where we will ‘warm the ground’ by sitting with the people directly in front of us, within the spaces between us… seeing what emerges together.

Space for quiet and space for utterances - personal experience, what's happening right now - in your body, your home, and also our broader context - these escalating world events.

Everybody welcome - activists, professionals, parents, the exhausted, the burnt out, the inspired…

Let’s gather to be nourished by a day of metta. This starts with you - as we resource ourselves, we can become a resource for others.

Details:

Location: The Learning Centre, Ceres Environment park, Roberts st, East Brunswick

Date & Time: 1-5pm, Saturday 20th September

Cost: $50 + Dana for teaching

👆🏼Booking via link in bio

29/08/2025

We are excited to have some dates in the diary for upcoming retreats!

A series of urban day retreats in Melbourne, and a Women’s Retreat on the Great Ocean Road.

Bookings will be coming soon.

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