Return to Source: An Ecodharma Retreat for Changemakers

Sep 28, 2026 - Oct 04, 2026

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  • Deborah Eden Tull
    Deborah Eden Tull Co-Leader
    Deborah Eden Tull
    Deborah Eden Tull
    Co-Leader

    Deborah Eden Tull, founder of the nonprofit Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation/mindfulness teacher, author, and spiritual activist. She spent seven years as a monastic at a silent Zen Monastery and has been immersed in sustainable communities for 25 years. Eden’s teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, non-duality, mindful inquiry, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation. She teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world. She also facilitates The Work That Reconnects, as created by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy. Eden has been practicing meditation for the past 30 years and teaching for over 20 years.

    Her books include Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown (Shambhala 2022), Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Our Self, Each Other, and Our Planet (Wisdom 2018), and The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution (Process Media 2011). She lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina, Cherokee land, and offers retreats, workshops, leadership training, and consultations internationally.

  • Kritee Kanko
    Kritee Kanko Co-Leader
    Kritee Kanko
    Kritee Kanko
    Co-Leader

    Kritee (dharma name Kanko) is a Climate Scientist, Buddhist Zen priest, Educator & Founding Spiritual teacher of Boundless in Motion. She is an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. She has served as faculty for courses or retreats at the intersection of climate crisis, racial justice, trauma healing and spirituality for many organizations including One Earth Sangha, Al Gore’s Climate Reality, Stanford University, World Council of Churches, San Francisco Zen Center, Mind & Life Institute and Lama Foundation. She has served as a leading scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund for 12 years.

    Kritee‘s experience is that identifying and releasing our personal and ecological grief in presence of a loving community is necessary; that helps us unlock our gifts and serve our communities. Her articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, BBC, Washington Post, Harvard Health, Yale Climate Connections, California Public Radio. Please see her personal website here.

Return to Source 2026
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Today, as we face so much accelerated and multi-faceted change, we are each called to serve what we love and what we want to protect from the deepest parts of our being. Cultivating regenerative change in service to life and its polycrises requires resourcing. It requires us to embody our meditation practice and earth connection in order to nourish our resiliency.

Eihei Dogen, the twelfth-century founder of Soto Zen, referred to meditation as a “return to source.” Meditation teaches us to rest in awareness of our physical body, our subtle energetic body, and the field consciousness, or shared body, of the earth we inhabit. We practice living from source connection in every moment, thus remembering our home in the body of all beings. Thich Nhat Hanh refers to this as “interbeing.”

This will be a silent retreat in which we will also immerse in rituals from the Work That Reconnects. Together, we will meditate on “returning to source” and honoring our oneness with the more-than-human world. We will practice deep listening to the wilderness, within and out, remembering our connection to source as original consciousness.

This eco-dharma retreat includes meditation, mindful inquiry, personal guidance sessions, deep time in nature, and practices from the Work That Reconnects. All are welcome. Being a change-maker is defined broadly for this retreat, acknowledging that in this time of global change, we are all called to lead on behalf of consciousness. While some attending this retreat will be in professional positions of leadership and activism, for others, change-making has more to do with how one shows up for one’s community, one’s spiritual path, and one’s convictions.

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