Enjoy five days of practice and study in Limoges, France, with author and teacher Susan Piver during Dechen Choling's "Open Heart Meditation Retreat, May 30 to June 3, 2018.

Join best-selling author and founder of the "Open Heart Project", Susan Piver, for a weekend of meditation practices, small group dialogue and an exploration of ways we can bring our raw and tender hearts home to the world of family, politics, work, and love.

The following teachings will be explored:

• The power of vulnerability


• Learning to stabilize in a state of openness


• Emotional fear and fearlessness


• Opening your heart under difficult circumstances


• How to protect your heart without closing it

People from around the world come to Dechen Chöling to learn and practice meditation in various forms, and to relax within the beauty of the center's 56 acres of land, surrounded by magnificent old trees. Dechen Chöling resembles a small village; the Chateau and surrounding farm buildings sitting in an open yet protected landscape.

Since its inception, Dechen Chöling has given people of all practice levels a place to discover themselves in meditation, and to deepen their understandings of the Buddhist and Shambhala teachings to study and practice together in a dignified and bucolic atmosphere.